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NDRA Commends NDDC For Creating Comfortable Work Environment In Bayelsa

16.06.2025

The Niger Delta Rights Advocates (NDRA), a political pressure group operating in the Niger Delta Region, has commended the current management of Niger Delta Development Commission under Dr. Samuel Ogbuku for changing the narrative of poor work space and substandard work environment that has bedevilled the Agency’s Bayelsa State office since its inception in 2000....

Lagos Residents Protest Over Construction Of Cemetery In Residential Area

16.06.2025

Residents of Natufe Estate and surrounding areas in Surulere, Lagos Mainland, have staged a protest against the alleged construction of a cemetery in their residential neighbourhood, defying heavy early morning rains over the weekend to register their disapproval. The protest took place at the proposed cemetery site, a large parcel of land off Babs Animashaun...

Make Teacher A Model, NUT Urges Tinubu

16.06.2025

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has urged President Bola Tinubu to priotise teacher’s values and welfare to make the profession more attractive for younger generation. The National President of NUT, Audu Amba, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He urged the government to make teacher...

PTAD Clears N8.6b Arrears Of N32,000 Pension Increment

16.06.2025

The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has concluded plans for payment of another instalment of pension arrears arising from the N32,000 increment approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2024. The latest instalment, which totals N8.6 billion, covers all 148,625 eligible Defined Benefit Scheme (DBS) pensioners across the Police, Civil Service, Parastatals, as well as...

Insecurity: NAF Fasttracks Acquisition Of AH-1Z Helicopters

16.06.2025

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has taken steps to fast-track the acquisition of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters as part of sustained efforts to bolster its operational capabilities. The Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, made this known in a statement yesterday in Abuja. Ejodame said the Chief of the Air...

Unity Schools Alumni Decry Standard Of Public Schools

16.06.2025

The Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), has decried failing standard of public schools across the country, calling for their upgrade to smart school model. The President General of USOSA, Mr Michael Magaji, stated this during the 44th USOSA Plenary Session held in Enugu yesterday. He said most public schools lacked critical infrastructure for teaching...

Group Urges Tinubu To Prevent Use Of FG’s Powers In Natasha’s Case

16.06.2025

Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Media Team has urged President Bola Tinubu to safeguard his democratic legacy by preventing the use of the federal government in continuation of the case against the Kogi Central Senator. The Media Team, in a statement said the president’s legacy could be jeopardized if he allows persons with ulterior motives use...

Benue Confirms Arrest Of 33 Illegal Immigrants Linked To Killings

16.06.2025

The Benue State Government has confirmed the arrest of 33 illegal immigrants suspected to be connected with the recent terrorist attack in Yelwata, Guma Local Government Area. The arrest was disclosed by Mr. Asortar James Asortar, Special Assistant to Governor Hyacinth Alia on Social Media, via his official social media platform. According to Asortar, the...

Court Grants Emefiele N2bn Bail

16.06.2025

On Monday, Justice Halilu Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court granted bail at ₦2 billion to a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Yusuf granted the bail after Emefiele was arraigned on an eight-count charge in which he is accused of among others, unlawfully acquiring a...

CAN Condemns Benue Massacre, Calls For Urgent Action

16.06.2025

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has strongly condemned the horrific wave of violence that recently swept through Benue State, resulting in the tragic loss of over 200 lives in a series of coordinated attacks. President of CAN, Archbishop Daniel Okoh in a statement on Monday in Abuja, lamented that the the “senseless killings” in...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has apologised for saying that Christians who don’t pay tithe might not make it to heaven. Adeboye who had previously said that paying tithe was one of the prerequisites for going to heaven, apologised for the comment while addressing his congregation Thursday...

Protesters storm Rivers electoral commission, insist election must hold

04.10.2024

Angry protesters on Friday stormed the office of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, singing and chanting ‘Election must hold’. They defied the heavy rainfall spreading canopies, while singing and drumming, with one side of the road blocked. The protest came after the Rivers State governor stormed the RSIEC in the early hours of Friday...

Man who asked Tinubu to resign admitted in psychiatric hospital

04.10.2024

The Adamawa State Police Command has disclosed that the 30-year-old Abdullahi Mohammed who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa last Friday has been admitted at the Yola Psychiatric hospital for mental examination. The Police Public Relations Officer of the command SP Suleiman Nguroje, told Arewa PUNCH on Friday in an exclusive...

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