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CSM Vaccination Campaign Records Massive Turnout In Sokoto, Kebbi

25.04.2025

The ongoing Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) vaccination campaign in Sokoto and Kebbi States has entered its sixth day with strong community engagement and impressive turnout, according to health officials and development partners supporting the effort. The campaign, targeting children in high-risk areas, is currently being implemented in Tambuwal and Shagari Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Sokoto...

Herdsmen Kill Over 100 Christians During Easter- NKST

25.04.2025

The Universal Reformed Church of Christ (URCC), popularly known as the NKST, has raised the alarm over the continued onslaught of violence against Christian communities in Benue State, revealing that more than 100 of its members were killed in armed herdsmen attacks during the 2025 Easter period alone. President of the NKST, Nendaga Asongo Adure,...

Reps Committee Holds Meeting With Ibas

25.04.2025

The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on Friday held a meeting with the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Retired Vice Admiral Ibok Ete Ibas, after several postponements. New Telegraph recalls that the House is exercising its constitutional right to take over the functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly. Ibas apologized for not...

Pope Francis’ Coffin To Be Sealed In Rite This Evening

25.04.2025

The coffin of Pope Francis is to be sealed this evening by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who will preside at the Rite of Sealing of the Coffin of the late Pontiff, ahead of the papal funeral on Saturday morning. The liturgical rite will be attended by several Cardinals and Holy...

Killings: Govs, Military Push For Tech-Driven Solutions; To Work With Security Chiefs

25.04.2025

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has backed security forces’ push for the government to adopt “technologydriven solutions” to tackle killings in many states. At a meeting with the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Christopher Musa in Abuja on Wednesday night, the governors, who expressed deep concerns over the deteriorating security situation in the country,...

Military Needs More Resources To Address Insecurity- Gov Sule

25.04.2025

Amid the growing insecurity in the country, the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, on Thursday said Nigeria’s military requires more resources to address the killings in the north-central part of the country. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Sule explained that the military needs more support in the form of technology and...

WMD: Experts Advocate More Funding, Synergy To Fight Malaria

25.04.2025

Against the background of funding gaps in the fight against malaria which shows that since 2017, the progress has been flat particularly in African countries, experts have called for domestic resource mobilization in order to sustain gains as well as make progress. If this is not done, there are threats that the funding gap will...

Wike Summons Area Council Bosses Over Teachers’ Protest

25.04.2025

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike yesterday summoned FCT Area Council chairman for a meeting following the strike by primary school teachers over unresolved welfare concerns. Wike invited them after inspecting road projects in the city centre. He condemned the failure of the chairmen to pay the teachers and other workers...

A’Ibom Monarchs Warn Socio-Cultural Groups Against Encroachment

25.04.2025

The Ifim Ibom Ibibio, the apex traditional institution of the Ibibio ethnic group in Akwa Ibom State, has cautioned socio-cultural organizations, particularly Akwa Esop Imaisong Ibibio, against assuming or projecting roles and titles that are constitutionally and customarily reserved for traditional institutions. In a press release issued on Friday in Uyo, the Supreme Council of...

Uromi Killings: Okpebholo Debunks Ipob’s Claim Of N6bn Compensation For Victims’ Families

25.04.2025

The Edo State Government yesterday condemned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for accusing Governor Monday Okpebholo of compensating the families of the 16 northern travellers killed by a mob in Uromi with N6 billion. In a statement, the government clarified that no such compensation was approved or paid to any group. He said: “No...

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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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