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Fubara Wants Clark Immortalised For Fighting For Nigeria

26.02.2025

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has called for the immortalization of the late Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, whom he said fought for a greater Nigeria, describing him as a quintessential leader who remained fearless. Fubara, who made the assertion when he led a delegation of prominent elders, traditional and political leaders of Rivers State to...

Natasha Slams N100.3bn Suit Against Akpabio Over Alleged Defamation

26.02.2025

The senator representing Kogo Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, yesterday, slammed a N100.3 billion defamation suit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, before an Abuja High Court. Akpoti-Uduaghan alleged that the Senate President, Akpabio, tarnished her image through a defamatory post that was published on his social media platform, Facebook. According to the claimant, the...

Enugu Assembly Introduces Bill To Regulate Agency/legal Fees

26.02.2025

In response to the growing complaints by Enugu State residents over the rising exploitation of tenants and prospective tenants by landlords, the Enugu State House of Assembly has introduced a bill to checkmate the alleged excesses. Entitled: “The Bill for a Law to Amend the Landlord and Tenant Law, CAP. 101, Laws of Enugu State,...

IBB’s Book Full Of Lies –Vatsa Family

26.02.2025

The family of late Maj-General Mamman Vatsa yesterday criticised ex-Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s book: ‘A Journey in Service: An Autobiography’, labelling it “a collection of distorted facts” and “a good reference material for criminals”. Then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Vatsa, was executed on March 5, 1986, by the IBB government after...

LG Poll: OSSIEC Sues IGP, CP, Demands N2bn Damages

26.02.2025

The Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSSIEC), alongside Chairman Hashim Abioye, has filed a lawsuit against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun and the Commissioner of Police Muhammad Abba over alleged breach of fundamental rights and unjustifiable arrest of its ad hoc staff during Saturday’s local government election. The plaintiffs demanded the sum of...

Breast Cancer Cases Projected To Rise By Nearly 40% By 2050 –WHO

26.02.2025

A new report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has shown that breast cancer cases are expected to increase by 38 per cent globally by 2050, with annual deaths from the disease projected to rise by 68 per cent. The findings, published in ‘Nature Medicine’ on Monday, warned that if current trends...

NNPP Faction Nullifies Senator, Three Reps’ Suspension

26.02.2025

A faction of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) yesterday declared the suspension of Senator Kawu Sumaila (NNPP-Kano) and three federal lawmakers as null and void. Kano NNPP on Sunday suspended Sumaila, who represents Kano South, along with three members of the House of Representatives Ali Gini, Sani Rogo, and Kabiru Rurum. Chairman Hashimu Dungurawa...

Tinubu Approved Legacy Road Projects For All Zones –Umahi

26.02.2025

The Minister of Works Dave Umahi insists President Bola Tinubu’s legacy projects in the road sector pass through all the six geopolitical zones of the country. He said this during a Continuous Stakeholders’ Engagement on the Lagos – Calabar Coastal Highway in Lagos after a 4-day working visit to project sites in some South West...

Nigeria’s Economy Grows Fastest In 3 Years At 3.84%

26.02.2025

The economic reforms being initiated by the Federal Government have proven to be positive following the Q4, 2024 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth report put at 3.84 per cent. The increase, which is 0.38 per cent higher that the previous quarter of 2023 at 3.46 per cent, has shown that the economy recorded the fastest...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Supplement Could Combat Dementia –Experts

26.02.2025

Scientists have said that they discovered omega-3 fatty acids, naturally found in oily fish, nuts and seeds but also available in capsules, helped combat dementia and motor neurone disease (MND) as well as boosted survival. Results of the study are published in the journal ‘Nature Neuroscience’. In the study, scientists examined the brain cells of...

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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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