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Nigeria’s GDP Expanded By 3.84% In Q4 2024

25.02.2025

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday announced that Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 3.84 per cent in real terms in the fourth quarter of 2024. This is contained in a GDP data report released by NBS reflecting an improvement from the 3.46 percent recorded in the same period of 2023. According...

Tinubu Will Win Second Term Come 2027- Orji Kalu

25.02.2025

Senator Representing Abia North, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Tuesday, expressed optimism that President Bola Tinubu would complete his two terms in office considering the level of successes he recorded in bold economic, social and political policies. Kalu, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on South-East Development Commission (SEDC), stated this while fielding questions from Journalists...

Anambra Police Reactivates Cattle Menace Committee

25.02.2025

The Anambra State Commissioner of Police Ikioye Orutugu has reactivated the Cattle Menace Committee set up about three years ago to avert clashes between the Cattle owners and host Community farmers in the area. According to a release by the Police Public Relations Officer SP Tochikwu Ikenga, the aim is to ensure peaceful co-existence among...

Court Clears Naira Marley, Sammy Larry Of MohBad’s Death

25.02.2025

A Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, on Tuesday cleared Nigerian singer, Naira Marley, Sammy Larry, and Prime Boy of involvement in Mohbad’s death. Naira Marley, Mohbad’s former record label boss, Sammy Larry, and Prime Boy, a close associate, have faced allegations of involvement in Mohbad’s death. New Telegraph recalls that Mohbad passed...

KWSG Assures Solid Minerals’ Operators Of Productive Opportunities

25.02.2025

Kwara State Government has reiterated its commitment to ensuring productive opportunities for potential and existing Solid Minerals operators, Artisinal miners and exporters in mining practices across the State, to boost her Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The State Commissioner for Solid Minerals Development, Alabi Afees Abolore stated this on Tuesday at a stakeholders forum tagged “Accessing...

FG Moots Creation of Agency To Cater For Children’s Rights

25.02.2025

The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has mooted the establishment of a Child Development and Protection Agency (CDPA) to strengthen the implementation and enforcement of children’s rights and welfare policies in Nigeria. This was the outcome of a crucial meeting with the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) management team who paid her a...

TETFund, British Council Partner On Transnational Education

25.02.2025

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has revealed it’s undertaking some measures through partnerships with British institutions, to boost transnational education in Nigeria. Executive Secretary TETFund, Sonny Echono who made this disclosure while hosting a delegation of the British Council, led by Director of Global Network, Charlie Walker, also revealed that the Fund would reallocate...

NDA Warns Kaduna Resident Ahead Of Shooting Exercise

25.02.2025

The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has warned residents of Afaka, Kauya, and Mando in Kaduna State to steer clear of its open range during an upcoming shooting exercise. The academy’s Public Relations Officer, Maj. Muhammad Maidawa made this disclosure in a statement issued to newsmen in Kaduna State on Tuesday. According to Maidawa, the exercise...

NNPC Shipping, Stena Bulk, Caverton Launch New Joint Venture

25.02.2025

…Partnership To Boost Nigeria, Africa’s Energy, Maritime Sectors – Soneye The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Shipping, Stena Bulk and Caverton Marine Limited on Tuesday announced the signing of a newjoint venture that will transform Nigerian maritime transportation. According to a statement by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC...

Tinubu Condoles With Minister Over Mother-In-Law’s Death

25.02.2025

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday condoled with the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, over the death of his mother-in-law, Hajia Hauwa Usman, who died at the age of 70. President Tinubu’s condolence message was contained in a press statement issued by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga....

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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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