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Benin Monarch Holds 2025 Maiden Thanksgiving

12.01.2025

Benin Monarch, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, on Sunday, marked his 2025 maiden thanksgiving service at the Holy Aruosa Cathedral, Benin City, three months after his 8th Coronation anniversary. Benin residents paid homage to the monarch who was joined by his Queens, children and other members of the Benin Royal family,...

NDLEA Intercepts Australia-Bound Cocaine In Face Cream Bottles In Lagos

12.01.2025

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered twenty wraps of cocaine concealed around the body of face cream containers in the shipment. The Agency’s Spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi in a statement issued on Sunday said no fewer than 20 wraps of cocaine weighing 330grams were recovered from a cargo going to Australia at...

FG To Spend N759.3bn For Completion Of Correction Centers In Four States

12.01.2025

…N38.030 bn to feed inmates By Abdulwahab Isa Abuja The Federal Government is committing the sum of N759.3 billion to the completion of the ongoing four blocks of 3000 capacity maximum security custodian centers at Ilesha in Osun State, Jos, Gombe and Umahia in the 2025 fiscal budget. In addition, it voted the sum of...

Why I Kill My 14-Year-Old Boy

12.01.2025

A father identified as Monday Elela has said he killed his 14-year-old son, Tope, because he was a disgrace to the family as a result of his involvement in stealing and other crimes in Ajowa Akoko in Akoko Northwest Local Government Area of Ondo State. Mr Elela was paraded alongside 24 other suspects by the...

Herdsmen Killing Us Like Chicken Fr 12 Years Now, Traditional, Youth Leaders Lament

12.01.2025

At least eleven per cent of farmers in Anwase, Izoov and Mkomon districts of Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State who were gruesomely murdered on Christmas day by armed herdsmen have been given mass burial in the area amidst tears and heavy security presence. During the funeral, the traditional rulers of Ityuluv, James Zegelu...

Emir Bayero Rejects A’Court Judgment, Heads To S’Court

12.01.2025

The 15th Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has rejected the judgement of an Abuja Appeal Court nullifying a Federal High Court Judgment removing Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano, saying he is heading to the Supreme Court. Speaking to newsmen at the Nassarwa Palace, Bayero, the Sarkin Dawaki Babba, Aminu...

Terrorists Attack Kebbi Immigration Border Facilities, Kill Four

12.01.2025

Suspected terrorists have attacked the Nigeria Immigration Service’s border facilities at the Kangiwa Border in Kangiwa Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Sunday Telegraph reports that the incident, which occurred on Friday, January 10, resulted in the killing of three contractors, and a “Local watchman”. In a statement signed on Sunday by its spokesperson, DCI...

Gov Sule Replies ATT, Insists On His Position On VAT

12.01.2025

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule has refuted claims made by a group, Arewa Think Tank (ATT) that he supports the tax reform bill presented before the National Assembly. Responding to a statement issued by a group, Arewa Think Tank (ATT), Governor Sule said he never said he was supporting the tax reform bills. Governor Sule...

Obi Retracts Statement On National Grid Collapse

12.01.2025

The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has retracted his earlier comment regarding an alleged collapse of Nigeria’s national power grid. The clarification followed updated information from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which stated that the incident was a tripping of the Osogbo-Ihovbor and Benin-Omotosho lines affecting the Lagos axis,...

Avoid Inciteful Comment, Don’t Cause Unrest In Nigeria, APC Chieftain Warns Opposition

12.01.2025

Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun, has urged Nigerians, especially members of the opposition parties to desist from making statements that can incite the masses against the government. Oyintiloye said that, while it is the right of the opposition parties to act as a watchdog for the government’s...

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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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