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FG Budgeted N500bn For N’west Commission’s Take-Off — Barau

30.12.2024

Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, disclosed that the Federal Government has budgeted over N500 billion for the North West Development Commission (NWDC)’s takeoff. Speaking during a farewell ceremony at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport Kano yesterday for the 70 Kano State students he is sponsoring for higher degrees in foreign countries, Jibrin promised that...

Group Urges Youths To Shun Crime, Embrace Agriculture In 2025

30.12.2024

Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC), a Civil Society Organisation, CSO, has called on Nigerian youths to refrain from crime and embrace agriculture in 2025. President of the CSO, Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. Nnam said agricultural transformation has...

Three Migrants Die Attempting To Cross Channel

30.12.2024

Three people have died attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat yesterday morning, the French coastguard says. People ended up in the water after trying to board a boat off the coast of Sangatte, near Calais, at about 06:00 local time (05:00 GMT). The three people later declared dead were recovered from...

Tens Of Thousands Protest Over Spain Flood Response

30.12.2024

Tens of thousands of people marched in Valencia on Sunday to protest the government’s handling of recent floods that devastated the region, claiming 231 lives and leaving thousands homeless. The October 29 disaster, Spain’s deadliest natural catastrophe in decades, hit the eastern Valencia region particularly hard, with 223 of the fatalities occurring there. Four people remain...

Otu Launches 2024 Carnival Calabar, Seeks Prosperity For All

30.12.2024

Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu on Friday, launched this year’s Carnival Calabar, saying that everyone should partake in the socio-economic and cultural prosperity in the world. In a speech, Otu described the theme of the carnival, “Our Shared Prosperity,” as “actually international in nature because we have the global audience here; people of all...

Lawmaker Canvasses Integration Of Cultural Values For Devt

30.12.2024

Member representing Ohaozara/Onicha and Ivo Federal Constituency (otherwise known as Ohanivo) of Ebonyi State in the House of Representative, Hon. Dr Nkemkanma Kama, has advocated the inculcation of cultural values in the nation’s political development to enhance nation building. Nkemkanma made the assertion at the weekend, on at the grand finale of Ohanivo unity carnival,...

Delta Warns Against Security Breaches

30.12.2024

Delta State Government has warned against any form.of security breach that can lead to break down of law and order in the state. Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr Kingsley Emu, handed down the warning, while addressing protesters from Ubulu-Okiti community in Aniocha South Local Government Area at the Government House in Asaba yesterday....

Idris, Emir Of Zuru Rejoices With Zuru Sons Over Promotion

30.12.2024

Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris and the Emir of Zuru Muhammadu Sani Sami Gomo ll have expressed delight at the promotion of Ibrahim Abdullahi to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) and Sadiq Gujiya to the rank of Chief Superintendent of Customs. Idris expressed confidence that Abdullahi would be a good ambassador of...

Revenue: FG Agencies’ Collection Cost Up 81.8% To N899.58bn

30.12.2024

The cost of revenue collection by major revenue generating agencies of the Federal Government, such as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), hit N899.58 billion in the first 11 months of this year, findings by New Telegraph has shown. The amount is...

Benue Christmas Tragedy: FG Approves Border Patrol In The Area

30.12.2024

As more people continue to flee the 12 communities under siege due to the invasion and killings on Christmas Day, men of the Nigerian Army over the weekend, packed some expended bullets they sighted at Government Secondary School, Anwase, one of the public institutions that was not spared in the devastation, which Ter Kwande, Chief...

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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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