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Group Seeks Probe Of Agric Ministry Over N1bn Pavilion Contract In Ogun

26.12.2024

A pressure group, Northern Frontiers for Good Governance has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the alleged corrupt award of a N1 billion contract by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. The contract awarded to Creed Vision Nigeria Limited is for the Phase One Renovation and Rehabilitation of the...

NAPTIP DG Urges Officers, Parents To Be Vigilant Of Traffickers

26.12.2024

The Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello, has urged Officers of the Agency to be vigilant and keep an eye on any suspicious traffickers. The DG urged officers of the agency to use the festive period to monitor those who may want to use...

Kwara Gov Mourns Ex-Herald GM, Adisa

26.12.2024

Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has condoled with the family of former Herald General Manager and Commissioner for Information and Communication, Alhaji Abdulrahim Adisa (NAN). A former Chairman of Moro Local Government Area, Alhaji Adisa died on Thursday morning at the age of 91. The Governor recalled that Alhaji Adisa was a veteran in the...

King Charles III Addresses Cancer, UK Riots

26.12.2024

British Monarch, King Charles III on Wednesday thanked the medical workers in the United Kingdom (UK) who helped treat him and his daughter-in-law, Catherine, Princess of Wales after their cancer diagnoses, This was as he thanked communities that came together after anti-immigrant riots gripped the country in the summer. New Telegraph reports that in his...

Tinubu Mourns Passing Of Jigawa Governor’s Mother

26.12.2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has extended his heartfelt condolences to the Governor of Jigawa State, Umar Namadi, following the death of his mother, Hajiya Maryam Namadi. New Telegraph had earlier reported that the matriarch of the Namadi family passed away on Wednesday, December 25, and was laid to rest the same day in Kafin Hausa,...

Niger HOS, Gen Tiani Alleges France Wants To Destabilize His Country, Other W’African Neighbours

26.12.2024

Niger Republic’s Head of State, General Abdourahamane Tiani, has alleged that France is providing financial support to Nigerian authorities to establish a military base in Borno State. General Tiani said the plan is purportedly to destabilize Niger and its neighbouring countries. Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, made this known in...

Kano Govt To Unveil 5-Year Multi-Sectoral Investment Strategic Plan

26.12.2024

Kano State government has revealed that it will soon unveil what it called a 5-year multi-sectoral investment strategic plan to woo local and foreign investors into the state. The idea is to bring investors to invest heavily in key economic sectors, aimed at boosting the state’s economy and providing revenue for the government to be...

Patricia Tech Begins Repayment To Customers After 2022 Security Breach

26.12.2024

Lagos-based financial technology firm, Patricia Technologies, has commenced repayments to customers impacted by a security breach in 2022. This follows a two-year period where the company focused on recovering funds and rebuilding trust. In 2022, Patricia experienced a significant cyberattack, resulting in the loss of over N600 million from customer accounts. Following the breach, the...

Libya’s Eastern Govt Agrees To End Fuel Subsidies

26.12.2024

Libya’s Eastern-based Administration announced it had approved a proposal to abolish fuel subsidies and would begin developing a framework to implement the decision. The government, led by Osama Hamad, a rival to the internationally recognised administration in Tripoli, provided no additional details about the plan. It remains uncertain whether Hamad’s administration will be able to...

Obi Visits Onitsha Correctional Centre

26.12.2024

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi visited the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Onitsha on Christmas Day to celebrate with inmates and assess ongoing rehabilitation programs. Joined by Archbishop Valerian Okeke, the Grand Patron of the Nigerian Correctional Centres, Obi spent time interacting with inmates undergoing rehabilitation. During his visit, Obi...

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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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