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Orji Kalu Emerges Best Among 108 Senators

20.12.2024

…As he vows to redouble efforts On Thursday, the Senator representing Abia-North Senatorial District, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, received an Award Plaque as the best Senator on Constituency Development, which he won for the Third time. Senator Kalu, the Senate Committee Chairman on Privatisation, emerged as the best among 108 colleagues to clinch the coveted...

NLC Faults Workers’ Exclusion In Tax Reform Bills Deliberations

20.12.2024

…tasks FG on end to cash scarcity The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has raised concerns over the exclusion of trade unions in the formation and deliberations of the contentious Tax Bill, persistent cash scarcity, and worsening insecurity at the National Assembly. In a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting...

We’re Resolute To Achieve AIDS-Free Generation In Nigeria By 2030

20.12.2024

…Inaugurates Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Committee in Osun … Empower Hundreds of Women as Beneficiaries Shower Encomiums on President Tinubu The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Temitope Ilori, on Thursday, declared that the present administration of President Bola Tinubu was irrevocably committed to end HIV/AIDS and achieve...

Sanwo-Olu Handover 260 Patrol Vans, Bullet Proof Vests, Other Equipment To Security

20.12.2024

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says his administration’s vision is to build a state that is secure, proactive, and technologically empowered to meet modern security challenges. Calling for cooperation from stakeholders in the state’s security ecosystem towards its fulfilment. “I urge concerned government agencies, citizens, and partners to continue working together to transform this...

Group Asks Tinubu, Abbas To Stop Divestment Of Oil Assets

20.12.2024

A Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called on President Bola Tinubu and National Assembly to immediately halt all divestment of oil assets initiated by oil companies operating in the Niger Delta region. The coalition made the call in a petition titled: ‘Urgent call to halt all divestment in the Niger Delta, including Shell’s...

Rotary Club Of Lagos Holds President’s Dinner

19.12.2024

…reaffirms commitment to Rotary’s ideal of service above self It was a celebration of service, and inspiring greatness as Rotary Club of Lagos hosted the 2024 edition of its annual President’s Dinner. The event, held at the prestigious Condo, NAF Officer’s Mess, Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, was dedicated to honouring the exemplary leadership,...

How Assembly Saved Kwara From N21bn Bond

19.12.2024

A former Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Professor Ali Ahmad, has recalled how the Assembly under his watch saved the State from taking a whopping sum of N21bn bond which the State would still have been servicing at the capital market. He also admonished the Federal Government not to rush its proposed...

Institute Commission Of Inquiry Urgently, NBA Urges Makinde

19.12.2024

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan branch, on Thursday, said that its leadership will be following the unfolding events on the Wednesday Ibadan Children Funfair Stampede. NBA in a statement by its Ibadan branch chairman, Ibrahim Lawal, called for the arrest of all the organisers of the Wednesday Ibadan Children Funfair which resulted in the...

Police To Deploy Mobile Clinics To Training Schools

19.12.2024

The Nigeria Police Force is set to deploy ten mobile clinics to police training institutions across the country. The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun made this known during the handing over ceremony of the ten mobile clinics by the German government at the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos. Egbetokun said let me recognize my...

Obasa Debunks Allegation Of Spending N17bn On Assembly Gate

19.12.2024

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Thursday, described the allegation that the House spent N17 billion on fixing a gate as spurious and funny. A self-proclaimed group, Lagos State Anti-Corruption Coalition, had accused the Assembly of spending the amount to construct a gate. The group also sought an investigation...

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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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