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Kwara Gov Launches 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Emblem

10.12.2024

…Rallies Support For Fallen Heroes …donates N10m to Nigerian Legion Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq on Tuesday launched the Armed Forces Remembrance Day emblem for 2025, urging Nigerians to prioritise support for families of fallen soldiers and those incapacitated during wars. The government also donated N10m to support the Nigerian Legion, the umbrella body that...

Fubara Urges Politicians To Advance Rivers Interest With Politics

10.12.2024

Fubara Urges Politicians To Advance Rivers Interest With Politics Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has called on politicians to stop restricting politics to only satisfy private or sectional interests but to advance the general welfare and development of Rivers people. Fubara gave this advice at the inauguration of Okocha Road and Spurs in Rumuolumeni...

Accessible Education Will Develop Nigeria, Reduce Insecurity

10.12.2024

A former Kwara State governorship aspirant, Engineer Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has identified quality and accessible education as a veritable strategy that will develop Nigeria through the advancement of its human capital. This was as he said the rate of development of any nation is directly related to the level and quality of its human capital...

NCDMB Charges Journalists To Interrogate Claims Of Productivity

10.12.2024

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has challenged practising journalists and other media stakeholders in the country to deploy their skills in interrogating reports on Nigerian Content performance in the oil and gas industry. This is said to make sure that the facts behind the resounding success of in-country value addition known to...

Budget: Aiyedatiwa Should Hire Competent Team For Implementation

10.12.2024

The immediate Minister of State for Transportation, Prince Ademola Adegoroye has advised Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State to hire competent hands in the implementation of the 2025 appropriation budget. Aiyedatiwa has submitted a budget proposal of #655 billion for the approval of the State House of Assembly for the 2025 fiscal year. Out of...

Keyamo To Flag Off Abia Airport Project Tuesday

10.12.2024

The dream of having an airport in Abia State will soon materialize as the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Management, Mr Festus Keyamo, is expected to flag off the Airport project next Tuesday. The Federal Government had selected Abia (the only State without an airport in the South East zone) for an airstrip but the...

Kogi Govt Probes Examine Malpractice In WASSCE

10.12.2024

Kogi State Government has inaugurated a Disciplinary Committee to investigate examination misconduct and the involvement of schools and persons indicted in the conduct of the 2024 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in the state. Wemi Jones, the State Commissioner for Education, while inaugurating the committee in Lokoja the state capital on Tuesday, described...

Labour Party Lawmaker, Chollom Defects To APC

10.12.2024

A Labour Party member in the House of Representatives, Daniel Chollom has officially defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). New Telegraph reports that Chollom’s defection is coming barely a week after three members of the party in the House also defected to the ruling party. Announcing his defection during plenary on Tuesday, the...

Ministry Of Justice Urged To Gazette Revised Police Regulations For Effectiveness

10.12.2024

A Non-Governmental Organization, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) and Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN)has said that there is an urgent need to ‘enhance police Regulations across Nigeria to address critical gaps in the understanding and application of the Police Act 2020 for effective discharge of their duties across Nigeria. The...

APC Group Appeals To Leaders To Zone Governorship Ticket To Osun West

10.12.2024

A group within the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Osun State, Coalition of Osun APC Interest Groups (COAIG), has called on the leadership of the party to allow the 2026 governorship ticket to go to Osun-West Senatorial District. The Coordinator of the group, Samuel Abioye who spoke at a news conference, stated that it is...

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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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