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Katsina reaffirms commitment to improving sexual reproductive health

03.11.2024

The Katsina State Government says it is collaborating with the Society for Family Health to improve sexual reproductive health outcomes across its 34 local governments. The Executive Secretary, Katsina state Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Shamsuddeen Yahaya, disclosed this at a 3-day State Training of Trainers. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the...

Rivals race to tape as US election heads to photo finish

03.11.2024

Kamala Harris targets the Rust Belt while Donald Trump heads to the biggest US swing states Sunday in a frantic last push, less than 48 hours before Election Day in the historically close campaign. Seventy-five million people have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s climax, and the race is down to the wire — with...

I lost five relatives, nine patients to building collapse – Oyo native doctor

03.11.2024

A landlord, Pa Abdullamid Alabi, narrowly escaped death when his house collapsed in Jegede community, Ibadan, Oyo State. But his wife, four grandchildren, and nine psychiatric patients lost their lives in the incident which occurred on Thursday. The tragedy was attributed to a thunderstorm that forcefully ripped through the windows of the bungalow after a...

North won’t deny Tinubu re-election over tax reform bill – APC chief

03.11.2024

The Director-General of Tinubu-Shettima Ambassadors, a campaign group that canvassed for votes for President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general election, Oladele Oyelude, has said those planning to latch on the North’s opposition to tax reforms bill to set the region against Tinubu in 2027 will fail. Oyelude, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress...

Inflation forcing hotels to shut down, operators lament

03.11.2024

The high rate of inflation in NIgeria is taking its toll on hotels, forcing them to shut down operations, industry operators have cried out. Hoteliers have called on the government to intervene in the industry to address the escalating cost of doing business. In separate interviews with The PUNCH, the stakeholders noted that their challenges...

Mixed feelings as British-Nigerian woman emerges UK party leader

03.11.2024

Nigerians have expressed mixed feelings after British-Nigerian politician, Kemi Badenoch, emerged as the new leader of the Conservative Party, defeating Robert Jenrick in the final round of voting. Badenoch, a Member of Parliament representing North West Essex, became the first black woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom after getting 53,806...

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Why we’re probing gay claims against youth pastors – RCCG

03.11.2024

The Redeemed Christian Church of God has given the reason for investigating the allegations of sodomy against two of its youth pastors. The National Overseer of the church, Pastor Sunday Akande, who spoke to Sunday PUNCH, said the case was unprecedented, hence the church was ready to give it the necessary attention. Akande said a...

FCT committee okays N33.24bn for new projects

03.11.2024

The Federal Capital Executive Committee has approved N33.24bn worth of contracts for execution within the next 12 months. The committee gave the approvals during its ninth meeting chaired by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, in Abuja on Friday. Addressing journalists shortly after the meeting, the Chief of Staff to the Minister, Chidi Amadi, said the...

How ‘fish pie’ video changed my life — Evalsam

03.11.2024

Just a few months ago, Evalsam Esor was just another face in the crowd, hawking homemade fish pies on the bustling streets of Lagos. But a viral video in which he ‘sang’ the phrase, “Nawa o, some people dem too do oh, nawa o. Fish pieeee,” to promote his wares changed his life forever. Speaking...

N15m bribe claim: Bobrisky released on bail after denying voicenote

03.11.2024

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, on bail. The embattled cross-dresser was stopped and removed from an Amsterdam-bound KLM flight at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos late Thursday night while attempting to leave the country for London, the United Kingdom. He quickly alerted...

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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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