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Ex-Agitators Commend Otuaro For Prioritizing Education In N’Delta

14.09.2025

Phase 2 beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) have commended the Administrator, Chief Dr. Dennis Burutu Otuaro, for prioritizing education as a key driver of peace and progress in the Niger Delta region. Speaking in Yenagoa on Sunday on behalf of the beneficiaries, the National Chairman of Phase 2 Ex-Agitators, Ibena Rufus Salvation, praised...

Bayelsa Govt Urges FG To Show Greater Commitment To Polio Eradication

14.09.2025

The Bayelsa State Government has called on Rotary International to prevail on the Federal Government to demonstrate stronger commitment toward eradicating the mutated polio virus across Nigeria. Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the appeal when Rotary International paid him a courtesy visit in Yenagoa. He acknowledged the organization’s longstanding role in addressing humanitarian challenges,...

Youth Group Pledges Support For Monarchs To Preserve Yoruba Cultural Values

14.09.2025

Youth Group Pledges Support For Monarchs To Preserve Yoruba Cultural Values

Constituents, Not Critics’ll Decide My Re-Election – Ogah

14.09.2025

The member representing Ikwo and Ezza South Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State in the House of Representatives, Chinedu Ogah, has declared that only his constituents will determine his re-election into the National Assembly in 2027, not his critics. Ogah, who was reacting to criticisms by some individuals in his constituency over alleged refusal to make...

Nigerian Milliner, Adeola Agbana Becomes First African To Teach BMA Students Gele Artistry

14.09.2025

Nigerian millinery expert and Creative Director of Allured by Ruby Millinery Academy, Adeola Rachael Agbana, was recently selected by the British Millinery Association to train its students in Gele, the traditional Nigerian headwrap. The selection marks a major international recognition for Adeola and highlights the growing global interest in African headwear. Millinery, particularly the traditional...

Stop Using Negative Remarks On Nigeria, Tinubu, APC Chief Cautions Critics

14.09.2025

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has cautioned critics and opposition members in the country, against making unguided remarks about Nigeria and President Bola Tinubu-led government Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said this while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo,...

‘Freight Forwarders Lose Over N200bn In Demurrages To B’odogwu Glitches’

14.09.2025

Freight Forwarders in the Nigerian port industry, particularly at the Lagos ports have said that the transition glitches of the customs ICT trading platform from Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System (NICISS) to B’Odogwu cost them loses estimated at over N200 billion in demurrages at the ports. Some of the freight forwarders who spoke to Sunday...

Visa Cancellation: Diplomats Slam U.S. Action Against Nigeria

14.09.2025

The recent U.S. revocation of valid visas it previously issued around the world, has come under condemnation by some diplomats, who stated that the action is not only embarrassing but also a sham way to conduct bilateral relations. The duo of Ambassador Joe Keshi, National President of the Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of...

Adeleke Directs Action On Jailed Osun Monarch

14.09.2025

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has directed the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to take action on the jailed Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede. Adeleke made the order yesterday during the State Executive Council meeting. In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Barrister Kolapo Alimi,...

Sections Of Lagos-Sokoto Highway To Cost N3trn –Umahi

14.09.2025

Sections Of Lagos-Sokoto Highway To Cost N3trn –Umahi

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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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