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Carnival Calabar: Veteran Calls For Integration Of Street Children

29.12.2025

A veteran of Carnival Calabar, Tikenob Osaji, has urged Cross River Government to leverage the city’s biggest cultural festival to brighten the lives of homeless children on the streets. Osaji spoke with the on the sidelines of the ongoing 20th Carnival Calabar yesterday. He also urged government to create a special band for vulnerable children,...

Anti-Terrorism Fight In Nigeria: Comb Sambisa Forest, Lake Chad –M’belt Forum Urges US

29.12.2025

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has thrown its full weight behind the United States’ Christmas Day airstrikes on ISIS targets in Sokoto State. The group urged the US to launch similar airstrikes in Sambisa Forest, Goza in Borno State and the Lake Chad region, identified as strongholds of terrorists wreaking havoc in Nigeria. In a...

New Tax Laws Implementation: Airfares Within Nigeria May Rise Beyond N1M -Onyema

29.12.2025

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Air Peace, Allen Onyema has stated that Ni- geria’s domestic aviation sector will face a crisis as new tax laws threaten to drive ticket prices beyond N1 million and force airlines out of business. In an interview with Arise News yesterday, Onyema warned that un- less urgent steps are taken...

Don Hails Tinubu’s Decisive Steps At Tackling Insecurity

29.12.2025

A Don and estate business mogul, Mr Aminu Suleiman, has commended President Bola Tinubu for what he described as decisive steps taken by his administration to address the nation’s security challenges. Sule said the renewed focus on security was beginning to yield positive results, particularly in the reduction of criminal activities and the restoration of...

UNIBEN Concludes ITF-SUPA Artisan Training First Phase, Empowers 200

29.12.2025

The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has concluded the first phase of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) Artisan Training Programme, reinforcing its commitment to skills acquisition, vocational education, and national development. In a statement yesterday by the university’s spokesperson, Dr Benedicta Ehanire, the close-out ceremony, held on Tuesday, brought together the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Edoba Omoregie,...

Item Community To Host Otti, Honour Aruma Oteh

29.12.2025

The Item community in the Bende Local Government Area in Abia State will tomorrow honour Governor Alex Otti during the 2025 Item Day Celebration. Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director-General Aruma Oteh will be honoured with a Grand Merit Award at the event. The event scheduled for the Akanu Item Primary School, according to...

How Supreme Court’s Judgement On LG Autonomy Can Be Enforced, By Lawyers

29.12.2025

LG Autonomy: Ripples over issuance of Executive Order to compel compliance TUNDE OYESINA writes that the threat by President Bola Tinubu to issue an Executive Order against state governors who continue to frustrate the implementation of local government autonomy has elicited mixed reactions from lawyers The threat by President Bola Tinubu to issue an executive...

SAN Seeks Formation Of Multiple Bar Associations

29.12.2025

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, has made a strong case for the recognition of multiple Bar Associations in Nigeria, arguing that a single umbrella body is inadequate to effectively serve the country’s estimated 250,000 legal practitioners. Gadzama made the submissions during an intervention at the 2025 International Bar Association (IBA) Conference...

Lawyers Back NBA’s Call For Suspension Of Tax Laws Implementation

29.12.2025

Some senior lawyers have thrown their weights behind the call by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for the suspension of the implementation of the new tax laws over alleged post-legislative alterations. The lawyers; Kabir Akingbolu, Malachy Ugwummadu and Ige Asemudara, while speaking in a chat with New Telegraph Law, at the weekend, said the allegation...

Don’t Relent Until Nigeria Is Fully Secure, PFN President Tells Tinubu

28.12.2025

The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to relent in the fight against insecurity, insisting that terrorists and bandits must be decisively crushed without regard for “sacred cows.” Oke gave the charge on Sunday while speaking with journalists in Ibadan on the...

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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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