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Aba Set To Host 2025 Abia International Film Festival

11.12.2025

The organisers of the Abia International Film Festival (ABIFF) have announced that the 2025 edition will take place in Aba, the commercial hub of the state, from 19th to 21st December 2025. Addressing journalists in Aba, Dr Philips Alexander Elekwa, President of ABIFF, said that the festival will be featuring an unforgettable opening ceremony that...

Firm Urges Legislation To Regulate Trashing Of Used Engine Oil

11.12.2025

As call for local content intensifies in Nigeria, Modestus Ikechukwu Okeke, the Managing Director of BUNORR Integrated Energy Limited, has called on all relevant stakeholders at the states and national level to enact a law which will make Nigerians to dump used Engine Oil at particular places. He said will help companies like his have...

NEPC Presents Export Certificates To 150 SMEs In Adamawa

11.12.2025

Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), in collaboration with the Adamawa Ministry of Commence, Trade and Industry, presented export certificates to 150 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). NEPC’s North-East Regional Coordinator, Mr Anani Egon, made this known during a capacity training yesterday in Yola. He said the aim of the workshop was to build the capacity...

FRSC Expresses Concerns Over 121,897 Unclaimed Driving Licenses

11.12.2025

…says 1,890 attempts made to bribe officials The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos State, Corps Commander Kehinde G. Hamzat, has said over 121,897 driving licences have remained unclaimed by those who applied for them. Speaking in Lagos yesterday at the 2025 Ember Months Public Enlightenment and Sensitisation Campaign town hall meeting, Hamzat,...

NGO Targets 1,000 Male Champions In Ekiti To Promote Women’s Rights, End GBV

11.12.2025

The New Initiative for Social Development (NISD), in partnership with the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), has launched a fresh advocacy movement aimed at mobilising men and boys to champion women’s rights and eliminate gender-based violence (GBV) in Ekiti State. The project, themed Male Feminists Network, seeks to build at least...

IATA: 10 African Nations Excluding Nigeria Liable For 89% Of $1.2bn Blocked Funds

11.12.2025

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said that 10 countries across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia account for 89 per cent of the total blocked funds, totalling $1.08 billion. Nigeria’s name was removed from the list after the Nigerian government repatriated over $700 million in trapped funds last year, restoring the country’s reputation...

St. Mary’s School Attacks: Remaining Children, Teachers Will Be Rescued Soon – FG

11.12.2025

The Federal Government has reassured parents and relatives of children and teachers abducted from the St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School, Papiri in Agwarra Local Government area of Niger State that it is working around the clock to ensure the speedy rescue of the remaining school children and their teachers in captivity. Giving this...

High Airfares: FG Has No Power To Fix Prices – Keyamo

11.12.2025

…says govt addressing factors driving fares surge Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has said the Federal Government has no control on the escalating airfares being charged by airline operators in the country. Keyamo, made this remark when asked to react to the astronomous airfares being charged in the country necessitating his recent...

Customs Seizes N10bn Contraband, Arrests 38 Smugglers

10.12.2025

…new controller takes over Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit, Zone A has seized 38 trailers of foreign parboiled rice, 98 exotic tokunbo vehicles, 2,350 kg of Cannabis Sativa, and 1,820 jerrycans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). The unit recorded a total of 476 interceptions, including 761 seizures and items valued at N10.1 billion,...

Idongesit Emerges PEXX Global Community, Social Media Manager

10.12.2025

PEXX, a global financial platform worldwide, has announced the appointment of Victor Denise Idongesit (aka InfluencerDee) as its new Global Community & Social Media Manager. With over four years of hands-on leadership in blockchain communities, digital engagement, and Web3 communications, Denise brings a wealth of experience and a passionate track record of building thriving ecosystems...

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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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