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Deeper Life Church Attack Survivors Laud Dss, As Suspect’s Trial

21.12.2025

Victims’ families, and survivors of the 2012 gun attack on Deeper Life Bible Church, Otite, near Okene, in Kogi State, have commended the Department of State Services (DSS) for re-arresting and accelerating the arraignment of the suspected mastermind of the incident, Abdulmalik Obadaki. Sunday Telegraph reports that on the morning of August 7, 2012, three...

Deputy Gov Mandates Strengthening Of PHCs In Edo rural Areas

21.12.2025

he Deputy Governor of Edo State, Hon Dennis Idahosa, has mandated that Primary Healthcare facilities across the rural areas in Edo State be strengthened as part of efforts to provide essential and accessible health services to rural dwellers. He gave this directive when he chaired the 4th quarterly meeting of the state Primary Health Care...

Imo: Uvuru Community Set To Install Sir Mbalewe As Monarch

21.12.2025

The people of Uvuru Ancient Kingdom in Aboh-Mbaise LGA of Imo State are in high spirits as they put finishing touches to activities lined up for the installation of Eze Sir Iheanacho Chinyereze Mbalewe, KSC, as their new traditional ruler. The event slated for December 27, 2025, will see the crowning of His Royal Highness,...

Dangote Refinery Reduces Minimum Fuel Bulk Purchase To 250,000 Litres

21.12.2025

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced that it has reduced the minimum order for fuel to 250,000 litres. It also stated that the gantry or ex-depot price remains N699 per litre, as it recently reduced by N129 its gantry from N828 per litre to N699 per litre in December 2025. In a post on its official...

Insecurity: Why Security Agencies Don’t Maximise Intels – Experts

21.12.2025

S ome Nigerian security professionals have explained why security agencies have not been able to overcome the insecurity ravaging the country for almost two decades. This is even in the face of the agencies receiving advance intelligence on impending attacks by criminals. In separate interviews with Sunday Telegraph, the men, who had been involved in...

World Bank Approves $500m To Expand Finance For MSMEs In Nigeria

21.12.2025

The World Bank has approved a $500 million financing package for Nigeria to help mobilise private investment and expand access to and usage of inclusive, innovative financial products for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. In a press release, the Bank said that the funding, which is for the “Fostering Inclusive Finance...

Provide Systems For Use Of Foreign Cards, CBN Tells Banks

21.12.2025

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed all banks and other financial institutions to ensure “uninterrupted and efficient local currency withdrawal, payment and transfer services for users of foreign-issued payment cards nationwide.” In a circular, dated December 18, 2025, issued by its Financial Policy and Regulation Department, the apex bank said the directive was...

FRSC Confirms 12 Dead, 2 Injured In Kogi Road Crash

21.12.2025

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has confirmed the death of 12 persons with two others injured in an auto crash that occurred on Friday along the Ejule – Enugu highway in Kogi. Mr Tenimu Etuku, The FRSC Sector Commander in Kogi, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja...

Debt Service To Gulp 27% Of 2026 N58.18trn Budget

21.12.2025

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday presented a N58.18 trillion 2026 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly, ushering in what his administration dubs the “Budget of Consolidation, Renewed Resilience and Shared Prosperity.” Yet the proposal’s heavy reliance on debt financing and rising debt-service costs quickly drew sharp economic scrutiny. Under the plan, N15.52 trillion roughly...

17 States To Spend N15.85trn In 2026

21.12.2025

•Niger, Enugu, Ogun, Akwa-Ibom hit trillion mark Seventeen states plan to spend a total sum of N15.85 trillion in 2026 fiscal year, out of which four of the states- Niger, Enugu, Ogun, Akwa-Ibom voted over a trillion naira each, a compilation of 17 states budgets revealed. The governors of the 17 states presented the budgets...

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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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