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Telecoms: Hostile States To Lose Out In Potential $1bn Investment Windfall

24.11.2025

A silent, high-stakes selection is underway across Nigeria, and its outcome will determine which states thrive in the digital age and which are left with perpetually poor connectivity and stunted economic growth. While over $1 billion in new telecoms investment floods into the country, this windfall is not landing equally. According to industry insiders, mobile...

US Pledges Support For Nigeria’s Fight Against Terrorism

24.11.2025

The United States has affirmed its commitment to partnering with Nigeria in the fight against terrorism, after a high-level security meeting at the Pentagon last Thursday, November 20. The meeting, hosted by Pete Hegseth, US secretary of war, was attended by a delegation of security leaders from Nigeria led by Nuhu Ribadu, the national security...

NPAN Raises Alarm Over Heightened Insecurity In Nigeria

24.11.2025

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) has expressed concern over heightened insecurity in the country and condemned the killings of senior military officers and the abduction of yet another set of school girls in Niger and Kebbi states. In a statement after its Annual General Meeting (AGM) for 2025 in Lagos, NPAN urged the...

School Closures Not Solution To Insecurity – Sokoto Gov’s Aide

24.11.2025

Colonel Ahmed Usman (rtd), Special Adviser on Security Matters to Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State, has expressed concern over the recent closure of federal and state-owned schools in the region due to rising insecurity. According to Col Usman, while the safety of students and educators is paramount, closing schools is not a sustainable solution...

Insecurity: ISWAP Abducts 12 Female Farmers In Borno

24.11.2025

Members of Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) have abducted some female teenagers in Askira-Uba Local Government Area of Borno State. The Deputy Speaker of Borno State House of Assembly, Abdullahi Askira, confirmed the abduction, saying the victims were abducted on their fields in Mussa district. Abdullahi, who represents Askira-Uba constituency, said the 13 abductees...

Femi Adebayo’s King Of Thieves Pt2 Hits Community Cinemas

24.11.2025

Nigerian actor and film producer, Femi Adebayo, on Sunday finally confirmed what the nation has been whispering for weeks, the legendary Agesinkole (King of Thieves) Part 2 has return to the cinemas. After a viral, mystery-filled campaign that swept through markets, streets, billboards, and social media under the enigmatic #HeIsBack movement, it’s now official, #AgesinkoleIsBack,...

IMC Regulation: Court Affirms ARCON’s Authority Over OOH, Others

24.11.2025

The Federal High Court sitting in Lokoja has issued a landmark judgment affirming the constitutional validity, scope, and enforceability of the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) Act 2022, over the outdoor advertising in Nigeria. The judgment, delivered on November 12, by Justice Isa Dashen, dismissed in its entirety the suit filed by Godec Power...

Akpabio Receives Victorious Elegant Angels Academy

24.11.2025

The Senate President Godswill Akpabio last Tuesday night hosted players and officials of Elegant Angels Football Academy who emerged the winners of the justconcluded 10th Senate President’s Cup 2025 in Abuja. The team was led to the reception by the Executive Chairman of Ikono LGA, Engr. OtoObong Okon Essien, who spearheaded the academy’s formation. The...

HID Awolowo Foundation Adjusts Timing For National Dialogue

24.11.2025

The HID Awolowo Foundation has announced an adjustment to the format of its forthcoming National Dialogue on Women in Politics: Thirty Years After Beijing, scheduled for tomorrow. The event will now hold, same day, in a hybrid format, accommodating both in-person and virtual participation. A statement signed by the Foundation on Saturday said the adjustment...

Missing N6trn: Court Orders FG To Publish NDDC’s Forensic Audit Report, Name Those Indicted

24.11.2025

Justice Gladys Olotu of a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered President Bola Tinubu to direct the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to widely publish the names of those indicted in the alleged misappropriation of over N6 trillion meant to implement the abandoned 13,777 projects and in...

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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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