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Owode Onirin: Court Adjourns Matter To January 22

16.11.2025

Justice Savage of a Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has adjourned the matter involving the Lagos State Government and traders in Owode Onirin Spare Parts Market to Thursday, January 22, 2026. After hearing the submission of the counsels, the judge ordered the parties to respond to the various affidavits that they had been served on the...

Bishop Adegbite Loses Father

16.11.2025

he family of the Adegbite clergy dynasty has announced the passing of their patriarch, Pa Moses Adediran Adegbite, JP, who died in the early hours of Friday, November 14, at the age of 86. Pa Adegbite was the father of several distinguished children, most notably Bishop Stephen Tunde Victor (‘STV’) Adegbite, the current Executive Secretary...

Kano Sets Up Fact-finding, Reconciliation Committee To Resolve

16.11.2025

Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State has approved the inauguration of a fact finding and Reconciliation Committee following a security report from the Department of State Services (DSS) on renewed threats to law and order at the Ihya’us Sunnah Juma’at Mosque in Gwammaja, Dala Local Government Area. This is contained in a statement issued by...

Tinubu, Oluremi, Shettima, others commend body

16.11.2025

President Bola Tinubu, his wife, Oluremi, and the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, with the members of the National Assembly, have commended the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) for its various humanitarian services across the country and beyond. Also, the president appreciated the body for its prayers and support for successive governments in the country. They...

Christian Mass Killings Exist In Nigeria –PFN

16.11.2025

For the umpteenth time the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), through its National President, Bishop Wale Oke, has said that there is genocide against Christians in Nigeria, even as it called on President Bola Tinubu to put an end to the killings across the country. Bishop Oke, who made the call after an emergency executive...

Experts Caution Journalists On Defamation, AI Risks, Digital Vulnerabilities

16.11.2025

Media professionals have been urged to deepen their knowledge of emerging technologies, understand legal boundaries, and strengthen digital safety skills in order to remain relevant in modern journalism. These were part of the key messages delivered during the second-day sessions of the 2025 Retreat organised by the Kano Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of...

Insecurity: Nigeria Needs Home‑grown Solutions

16.11.2025

The Muslim Ummah of South‑west Nigeria (MUSWEN) says the country needs an internal solution to its challenges, not a foreign invasion. The President of the group, Alhaji Rasaki Oladejo, said this while addressing a news conference to herald the 10th General Assembly of the Ummah in Osogbo recently. Oladejo, who is also the Deputy‑General of...

Psychiatrist Raises Alarm Over Rising Mental Health, Stress Challenges Among Journalists

16.11.2025

Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Shehu, a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), has issued a strong warning that stress and mental health disorders are becoming significant and growing threats to the journalism profession in Nigeria and globally. Dr. Shehu made this known while presenting a paper titled “Pressure Amid Deadline: Psychiatric/Mental Health Precautions”...

S&P Raises Nigeria’s Outlook To ‘Positive’ As Reforms Take Hold

16.11.2025

S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Nigeria to “positive” from “stable” on Friday, backing the country’s ongoing economic reforms, and also affirmed the country’s rating at “B-/B”. “The monetary, economic, and fiscal reforms being implemented by Nigerian authorities will yield positive benefits over the medium term,” S&P said in a statement. In May, Moody’s...

NGO Allays Fears Of HIV May Increase In Niger

16.11.2025

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) under the auspices of Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has allayed the fears that HIV may be on the increase in Niger State following the unavailability of test kits and preventive commodities. Speaking when they paid an advocacy visit to the Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA)...

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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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