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Turkey Plane Crashes, Kills 20 In Georgia

12.11.2025

No fewer than 20 people on board a Turkish military plane have reportedly been killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, New Telegraph reports. The plane, which took off from Ganja airport in western Azerbaijan on Tuesday afternoon, crashed shortly after crossing the border into eastern Georgia. According to the Defence Ministry, there were 20...

Tinubu To Declare NGE Annual Conference Open at Aso Rock

12.11.2025

All is set for the 21st All Nigeria Editors Conference (ANEC) holding at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja from today. Expected at the two-day conference are President Bola Tinubu, who will declare it open at State House Conference Centre, Aso Villa, Abuja, governors, media leaders, members of the diplomatic corps, the academia and other...

Apapa Council Urges Representatives To Be Worthy Ambassadors Of Nigeria

12.11.2025

The Chairman of Apapa Local Government, Hon. Idowu Adejumoke Senbanjo, has charged the youth representatives from the council to be worthy ambassadors as they depart for the African Union (AU) Leadership Youth Summit in Ethiopia. In her address, Senbanjo encouraged the delegates to represent Apapa, Lagos State, and Nigeria with excellence. She urged them to...

Oborevwori Flags off Kwale Free Trade Zone

12.11.2025

Delta State Governor, Sheriff Obor- evwori, yesterday, unveiled a major leap in the state journey toward industrial transformation as he performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kwale Free Trade Zone (KFTZ) in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area. The KFTZ is a flagship component of the Delta Special Economic Zone Project. In what he called...

PTA Chair Arrested As Abia School Sends Pupils, Students Home

12.11.2025

Parents, pupils and students of NINLAN Nursery and Primary School (NNPS) and the NINLAN Demonstration Secondary School (NDSS) were greeted with the shock of their lives yesterday as the management drove many pupils and students’ home over fees. In a similar development, the Chairman of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of the school, Dr Chidi...

Senate Berates Ex-NNPCL’s GMDs Over Unaccounted N210trn

12.11.2025

The Senate, yesterday, rejected written explanations forwarded to it by the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) on unaccounted N210 trillion from 2017 to 2023. The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, chaired by Senator Aliyu Wadada (Nasarawa West), had on the strength of 19 different queries raised against NNPCL by Office of...

Not All Skin Diseases Are Infectious, Says Dermatologist

12.11.2025

A consultant dermatologist, Adebola Ogunbiyi, has called for strong public enlightenment to tackle stigma and isolation associated with skin disorder, saying it is not all skin diseases that are infectious. The professor of medicine at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, made the call on Tuesday in Lagos. She said it was wrong to...

Stop The Bloodshed Now, Ezekwesili Tells FG

12.11.2025

Former Minister of Education Dr Oby Ezekwesili has urged the Federal Government to halt the ongoing bloodshed in the country. Apparently supporting the targeted killings claims, she said more than 90 per cent of the abducted Chibok girls were Christians. In a statement yesterday, the former Minister of Education said: “Of what use are ‘leaders’...

NCC DG Urges Protection Of NNPC’s Innovative Technologies, Intellectual Property

12.11.2025

The Director-General of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), Dr. John Asein, has emphasized the urgent need for the protection and effective management of innovative technologies and knowledge-based assets of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) and other industries within the country’s petrochemical sector. Dr. Asein made this known at the opening ceremony of a...

US Mayor Joins Kegites Club, Traces Root To Ibadan

12.11.2025

At a high-octane gathering of its members, a prominent member of the United States’ political class and a Councilman were ushered into the largest socio-cultural club in Africa, the Kegites Club. With uncommon enthusiasm, the Mayor of the City of Linden in New Jersey, Hon. Derek Armstead and a councilman, Hon. Alfred D. Mohammed, joined...

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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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