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Police Arrest Five Suspected Bandits’ Arms Couriers

06.12.2025

…Rescue Kidnap Victim The Kwara State Police Command has arrested five suspected bandits’ arms couriers, and also rescued a kidnapped victim in separate operations across the state, amid rising concerns over the growing wave of kidnapping and violent crimes in the State. Parading the suspects before journalists at the Command Headquarters in Ilorin on Friday...

Trachoma Risk Drops From 41m To 4m Nationwide – FG

06.12.2025

The Federal Government has revealed a major breakthrough in the fight against trachoma, with the population at risk of the disease falling sharply from 41 million to four million. The progress follows the suspension of mass drug administration in 116 of the 134 Local Government Areas (LGAs) earlier classified as endemic. The update was presented...

Ali Rabiu Emerges New NSE President, Replaces Oguntala

06.12.2025

Engr. Ali Alimasuya Rabiu has been elected as the 35th President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), alongside other national executive officers, in an online voting. Following the electoral victory, Rabiu will pilot the affairs of the society from January 1st, 2026. The new NSE President is set to automatically assume the presidency after...

Ugochinyere Wants Tinubu’s Intervention In Debts Owed Local Contractors

06.12.2025

Member representing Ideator North & South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene in debts owed local contractors by the Federal Government. Ugochinyere, who visited the Ministry of Finance, in solidarity with the aggrieved contractors, who have occupied the ministry since Tuesday, said that the...

CG: Corruption Has No Place In Immigration Service

06.12.2025

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (CGIS), Kemi Nandap, has vowed to build an agency that is modern, transparent, and efficient, one that delivers services with integrity and excellence. The immigration chief made the declaration yesterday during the flags-off of the 4th quarter nationwide sensitisation campaign against corruption and for enhanced service delivery in...

Wike: Nobody Can Keep Rivers Lawmakers In Factionalised PDP

06.12.2025

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike on Friday said that members of Rivers State House of Assembly who defected to the ruling party are free to do so, noting that nobody can keep them in their former party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that is already factionalised. Recall that the Speaker...

NAFDAC Joins Global Drug-regulation Elite With Full ICH Membership

06.12.2025

Nigeria has achieved a major milestone in global health regulation as the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been admitted as a full member of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). This elevation from observer to full membership places Nigeria among only...

GOC Tasks Promoted Senior Officers On Committed, Purposeful Leadership

06.12.2025

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Farouk Mijinyawa, has charged newly promoted senior officers in the Division to remain committed to providing purposeful and exemplary leadership to their troops. The Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations (ADDAPR) of the division, Lieutenant Colonel Musa Yahaya stated in a press release stating...

I Have Confidence In ADC, Mark’s Leadership – Obi

06.12.2025

Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as “malicious”, the interview he purportedly granted where he reportedly made some remarks against the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and its leadership. Obi in a statement by the spokesperson of Peter Obi Media Office (POMR), Ibrahim Umar on Friday, expressed...

Kwam1 Seeks Awujale Throne, Applies Through Fusengbuwa Ruling House

06.12.2025

Fuji icon, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as Kwam1, has formally indicated interest in the prestigious Awujale of Ijebuland throne, this time claiming ancestry from the Fusengbuwa Ruling House rather than the Fidipote lineage with which he is widely associated. The Olori Ebi of the Fusengbuwa Ruling House, Otunba Lateef Owoyemi, confirmed that the musician...

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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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