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Court Adjourns Till Today For Kanu To Open Defense After Sacking Lawyers

24.10.2025

The Federal High Court in Abuja has adjourned till today for the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to open his defence in the alleged terrorism charge filed against him by the Federal Government. Following Kanu’s sudden sacking of his legal team yesterday, the planned commencement of defense was stalled....

Billions Set For A Weekend Of Miracles As Healing Streams With Pastor Chris Begins Today

24.10.2025

Billions of people around the world are set in unprecedented anticipation for a wave of miracles, transformation, and divine healing at the largest Online Healing Crusade, tagged Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris. The epochs event which begins today as the 15th edition of the Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris....

Benin City Schedules Edo Carnival 2025 For December

24.10.2025

Benin City, the Edo State capital, will come alive from December 21, to December 24, 2025 when it plays host to the Edo Carnival 2025, a four-day cultural fiesta showcasing music, dance, fashion, food, and tradition. The event, which will be held at Garrick Memorial on Ekehuan Road, is expected to draw thousands of visitors,...

Davido Meets French President On Culture, Business Expansion

24.10.2025

Nigerian music superstar, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido has met with French President, Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris during a high-level bilateral summit involving Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, marking another moment of cultural diplomacy between Nigeria and France. The meeting, which also included Davido’s manager, Asa Asika and nightlife entrepreneur, Cubana...

Ogbogwu Traders Urge Soludo To Remove Market Chairman

24.10.2025

Traders in Ogbogwu Market, Bridge Head, Onitsha, took to the streets to protest alleged executive recklessness being perpetrated by their caretaker Chairman, Chukwuleta Ndubisi, calling on Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State to intervene. The traders, who carried placards bearing different inscriptions, read: “Chukwuleta Ndubisi, a leadership failure in Ogbogwu Market;” “Chukwuleta told us that...

Savanah Energy Posts $185.2m As Total Revenue In 9 Months

24.10.2025

Savannah Energy PLC, the British independent energy company, has recorded an increase in its Total Revenues and cash collections in the nine months of 2025. A statement yeaterday said Total Revenue during the period was $185.2 million, up nine per cent compared to $169.3 million in the first nine months in 2024. The company’s cash...

Anti-Graft War: We Recovered N566bn, $411m, 1,502 Property In 2 Years –EFCC

24.10.2025

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) confirmed yesterday that it recovered N566 billion, $411 million, £71,306.25, €182,877.10, and other foreign currencies from the proceeds of financial and economic crimes over the past two years. It also said it recovered 1,502 non-monetary assets, comprising 402 properties in 2023, 975 in 2024, and 125 in 2025....

LP Crisis: Usman Wants Abure, Agbamuchembu Arrested Over Alleged Forgery

24.10.2025

The crisis in Labour Party (LP) has taken another dimension with the call by the Sen Esther Nenadi Usman-led interim National Working Committee (NWC), for the arrest of Julius Abure and former Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, for alleged forgery of a court order. Agbamuche-Mbu had explained that...

Court Grants Bizman N25m Bail Over Attack On Delta Monarch

24.10.2025

The Federal High Court in Asaba yesterday granted bail to a businessman, Mike Nwaukoni, accused of terrorism and attempted murder of the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom Obi Ifechukwude Aninshi Okonjo II. Nwaukoni, alongside Francis Okolie, John Nwaona, Ojo Izediunor, and Eugene Elue Adigwe, is standing trial for their alleged roles in the violent incident that...

WHO Reports Significant Decline In Polio Cases In Africa

24.10.2025

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday announced a decline in the number of African countries with active type 2 poliovirus outbreaks, dropping from 24 to 14 in 2024 and 2025. In a statement to mark the 2025 World Polio Day today, the WHO Regional Director for Africa Mohamed Janabisaid the total virus detections also dropped...

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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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