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Design Week Lagos To Connect Africa’s Creativity Kicks Off Thursday

23.10.2025

Determined to connect African creativity with commerce, Design Week Lagos (DWL), Africa’s leading festival of design, innovation, and culture, is set to commence its 2025 event today in Lagos. Since its debut in 2019, Design Week Lagos has hosted hundreds of designers, brands, and thinkers from across Africa and the diaspora. Its signature initiatives, including...

Yakubu Engineered Massive Reform Of Nigerian Elections –IPAC

23.10.2025

The Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has applauded the contribution of the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reforming the nation’s electoral system through the massive introduction of technology. Speaking at a colloquium on 10 years of leadership of Prof Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman yesterday in Abuja, National Chairman,...

Tanker Explosion: Provide Relief Materials For Victims, Reps Tell NEMA

23.10.2025

The House of Representatives yesterday urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to provide relief materials and medical support for the victims and families of the Essa Village tanker explosion in Niger State. It also urged the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to immediately mobilise resources and...

Reps Move To Harmonise Various Taxations By FG, States, LGAs

23.10.2025

The House of Representatives yesterday passed through second reading a Bill for an Act to alter the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended), to clarify the taxation powers of the federal, state and local governments. The proposed legislation titled: ‘A Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution of the Federal...

Karu LG Imposes Dusk-to-Dawn Ban On Commercial Motorcyclists

23.10.2025

The Chairman of Karu Local Government Area in in Nasarawa State, Barr. Abubakar Aliyu Madaki, has imposed a dusk-to-dawn restriction on the movement of commercial motorcycle riders within the area, with immediate effect. The directive follows the killing of a commercial motorcyclist, identified as Ibrahim Taylor, 30, who was allegedly shot dead by a vigilante...

Planned ISWAP Attacks: Tensions In Ondo, Kogi Over DSS Alert

23.10.2025

The Ondo and Kogi state governments yesterday assured residents of protection amid heightened tensions over the leaked security alert issued by the Department of State Services (DSS) on planned coordinated attacks in the states by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). In a confidential letter to the Commander of the 32 Artillery Brigade Akure...

FG Seeks $10bn Single-Digit Interest Funding To Tackle Humanitarian Crisis

23.10.2025

The Federal Government is courting the United Nations’ with a view to accessing $10 billion single digit interest funding to address humanitarian challenges in order to generate wealth for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Minister for Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Abubaka Bagudu, made the proposal on behalf of the Federal Government yesterday in Abuja during...

FG Unveils BHCPF 2.0, Disburses N32.9bn To Strengthen PHC Accountability

23.10.2025

The Federal Government has approved the disbursement of ₦32.9 billion under a revised funding framework for the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), aimed at expanding access to quality primary healthcare services and improving transparency in resource utilisation. Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, who disclosed this at the 12th...

Eight Killed As Truck Loses Control In Ondo

23.10.2025

Tragedy struck on Wednesday when a heavy cement truck lost control on a steep descent near Adekunle Ajasin University, crashing through Medoline junction, crushing into people along Holy Trinity church. New Telegraph gathered that the initial reports place the number of deaths at eight, with several others currently undergoing treatment. The victims of the incident,...

Lagos Moves To Strengthen LG Collaboration On Environment, Flood Prevention

23.10.2025

The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to deepen collaboration with all 57 Local Government and Local Council Development Area (LCDA) chairmen to enhance environmental sustainability, flood control, and waste management across the state. This was disclosed on Wednesday during a strategic meeting held at Protea Hotel, Ikeja, convened by the Commissioner for the...

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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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