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Ondo Govt Transfers Teaching Hospital To FG

12.09.2025

The Ondo State government has approved the transfer of the University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED) Teaching Hospital complex in Akure to the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), to serve as its College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital. Briefing journalists after the State Council meeting, presided over by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the Commissioner for Health,...

At 60: UNILAG Faculty Of Arts Set To Launch N500m Endowment Trust Fund

12.09.2025

The stage is set for the 60th anniversary and N500 million Endowment Trust Fund raising of Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos (UNILAG), which will be chaired by High Chief ‘Tunde Fanimokun, the Agba Akin of Lagos, and former Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, as Special Guest of Honour. The endowment fund raising, which...

NSCDC Boss Calls For Synergy To End Banditry, Other Crimes In Kwara

12.09.2025

The Kwara State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Umar J.G. Mohammed, has called for stronger collaboration between the conventional security agencies and private guard companies towards effective combating of insecurity in the state. He made this call in Ilorin, the state capital, at a Security Summit organised by the...

Retired Primary School Teachers To Protest Over Unpaid Pension

12.09.2025

Forum of Retired Primary School Teachers in Akwa Ibom State on Thursday set an October 14th deadline for the State government to meet their demand or face mass protests from the octogenarians. This was contained in a press statement issued at the end of its meeting held at St Patrick’s Primary School, Uyo, Akwa Ibom...

Anambra CP Presents ₦59.1m Insurance Cheques To Families Of Fallen Officers

12.09.2025

The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, CP Ikioye Orutugu, on Thursday convened a high-level security meeting with Area Commanders, Tactical Commanders, and Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) as part of renewed efforts to bolster safety across the state. The strategic session, held at the State Police Command Headquarters in Awka, focused on reviewing operational frameworks,...

Abia’s Health Sector Transformation On Track, Completes 140 PHCs

12.09.2025

Abia State Government has said its health sector transformation is on track with the completion of rehabilitation or rebuilding and retrofitting of 140 primary health centres (PHCs) of the 200 under the ‘Project Ekwueme’. This is because two new infectious disease isolation centres have been established at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Aba, and Uzuakoli Leprosy...

Afenifere Seeks Strict Enforcement Of Fulani Ban On Night Grazing In S’west

12.09.2025

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization Afenifere yesterday threw its weight behind the ban on night grazing by herdsmen in the South West. The Council of Fulani Chiefs of South-West Chairman Mohammed Bambado II also announced the ban on underage grazing as well as the the carrying of firearms by herders in the region during the week....

NASENI-PICTT Inaugurates Delta-2 Second Call For Proposals

12.09.2025

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and the Presidential Implementation Committee on Technology Transfer (PICTT) have launched the second phase of the DELTA-2 Programme-the 2nd Call for Proposals, which will focus on Commercialization of all R&D outcomes in different fields of the economy. The Delta-2 Project is a bilateral collaboration by the...

Hilda Baci Begins Attempt For Largest Pot Of Jollof Rice

12.09.2025

Celebrity chef, Hilda Baci, has officially kicked off her ambitious Guinness World Record attempt to cook the world’s largest pot of jollof rice, targeting 250 bags of rice. The Nigerian chef, who gained global fame in 2023 after breaking the record for the longest cooking marathon, began her latest record-setting attempt at Eko Hotels, Lagos,...

Bauchi Gov Discovers Over 100 Health Ghost Workers

12.09.2025

The Bauchi State government, on Thursday, announced the discovery of over 100 ghost workers in its healthcare system, saying it has submitted their names for due sanctioning. The development was conveyed by the executive Chairman of the Bauchi State Hospital Management Board, Mr Sambo Alkali, at a news conference in Bauchi. Alkali, who spoke to...

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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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