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Police Warns Against Electoral Violence

16.08.2025

Politicians and their supporters have been cautioned against attempts to disrupt Saturday’s bye-elections in Kaduna State. The state police command, which gave the warning, listed the affected areas as Sabon Gari, Zaria, Chikun, and Kajuru councils. It further emphasised that anyone found instigating violence would be arrested and prosecuted, no matter their status. In a...

Discordant Tunes As Ondo Adopts Lagos Model Of Gac, Leaders’ Caucus

16.08.2025

The essence of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and zonal caucuses of the governors is for the helmsmen of the states to learn from one another. Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State learnt from the Lagos State model by inaugurating the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) and Leaders’ Caucus with its attendance controversy. Babatope Okeowo reports...

Lagos: Aregbesola’s Berthing Of ADC And APC’s Resolve To Retain Dominance

16.08.2025

The event of last Monday will remain indelible in the annals of partisan politics of Lagos owing to what the outcome eventually turned out to be. This is because what initially looked like a gathering of some members of a local wing of the coalition platform, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kosofe Local...

Tinubu Needs To Work More To Earn Trust Of Nigerians, Says Ojudu

16.08.2025

A journalist and politician, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, was a member of the Senate who represented Ekiti Central District at the upper legislative chambers, contesting and winning on the platform of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) into the 7th National Assembly. A native of Ado-Ekiti, Ojudu was appointed by the late former President...

Court’s Dismissal Of Abure’s Suit Against INEC Affirmation Of Rule of Law

15.08.2025

The Labour Party (LP) has described as welcome development, the Abuja Federal High Court dismissal of the suit instituted by Julius Abure against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as a welcome development. Interim National Chairman Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, in a statement on Friday, said the decision was an affirmation of the rule of...

Plot To Rig Anambra By-Election Thwarted

15.08.2025

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has announced that the grand plot to manipulate the Saturday by-elections in Anambra State has been botched, accusing its political traducers of being the masterminds. The party further contended that the false alarm raised by the opposition parties in the area about rigging was a ploy to deceive the...

IGP Orders Tight Security, Movement Restriction

15.08.2025

Ahead of the August 16, 2025 bye-elections in 13 states, the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has ordered comprehensive security measures to ensure a free, fair, and hitch-free electoral process. The affected states include Anambra, Kano, Oyo, Taraba, Enugu, Adamawa, Edo, Jigawa, Kogi, Ogun, Zamfara, and Niger. The IGP directed the deployment of...

APC Denies Canadian Court Terrorism Ruling

15.08.2025

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted viral media claims that a Canadian court declared the party a terrorist organization, describing the reports as “false, misleading, and mischievous.” In a statement signed on Friday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka (CON), the APC clarified that the case in question, Douglas Egharevba v. The...

You’re Celebrating Selective Optimism, Ignoring Real Message, ADC Tells FG

15.08.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the Federal Government is ignoring the real message in the recent comments made by the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the state of the Nigerian economy, but instead choose to celebrate selective optimism. ADC, in a statement issued on Friday, by the...

APC, PDP Condemn Terrorist Allegations By Canadian Court

15.08.2025

Following a recent judgment from the Federal Court in Canada, labelling the Nigerian political parties as terrorist organisations, the major political parties, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have both denounced the ruling. has sparked outrage within Nigeria’s two major political parties — the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 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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