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Rivers Emergency Rule: Tinubu Acted On Security Reports

27.03.2025

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu acted on security reports to declare a State of Emergency rule in the state. Okocha stated this on Thursday in Abuja while briefing the media at the APC National Headquarters. It would...

Rivers Emergency Rule: APC Wants To Derail Nigeria’s Democracy

27.03.2025

…Calls on Senate to apologise to Akpoti-Uduaghan The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of a plot to derail the nation’s democracy by declaring emergency rule in Rivers State. Calling for the reversal of the emergency rule and restoration of democratic rule in the state, the ADC National Chairman, Dr...

Reps Pass Bill To Bar Tinubu, Atiku, Obi From Contesting 2027 Presidency

27.03.2025

…Peg Age Limit At 60 The House of Representatives on Thursday passed for second reading a bill seeking to bar individuals above 60 years from contesting for the Offices of President and Governor in Nigeria. The bill, if passed and signed into law would make President Bola Tinubu, who will be 75 years by 2027,...

ACPN Advocates Closure Of Remnant Open Drug Markets, Unregistered Premises

27.03.2025

The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has called for immediate and uncompromising action against the nation’s rampant illegal drug market, labeling those involved as “merchants of death.” The ACPN also demanded penalties ranging from N20 million to N50 million, and 20 years jail terms for drug counterfeiters. A press statement jointly signed by...

N’West Elders Urge Ganduje To Save Zamfara APC From Jaji’s Excesses

27.03.2025

A Committee of Concerned Elders for Peace, under the auspices of the All Progressives Congress (APC) North-West, has warned that if Jaji’s actions are not checked, they could lead to the destruction of the party’s unity and cohesion in Zamfara State and the Northwest region. The group also urged the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdullahi...

Omokri Vows To Destroy Obidient Movement

27.03.2025

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri on Thursday openly declared his intention to dismantle the Obidient movement, citing personal threats and a fallout with the former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Peter Obi as the driving force behind his decision. Speaking in an interview, the political commentator dismissed claims that his opposition to Obi and his...

2027: I’ve No Anointed Successor

27.03.2025

The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule has denied the news reports making round in some section of the media that he has anointed a successor for the 2027 general election. Governor Sule who spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Peter Ahemba, at a press briefing in Lafia on Wednesday said the governor’s...

USA Groups Condemn State Of Emergency In Rivers

27.03.2025

The National Union of Ogoni Students International, NUOS INT’L USA and the Center for Democracy Human Rights and Anti-Corruption International, CDHRAC INT’L USA, have rejected the imposition of a state of emergency on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the appointment of Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (Rtd) as the sole administrator of...

Changes In Global Geopolitics Redefining World Order –Nwajiuba

27.03.2025

Chairman, Board of Directors, Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team (NEST), Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba, has said that reliance on international sources of funding is becoming challenging as the global financial situation as well as emerging changes in global geopolitics are redefining the world economic systems and order. Nwajiuba, who gave the charge, while addressing programme staff...

Emergency Rule In Rivers Must Not Serve Partisan Advantage –Aduwo

27.03.2025

Mr. Olufemi Aduwo is the permanent representative of the Centre for Convention on Democratic Integrity (CCDI) to ECOSOC/United Nations and chairman of the CSO-African Countries Group of World Bank, Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF). In this interview, he speaks on the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers States, allegation of sexual harassment in...

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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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