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• Catholic priest arrested after 'shooting boy' dead for throwing knockouts into Imo church

  02-01-2025 19:43 via pulse.ng
  The Amaimo community in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State has been engulfed in chaos after a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Joseph Enyinnaya, allegedly shot dead a teenage boy. The tragic event reportedly occurred during the New Year Mass, which was held at the St Columbus Church on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. The victim, whose name is yet to be known, was shot after he was reported to have thrown knockouts into the church premises. According to eyewitness accounts, the irate Catholic p
  
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• Murder suspect Adeleye still in prison - Police counter FIJ report

  05-01-2025 10:18 via pulse.ng
  The Lagos Command of the Nigeria Police has debunked reports claiming that a murder suspect Ayomide Adeleye has been released and is not in any prison. Recall that Adeleye, a 200-level Philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State, was arrested in early September 2024 for the gruesome murder of Christianah Idowu. Idowu, a 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), and her suspected killer were friends and neighbours. Adeleye allegedly kid
  
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• I know people will abuse me but I know what it takes to build a nation - Tinubu

  05-01-2025 09:34 via pulse.ng
  President Bola Tinubu said he knew there would be opposition to his policies but insisted that he knows what it takes to govern the country. Tinubu spoke at a meeting with stakeholders from the South-East geopolitical zone in Enugu on Saturday, January 4, 2024. The President was in the Coal City on his first official visit to inaugurate numerous projects initiated and completed by Peter Mbah, the state Governor. The inaugurated projects include 30 smart green schools, 60 completed type 2 primary
  
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• Odili scuttles Tinubu's peace accord, encourages Fubara to disobey president - Wike

  05-01-2025 08:54 via pulse.ng
  Nyesom Wike, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, has accused a former Governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, of scuttling the peace agreement brokered by President Bola Tinubu to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the oil-rich state. Wike made this known at a reception organised to host Rivers stakeholders last Friday. Rivers has been engulfed in a messy political feud between Wike and his predecessor, Governor Siminalyi Fubara. The two former allies are jostling to control the st
  
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• Fake and misleading - Police dismiss viral photo claiming DCP's arrest with bandits

  04-01-2025 21:19 via pulse.ng
  The Police Command in Kaduna State on Saturday dismissed a viral post alleging the arrest of a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) who purportedly went to give firearms to bandits and kidnappers. The police, in a statement issued by the Command’s Spokesperson, DSP Mansir Hassan, described the video as fake and intended to mislead the public. Hassan said: “The attention of the Command has been drawn to a false and malicious viral post on social media alleging that the “DCPs went
  
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• Borno farmers to buy petrol for N600/litre as Gov Zulum introduces subsidy

  04-01-2025 21:12 via pulse.ng
  The Borno government has announced plans to subsidise fuel at N600 per litre to 5,000 farmers in communities hit by Boko Haram insurgents in the state. Governor Babagana Zulum announced this during the flag-off of the distribution of farm inputs to prospective farmers resettled by his administration in Bama and environs on Friday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Bama was among the areas overrun by Boko Haram insurgents in 2014 but was liberated by the Nigerian military in Mar
  
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• Again, Police smash kidnapping, armed robbery gang in Imo, free 4 hostages

  04-01-2025 21:07 via pulse.ng
  The Police Command in Imo on Saturday said it had smashed a kidnapping and armed robbery syndicate at Umuokanne in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the successful dismantling of the notorious crime syndicate marks the second major breakthrough for the command in less than two weeks. The command had neutralised three suspects and arrested two others at Orogwe in Owerri West Local Government Area of the state during the Yuletide. The Po
  
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• Too early to start talking about the 2027 governorship race in Ogun - Yayi

  04-01-2025 20:49 via pulse.ng
  The Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon Adeola (APC-Ogun West), says it is not yet time to start discussing the 2027 governorship race in Ogun. Adeola stated this in a chat with newsmen shortly after an annual New Year thanksgiving service held at the Unity Cathedral of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ogun Province Seven, Ilaro. He said that he was currently preoccupied with delivering on his campaign promises to the people of his senatorial district, stressing that the futu
  
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• APC reacts to alleged attempt to murder Kaduna senator, sends strong warning to PDP

  04-01-2025 20:42 via pulse.ng
  The Kaduna State chapter of the All Progressives Congress(APC) has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from tarnishing its reputation with unverified claims and unfounded propaganda. In a statement issued by the State Secretary, Yahaya Pate on Saturday, APC advised the PDP to ‘’strive to fulfil; its role as a constructive opposition party.’’ The party was reacting to the alleged assassination attempt of Senator Lawal Usman (PDP Kaduna-Central). The PDP
  
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• GRF, RPI unveil 100 Most Reputable Africans 2025

  04-01-2025 20:08 via pulse.ng
  Reputable Poll International (RPI), in collaboration with the Global Reputation Forum (GRF), has unveiled the prestigious list of the 100 Most Reputable Africans for 2025. The highly anticipated annual announcement celebrates African leaders, innovators, and changemakers who have made exceptional contributions across diverse sectors, including Business, Governance, Arts, Education, and humanitarian efforts. The 2025 honorees represent the best of Africa, embodying excellence, leadership, and int
  
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• APC diaspora kicks over inclusion of Tinubu among most corrupt leaders worldwide

  04-01-2025 17:09 via pulse.ng
  The former Secretary of the Committee of APC Diaspora Chairmen, Mr Ayoola Lawal has condemned the inclusion of President Bola Tinubu in the recent global corruption ranking by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Lawal, the immediate past Chairman of the APC in Scandinavian countries in a statement on Saturday. Questioned the basis and fairness of the ranking, which placed Tinubu amongst the world’s most corrupt leaders of 2024. He described the ranking a
  
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• Ondo SSG dies 3 weeks after surviving road crash

  04-01-2025 16:55 via pulse.ng
  The Ondo State Government has confirmed the death of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Tayo Oluwatuyi. This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen by Chief ‘Wale Akinlosotu, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Ondo State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased was involved in a car accident on December 15, 2024, in the Ile-Ife/ Ibadan and was subsequently hospitalised. He reportedly died at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teachin
  
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• Lakurawa bandits invade Kebbi village, kill 2 police officers, rustle cows

  04-01-2025 16:45 via pulse.ng
  Suspected Lakurawa bandits have attacked Natsini village in Argungu Local Government Area of Kebbi and rustled an unspecified number of cows. The Spokesperson of Kebbi Police Command, SP, Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the incident in a press statement on Saturday in Birnin Kebbi. He said: “On Jan. 3, at about 0100hrs, armed hoodlums suspected to be Lakurawa bandits on motorcycles invaded Alhaji Lawal Black Farm and nearby Fulani settlements located at Natsini village, along Argungu/Kangiwa roa
  
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• Tinubu inaugurates numerous projects in Enugu, praises Governor Mbah's strides

  04-01-2025 16:36 via pulse.ng
  President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, arrived in Enugu State on his first state visit and inaugurated some completed projects embarked on by the administration of Governor Peter Mbah. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the projects the President inaugurated included 30 of the 260 Smart Green Schools, 60 completed Type 2 Primary Health Centres, and 19-kilometer Airport-New Haven – Bisalla and Okpara Square roads built by Mbah’s administration. Other projects inaugurat
  
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• 9 dead, 4 injured as Fulanis engage Hausawa in Jigawa communal clash

  04-01-2025 16:28 via pulse.ng
  The Police Command in Jigawa has confirmed nine persons dead and four others injured in a communal clash that occurred on Friday in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the incident in a statement issued to newsmen in Dutse, on Saturday. Shiisu stated that the incident occurred at Gululu village in Miga Local Government Area (LGA). He explained that the incidents occurred after residents of the village discovered that a shop in the area
  
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• Your sale of PH refinery to Dangote didn't follow due process - Falana tells Obasanjo

  04-01-2025 13:22 via pulse.ng
  Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo didn't follow due process when he offered to sell off the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries to a consortium led by Dangote Oil. In a controversial interview on Channels Television during the week, Obasanjo disclosed that his successor, late president Umaru Yar'Adua turned down a $750 million offer from Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, to take over the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries in 2007. The elde
  
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• Adeboye reacts to AI-generated picture of him dressed like alhaji in Mecca

  04-01-2025 12:23 via pulse.ng
  The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has reacted to the AI-generated picture circulating on social media, depicting him as an alhaji in the Holy Land of Mecca. The revered cleric spoke during the first Holy Ghost Night of the new year, held in the early hours of Saturday, January 4, 2025, Church Times Nigeria reported. Recall that viral images, depicting Adeboye as a Muslim clothed in garments mostly associated with Arab Muslims and standing against
  
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• IGP Egbetokun vows to deal with attackers, killers of police personnel

  04-01-2025 11:44 via pulse.ng
  The Inspector-General of Police, Dr Kayode Egbetokun, says the force will deal decisively with anyone who assaults or kills police personnel. Egbetokun made the vow on Friday in Enugu while addressing officers and men of the Police Command in the state during his two-day working visit to the Command. “We will not tolerate any assault on our police officers not to talk of killing police personnel. “An assault on any police personnel is criminal and an assault on me. “In 2025, we
  
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• Governor Sule sacks SSG, Commissioners in cabinet dissolution

  04-01-2025 11:37 via pulse.ng
  Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has sacked the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Muhammad Ubandona-Aliyu, and all commissioners in his cabinet. This is contained in a statement signed by Mohammed Illiyasu-Idde, Permanent Secretary Cabinet Affairs and Special Duties, Office of the SSG on Friday in Lafia. According to the statement, the dissolution is with effect from Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. “By this development, all outgoing commissioners are to hand over the affairs of
  
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• TCN to ration power supply in FCT for 2 weeks following road dualisation

  04-01-2025 11:25 via pulse.ng
  The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced the rationing of power supply for Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC)’s customers in parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between Jan. 6 and Jan. 20. Ndidi Mbah, TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs made the announcement in a statement in Abuja on Saturday. Mbah said that the rationing would be due to the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)’s road dualisation project along the Apo axis
  
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• President Tinubu to make first official visit to Enugu on Saturday

  04-01-2025 11:16 via pulse.ng
  President Bola Tinubu will make its first official visit to Enugu State on Saturday to inaugurate some projects executed by the Governor Peter Mbah administration. Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, the Secretary to the State Government disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Enugu. Onyia said, “The Enugu State Government is happy to announce the first state visit to the state by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Senator Bola Ahmed
  
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• This is total disrespect - Obasanjo slams NNPC over invitation to tour refineries

  04-01-2025 10:48 via pulse.ng
  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lambasted the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) over what he described as a disrespectful manner he was invited to tour the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries. Reacting to the invitation through his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo said such an open invitation was disrespectful to a former president's office and standing. Recall that the national oil company recently issued a press statement, inviting Obasanjo to tour the two refi
  
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• Fears of new pandemic grow as China battles surge in respiratory illnesses

  04-01-2025 09:47 via pulse.ng
  The rest of the world is watching with keen interest as the possibility of another pandemic looms following a mysterious viral outbreak in China, reminiscent of the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak. Reports say the outbreak is overwhelming hospitals, prompting people in the East Asian country to wear face masks again. Videos making the rounds on social media showed overcrowded hospital units, parents waiting in long lines with sick children, and patients covering their faces with masks in pac
  
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• Niger Republic jails leading activist for criticising military junta

  04-01-2025 09:05 via pulse.ng
  A Niger Republic court has sent to prison Moussa Tchangari, a leading civil society figure and strong critic of the Abdourahmane Tchiani-led military junta, one month after he was detained following a trip abroad. The development was revealed by Tchangari's Non-Governmental Organisation, Alternative Citizen Spaces (AEC) on Friday, December 3, 2025. AEC disclosed that Tchangari was seized by unidentified gunmen at his home on December 3, 2024, and sentenced on Friday. ALSO READ: Tension brews aga
  
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• Thank you, PDP for giving your best player Wike to Tinubu's govt - Oshiomhole

  04-01-2025 08:34 via pulse.ng
  Adams Oshiolmhola, the lawmaker representing Edo North senatorial district, has lauded Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike's developmental strides and thanked the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for allowing the former Rivers State Governor to serve in President Bola Tinubu's administration. Oshiomhole, a former Edo State Governor, spoke at a New Year luncheon organised by Wike in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital on Friday, December 3, 2025. Though a rankin
  
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• Shame! - Sowore slams Anthony Joshua for showing deference to Nigerian leaders

  03-01-2025 21:30 via pulse.ng
  Politician and publisher Omoyele Sowore has slammed British-Nigerian boxing sensation and former two-time unified world heavyweight championship Anthony Joshua for repeatedly showing deference to political leaders in the country. Joshua flew into Nigeria just in time for the New Year celebration and was hosted by Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun, who honoured the pugilist by naming the state's new boxing hall after him on Monday, December 30, 2024. Abiodun also bestowed upon Joshua a Yoruba name
  
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• Court freezes 21 bank accounts, orders owners' arrest over alleged money laundering

  03-01-2025 20:16 via pulse.ng
  A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the temporary freezing of 21 bank accounts domiciled in some commercial banks and directed the arrest of the account holders by the police. Justice Emeka Nwite gave the order after counsel for the Inspector-General (I-G) of Police, Ibrahim Mohammed, moved a motion ex-parte to the effect. Justice Nwite also granted the “order directing the banks to issue details of the account package(s) and to place a Post-No-Debit (PND) on the accounts, disa
  
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• Policeman shoots dead Ekiti nursing mother while celebrating colleague's promotion

  03-01-2025 19:43 via pulse.ng
  A nursing mother, identified as Ifeoluwa Adekolu, has been killed by a bullet from a gun fired by an overexcited police officer who was celebrating his colleague's promotion in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital. According to reports, the incident occurred at Oke-Illa Police Station after the suspect received the news of his colleague's promotion. An eyewitness said the victim was standing across the road opposite the police station when the errant officer, who came from a station from another divis
  
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• We're upgrading Kaduna, 2nd PH refineries to world-class standards - NNPC

  03-01-2025 19:05 via pulse.ng
  The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), says the 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) Port Harcourt Refinery and Kaduna Refinery are undergoing a comprehensive overhaul, designed to meet world-class standards. The company said the rehabilitation done at the 60,000 bpd Port Harcourt Refinery and Warri Refinery was not the typical Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) of the past, but a comprehensive overhaul, designed to meet global standards. The Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NN
  
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• Soludo offers N10m bounty on gunmen who attacked residents during Anambra burial

  03-01-2025 18:55 via pulse.ng
  Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has announced a N10 million reward for anybody with useful information on each of the gunmen responsible for an attack during a burial ceremony in Ihiala. Soludo stated this during a condolence visit to the family of the late Bridget Onuchukwu on Friday in Umuike, Ubahuekwem in the Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. The police confirmed that gunmen attacked people preparing for a burial ceremony in the Ihiala community on Monday and killed nine p
  
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