Cholera: Shun tiger nut drinks by hawkers, experts tell Nigerians
As cholera rages across the country with no fewer than 53 deaths recorded, medical and nutrition experts have advised Nigerians to stop consuming locally made drinks from unknown sources and street hawkers. This, the experts said is to further halt the transmission of the diarrhoeal infection, which is contracted through the ingestion of contaminated food Read More
Pronouncing pat, part and path
Often, when many people pronounce the three words, all they say is ‘pat’. This is despite the fact that their meanings are not only different but their pronunciations are also not the same. Today, we will attempt to establish the differences in the sounds and identify some other related words. Being homonyms, pat, part and Read More
Katsina wins best healthcare management award
The Katsina State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency has been awarded the “Best State Health Insurance Agency of the Year 2024” at the National Healthcare Excellence Awards, which held in Lagos. Arewa PUNCH reports that the state had earlier won the award in 2022 and now in 2024, making it two consecutive times respectively. A statement Read More
Police close to arresting killers of UNIBEN final year student -Edo CP
The Edo State Police Command has stated that it is close to arresting the killers of a female final year student of the University of Benin, Adekolore Glory. The state Commissioner of Police, Funsho Adegboye, who stated this on Benin, the state capital, on Monday while parading 45 suspects nabbed for cultism and other crimes, Read More
Politicians’ Fake Certificates Causing Nigeria Shame – Forensic Institute
The Chartered Institute of Forensics and Certified Fraud Investigators of Nigeria (CIFCFIN), has lamented the shame and disgrace on Nigeria caused by political party candidates who present forged certificates for elections. The institute stated this while declaring it has partnered with Interparty Advisory Council (IPAC) to ensure that candidates standing for elections across party lines have genuine credentials. It also pledged to deploy cutting edge forensic tools to vet and authenticate certificates of aspirants before primary…
Youth Leaders Reject Calls For State Of Emergency In Rivers
The Rivers State Ethnic Youth Leaders Coalition (RSEYLC), has said the call for a state of emergency in Rivers State or impeachment of its governor, Siminalayi Fubara, will undermine the democratic process in the state. The group stated this while reacting to the position of the All Progressives Congress (APC), through its national publicity secretary Barrister Felix Morka, on the impasse surrounding the leadership of local government councils in the state. Morka had, in a recent…
Cholera Outbreak Shows Govt’s Unseriousness – Adebayo
Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Adewole Adebayo, has said the outbreak of a poverty-laden disease like Cholera across the country exposes governments’ unseriousness. He added that outbreaks of such poverty laden diseases are enough to shut the mouths of praise singers and palace jesters. He lamented that citizens have been denied access to clean water and sanitation, health centres, vaccinations, public health guidance, health workers in communities to reduce filthy squalor.…
You Can Pull Many Nigerians Out Of Poverty, Obi Tells Tinubu
The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has said President Bola Tinubu will pull many Nigerians out of poverty if continues his new spirit of charity. The office of the Peter Obi Media Reach (POMR) stated this while commending Tinubu for emulating Obi in the boreholes projects. The statement signed by POMR spokesman, Yunusa Tanko, said the President, during the special anniversary of the death of his mother, Alhaji Abibatu Magaji in Abuja…
2027: No Plan To Dump Peter Obi, He Remains Our Presidential Candidate — LP
The Labour Party (LP) Directorate of Mobilisation and Integration has debunked reports of plans to dump Peter Obi as the party’s preferred presidential candidate ahead of the 2027 elections. The Directorate said this in reaction to the viral report on the social media, which said the party had reconciled with the Apapa-led faction of LP where they agreed to field another candidate in the 2027 presidential election. LEADERSHIP reports that Obi was the party’s candidate in…
Ondo 2024: Olusola Oke Declares Support For Aiyedatiwa
A major aspirant in the last governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke, has declared support for Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa ahead of the November 16 governorship election in the state. At a meeting of his political associates and followers at his residence in Akure, Chief Oke collapsed his political structure into the campaign train of the governor. Oke, who said he resisted the pressure to challenge the outcome of…






