The Senate resumed plenary on Tuesday after a six-week recess. The Red Chamber, thereafter, dissolved into a closed-door session to deliberate on issues affecting the nation. Top of the agenda of the plenary session is the screening and confirmation of the nomination of Olayemi Cardosos for appointment as the governor Central Bank of Nigeria. Following his nomination by President Bola Tinubu, Cardoso, last week assumed office as the acting CBN governor. The Red Chamber also planned to screen and confirm, at the committee of the whole, the appointment of four new deputy governors; namely Emem Nnana Usoro, Muhammad Sani Abdullahi…
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President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, pleaded with a United States District Judge, Nancy Maldonado, to order Chicago State University to protect his privileged information such as admission records, transcripts and gender and release only his certificate to the legal team of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The motion was filed by the president’s lawyer, Christopher Carmichael, who stressed that ‘the most critical fact has already been clearly and unequivocally established’ by Tinubu’s alma mater. The PUNCH earlier reported that Atiku had secured an order from a US magistrate, Jeffrey Gilbert, for CSU to make Tinubu’s academic records available to his…
Ravaging flood across Delta State has sacked five communities in the Warri North Local Government Area. The affected communities included Torukubuagbene, Awanba, Koropigbene, Itagbene and Asigborodo as well as adjourning communities. The Councillor representing Ogbinbiri ward 18, in Asigborodo Community, Mr Kenren Pere, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Warri. Pere said the incident began more than a week ago and the situation became worse on Friday. While appealing for an urgent intervention by the state government, the councillor said that the life of his people were at stake. He said, “I cannot attribute the course to flooding or…
….Removes LP’s name from PDP’s petition The Lagos State Governorship Election Tribunal on Monday dismissed the preliminary objection of the All Progressives Congress which asked it to dismiss the petition of the Peoples Democratic Party. The preliminary objection was dismissed because the petitioner did not comply with provisions of the Electoral Act about payment of security as to cost. A member of the tribunal’s three-member panel, Justice Mikail Abdullahi, who read some preliminary motions challenging the competence of some aspects of the petition, dismissed the objection. The Labour Party’s governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, and the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate,…
The Contributory Pension Scheme makes provisions for workers to access part of their pension savings according to stipulated guidelines. However, withdrawals have implications on the monthly pension stipends such retirees will get. The Contributory Pension Scheme was established to provide regular monthly stipends for Nigerian workers in retirement. Employers and workers are mandated to contribute 10 per cent and eight per cent of the workers’ monthly emoluments into their Retirement Savings Accounts with the Pension Fund Administrators. However, peculiar conditions may necessitate a worker to access part of the savings before he retires. According to the Pension Reform Act 2014,…
***Says student loan policy will fail The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has raised the alarm over the looming 40 to 50 percent of students whom he predicts may drop out of school within the next two years if the Federal Government fails to stop the continuous fee hike in the universities. Osodeke made this known while speaking on the current situation in the Nigerian education sector on Channels TV on Sunday night. According to him, the heavy fees being imposed on students across the nation would result in a massive dropout of students,…
TRUECALLER has launched a new Artificial Intelligence solution that will alert users of scammers to protect them from fraud calls. The firm noted that its new anti-fraud feature called Search Context was part of its AI Identity engine. Explaining how the feature works, the firm, in a statement, said, “While looking at the search results for any number, Truecaller users will be instantly notified if the name for the number has been recently changed or is being changed frequently. “The app also classifies this contextual message into three colour categories: blue, for a neutral change, yellow, which indicates a potentially suspicious…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has approved a three-month grace period for owners of 189 undeveloped plots of land in the FCT to begin to develop them or get their allocation papers revoked. The Director of Information and Communication at the FCT Administration, Mr Muhammad Sule, stated on Sunday in Abuja that the affected titled holders had obtained building plan approvals, but were yet to develop the properties. He stated that the affected property owners were expected to develop the property within the stipulated period or have their title documents revoked in line with extant laws.…
A portion of the Supreme Court is on fire. Our correspondent gathered that the fire engulfed a side of the judges’ chamber of the apex court. Details about the incident are still sketchy as of the time of filling this report. The spokesperson of the court, Akande Festus, could not be reached as of the time of filling this report. The spokesperson for the Federal Fire Service, Paul Abraham, asked our correspondent to call him back. Details later… Punch
DISCUSSION VIDEO LINK AND STUDY GUIDE 📺 WATCH THE DISCUSSION VIDEO VIA THE LINK BELOW 👇 https://youtu.be/BvfNWaKUGh4?si=mKXkZxEVvV4pLW1U GOD’S CHILDREN AS PILGRIMS TO THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM: MANIFESTATION OF GOD’S REIGN ON EARTH SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Date: Sep 24, 2023 Sub Theme: Challenges to Manifestation as Pilgrims to heavenly Kingdom 3 Topic: False Teachings Text: 2Pet 2:1-3 Aims to define and analyse the contexts of false teachings how false teachings can hinder our manifestation Christians and PILGRIMS TO HEAVENLY KINGDOM. Introduction False teaching is an arrogantly attempt to fashion new interpretations of the scriptures to demonstrate that these sacred texts should…