Latest news

Latest News

Atiku Addresses To Nigerians On Rivers’ State Of Emergency

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has outrightly condemned the State of Emergency declared in Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. New Telegraph had earlier reported that on Tuesday, Tinubu in a nationwide broadcast declared a state of emergency in the South-South state, citing a protracted political crisis. In a political move, the president suspended...
Read more

PTAD Pays N1.6bn To 776 NOK Of Deceased Customs, Immigration, Others

In continuation of paying pensioners under its purview, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has disbursed ₦1.6 billion to 776 verified and eligible Next of Kin (NOK) of deceased pensioners from the Civil Service, Police, Parastatals, Customs, Immigration, and Prisons Pension Departments. PTAD spokesperson, Mr. Gbenga Ajayi, confirmed the payment in a statement yesterday with a...
Read more

Reps Approve State Of Emergency In Rivers

The House of Representatives has unanimously approved President Bola Tinubu’s state of emergency proclamation in Rivers state. The House gave this approval on Thursday at the plenary presided over by the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas. In endorsing the president’s request, the House recommended that a national committee should be set up...
Read more

BPP Generates N14trn Revenue Into FG’s Coffers

The Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Dr. Adebowale Adedokun, has disclosed that the agency has generated over N14 trillion into Federal Government’s coffers between 2016 and now. Adedokun, who stated this in Abuja while speaking with New Telegraph on the activities of the BPP, said that the procurement agency was set to go...
Read more

Emergency Rule: Tinubu Acted In Good Faith

Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has said that President Bola Tinubu acted in good faith by declaring a state of emergence in Rivers State. Oyintiloye, a member of the defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) who spoke on Thursday in Osogbo, the state capital said that...
Read more

Obi Urges Akpabio, Abass To Save Nigeria’s Democracy

…Seeks Respect of Separation of Powers Former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi has called on the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abass, to save Nigeria’s democracy by overriding President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State. In an open letter to the National...
Read more
1 84 85 86 87 88 239

Must Read

Popular Posts

I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

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

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

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...