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Nigerians Divided Over November 2026 Election Proposal

Nigerians have expressed divergent views on the National Assembly’s proposed amendments to Nigeria’s Electoral Laws, which seek to move the general elections from February 2027 to November 2026. This, according to the lawmakers, is to settle all election disputes before winners take office in May. To a veteran journalist and public affairs analyst, in Benin...
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PDP’s Crisis Without End – New Telegraph

The intractable crisis in the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is threatening its existence, following the closure of its national secretariat, twice in eight years, writes ONYEKACHI EZE. The closure of Wadata Plaza, the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), appears to be the culmination of the crisis dogging the...
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Abandoned Projects’ Cost Hits N17trn – Reports

A decade after Nigeria’s Presidential Projects Audit Committee (PPAC) warned that more than 11,000 government projects worth over ₦7.8 trillion had been abandoned across the country, a new multi-source analysis shows the situation has worsened dramatically — with current losses estimated at over ₦17 trillion when adjusted for inflation, cost overruns, and re-awarded contracts. From...
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Teriba, Yusuf, Ekpo Warn Against Nigeria’s Mounting Debt

Nigeria’s fiscal space is tightening rapidly as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration ramps up borrowing to cover growing budget shortfalls, heightening concerns among economists and credit analysts about the sustainability of the country’s public finances. Barely months after raising $2.5 billion from the international bond market, the Federal Government has again approached the National...
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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...

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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...

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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...