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TCI Urges Stakeholders To Deepen Investment In Youth Health, Wellbeing

12.07.2025

As the world marks World Population Day 2025, The Challenge Initiative (TCI) has called on stakeholders to increase investment in the health and wellbeing of Nigerian youth. The organisation emphasized the urgent need for sustained prioritization of young people in Nigeria’s development agenda, particularly in the areas of sexual and reproductive health. Speaking under 2025...

Group Expresses Concern Over Plight Of Abuja’s Original Inhabitants

12.07.2025

The Network of Journalists on Indigenous Issues (NEJII) has launched a 15-month campaign aimed at spotlighting the plight of the original inhabitants of Abuja. In a statement signed by its National Coordinator, Adewale Adeoye, the group said the campaign will involve building the capacity of journalists and developing mechanisms that shift public and institutional perspectives...

NCS Hands Over ₦9.2bn Counterfeit Drugs To NAFDAC

12.07.2025

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over 25 containers filled with unregistered and prohibited pharmaceutical products to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) at Apapa Port. The handover follows the strategic Memorandum of Understanding signed between NCS and NAFDAC in November 2024, under which coordinated enforcement efforts have significantly...

Nigerian Embassies Owe Staff Six Months Salaries

12.07.2025

The effectiveness of Nigeria’s diplomatic engagements came under scrutiny during the week as two prominent diplomats lamented the state of Nigeria’s diplomatic engagements in the international arena with employees at various diplomatic missions abroad owed up to six months’ salaries. They called on the Federal Government to rework the current underperforming architecture. According to...

Ibas Orders Timely Completion Of Rivers Assembly Complex

12.07.2025

The Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, has ordered the immediate acceleration of work on the State House of Assembly Complex. He gave this matching order during an inspection visit to the construction site along Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, on Friday, July 11. Ibas asked the contractor handling the project to...

Tinubu Backs AFRIMA 2025 As FG Inaugurates LOC

12.07.2025

Africa is set for another spectacular celebration of music, culture, and creativity as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has officially endorsed the 2025 edition of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA), which is scheduled to take place in Lagos from November 25 to 30. The President’s endorsement came in response to a formal request from the...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News July 12

12.07.2025

Here is Saturday Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Saturday, July 12, 2025 Poor Women Representation Leads To Lost Opportunities – Kalu Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman Constitution Review Committee, Benjamin Kalu has said low representation of women in governance can lead to underutilisation...

End Illegal Takeover Of Rivers

11.07.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on President Bola Tinubu to end the state of emergency he imposed in Rivers State as he lacks constitutional power to suspend an elected governor. ADC in a statement on Friday by interim National Publicity Secretary Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, also called on Vice President Kashim Shettima, “to stand...

We’re Committed To LGA Autonomy

11.07.2025

The Federal Government said it is committed to implementation of local government autonomy as a means of deepening democracy and accelerating development at the grassroots level. Minister of Information and National Orientation Alhaji Mohammed Idris who spoke in Abuja on Friday when he received the National Forum of Ex-Councilors on a courtesy visit to his...

Gov Mutfwang Conveys Condolences To Gyang Over Mother’s Death

11.07.2025

Plateau State Governor, Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang, has extended heartfelt condolences to Senator Gyang and his siblings over the passing of their beloved mother, Dung Gyang, who peacefully departed this life at the age of 95. During a condolence visit to Gyang’s residence in Rayfield, Jos, Governor Mutfwang described the late matriarch as a devoted and...

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I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye

04.10.2024

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

04.10.2024

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

04.10.2024

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...

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