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Inuwa Yahaya Mourns Victims Of Tudun Wadan Pantami Electrocution Tragedy

15.06.2025

Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic electrocution incident which occurred in the early hours of Saturday, at Tudun Wadan Pantami in Gombe metropolis, which claimed the lives of five individuals, including the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Special Duties and Regional Integration, Alhaji Muhammad Yusuf Kulani. Governor Yahaya described...

Babangida, Oborevwori, Idris Pay Tribute To Amuka – Pemu @90

15.06.2025

Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), Governor Sherriff Oborevwori of Delta State, and Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, have described Vanguard Newspaper Publisher, Sam Amuka – Pemu as a national asset and living legend. The trio made the commendation in their different messages to commemorate the 90th birthday of the man...

Soyinka To Tinubu: Investigate deaths of Dele Giwa, Kudirat Abiola, Bola Ige

15.06.2025

Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has urged President Bola Tinubu to immediately launch a probe into the strange circumstances that led to the deaths of some Nigerians, including the likes of Dele Giwa, Bola Ige and Kudirat Abiola, for the sake of giving some closure to the matter. While speaking with selected journalists in Lagos...

Tinubu’s Govt Has Laid Foundational Reforms For Future – Osifeso

15.06.2025

The Aare Atunluse of Awori Kingdom and the Chairman of Mapcotec Nigeria Limited, Aare Segun Osifeso, has praised President Bola Tinubu’s administration for undertaking foundational reforms that will bear long-term benefits. Osifeso, who made these remarks during in an interview with journalists at Ota, Ogun State, on Friday, noted that President Tinubu’s first two years...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News June 15

15.06.2025

Here is Sunday Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Sunday, June 15, 2025 Health: Kalu Seeks Partnership With US Montefiore Centre Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has proposed a strategic partnership with the Montefiore Einstein Medical Centre in New York, United States, to strengthen...

Diplomats: Embassies’ Closure May Spark Diplomatic Rows

15.06.2025

Following the Federal Capital Territory’s threat to close down 34 foreign missions over non-payment of N3.6 billon ground rent debt, some Nigerian diplomats have warned that such closure was capable of sparking diplomatic rows at Nigeria’s Embassies and High Commissions around the world. FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, last month threatened to revoke 4,794 land ti-tles...

Tinubu May Release Ambassadors’ List This Week

15.06.2025

Barring any last-minute hitch, President Bola Tinubu may announce the names of the ambassadorial nominees this week, Sunday Tele-graph can report. This is coming as some of the nominees were sum-moned to Abuja Friday night for a briefing by the President. This is coming 20 months after President Tinubu re-called the ambassadors he inherited in...

M’east Tension May Affect Nigeria’s Security –Ex-DSS Director

15.06.2025

A retired Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mike Ejiofor, has called on security agencies to monitor the conflict between the State of Israel, and the Islamic Re-public of Iran closely, warn-ing of its possible threat to national security. The security consultant said the possibility of pro-tests against Israel in Nigeria by Shiites...

Justice Okoro Not In Edo For Political Reason, Says S’court

15.06.2025

The Supreme Court yesterday, said one of its Jusices, Justice Inyang Okoro, was not in Edo State for any political reason as reported in an online medium. The apex court was react-ing to a report by an online medium that Justice Okoro was reportedly seen on Thursday evening at the Protea Hotel in Benin...

Why Southern Govs’re Defecting To APC, By Ex-gov

15.06.2025

A former governor of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday day said that the reason some Sourthern Gover-nors of the party were de-fecting to the All Progres-sives Congress(APC) was because of a plot by some elements to return the pres-idency to the North in 2027. He also said that the PDP started dying the day...

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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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