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Traditional Rites Begin As First-Class Monarch Joins Ancestors

15.05.2025

Traditional rites have begun in the Oba-Ile community of Akure North Local Government Area, Ondo State, following the death of its revered monarch, Oba Joseph Oluwadare Agunbiade. The 84-year-old first-class monarch from the Agunbiade royal lineage passed on after 39 years on the throne. He ascended the stool following a distinguished career in the civil...

FG Inaugurates Smart Police Station In FCT

15.05.2025

The Federal Government on Wednesday inaugurated a state-of-the-art smart police station in Katampe, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The facility, constructed by the Nigeria Police Trust Fund and officially handed over to the Nigeria Police Force(NPF) on Wednesday, is designed to improve operational efficiency and foster stronger police-community relations within the FCT. Additional smart police...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News May 15

15.05.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Thursday, May 15, 2025 Census: It’s Nat’l Embarrassment Nigeria Doesn’t Know Her Population – Akpabio President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, said it is a national embrassment that Nigeria could not conduct national census after nearly 20 years. Akpabio...

Court Admits Gulak’ S Death Certificate As Evidence In Kanu’s Alleged Terrorism Trial

15.05.2025

The Federal High Court Abuja yesterday admitted the medical report and death certificate of former presidential aide Ahmed Gulak as evidence in the trial of the detained Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu who is facing terrorism-related charges. Justice James Omotoso admitted the documents tendered by the prosecution through a witness identified simply...

Eradiri Urges Diri, Dickson To Move Ijaw Nation To APC

15.05.2025

Engr Udengs Eradiri, former Labour Party Governorship (LP) candidate in Bayelsa State, has called on Governor Douye Diri and his predecessor, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, to integrate the Ijaw nation into the government at the centre. Eradiri, in a statement yesterday, told the two political leaders that there was no better time to move the...

Biafra War Most Painful Chapter In Nigeria’s History – Gowon

15.05.2025

Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), has described the Nigerian Civil War, widely known as the Biafra War as the “most painful episode” in the nation’s history, while acknowledging the complex legacy of military rule in shaping Nigeria’s trajectory. Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday, Gowon emphasized that while the military played a...

Edo Demolishes Property Linked To Kidnap Gang

15.05.2025

The Edo State Task Force has demolished a property on College Road in Aduwawa, Benin, linked to an alleged notorious kidnap gang leader. The property belonged to a woman whose younger brother, Osamede Asemota, is an alleged key leader of the gang. Asemota, who was arrested, confessed to his involvement in kidnappings. He said his...

No Hiding Place For Bandits

15.05.2025

The Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, has declared that terrorists and other high-profile criminals will no longer have any hiding place, owing to the ongoing efforts to strengthen synergy between the NSCDC and other sister security agencies. Audi made the statement while addressing journalists in Gusau, the...

AFRIMA 2025: AU Awards Host City Rights To Lagos, Holds Nov 25

15.05.2025

Lagos has been chosen by the African Union C o m m i s s i o n (AUC) and the International Committee of AFRIMA to host the 2025 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA). Leading and budding African music superstars, creative industry professionals, interna-tional media, members of the diplomatic corps and African music fans are...

JAPA: 30 Percent Of Lagos Civil Servants On State-Sponsored Training Abroad Fail To Return

15.05.2025

Three of every ten civil servants sent on overseas training by the Lagos State Government do not return to the country after completing their studies or training. This is as the Commissioner for Establishments and Training, Afolabi Ayantayo revealed that 30% of civil servants sponsored abroad by the state government for studies and training failed...

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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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