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Real Madrid’s squad for El Clásico confirmed, with six players missing for La Liga title holders

11.05.2025

Real Madrid have confirmed their squad for Sunday’s La Liga clash against Barcelona, with Rodrygo returning following an illness, but six players are on the sidelines through injuries.Rodrygo was not involved in last weekend’s 3-2 success over Celta Vigo, as he was suffering from a fever, but head coach Carlo Ancelotti said during his press...

Lateef Adedimeji’s ‘Lisabi’ Wins Bags Three Award

11.05.2025

Popular Nollywood actor Lateef Adedimeji’s blockbuster movie, Lisabi: The Uprising, emerged as the breakout winner in the 11th edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA), scooping three major awards in the technical categories. Sunday Telegraph reports that the AMVCA, held at Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos on Saturday night, had in attendance...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News May 11

11.05.2025

Here is Sunday Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Sunday, May 11, 2025 Why Coalition May Not Have Consensus Candidate There are strong indications that the broad-based coalition of parties being championed by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; erstwhile governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El Rufai and others...

Insecurity: Northern Govs Decry Rise In Insurgency, Banditry

11.05.2025

The Northern States Governors’ Forum, NSGF, has bemoaned the upsurge in insecurity across the region, especially in the North-East and banditry in the North West and North Central states. Addressing the opening of the meeting of the Governors in Kaduna, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, Governor of Gombe State, and Chairman of the Forum, called for...

FG Warns Youths Against Negative Influence Of Social Media

11.05.2025

The Federal Government has advised Nigeria youths to beware of the negative influence of social media, describing it as double edge sword. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, at TEDxNTICAbujaYouth 2025 at Nigeria Tulip International College yesterday, said the digital space being a unifier can also be used negatively. “The birth...

Tinubu Changing Leadership Narrative In Nigeria –Wike

11.05.2025

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has said that President Bola Tinubu was changing the leadership narrative in Nigeria. Wike stated this in Abuja yesterday, after inspecting some ongoing projects in preparation for the commemoration of Tinubu’s second year in office. He said that Tinubu’s impactful leadership was putting smiles...

EU Pledges €300m Projects For N’west, N’east

11.05.2025

The European Union (EU) has pledged the sum of 300 million Euros for new projects in the North-West (NW) and North-East (NE) of Nigeria. Mr Gautier Mignot, the EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, made this known at the 2025 annual Europe Day celebration, the News Agency of (NAN) reports in Abuja. Mignot said that...

Why Coalition May Not Have Consensus Candidate

11.05.2025

There are strong indications that the broad-based coalition of parties being championed by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; erstwhile governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El Rufai and others may not pick a consensus candidate to challenge President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. This is due to a current disagreement in the group...

Peter Obi In Dilemma Over Coalition

11.05.2025

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party(LP) in the 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi, is in a dilemma of whether to become a junior partner in an emerging coalition or to become a senior partner in an emerging coalition and how to sort out the problem in the Labour Party. This is even...

C’river: Central Senatorial District Youths Pass No Confidence Vote In Williams

11.05.2025

Ahead of 2027 elections, all is not looking good for Senator Eteng Williams, the Senator representing central Senatorial District of Cross River, as the youth in the district have passed an overwhelming Vote of No Confidence on him following what they said is, ‘‘poor performance and lack of effective representation.’’ The Special Adviser to the...

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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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