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Be intentional in making choices, VC tells students

22.03.2025

The Vice-Chancellor, Christopher University, Prof. Olatunji Oyelana, has advised students to always be intentional in making right choices about their lives and academic pursuits.He stressed that if students could take hold of their time, arrange their priorities and execute them with guided precisions, while constantly evaluating themselves based on success parameters, they will be able...

Goemai Lauds Council Boss For Solar Project In Shendam LGA

22.03.2025

The Long Goemai of the Goemai Nation, Miskoom Martin Shaldas III, has commended the Chairman of Shendam Local Government Council, Plateau State, Nicholas Kemi Nshe, for initiating a solar electricity project aimed at addressing the prolonged power crisis in the Local Government Area. It would be recalled that after more than a decade in darkness,...

Trump Revokes Security Clearances Of Biden, Harris

22.03.2025

The 47th President of the United States (US), Donald Trump has threatened to revoke the security clearances of his predecessor Joe Biden, former Vice President, Kamala Harris, and several senior former White House and national security officials. Saturday Telegraph gathered that former Secretary of State and defeated presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton was on the list,...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News March 22

22.03.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Saturday, March 22, 2025. MoU: NNPP Writes INEC, IGP, Kwankwaso, Galadima The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has sent a letter to the Kwankwasiya Group and The National Movement (TNM), reminding them to respect the termination of the Memorandum...

46.6kg Marijuana Smuggling: Thai woman sentenced to five years in prison

22.03.2025

A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a Thai national, Patthaphi Wimonnat, to five years in prison for smuggling 46.6 kilograms of cannabis sativa, commonly known as marijuana, into Nigeria. Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa delivered the ruling after Wimonnat pleaded guilty to a count charge filed against her by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency...

IG deploys 38 police commissioners to state commands, formations

22.03.2025

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the immediate posting of 38 Commissioners of Police (CPs) to various State Commands, as well as Police Formations across the country. While 9 CPs were deployed to state commands, 29 others are scheduled to resume at various police formations. A statement signed yesterday by the Force...

Court orders woman to drop ex-husband’s name after 11 yrs divorce

22.03.2025

A Customary Court at Rumuogba, Rivers State, has stripped Mrs. Kate Ngbor from continuing bearing her former husband’s name with immediate effect. The claimant, Chief Sam Ngbor has in Suit No: OCC/9/2021, sought the court order to restrain his former wife, Mrs. Kate Ngbor from continuing bearing his name. The court, after the submissions from...

Sokoto residents lament closure of VOA radio by Trump

22.03.2025

Communities in Sokoto State have expressed disappointment over the suspension of Voice of America Radio services. The decision, made by US President Donald Trump, has been met with concern from locals who rely on the station for news and information. According to Alhaji Idi Bena, “It has been a source of information about the...

Retired Brigadier Togun: I told IBB not to include Vatsa in his Cabinet

22.03.2025

…says ‘I knew he would act like Bisalla’…insists Vatsa planned to carry out bloodiest coup in World history A controversial figure whose role in the military as an intelligence officer in the Nigerian Army and the Directorate of State Security keeps recurring many years after service, retired Brig.-General Kunle Togun was at various times the...

Abia Assembly Investigates Alleged Elitist Policies At Govt College Umuahia

22.03.2025

The Abia State House of Assembly Joint Committee on Education, Public Petition, and Judiciary has launched an investigation into allegations against the Fisher Education Development Trust (FEDT) over the management of Government College Umuahia (GCU). The probe follows a petition submitted by Mr Chukwudi Onwudinanti, an indigene of Ubani Emede-Ibeku in Umuahia East constituency 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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