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Item Community To Host Otti, Honour Aruma Oteh

29.12.2025

The Item community in the Bende Local Government Area in Abia State will tomorrow honour Governor Alex Otti during the 2025 Item Day Celebration. Former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director-General Aruma Oteh will be honoured with a Grand Merit Award at the event. The event scheduled for the Akanu Item Primary School, according to...

How Supreme Court’s Judgement On LG Autonomy Can Be Enforced, By Lawyers

29.12.2025

LG Autonomy: Ripples over issuance of Executive Order to compel compliance TUNDE OYESINA writes that the threat by President Bola Tinubu to issue an Executive Order against state governors who continue to frustrate the implementation of local government autonomy has elicited mixed reactions from lawyers The threat by President Bola Tinubu to issue an executive...

SAN Seeks Formation Of Multiple Bar Associations

29.12.2025

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Joe-Kyari Gadzama, has made a strong case for the recognition of multiple Bar Associations in Nigeria, arguing that a single umbrella body is inadequate to effectively serve the country’s estimated 250,000 legal practitioners. Gadzama made the submissions during an intervention at the 2025 International Bar Association (IBA) Conference...

Lawyers Back NBA’s Call For Suspension Of Tax Laws Implementation

29.12.2025

Some senior lawyers have thrown their weights behind the call by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for the suspension of the implementation of the new tax laws over alleged post-legislative alterations. The lawyers; Kabir Akingbolu, Malachy Ugwummadu and Ige Asemudara, while speaking in a chat with New Telegraph Law, at the weekend, said the allegation...

Don’t Relent Until Nigeria Is Fully Secure, PFN President Tells Tinubu

28.12.2025

The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to relent in the fight against insecurity, insisting that terrorists and bandits must be decisively crushed without regard for “sacred cows.” Oke gave the charge on Sunday while speaking with journalists in Ibadan on the...

Patriots Back NASS Leadership Over Re-Gazetting Of Tax Laws

28.12.2025

A prominent pressure group, The Patriots, has thrown its weight behind the leadership of the National Assembly over its decision to order the re-gazetting of the Tax Reform Acts, dismissing allegations that the laws were altered after passage. In a statement issued on Sunday and signed by its National Coordinator, Muhammad E. Dauda, the group...

Akinyemi Distributes Relief Packages To Residents, Declares Support For Oyebanji

28.12.2025

No fewer than 5,000 residents of Ekiti State benefited from a humanitarian outreach organised by Ekiti-born entrepreneur, Mr. Jide Akinyemi, as part of activities marking the 2025 Christmas season. The outreach, tagged “Ekiti Christmas Box of Love ’25,” was organised by the Jide Akinyemi Foundation (JAF), a charitable organisation committed to empowering lives and promoting...

Middle Belt Forum Backs US On Anti-Terrorism Fight In Nigeria

28.12.2025

The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has expressed strong support for recent United States air strikes against terrorist organisations in Nigeria, urging American forces to extend operations to major insurgent strongholds, including the Sambisa Forest, Goza axis in Borno State and the Lake Chad region. The National President of the Forum, Dr. Bitrus Pogu, stated this...

Reports Emerge of Trouble in Foluke Daramola’s Second Marriage

28.12.2025

Fresh reports circulating online have sparked conversations about the state of Nollywood actress Foluke Daramola’s second marriage, with claims suggesting that the long-standing union may have ended. According to a post shared by City People Online, the actress’ marriage of about 15 years to her politician husband, Kayode Salako, is said to have hit the...

Nollywood In Mourning Following Actress Allwell Ademola’s Death

28.12.2025

The Nigerian film industry has been thrown into mourning following the sudden death of actress and filmmaker Allwell Ademola. Recall that Saturday Telegraph reported that she passed away on Saturday at the age of 43, leaving colleagues and fans in deep shock. Sources close to the family revealed that Ademola was rushed to a hospital...

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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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