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CBN: Consumer Credit Fell 8.2% To N3.68trn In April

30.08.2025

Consumer credit outstanding declined by 8.23 per cent to N3.68 trillion in April this year compared with N4.01 trillion at the end of the previous month, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said. The apex bank disclosed this in its economic report for April 2025, which was released on Friday. Consumer credit refers...

Presidential Hopefuls Tighten Hold On Parties Ahead Conventions

30.08.2025

The shape of what the presidential contest for the forthcoming general election would look like is beginning to unfold as the Saturday Telegraph during the week gathered that top gladiators in the major political parties are scheming to tighten their hold on their parties. Our correspondent during the week was able to sample opinions...

NUJ Flays Alleged Harassment, Intimidation Of Journalists By Opeifa

30.08.2025

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has condemned the harassment, intimidation, and verbal abuse meted out on Comrade Ladi Bala, the immediate past President of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists and Transport Reporter of the Nigerian Television Authority, by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Dr. Kayode Opeifa. NUJ alleged...

Some Thoughts I Shared At Africa Global PR Week, Nairobi

30.08.2025

On Wednesday 27, August 2005, the Africa Global Public Relations Week began in Nairobi, Kenya, on a very powerful note. I had the honour of addressing the gathering of brilliant minds from across the world as a panellist. I told the gathering my reservation that, for us to reclaim the amazing power of Public Relations practice, we...

NIMASA Foils Ship Hijack Around Lome Port

30.08.2025

Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has foiled an attempt to hijack a chemical tanker close to Lome Port, Togo, with its Special Mission Vessel, DB Lagos. New Telegraph gathered that the DB Lagos, operated by the Nigerian Navy under the Deep Blue Project, was immediately alerted and is currently closing in on the...

Adegoke Tackles NBA Over Osun LG Impasse

30.08.2025

…Says Feb. 10 A’Court judgement reinstating APC chairmen sacrosanct The legal firm of Kunle Adegoke & Co. has faulted the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) over its recent call for the “Immediate release” of withheld Local Government allocations in Osun State, describing the intervention as partisan, inaccurate, and without legal basis. In a rejoinder dated August...

FG Sets To Relaunch Counterterrorism Strategy

30.08.2025

…intensifies non-kinetic efforts The Federal Government is currently reviewing the National Counter Terrorism Strategy (NACTEST), in a bid to contain the complex dimension which violent extremism has assumed. The National Coordinator (NC), Counter Terrorism Centre (Office of the National Security Adviser), Maj-Gen. Adamu Laka made the disclosure at the high-level consultative dialogue and engagement with...

NUJ FCT Condemns Harassment, Intimidation Of Journalist By NRC MD

29.08.2025

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Council has unequivocally condemned the harassment, intimidation, and verbal abuse meted out on Ladi Bala, the immediate Past President of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists and Transport Reporter of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), by the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Kayode Opeifa....

SSANU President Tasks Nigerian Govt On Welfare Of Members

29.08.2025

The National President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Comrade (Dr) Mohammed Ibrahim, has urged the Federal and state governments to take the welfare of the members of the union as paramount. Speaking at the 77th Statutory meeting of the zonal executive of the western zone of SSANU on Friday at the...

Ondo Govt Begins Pensioners’ Verification To Curb Ghost Beneficiaries

29.08.2025

The Ondo State Government has commenced a statewide verification exercise for all pensioners in the state, focusing on retirees from 2016 to date. The exercise, which is being coordinated by the State Pension Transitional Department, is aimed at ensuring accurate pension records, eradicating ghost pensioners, and facilitating the seamless and timely payment of pensions 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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