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Review Visa Policy, 5-Year Multiple Entry Restoration For Nigerians, Reps Appeal To US

18.08.2025

The House of Representatives has called on the United States Government to reverse its decision to downgrade visa privileges for Nigerian citizens, urging a return to the previous five-year multiple-entry visa regime. In a resolution referred to the US-Nigeria Parliamentary Friendship Group, the House condemned what it described as a “strong tendency by the US...

Immigration Deports 42 Foreign Nationals Convicted Of Internet Fraud

18.08.2025

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has commenced deportation of 192 foreign nationals convicted of Internet fraud in the country. It was learnt that the first batch of 42 foreign nationals was deported yesterday, while another set will be airlifted to their different countries today and tomorrow. In December last year, the Economic and Financial Crimes...

By-Elections: Tinubu Lauds Yilwatda, APC Candidates Over ’Victory’

18.08.2025

President Bola Tinubu has commended all the political parties and candidates who participated in last Saturday’s byelection in 16 constituencies across 12 states in the country, urging them to continue to be guided by the spirit of sportsmanship, fair contest and magnanimity, which are enablers of enduring democracy. According to a release by his spokesman,...

Ukraine: Melania Trump Writes Putin

18.08.2025

US President Donald Trump handed Vladimir Putin a special item at their Alaska summit: a letter written by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, pleading for the Russian leader to make peace in the name of children. The first lady’s office on Saturday reposted a Fox News article on X containing the short letter, a...

Gridlock Stalls Movement Between Mokwa, Bida, Agaie Roads

18.08.2025

Commuters and articulated vehicles have been stranded on the over 113 kilometres road between Mokwa and Bida local government areas of Niger state for several hours following the bad state of the Agaie road, which has been under construction. Some of the drivers who spoke to our Correspondent said the gridlock was caused by the...

Nigeria Poised To Produce World-Class Transportation Students

18.08.2025

…As FUTD matriculated 529 new students President Bola Tinubu has assured the readiness of his administration to produce world-class transportation students, to address the dearth of human capacity in the transportation industry. According to a statement in Abuja on Sunday by Jibril Alkali, Special Adviser to the Minister of Transportation on media, President Tinubu gave...

There’s No Space For You In My Govt, Otti Tells Ex-Commissioner

18.08.2025

Governor Alex Otti has told Abia State’s former Commissioner for Information, Eze Chikamnayo, that no level of blackmail would earn him a place in his government. Otti, who was reacting to the allegation of spending N54 billion on the renovation of public schools with nothing to show for it, said it is unfortunate that a...

Riyom PDP Stakeholders Endorse Mutfwang, Deputy For Re-Election

17.08.2025

Stakeholders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State have unanimously endorsed Governor Caleb Mutfwang and his Deputy, Josephine Piyo, for a second term in office ahead of the 2027 general elections. This resolution was reached during an enlarged PDP stakeholders meeting held over the weekend in Riyom. Speaking...

CBAAC Mourns Emir Of Zuru, Sani Sami

17.08.2025

The Director-General of the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation (CBAAC), Hon. Aisha Adamu Augie, has expressed shock and sadness following the passing of the Emir of Zuru in Kebbi State, retired Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Sani Sami. New Telegraph had earlier reported that the reverred traditional ruler died on Saturday at the age of...

Salvation Attributes OPEC’s Recognition Of Improved Oil Production To Tantita’s Effort

17.08.2025

The National Chairman of Phase 2 ex-agitators under the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Ibena Rufus Salvation, has attributed OPEC’s recent acknowledgment of Nigeria’s improved oil production to the efforts of Tantita Security Services. Ibena who stated this on Sunday in Yenagoa, said the performance of Tantita Security Services, chaired by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly...

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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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