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Kano Gov Urges 718 Repentant Thugs To Shun Violence

12.08.2025

Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf yesterday told the 718 political thugs granted amnesty by his government to shun violence. According to him, the repentant thugs are now political youth influencers. He expressed his government’s readiness to rehabilitate and reintegrate them into society. Yusuf, represented by the Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs Ibrahim Waiya, made...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigerian News August 12

12.08.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today, Tuesday, August 12, 2025 Tinubu Rescinds, Replaces Dankaka With Omidiran As New Chair For FCC President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has rescinded his earlier decision to reappoint Dr. Muheeba Dankaka as the Chairperson of the Federal Character Commission (FCC) and replaced her...

Shettima: Tinubu’s Pro-Youth Govt Focused On Promoting Peace, Unity

12.08.2025

Vice President Kashin Shettima has said the President Bola Tinubu’s administration was focused on promoting peace and unity in the country. He also asserted that the government has pledged unalloyed support to the newly appointed United Nations Global Advocate for Peace, Maryam Bukar Hassan, in her bid to promote unity and peace across the globe....

Court Nullifies Abia Govt’s Dismissal Of Civil Servant Over Indigene Status

12.08.2025

The Presiding Judge of the Port Harcourt Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court, Justice Faustina Kola-Olalere, has declared the Abia State Civil Service Commission circular dated August 25, 2011, which purported to transfer one, Mrs. Anikwendu, from the Abia State Civil Service on the grounds that she is not an indigene of the state,...

Four Confess, As DSS Arraigns Owo Church Attack Suspects

12.08.2025

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arraigned five suspects before a Federal High Court, Abuja, in connection with the June 5, 2022, violent attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, in Ondo State. Over 40 worshippers lost their lives in the incident that left no fewer than 100 others with varying degrees of injuries....

Sanwo-Olu Challenges LJLA Fellows To Surpass Jakande’s Legacy

12.08.2025

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has charged the outgoing Fellows of the Lateef Jakande Leadership Academy (LJLA) to aim higher than the achievements of the academy’s namesake, the late former Governor of Lagos, Alhaji Lateef Jakande. Speaking at the “Parting Fireside Chat with Mr. Governor” at his official residence at the Lagos House on...

Tinubu Reconstitutes HYREP’s Council, Board

12.08.2025

President Bola Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the Governing Council and Board of Trustees of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYREP), with the Minister of Environment serving as Chairman of the Council. According to a release by the Presidential spokesman, Bayi Onanuga, other members are Loanyie Barituka Victor, who represents the Non-governmental Organisations focused...

TETFund To Boost Local Research With New Multidisciplinary Labs

12.08.2025

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said its new multidisciplinary research laboratories being established across the country would enable Nigerian researchers to conduct all types of research locally, eliminating the need to send samples abroad for analysis. The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, who made this known on Monday in Abuja while...

Enugu Govt To Establish Food, Nutrition Units, Distributes 20,000 Computers To Civil Servants

11.08.2025

…Commends Tinubu for Ortuanya’s appointment as UNN’s VC The Enugu State Government has resolved to set up food and nutrition units in select ministries in the state in line with the national food policy. This was even as the government announced that it would distribute 20,000 units of personal computers to 20,000 civil servants in...

Tinubu’s Pro-Youth Govt Focused On Promoting Peace, Unity – Shettima

11.08.2025

…as FG backs first global peace advocate, Hassan Vice President Kashim Shettima has said that President Bola Tinubu’s administration was focused on promoting peace and unity in the country. He also asserted that the Federal Government has pledged unalloyed support to the newly appointed United Nations Global Advocate for Peace, Maryam Bukar Hassan, in her...

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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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