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Ogoniland: FG Commissions Water Projects, Seeks Local Ownership

09.08.2025

The Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), has commissioned four new water projects in Ogoniland, Rivers State, as part of its efforts to provide clean and safe water to thousands of residents. These projects, located in Bodo, Uegwere-Boue, Taabaa, and Eteo communities, aim to address long-standing health and environmental concerns...

Winners Of 2025 BMA To Part With One Million Naira

09.08.2025

In a bid to spur Media Excellence and reportage, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has increased the amount that will be given to the three winners of the Bayelsa Media Awards for the 2025 edition, to One Million Naira (N1,000,000) Disclosing this at the weekend in Yenagoa, the NCDMB’s General Manager Corporate...

Nigerian Coastal States Demand Harmonisation Of Maritime Laws

09.08.2025

All the coastal states in the country under the aegis of the Nigerian International Coastal Border Platform have called on relevant authorities to expedite the harmonisation of all maritime laws, including the Suppression of Privacy and other Maritime Offences (SPOMO) Act, to ensure better implementation. The states comprising Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ogun,...

KNSG Tackles Housing Deficit, Slum Proliferation To Achieve World-Class Housing

09.08.2025

Kano State Government has reaffirmed its determination to ensure the provision of qualitative, decent, and affordable housing units that conform to universally accepted standards. The State Commissioner for Housing Development, Arc Ibrahim Yakubu Adamu, further revealed that henceforth, all new layouts in Kano will be provided with basic infrastructure needed to meet world standards, adding...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigerian News August 9

09.08.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today, Saturday, August 9, 2025. Coalition Of Individuals, Rather Than Parties, Will Fail –Shekarau A former Kano State Governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has stated that the only coalition of any form that...

Glitches: WAEC Reposts 62.96% Pass, Apologises To Candidates

09.08.2025

Against 38.32 per cent pass, earlier posted on Monday by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for its Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates (WASSCE) 2025, the Council yesterday reposted 62.96 per cent pass as the new and accurate results of candidates in the examination. The figure represents 1,239,884 candidates, who obtained credit...

I’ll Die On A Sunday After Service, Eating Pounded Yam, Pastor Adeboye Insists

09.08.2025

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has restated his vision of how he believes he will pass away, peacefully, on a Sunday, after attending church service and eating his favourite meal, pounded yam. Speaking on the fourth day of the church’s ongoing International Convention themed “The Overcomers”,...

US Courts Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Again

09.08.2025

A federal judge in Maryland, the United States of America has issued a fourth ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order aimed at restricting birthright citizenship in the country. The preliminary injunction, handed down Thursday by U.S. District Judge, Deborah Boardman, halts enforcement of the order and certifies a class of affected children born...

By-Election: Okpebholo Orders Appointees To Win Wards Or Face Sanctions

09.08.2025

As All Progressives Congress APC and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP jostle for vacant seats in the National Assembly intensifies in Edo State, Governor Monday Okpeholo has ordered all political appointees to relocate to their various wards and win for the party otherwise or count themselves out of the system. An impeccable source told Saturday...

Release Osun LG Funds To State Government, Monarch Urges Tinubu

09.08.2025

The Ataoja of Osogbo Land, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun Larooye II, has made an appeal to President Bola Tinubu, urging the immediate release of the withheld local government allocations meant for Osun State. Speaking at the grand finale of the Osun Osogbo Festival 2025, the respected monarch warned that the ongoing financial blockade is hindering development,...

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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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