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Cocoa Allotees To CDS: Soldiers Intimidating Us In C’River

12.05.2025

Contractors, who are Cocoa allottees in Cross River State’s Abonita Government Estate have appealed to the Chief of Defense Staff, Gen, Christopher Musa, to withdraw soldiers from the cocoa estate in Ikom, Central Cross River over intimidation and threat to lives and property in the area. Speaking to journalists in Calabar at the weekend, the...

Killings: DHQ’s Revelation on Foreign Herders Calls for Self-Defence, Says Vatsa

12.05.2025

Jonathan Vatsa yesterday joined the calls for Nigerians to defend themselves following the Defence Headquarters (DHQ)’s revelation last week that the killings in Plateau, Benue and other parts of the country are mostly perpetrated by foreign herders. In a statement, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chief criticised the government’s failure to save Nigerians from being...

Emergency Rule: I’m Not Desperate To Return To Office –Fubara

12.05.2025

The suspended governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, yesterday said he is not desperate to return to office. Fubara disclosed this at the service of songs held in honour of the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark, in Port Harcourt. He said: “Can’t you see how better I look? Do you think I am interested in...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News May 12

12.05.2025

Here is Monday Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Monday, May 12, 2025 Hajj 2025: Imo PDP Slams Uzodinma’s N2.1bn Spending Amid Insecurity The Imo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly condemned Governor Hope Uzodimma’s decision to spend a reported N2.1 billion on a...

Defections: Wike Attends As PDP Govs, Leaders Meet In Abuja

12.05.2025

Leaders of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Sunday met in Abuja in what many people believed will determine the future of the party. PDP had lost many of its members, including a serving governor, Sheriff Oborewori of Delta State, and its former vice presidential candidate Ifeanyi Okowa, as well as members of the...

Enugu Air, CNG Buses, Transport Terminals Take Off In May

12.05.2025

The Enugu Air, CNG Mass Transit Programme, and the ultramodern transport terminals all built from scratch by the Governor Peter Administration are to be launched for operation before the second anniversary of the government. The government has also approved the development of the state’s tourism industry, while total transformation of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium and...

FCT CJ Frees 30 Inmates, Slams Police, Magistrates for Unlawful Detentions

12.05.2025

As part of efforts to address the issue of overcrowding in custodial centres, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, has discharged 30 inmates awaiting trial from two custodial centres in Keffi, Nasarawa State. The intervention was carried out in collaboration with the Public and Private Development Centre,...

Court Sets Ruling Dates in EFCC’s $2.6m Crypto, N3.5bn Fraud Case Against Bizman

12.05.2025

Justice Rahman Oshodi of an Ikeja Special Offences Court will on June 2 and 3, 2025, deliver rulings on the bail application filed by one, Friday Audu, a businessman accused of orchestrating a complex financial fraud involving $2.6 million in cryptocurrency and N3.5 billion in cash. Audu and his now-defunct company, Genting International Limited, are...

Why Media Parade Of Crime Suspects Should Be Prohibited, By Lawyers

12.05.2025

Lawyers have disagreed with insinuations by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, that media parade of crime suspects is necessary for effective prosecution and justice delivery. To the lawyers, the practice, in the face of existing judicial decisions condemning it, amounts to contempt of court and an affront on the rule of law....

US Tariffs: Nigeria Eyes N10trn FX Earnings From China, Others’ CTG Sector

12.05.2025

Following disruptions caused by US Presidentl, Donald Trump’s heavy tariff slammed on China and other key Asian countries, mostly majors in cotton, textile and garment (CTG) exports, the Federal Government has revealed that Nigeria is targeting 10 per cent of the estimated $200 billion going to the US market, about $10 billion (approximately over N10...

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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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