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Adebayo Urges Tinubu To Address People’s Anger Against His Govt

09.05.2025

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo has advised President Bola Tinubu that rather than worry about a political coalition that could defeat him in 2027, he should be more concerned about the people’s anger against his government. Adebayo noted that the president is politically savvy enough to know...

267th Catholic Pontiff, Who Swore To Poverty, Becomes Pope After 2 Years As Cardinal

09.05.2025

With his election yesterday by 133 Catholic Cardinals as the Bishop of Rome and the Leader of the 1.4 billion Catholics around the World, Robert Cardinal Prevost becomes the first Catholic leader born in America since the over 2000 years of the Catholic Church. Although he was born in Chicago, he is a naturalised Peruvian,...

No Fund Transfer From Kogi Govt, LGAs To American Int’l School Account, EFCC Witness Tells Court

09.05.2025

A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Nicholas Ojehomon yesterday told the Federal High Court Abuja that neither the Kogi State Government nor any of its local government transferred any money to the bank account of the American international School in Abuja as school fees. The 3rd prosecution witness in the alleged...

Conclave Elects Robert Prevost 1st US Pope, Takes Papal Name, Leo XIV

09.05.2025

American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the 267th Pope of the Universal Catholic Church, and took the name, Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old pontiff, the first US Pope in 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after being elected as the new Supreme Pontiff. Pope Leo XIV,...

Mele Kyari: CSO Petitions NBA, Demands Disciplinary Action Against Erring Lawyers

09.05.2025

The Nigeria, Empowerment for Unemployment Youth Initiative (EUYI) yesterday asked the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to investigate and invoke disciplinarian measures on lawyers believed to have been paid to taint the reputation of Mele Kyari. Some groups had alleged that the immediate past Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPLC) Group Chief Executive Officer was involved...

APC Attacks Utomi Over Shadow Govt Declaration

09.05.2025

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday slammed out Prof. Pat Utomi for criticising the Bola Tinubu government. The political economist had announced the formation of a shadow government designed to serve as a credible opposition to the Tinubu government. Utomi launched the initiative on Monday under the banner of the Big Tent Coalition Shadow Government....

Tinubu Pledges To Tackle Erosion, Integrate Anambra Into Nat’l Rail System

09.05.2025

President Bola Tinubu has pledged to address key developmental challenges confronting Anambra State and the Southeast region. These include erosion, underutilisation of gas reserves and Anambra’s exclusion from the National Rail Master Plan. Speaking at a civic reception held at Alex Ekwueme Square during his state visit, the President assured the people of Anambra of...

Kanu’s Broadcasts Led To killing of Jonathan’s Ex-Aide, Others – Witness Tells Court

09.05.2025

A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Nnamdi Kanu – leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – yesterday told Federal High Court, Abuja, that Kanu’s broadcast led to the killing of a former Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, and others. The witness, who is an official...

DMO Confirms FG Has Settled $3.4bn IMF COVID-19 Loan

09.05.2025

The Debt Management Office (DMO) yesterday confirmed that Nigeria had completed the payment of the $3.4 billion loan borrowed from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during COVID-19 crisis. This came as the IMF removed Nigeria from its Total IMF Credit Outstanding list after repaying the $3.4 billion pandemic loan. The loan, secured in 2020 under...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News May 9

09.05.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today Friday, May 9, 2025 Trump Congratulates Pope Leo XIV President Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, who was elected the 267th pope, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. In a post on his social media website...

1 … 1,504 1,505 1,506 1,507 1,508 … 2,591

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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