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2027: Northerners’ve Right To Contest Against Tinubu, ACF Tells Bago

17.09.2025

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday countered a call by Niger State Governor Umaru Bago to allow a southern, President Bola Tinubu, to complete an eight-year tenure before any individual from the North could contest. The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Tukur Muhammad-Baba, who dismissed Bago’s opinion, said the Nigerian constitution didn’t prevent Northerners...

FG Seeks Subregional Collaboration To Tackle Hunger

17.09.2025

Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday urged subregional bodies to institute stronger collaboration to end hunger through strategic agriculture investments. He made the call at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) National and Subregional Hand-in-Hand Forum in Abuja. According to him, hunger is one of the major issues causing a spike in the festering...

Lagos Assembly Seeks Financial Autonomy For Councillors

17.09.2025

Lagos State House of Assembly has called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to mandate the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs, and Rural Development to develop a framework for financial autonomy to the legislative arms of local government areas and Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state. The motion, titled “Need to Grant Financial Autonomy...

Top 15 News Roundup For Latest Nigeria News September 17

17.09.2025

Here is New Telegraph’s roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today, Wednesday, September 17th, 2025. Petrol Tanker Claims Two Lives In Ilorin-Jebba Expressway Kwara State Fire Service on Tuesday disclosed that a petrol tanker accident which occurred at Pasa village on the Ilorin-Jebba expressway has claimed the lives of two people. In a...

FCC Acting Chairman Urges NUGA Officials To Uphold Fairness

16.09.2025

The Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Kayode Oladele, has charged officials of the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA) to maintain fairness and professionalism during 2025 competition. The charge was delivered during a courtesy visit by Khalifa Onu, Consultant to NUGA, to the FCC headquarters in Abuja. Oladele pledged the Commission’s full...

Oyo Govt Pledges Support For Slain Journalist’s Family

16.09.2025

The Oyo State Government has pledged support for the family of slain journalist, Mr. Ojo Peter, who was killed by yet-to-be-identified armed robbers in Ibadan, the state capital. Peter was reportedly killed on August 18, though news of his death only emerged three weeks later. Acting Governor, Chief Bayo Lawal, gave the assurance during a...

Yusuf’s Commitment To Justice Reforms, Welfare Gaining Ground – AG

16.09.2025

The Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Haruna Isa Dederi, has said the state government’s commitment to justice reforms and improved welfare for workers is already yielding results. Speaking during an inspection of newly completed offices for over 70 newly recruited staff deployed to the ministry, Dederi said the initiative reflects Governor...

SIFAX Donates ICT Centre, Market To Ogun Communities

16.09.2025

SIFAX Group has commissioned a series of community projects aimed at improving the social, economic, and spiritual lives of residents in Isade-Elero and Pampa-Isade, Ijebu North-East Local Government Area of Ogun State. The newly inaugurated projects include the Chief Samson Afolabi Centre for Information and Technology Services, a 100-seater ICT hub, the Isade Central Mosque,...

Otuaro Plans Quality Furniture, Woodwork Training For PAP Beneficiaries

16.09.2025

The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr. Dennis Otuaro, on Monday visited the Julius Berger Nigeria Plc Associated Furniture Producers (AFP) Showroom and its industrial factory in Abuja, as part of efforts to deepen the implementation of the programme’s objectives. Otuaro also visited PrimeTech, an international firm specialising in sustainable design and construction...

N11,000 Charged Airlines Per Flight By NAMA Grossly Inadequate – DG

16.09.2025

The Director General of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Engr. Farouk Umar, has described the ₦11,000 currently charged airlines per flight by the agency as grossly inadequate and unsustainable given prevailing economic realities. Umar made this known on Tuesday in Abuja while addressing stakeholders at a retreat organised by the House of Representatives Committee...