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1,660 Delegates Affirm Oyebamiji As APC Guber Candidate

13.12.2025

A total of 1,660 delegates drawn from the 30 local government areas and 332 wards in Osun State have affirmed Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (AMBO) as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the August 8, 2026, off-season election in the state. The affirmation took place on Saturday, December 13, 2025, during the...

Tinubu Establishes New Army Depot In Ebonyi To Enhance Security

13.12.2025

The President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has declared plans to establish a new Nigerian Army depot in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Saturday Telegraph reports that the new addition increases the number of army depots in Nigeria to three, joining the existing facilities in Kaduna and Osogbo, which have been used for decades. Announcing the development on...

NAF Seeks Strategic Partnership, Diplomacy To Address Insecurity

13.12.2025

Amidst the call for a stakeholder collaboration to tackle the escalating insecurity challenges in Nigeria, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said the military on its own cannot guarantee lasting peace in the country, hence the need for diplomacy and strategic partnerships, which remain essential in addressing security challenges. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal...

Stop Appointing Individuals With Questionable Characters, Kogi APC Warns Yiltwatda

13.12.2025

A group within the fold of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Kogi APC Renaissance Forum, has advised the National Chairman, Prof Nentawe Yiltwatda, to desist forthwith from embarrassing the party in its appointment of individuals with questionable character for critical national assignments. The group, through its spokesman, Adejo Emmanuel, stated this against...

Kano Bans Private Hisbah Group

13.12.2025

The Kano State Government on Friday announced the banning of a group called ‘Independent Hisbah Fisabilillahi,’ describing it as illegal, dangerous and detrimental to public peace. The Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Ibrahim Abdullahi-Waiyya, who made this announcement, said the executive order was issued under Governor Abba Yusuf’s constitutional powers to maintain public peace...

APC Aspirants Close Ranks, Endorse Oyebamiji

13.12.2025

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election slated for Saturday, December 13, in Osogbo, Osun State capital, all aspirants for the party’s ticket have closed ranks and endorsed Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji as the consensus candidate. It was earlier gathered that one of the frontline aspirants, Senator Ajibola Basiru, had on Friday collapsed...

Some Governors, Cause Of Our Problems In PDP; They’re Free

13.12.2025

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Hon. Philip Aivoji, has expressed optimism that the party will soon reclaim its strength despite its current challenges. Aivoji, who lamented that the core values once upheld by Nigerian politicians have been eroded, stated that insecurity in the country would only end when security...

Tackling Latest Wave Of Military Coups In West Africa

13.12.2025

…as region experiences troubling reversals By the early 2000s, West Africa appeared to be turning a corner. Multi-party elections had replaced decades of authoritarianism, regional bodies were championing democratic norms, and coups, once a familiar feature, seemed to be fading into history. But two decades later, the region is experiencing an unsettling reversal. From Mali...

Single-term Governance System Will Make Leaders Decisive –

12.12.2025

Niger State Governor, Umaru Mohammed Bago, has joined the call for a single-term governance system for Nigeria, arguing that it would imbue leadership with decisive steps and further enhance the great outcomes from governance. Bago made this remark on Friday in Minna during the inauguration of Commissioners, Chairmen, and Vice Chairpersons of local government councils,...

PDP Boycott Borno LG Election

12.12.2025

The Borno State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has announced its withdrawal from the scheduled Local Government elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 13, due to what it describes as a trust deficit from the electoral body and the exorbitant cost of nomination forms. This disclosure was made available by the party’s state...

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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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