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Kwara: AbdulRazaq Redefining Governance – New Telegraph

20.11.2025

In the past six years, Kwara State has witnessed an extraordinary transformation under the visionary leadership of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. His administration has become a benchmark for purposeful governance, transparency, and people-centered development; a far cry from the era of neglect and stagnation that once defined our dear state. Governor AbdulRazaq came into office with...

Police Recruitment: Reps Make Case For Women

20.11.2025

The House of Representatives is advocating for an increased number of women to be recruited into the police force as well as given positions of responsibility, PHILIP NYAM reports The House of Representatives is really worried that women have not been accorded the desired recognition in the Nigeria Police Force. For instance, since the establishment...

PRP Asks Turaki To Withdraw Calls For Foreign Intervention

20.11.2025

Following the call to President Donald Trump of the United States (US) to save Nigeria’s democracy, the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has asked the factional National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Tanimu Turaki (SAN), to withdraw the call amid the ongoing party’s lingering crisis. New Telegraph had earlier reported that while addressing newsmen...

Kwara Church Attack: Christian Genocide Claim Becoming Self-fulfilling Prophecy

20.11.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) said the killing and abduction of worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church in Eruku, Kwara State, is making the narrative of Christian genocide a self-fulfilling prophecy under President Bola Tinubu’s administration. ADC, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, accused the Federal Government of being reactive and...

Rentiton Of Partisan Music At Judges’ Conference, Disgraceful, Scandalous

20.11.2025

Former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has described as scandalous, disgraceful and irresponsible the rendition of President Bola Tinubu’s partisan campaign music at the Nigeria Judges’ Conference last Monday. Atiku, in a statement on Wednesday, however, said the incident was not an isolated one, and accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government of...

Guber Poll: I’ll Change Narrative Of Governance in Ekiti

20.11.2025

Governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) for next year’s Ekiti State governorship election, Ambassador Oluwadare Patrick Bejide, has promised to change the narrative of governance in the state if elected. Ambassador Bejide, who spoke on Wednesday at the certificate presentation ceremony as ADC candidate, said his focus would be on agriculture, which he...

Disregard Democracy Under Threat Allegations By PDP

20.11.2025

…Urges SSDC board to shun political distractions The Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has called on Nigerians and the international community to disregard the allegations made by the factional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP,) Tanimu Turaki, suggesting that Nigeria’s democracy was under threat. Wike disclosed this on Wednesday in...

Kwankwaso Urges FG To Act Immediately

19.11.2025

Former Kano State governor and New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) 2023 presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has condemned the terrorist attack on a church in Eruku town, Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, where worshippers were reportedly murdered and others abducted. In a statement released on Wednesday, Kwankwaso said he was “appalled” by...

INEC Turns Down Abdulrahaman Mohammed As PDP Acting Chair

19.11.2025

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has turned down a correspondence signed by the Acting Chairman of the Samuel Anyanwu-led faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying it falls short of legal requirements. New Telegraph reports that Abdulrahaman Mohammed and Senator Anyanwu had written to the commission seeking to postpone the Ekiti Governorship primaries due...

Police Seal Off PDP Secretariat, Prevent Turaki NWC

19.11.2025

The security lockdown, which began early in the day after the secretariat was sealed on Tuesday evening, unsettled party members, staff and journalists who arrived to find the entire complex cordoned off, with officers stationed across the perimeter. The blockade has become the latest flashpoint in the party’s ongoing leadership struggle, with many interpreting the...