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PDP Convention: I’m Both Happy, Sad Over Court’s Judgment – Wike

31.10.2025

Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has expressed mixed feelings over the ruling of the Federal High Court in Abuja restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC) from recognising the outcome of the forthcoming People’s Democratic Party (PDP) national convention. Recall that Justice James Omotosho, in his ruling, held that the PDP...

Judgement Against PDP A Call For Anarchy – Bode George

31.10.2025

Former Deputy National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has described Friday’s judgement of Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, stopping the party’s National Convention as “the joke of the century, open recipe for anarchy and a display of judicial brigandage”. New Telegraph had earlier reported that the...

Edo APC Endorses Tinubu For Second Term, Receives Defectors

31.10.2025

Ahead of the 2027 general election, the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for second term in office. This is as the party received defectors from the oppositions People’s Democratic party (PDP) and the Labour party (LP). The endorsement, which took place in Edo Central,...

Court Restrains INEC From Recognizing Outcome

31.10.2025

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognizing the outcome of the forthcoming 2025 National Convention of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). New Telegraph reports that delivering the judgment on Friday, October 31, Justice James Omotosho issued the order in a suit challenging the legality of...

Fuel Tax’ll Deepen Nigeria’s Economic Hardship

31.10.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the 15 per cent import duty on petrol and diesel approved by President Bola Tinubu will further deepen the economic hardship of Nigerians who are already burdened by the astronomically high cost of living. ADC, in a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said...

Tinubu Support Group Inaugurates Aiyedatiwa, Adegoroye As Patron, DG

31.10.2025

The Tinubu Support Group (TSG) has inaugurated Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State as its patron and former Minister of Transport, Prince Ademola Adegoroye, as the Director General of the campaign group in the state. The event, witnessed by political leaders and party loyalists, on Friday was graced by the National Director General of TSG,...

Court Unseats Zamfara Lawmaker For Defecting To APC

31.10.2025

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sacked a House of Representatives member, Abubakar Gummi, for defecting from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmaker who represents Gummi/Bukkuyum Federal Constituency of Zamfara defected to the ruling party in October 2025. However, Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a judgment delivered...

Gov Bala Leads PDP Chieftains To Court

31.10.2025

The Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum and Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, has led other chieftains of the party to the Abuja Federal High Court, ahead of the judgment on the party’s planned national convention. New Telegraph recalls that three members of the party, Austin Nwachukwu, Imo PDP Chairman, Amah...

Falana Faults Tinubu’s Reversal Of Pardon List

31.10.2025

Following the reversal of the presidential pardon by President Bola Tinubu, a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has described the exercise as embarrassing and poorly handled. New Telegraph recalls that President Bola Tinubu had, last two weeks, approved clemency for 175 inmates under the constitutional prerogative of mercy. However,...

APC, PDP Throw Jabs Over Adeleke’s Screening, Performance Record

31.10.2025

Political hostilities have returned to Osun State as two major political parties are throwing jabs at each other ahead of the August 8, 2026, gubernatorial election. Adeleke, who many insinuated to have been making moves to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the party primaries, was screened at the PDP National Secretariat,...

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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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