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NLC Warns N’Assembly Against Legislative Dictatorship

11.09.2025

…vows to mobilise members The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has warned leadership of the National Assembly to rethink its continued decision to bar Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from performing her sacred constitutional duties. President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, who in a statement issued on Thursday said Congress would not stand idly by while leadership...

Crisis Looms Over Non-Release Of Nomination Forms

11.09.2025

The non-release of nomination forms for the forthcoming 2025 People’s Democratic Party (PDP) congress for the Lagos State chapter seems to have caused division in the party as the leadership prepares for the much-anticipated state congress. A chieftain of the party in Ikorodu Local Government Area of the state, Alhaji Dauda Bello, lamented his inability...

Alleged Court Order Against Our Leadership, INEC, Fake

11.09.2025

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the reports circulating in the media about the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, restraining Senator David Mark and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola from acting as the party’s National Chairman and National Secretary is false. ADC in a statement issued by the interim National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji...

Benue Assembly Dissolves Leadership, Appoints New Principal Officers

11.09.2025

The Benue State House of Assembly, on Thursday, announced a change in its leadership, dissolving the former principal officers and appointing new ones to major positions. New Telegraph gathered that the House only retained the Speaker, Mr. Alfred Emberga and the Deputy Lamin Danladi. The dissolution, according to a statement by the Press Secretary to...

Anambra LP Candidate, Moghalu Dismisses Alleged Threat To Life

11.09.2025

The gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Anambra State, Chief George Moghalu, has dismissed an allegation from one Peter Okoye, who alleged that Moghalu is after his life. Okoye, who claimed to be the State Chairman of Labour Party (LP), has alleged that a certain caller named Jack had, in a phone chat,...

Tinubu Campaign Group Inaugurates Women Wing In Ondo

11.09.2025

A group campaigning for the reelection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Ondo State under the auspices of Asiwaju Mandate Group (AMG) has inaugurated Ward, Local Government, and Senatorial Coordinators for women in the state. The state women coordinator, Mrs Yetunde Adeyanju, said the AMG under the leadership of Minister of the Interior, Hon Olubunmi...

APC Slams PDP, Says Party Can’t Reclaim Power In C’River

11.09.2025

The Cross River State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dismissed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claim that it would reclaim power in the state during the 2027 general elections, describing it as an empty boast and political comedy. According to a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Inyang, on Thursday, the ruling...

Reposition Governance In Rivers Once Reinstated, Group Tells Fubara

11.09.2025

The International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights (ISSJHR) has called on Rivers State Governor, Siminialayi Fubara, to reposition governance once reinstated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the emergency rule nears its end. The chancellor of ISSJHR, Dr Omenazu Jackson, who made the appeal in a statement, emphasised that “Rivers people expect urgent...

APC Postpones Inauguration Of Campaign Council

11.09.2025

The National Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday postponed the inauguration of its National Campaign Council ahead of the forthcoming state gubernatorial election slated for November 2025. This is contained in a press statement issued by the APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, through the party’s official X handle. According to him, the...

Women’s Coalition Slams Senate Over Natasha’s Continued Exclusion

11.09.2025

…Calls It ‘Gendered Injustice, Democratic Assault’ Womanifesto, a coalition of 281 women’s rights organisations and voices from across Nigeria, has condemned what it described as the unconstitutional and gendered exclusion of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from the Nigerian Senate. In a statement signed by Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, Convener of Womanifesto, on behalf of the 281 civil...

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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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