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Reps Southern Caucus Backs Tax Bills, Ready For Dialogue With North

11.12.2024

On Tuesday, the Southern Caucus in the House of Representatives declared support for President Bola Tinubu’s tax reform bills. Speaking at a press conference in Abuja, the leader of the caucus, Hon. Nicholas Mutu said they are, however, open to more dialogue and views from Nigerians. The tax reform bills, which have unsettled the polity...

Ondo: APC Women At War With Aiyedatiwa Over Exclusion From Chairmanship Race

10.12.2024

Members of the Ondo APC Women For Equality have staged a protest against their exclusion from the Chairmanship race, following the decision by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and the APC leadership to select consensus candidates for the upcoming Local Government Council elections on January 18, 2025, across all 18 Local Governments. In a statement released on...

ACF Blasts Presidency Over No Vacancy In Aso Rock Comment

10.12.2024

The Arewa Consultative Forum(ACF), has attacked the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume for saying President Bola Tinubu would stay in power till 2031. The ACF advised the President Tinubu-led administration to focus on delivering good governance to Nigerians, instead of obsessing over the 2027 election. New Telegraph recalls that Akume...

Soludo Intensifies Anambra Infrastructure Drive

10.12.2024

The Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC) has approved the N2.1 billion road construction of the Trans-Nkisi Boulevard 1 road, GRA Onitsha as part of Governor Charles Soludo’s ongoing infrastructure revolution. The state Commissioner for Information, Dr. Law Mefor, who disclosed this, said the project, which would be delivered in six months, is based on the...

Nigeria Needs Bold Leadership, Systemic Reforms To Make Progress –Aduwo

10.12.2024

Olufemi Aduwo is the Permanent Representative of the Centre for Convention on Democratic Integrity (CCDI) to the United Nations and an associate of the Independent lntegrity Group of the World Bank. In this interview with ANAYO EZUGWU, he speaks on the economic and security challenges posed by oil theft in Nigeria and efforts of the...

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APC Replies Atiku’s Aide On Comment Of Using Wike To Destroy PDP

10.12.2024

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the comment made by Paul Ibe, the media aide to the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, over a comment that the Presidency is using the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to destabilize and weaken PDP. New Telegraph had...

Tax Reform Bills Not About North Versus South –Bwala

10.12.2024

Daniel Bwala is the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication. In this interview, he speaks on the controversies trailing the Tax Reform Bills before the National Assembly and the North’s opposition to the bills, among other issues, ANAYO EZUGWU writes A pro-Northern coalition group was at the National Assembly to drum support...

Northern Nigeria Has Right To Contest Presidency In 2027- Ibe

10.12.2024

Media aide to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe has criticized the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, for his recent comments suggesting that northerners should wait until 2031 to contest the presidency. Ibe described Akume’s remarks as an attempt to “Kidnap” the democratic ambitions of northerners in favor of...

Atiku, Obi Will Unite To Kick APC Out

10.12.2024

The media aide of the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Paul Ibe has claimed that his principal and Labour Party (LP) counterpart, Peter Obi would unite to kick out the incompetent and clueless administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027. Ibe who said the two political gladiators...

Farotimi: Redeem Image Of Judiciary, Group Urges Tinubu, CJN

10.12.2024

The National Coordinating Council of Save Democracy Mega Alliance 2027 (SDMA’27), has called on President Bola Tinubu and the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, to exert the powers of their respective offices to effect the immediate release of detained human rights lawyer, Barr. Dele Farotimi, from what the movement described as “shameful,...

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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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