Breaking News this Afternoon in Nigeria Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Abia Assembly Scraps Pension For Ex-Govs, Deputies
The Abia State House of Assembly has repealed the Pension law (Law no 4 of 2021) for former Governors and Deputies. The Bill, cited as HAB 11, if signed into law, would end pension payments to former Governors and their Deputies. Known as ‘The Abia State Governors and Deputy Governors Pensions Law Repeal Bill 2024’,…
New Telegraph.
Ondo 2024: I’ll Give Attention To Rural Areas – Oke
A two-time governorship candidate in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke SAN has promised to develop rural areas of the State if given the mandate to govern the State under the ticket of All Progressives Congress (APC). Oke who began his tour of local governments ahead of the APC primary fixed for April 25 assured the…
New Telegraph.
IPOB: Okuama Youths Not Responsible For Killing Of 16 Army Officers
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has insisted that youths of the Okuama community in Delta State were not responsible for the killing of 16 Army officers and soldiers who were on a peacekeeping mission last Thursday. In a statement issued on Wednesday by its spokesman, Emma Powerful, the pro-Biafran group said rather, it was…
New Telegraph.
NLC Storms LP Secretariat Demands Abure’s Removal As Chairman
…as NLC Political Commission resolves to recover, reposition party Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Wednesday, took over the premises of the national secretariat of the Labour Party (LP) in Abuja to protest the party’s national convention slated for the end of this month. This protest is coming a few days after the…
New Telegraph.
Hardship: Group Urges Philanthropists, Organisations To Assist Less Privileged Nigerians
A civil society organization, Patriotic Nigerians Forum (PNF), has called on philanthropists, well-meaning Nigerians and organisations to assist orphans and the less privileged in the country. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, the Convener of PNF, Eric Oluwole, said philanthropic organisations and the rich should do more to save vulnerable Nigerians in this time…
New Telegraph.
FG Begins Construction Of Hostels In 36 Tertiary Institutions Nationwide
The Federal Government has commenced the process of constructing state-of-the-art hostels in 36 tertiary institutions across the country for the year 2024. This was as the government indicated its willingness to construct more hostel accommodations once the first set of constructions was completed. Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono made the…
New Telegraph.
Umuahia Old Boys Commends Otti Over Recovery Of 89 Hectares Of Land
The Awka chapter of Government College Umuahia Old Boys Association has commended Governor Alex Otti of Abia State over the recovery of 89 hectares of land taken over by suspected land grabbers in the area. Recall that suspected land grabbers had in the past ten years taken over hectares of land belonging to the College…
New Telegraph.
Again, Court Convicts Six For Cybercrime In Kwara
The efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Command, in sanitising Kwara State and its environs of cybercrime and other related offences have continued to yield positive results with the conviction of another set of six fraudsters before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin. The convicts…
New Telegraph.
Isolate, Deal With Killers Of Soldiers Not Communities, Eradiri Urges Military
Udengs Eradiri, the Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party in the November 11 Governorship Election in Bayelsa State has appealed to the military to identify, arrest and deal decisively with only persons directly and remotely connected to the gruesome killing of military officers in the Okuama community in Delta State. Eradiri who is also a…
New Telegraph.
Man Docked In Ogun Court Over N580,000 Fraud
The 27-year-old man identified as Haruna Akinlolu appeared on Wednesday before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun State for scamming a man of N580,000. New Telegraph gathered that Akinlolu, whose address was withheld, was accused by the police of fraud and stealing. The defendant committed the crimes in March 2023 in the Ago-Adura, Anisere area, Ota,…
New Telegraph.
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