The last domestic football season in the elite class, the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL), ended on August 1 with Akwa United emerging champions ahead of Rivers United (second) and Enyimba (third). It was a record first for the Uyo-based outfit and a departure from the recent favourites like Enyimba, Kano Pillars and Plateau United. […]
Recently, the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) requested each newspaper establishment to institute a self-regulatory mechanism commonly referred to as an Ombudsman Committee. This is aimed at ensuring that every newspaper organisation discharges its statutory duties in a responsible and responsive manner. New Telegraph is full of gratitude to NPAN for this laudable initiative. […]
There have been a high degree of defections by politicians in recent times. Some political gladiators have disembarked from their political boats to join others as often as they have reasons to. This has resulted in the moving in and out of political parties by politicians who are well-formed in character and competence to help […]
Lagos has for some weeks now been savouring negative news. This was due to the collapse of a building in the high-brow Ikoyi area of the metropolis killing over 40 individuals while injuring others. The Lagos State Government declared three days of mourning as a mark of honour and respect for the fallen persons. […]
It is no news that the Super Eagles of Nigeria remains one of the big teams in African football, but inconsistency has been a major bane. As the last round of qualifier matches in the first round draw near, three teams of the 10 expected to emerge have booked tickets for the final playoffs expected […]
Given the continued loss of lives and socioeconomic dislocation unleashed on Nigeria by rising insecurity, different stakeholders have reacted to the avoidable man-made menace. Some of the stakeholders, including state governors and Speakers of the 36 states of the federation, have urged the Federal Government to declare the bandits as terrorists. There is also an […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has for some time now become a government of its own in the South East region of the country. The group, which claims to be fighting for the rights of the Igbo of the region, has constituted itself into a law, ordering the people […]
Again, Nigerians were on October 29 treated to another theatre of the absurd, when security operatives invaded the home of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Mary Odili, to execute a search warrant. The warrant was allegedly obtained from a magistrate court, which the Magistrate later revoked. The invasion took Nigerians back to the […]
The race is about to begin. Men who want President Muhammadu Buhari’s job badly in May 2023 are covertly criss-crossing the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, making friends, erecting sturdy coalitions and assembling crack teams of political strategists and campaign machinery. The stage is about to set. And the grand race to Nigeria’s No.1 job, […]
On Thursday, October 7, President Muhammadu Buhari presented a N16.39 trillion Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly in Abuja. It was heart-warming to see education displacing the usually over-rated sectors such as works and housing; as well as transportation to attract the record highest allocation of N1.29 trillion which amounts to […]