NIGERIANS HAVE come out to support the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC over its insistence to use BVAS and electronically transmit the result of the 2023 General Elections. There had been a misconception over a short interview by an INEC official. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and VoterContinue Reading
Govs setting trap Inflation trending up AMIDST INFLATION trending up across the world, Nigeria is getting hit from all fronts as all sectors tilt towards collapse. The Telescope Nigeria’s team of Olanrewaju Akinfenwa and Tubosun Adio take a cursory look at the economy and chatted with experts who put theContinue Reading
AMAKSON FOOTBALL Club has been in the forefront of developing youths through sports. according to its Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Bishop Amakiri. He made this statement at a chat in Abuja during the weekend. He states that “Our key objective is discovery of potential talents in soccer, management of soccer playersContinue Reading
VICE PRESIDENT, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has enjoined the newly constituted board of the Nigeria Electricity Liability Management Company to enhance ongoing efforts to resolve the liabilities relating to tariff shortfalls for power distribution companies nationwide. According to a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, LaoluContinue Reading
IT HAS been a continuous streak of triumph for Senator Ademola Adeleke as he continues to win after-election cases. Friday he won the case instituted by the APM in an Abuja Court and document made available to The Telescope Nigeria shows that the Young Progressives Party, YPP, has withdrawn theContinue Reading
AFTERMATH OF the strike action by Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria indicates that prices of bread would increase by 20 percent if statement by a branch of the association in Kogi is adhered to. The statement by Gabriel Bamidele-Adeniyi, Chairman, Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria,Continue Reading
MY PATH and Michael Awe’s crossed after I was appointed editor of The Punch newspaper in 1992. He was one of the brilliant chaps I head-hunted from other newspaper houses with the sole aim of turning around The PUNCH newspaper and positioning it as the flagship of the Nigerian media.Continue Reading
THE PLOT to remove Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) from office via impeachment processes thickens over the weekend. Last week, lawmakers of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, extraction had staged a walkout from the hallow chambers when the President of the Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan blocked the move toContinue Reading
NIGERIANS HAVE described as insensitive and non commonsensical gifts of vehicles to Niger Republic when Nigerians are groaning under intense poverty and inability to address the needs of lecturers who have been home for unprecedented six months at a go. Speaking during an opinion poll conducted by The Telescope Nigeria,Continue Reading
THE FEDERAL INLAND Revenue Service has granted a full waiver on accumulated penalties and interests for outstanding tax liabilities. Chairman of the service, Zacch Adedeji, disclosed this in a notice personally signed by him and made available on Sunday in the agency’s X handle @FIRSNigeria. The agency imposes penalties and
THIEVES HAVE SEVERELY damaged a monumental lead sculpture by the German artist Anselm Kiefer, who lives in France, and stolen parts of it from a warehouse near Paris. The damage was estimated by the 78-year-old Kiefer at more than €1 million ($1.09 million), according to media reports from the public
GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF Scholz has called for a tripling of global renewable energy capacities by 2030 at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. “The expansion of renewable energies is progressing, but not at the pace that is necessary,” Scholz told journalists in Dubai on Saturday. Expansion had already been
THE CENTRE FOR Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, has called on the Federal Government to immediately commence the probe of alleged corrupt cases made against some of the Chief Executive Officers of the Federal Health Institutions, FHIs. In a release issued by CACOL and signed by Tola Oresanwo, the anti-corruption
