Here is New Telegraph’s news roundup of the top 15 latest Nigerian news making headlines today, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025.

It is going to be a feisty tie in Luanda, Angola today as Nigeria men’s basketball team, the D’Tigers, face off against five-time winners of the men’s Afrobasket, The Lions of Senegal in one of the ...

September deadline Following an obvious congestion at the various ports in Lagos, the Federal Government has finalised plans to confisticate more than 350 vehicles that have been abandoned by their ...

Awareness about new understandings of humanity and connecting with ancestral roots will bring together various artists for an exhibition that also engages process of healing, restoring collective and ...

Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has reinstated Taiwo Olatunbosun, a former Commissioner for Information, to the State Executive Council barely a week after its dissolution.

The proposed operational licencing fee for customs agents, chandlers and bonded terminal operators by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) scheduled to take effect from January 2026 has sparked ...

The Super Eagles B caged Congo’s Red Devils with two goals in the second half in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam yesterday, but their firepower came too late as both teams were eliminated from ...

Nigerian-born retired Benin Republic international, Razak Omotoyossi is dead. His death was confirmed yesterday, by his former Swedish club, Helsingborgs IF. In a post on X (Formerly Twitter), the ...

With his return to the boxing ring after 25 years, Nigerian-born heavyweight boxer, Ike ‘The President’ Ibeabuchi, has promised to knock out his opponent, Idris Afinni, in their 12-round bout ...

The Chief Magistrate’s Court 1 in Yola, Adamawa State, has remanded a Yola based businessman, Mamuda Duma, in prison for allegedly having sexual relations as well as aborting a three months’ old ...

Troops of 63 Brigade (Section 1) of Operation Delta Safe killed three kidnappers in Otulo Forest, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, and rescued a female victim in the process, the ...

Super Eagles forward Ademola Lookman has returned to Atalanta’s training ground in Zingonia after several weeks of absence without official permission. The 26-year-old winger, who had gone on strike ...