The Ogun State Government has confirmed four new cases of Monkeypox in the state. The government through its Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health, Festus Soyinka, made this known on Thursday in Abeokuta, the state capital. He ...

  Environmental workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday threatened to shut down all public cemeteries in Abuja. This came after the Gudu cemetery was locked up on Wednesday, but the workers reopen the cemetery after pressure from ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday struck out a suit seeking nullification of the submission of the name of Ademola Adeleke as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the July 26 election. The ...

Singer BNXN has retracted a tweet where he allegedly admitted to spitting on a police officer. On Wednesday, a video that went viral on Twitter featured the singer in an altercation with members of the Nigerian Police Force in Lagos. ...

  A mum has hacked off the genitals of her boyfriend after he allegedly attempted to rape her 14-year-old daughter. The 36-year-old mother is said to have used a kitchen knife to “teach him a lesson” after the 32-year-old attempted ...

  The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has said Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State did not stop the sit-at-home order in the state. IPOB said Uzodinma could not stop the sit-at-home order because it initiated it. Emma Powerful, the ...

The Bayelsa State Ministry of Health has confirmed the outbreak of monkeypox in the state, saying so far about 13 persons have been infected by the disease. The Director of Public Health in the state Ministry of Health, Dr Jones ...

Lagos State Government has extended the number of local government areas where the operation of motorcycles popularly known as okada is banned to 10. The government had initially banned okada in six LGAs of the state to curtail the rate ...

  Usman Ali, the Divisional Police Officer of Magami Division, Gusau Local Government of Zamfara State, has regained his freedom after five days in captivity. The freedom of the DPO abducted by terrorists, according to reports was secured by the ...

Two years before her fatal accident, Princess Diana predicted she would die in a car crash. The chilling revelation — which came to be known as the “Mishcon Note” — is discussed at length in the upcoming Discovery+ docuseries, “The ...

  Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has defended the same faith ticket of the party, insisting it is the choice of the presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu. Admitting that no real Christian would be pleased with ...

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Thursday, said it is the responsibility of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to compensate students for the time wasted during the six-month strike, not the Federal Government. He also said the government ...

Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has rewarded a total of 20 kids with N200,000 each as scholarship grants in its just concluded Kiddies and Teens Draw, which held in Lagos on Thursday. The winners had qualified ...

  There was confusion on Monday at the Berger area of Lagos State after a yet-to-be-identified great-grandmother slumped while climbing a pedestrian bridge. PUNCH Metro gathered that the woman, believed to be in her late 70s, wanted to connect to the ...

  An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, had granted an order to remand a 45-year-old Prophet, Adeleye Akingbaso in the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Ado Ekiti, for allegedly defiling a teenager. According to the charge, Prophet Adeleye ...

  Singer 2Face Idibia has sent birthday greetings to his ex, and mother of 3 of his children Pero Adeniyi who is a year older today, August 18. Pero and 2Face have three children together, namely Ehi, Justin, and Innocent ...

  Popular Nigerian singer, Ahmed Ololade Asake aka Asake has acquired a property in Lagos. He shared a photo of the property while happily posing in front of it and captioned it; ”Went from hustling for free bedspace to investing ...

  There are indications that the failure of Emirates Airlines to repatriate its trapped ticket sales fund in Nigeria back to its home country in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have led to the carrier’s decision to stop all ...

LAUTECH has denied asking its students to resume. The management of the school, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, said it has not issued any directive on the resumption of its students. News had gone viral yesterday ...

Kidnappers of the Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mohammed Yakubu Lawal, have demanded N100 million ransom for the release of their victim from their den, the family members have said. According to Vanguard, the family of the ...

Popular Nollywood actor, Moses Armstrong, has broken his silence after he was released from a correctional facility over an alleged r3pe. Armstrong, a former aide to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state, was first arrested on June 13 for ...

A Saudi student at Leeds University who returned to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissident activists. Salma al-Shebab, 34, was accused of ...

Governor Akeredolu has teased Ondo citizens with monetary rewards if they expose kidnappers and other criminals in the state. The state government placed the sum of N50,000 as reward for anyone who exposes or reports incident leading to the arrest ...

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has attended a special prayer session organised for the restoration of peace and security to the state and Nigeria in general in Ilorin, Kwara. The Director-General (DG), New Media to Masari, Al-Amin Isa made ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has donated three million Egyptian dollars ($156,965) to help rebuild a church destroyed by fire in Egypt. At least 41 people died in Giza, which is across the Nile from Cairo, following an inferno that struck ...