The Lagos State Government has ordered the reintroduction of History as “a stand-alone subject” into the basic and junior secondary schools in the state. According to a memo addressed to private school owners and signed by the Director of Research ...

  Will Smith and wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, were spotted together in public for the first time since the infamous Oscars slap, which occurred in March. The couple enjoyed an afternoon date at Nobu Malibu on Saturday as they were photographed ...

  Annie Idibia has reacted following reports that her husband, Tuface has impregnanted a banker. Tuface’s management, led by Efe Omorogbe, responded to the viral claim by refuting it and labeling it as malicious and false. In the midst of ...

An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inhalation. The blaze started just before 9 a.m. ...

Activist, Deji Adeyanju has hit at the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying that he is raising terrorists in the name of running for president. Adeyanju, in a tweet on Sunday lamented that everyone who criticised Obi had been ...

Munkaila Ado, a 27-year-old houseboy in Bauchi, has been arrested for the gruesome murder of his boss’ 13-year-old girl daughter after he impregnated her. Ado allegedly impregnated the minor and connived with her mother to take her to Gombe State ...

A woman has been arrested for attempting to sell her seven-year-old son to strangers in the hopes of receiving £4,000 in return. The mother-of-three, 36, allegedly advertised her son as being up for sale in an attempt to pay off ...

  Six people, which include players and officials of a grassroots female team, were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in Uronigbe, a border community between Edo and Delta states in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State. Punch correspondent learnt that ...

  The governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Saturday said the All Progressives Congress would lose the case challenging his victory in the July 16 governorship poll because the election was free and fair. Adeleke spoke in Ijebu-Jesa, ...

Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo, and her husband, Pastor Blessed Uzochikwa, on Saturday tied the knot in a church ceremony. This is coming a day after the couple celebrated their traditional marriage ceremony in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Singer and ...

  Super Falcons forward player, Asisat Oshoala has been nominated for the 2022 Women’s Ballon d’Or player of the year award on Friday.Her exploits with FC Barcelona femeni earned her a place on the 20-woman shortlist. In July, Oshoala was ...

Akwa Ibom State High Court, presided by Justice Edem Akpan, has sentenced 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom in Ika Local Government Area of the State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong, to death by hanging for murder. The monarch, married to ...

  Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, on Friday, sentenced an 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom, Ika Local Government Area of the State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong to death by hanging for murder. The convict, who is ...

  The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court, Ikeja, yesterday, ordered the remand of Michael Chinasa, an indigene of Anambra State, accused of setting fire on a BRT bus terminal, at Oyingbo, in Lagos, during a protest in October 2020, over alleged ...

Renowned rights activist, Joe Okei-Odumakin has urged Nigerian leaders to commence the process of restructuring backed by a constitutional framework. The President of Women Arise revealed that restructuring was her husband’s last word before he died. Okei-Odumakin spoke at the ...

  Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State and the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign for the 2023 general elections, has apologized over his ‘blasphemous’ remarks about the Holy Father, Pope Francis. He tendered an unreserved apology ...

The Nigerian Police Force, has dismissed a police officer, for searching a commuter’s phone by the road side contrary to the directives of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba. Corporal Opeyemi Kadiri with No. 509745 attached to Dolphin ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied filing any suit seeking the removal of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 Presidential election. It was widely reported this morning that Wike and ...

A man in Adamawa State has been jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend. 33-year-old Wakil Mohammed, a sacked military officer, was found guilty of smashing the girlfriend, 23-year-old Patience Amos, on the wall of her room and leaving ...

Nollywood actress and producer Mary Njoku and husband Jason Njoku, have renewed their marital vows after a decade together. The couple alongside their children, family and friends, took to Maldives to hold a wedding ceremony for a second time on ...

An Inspector of Police, simply identified as Okebata, has allegedly shot dead a police sergeant identified as Iseke Korodama. The incident, which happened on Wednesday midnight, had caused panic within the state’s police command. Punch correspondent gathered on Friday that ...

Kwara State High Court sitting Ilorin has sentenced a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Adetuberu Christopher to two years imprisonment for internet fraudulent activities he charged with. The 28-year-old also lost a car, a house and a ...

Lionel Messi has been left off the Ballon d’Or shortlist as the Paris Saint-Germain star was not named among France Football’s 30-man shortlist on Friday. Messi has not been left off of a Ballon d’Or shortlist since 2005, having won ...

  Government of Anambra state have suspended the Transition Committee Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area honourable Mbazulike Iloka over the circumstances that led to the death of his wife, Mrs Chidiebere Iloka. Mr Iloka was one of the ...

Businessman Tony Elumelu has shared throwback photos from his traditional wedding. Captioning the photos, he wrote; ”Throwback to our trad . Feels just like yesterday. #MrsTOE #TBT #TOEWay”