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  The police have arrested a South Korean involved in a multinational drug ring that operated in Cambodia, Nigeria and China and smuggled methamphetamine into South Korea. According to the drug crime unit of Seoul Metropolitan Policy, the man identified only by his surname Song ...

The National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has recovered no less than 14, 481, 519 pills of Tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth over 13 billion naira in street value in Lagos State. This was disclosed in a ...

Flights resume as FG reopens Ibadan airport Flight activities resumed at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Sunday, after the facility was closed briefly by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.   The airport was closed ...

A female worshipper identified as Bisi Adewumi of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries reportedly slumped during a prayer session at the church auditorium in the Ibafo area of Ogun State The worshipper, who was described as a 75-year-old ...

  President Bola Tinubu has tasked members of his cabinet and other top management staff of the civil service to work together, change the narrative of Nigeria, and bring economic prosperity to the country. The president said this at the ...

FG to spend N15bn on Third Mainland Bridge repair As contained in the N2.18tn supplementary budget sent by the Federal Government and passed by the National Assembly on Thursday, the Federal Government owed contractors who worked on the Eko/Marine Bridges ...

France is to return $150 million ”looted” by Abacha The Presidency on Friday said France will return $150 million looted by former Nigerian military leader, General Sani Abacha. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and ...

Two men have been arrested by the operatives of Ogun State Police command for stealing a truck belonging to the Dangote Cement Factory in Ibese Omolola Odutola, the Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this in a statement ...

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has apologised to the people of the state for what he called ‘regrettable anxiety’, following the political crisis that rocked the state earlier this week. Governor Fubara also thanked President Bola Tinubu, Rivers Elders and ...

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority,(LAMATA) has declared the 50% fare discount on BRT will no longer be in effect from Sunday.   LAMATA announced this on its page on Saturday.   According to LAMATA, the temporary 50% fare cut will expire ...

Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu on Saturday allayed fears about his safety following Friday’s air crash near the Ladoke Akintola Airport in Ibadan, Oyo State. A source close to the Minister told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan ...

Here are photos from the scene of the crashed private jet conveying Minister of power, Adelabu on Friday evening Recall a private aircraft that had the minister and some of his aides crash-landed near Ibadan airport late Friday. A Minister’s ...

150 bakeries close down due to economic challenges The Zamfara State chapter of the Nigeria Association of Master Bakers and Caterers has revealed that over 150 bakeries across the State have closed down due to economic challenges. This was disclosed ...

Kidnappers of Bethel Baptist School students have released their last victim The last victim of the Bethel High School pupil kidnapped in Kaduna, Treasure Ayuba, has been released. On July 5, gunmen invaded the school in Damishi, Kaduna and abducted ...

Workers to embark on strike next Wednesday The organised labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has declared a plan for a nationwide strike over the beating and abduction of their President, Joe Ajaero. ...

Rwanda announced Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to Rwanda the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such a measure aimed at boosting free movement of people and trade to rival Europe’s Schengen ...

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, has clarified the issue bordering on the controversial Presidential yacht said to be worth about N5 billion Ali Ndume made this clarification while speaking on the review of the supplementary budget on Arise ...

Final year Petroleum Training Institute student electrocuted while installing solar panels A final year student of Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State has been electrocuted while installing solar panels on a one-storey building. Punch Metro gathered that the gory incident occurred ...

Woman steals newborn baby from sleeping mum in hospital A teenage woman stole a newborn baby from a hospital room while the family slept. Cuane Malaquias allegedly stuffed one-day-old Ravi Cunha into a duffle bag to smuggle him out of ...

  A 34-year-old man identified as John has died after drowning in the Elegushi Beach, in Lagos State, on Saturday, during a church hangout. Punch Metro gathered that the unnamed Ikorodu-based church had organised a picnic for its youths which the ...

Tinubu’s female ministers dress like beauty pageant contestants – Adebayo Shittu A former Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said the female ministers in the cabinet of President Bola Tinubu dress like beauty pageant contestants. Shittu made this known during ...

  The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has said his rift with Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State was purely politics. Wike said it is politics if he demands N20 billion monthly and is allowed to award all the ...

  The High Court of Justice in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has ordered the unconditional and immediate release of the immediate-past Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. The court made the order after Emefiele filed a ...

The House of Representatives has removed the controversial N5 billion presidential yacht from the 2023 supplementary budget The budget was passed on Tuesday by the House after adopting the report submitted by the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Abubakar Bichi ...

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has condemned reports of insufficient stock of currency notes in the country CBN through its Director Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin, noted that there is sufficient stock to facilitate economic activities in the country. He made this ...