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No fewer than 23 persons were reported to have slumped among the crowd that generated gridlock during the Permanent Voter Cards’ walk show organised in Kano State by the North-West Tinubu/Shettima campaign support group on Sunday. The one-million-man march, which ...

A boy once known as the world’s fattest boy has transformed his life and his body and is now unrecognisable. Arya Permana, 16, says he’s now told he’s “handsome” after shedding half his body weight with the help of a ...

  Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Benue State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has officially unveiled its branded campaign vehicles without the picture of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. It was gathered that the branded buses were distributed ...

Revolution Plus Property, a Real estate firm is in the news again over land allocation. Recall months ago, the company was called out by many over land allocation issues.. Their amasadors including, Toyin Abraham was called out over the allocation ...

  The arraignment of Femi Olaleye, managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, was stalled following his absence in court today. The cancer care advocate was scheduled to be arraigned by the Lagos state government at the s3xual offences and ...

  South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Monday that the decision to release ex-president Jacob Zuma on early medical parole was “unlawful” and he should return to prison to finish his sentence for contempt of court. Zuma was ...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Cross River State chapter, on Monday, embarked on an indefinite strike over the kidnap of its members on November 18. The kidnapped medical practitioners were Dr. Joshua Omini, a staff member of General Hospital in ...

  The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi has said they are on the case of Optimal Cancer Center boss, Dr Femi Olaleye over accusation of sleeping with his wife’s niece. The commissioner today gave directives to the ...

The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), Taraba State chapter, has suspended its one-week strike. The association made the decision to allow access to the premises of the Taraba State House of Assembly on Sunday night after its executive meeting. ...

  Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has said he went back to school to study Law just to fulfill his father’s wish to be a lawyer. But the former governor of Rivers State, who hinted that he would go ...

Detectives of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Lagos State Command, have arrested a suspected serial kidnapper, Joy Kolapo. Kolapo, 28, was arrested following painstaking investigation and intelligence gathering into the abduction of a three-year old boy, Bright, on ...

Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo has called out a popular Lagos medical doctor, Femi Olaleye accused of defiling his wife’s 15-year-old niece. The doctor claimed that his wife knew his weakness and decided to set him up by bringing a 15-year-old ...

The Borno State Police Command has arrested a housewife, Fatima Abubakar, 25, for allegedly killing her husband, Goni Abbah, with poison. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri, ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a lady, Esther Paul, for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Sadiq Dahiru, to death at Amusa Street, Agungi, in the Lekki area of the state. Punch Metro gathered that Dahiru’s stepfather, Kazeem Obafunso, after ...

  A female police officer on traffic duty in Calabar, Cross River State was yesterday assaulted by a soldier, leaving her to bleed from the eye. Reports said the police officer was attacked by the yet to be identified soldier ...

  Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, may not return to Nigeria until after the 2023 general elections. A source in Abuja told Daily Post on Sunday night that both the government and some powerful politicians ...

A medical doctor, identified simply as Olaleye, will be arraigned on Monday before Justice R.A Oshodi of the S3xual Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, for allegedly r3ping his wife’s 15-year-old niece in the state. Punch Metro had reported that Olaleye ...

Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, departed Nigeria for a three-day official visit to Canada. His spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement said this would be the first high-level visit by a Nigerian leader to Canada since 2000 when President ...

Maryam Habibu, an 18-year-old housewife, has been arrested by the police in Katsina State for allegedly drowning her four-year-old stepson in a well in the Kafur Local Government Area of the state. Habibu, who is from Leko village in the ...

Police in Lagos State have arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly killing his mother-in-law and one other person after raping his wife’s teenage sister in the Ibeju-Lekki area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Benjamin Hundeyin, ...

Equatorial Guinea went to the polls on Sunday, with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo all-but-certain of winning a record sixth term in a the West African country with next to no opposition. Obiang, aged 80, has been in power for ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs Ajisegiri Kehinde Sidika. She was nabbed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos while attempting to traffic 400g of cocaine concealed in her ...

The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said the country is not progressing because unqualified persons hold several government positions. Obi disclosed this on Saturday via his verified Twitter handle. The former Anambra State Governor noted that the ...

At least five people were killed and 18 wounded in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in the US city of Colorado Springs. “It’s with a heavy heart I have to tell you that we had a shooting at ...

Alcohol will not be sold at the World Cup’s eight stadiums in Qatar after Fifa changed its policy two days before the start of the tournament. Alcohol was set to be served “in select areas within stadiums”, despite its sale ...