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Japan’s young adults are a sober bunch – something authorities are hoping to change with a new campaign. The younger generation drinks less alcohol than their parents – a move that has hit taxes from beverages like sake (rice wine). ...

Authorities confirmed there were “multiple casualties” after two planes crashed mid-air over the Watsonville Municipal Airport Thursday afternoon, city Fire Department Division Chief Rudy Lopez told CNN. A single-engine Cessna 152 and a twin-engine Cessna 340 collided during their final ...

    Former BBNaija “Lockdown” housemate Terseer Kiddwaya aka Kidd has claimed he’s richer than Burna Boy and Wizkid. Kidd made this claim during an Instagram Live session while responding to trolls who kept comparing him to the global superstars ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has awarded Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo, a pipeline surveillance contract. The former militant leader was the Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). The deal is described as a renewal ...

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 ...

  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 ...

  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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has  met with the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and the former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko. The trio also met on Monday night with top politicians like former ...

  A 16-year-old boy, Ibrahim Lawan, has reportedly hanged himself in Kuki village, Bebeji Local Government Area of Kano State. Reasons the boy committed suicide have yet to be ascertained. Youth group hosts blood donors in Kano Despite odds, train ...

  Police have explained how its operatives rescued 32 teenage football players of Itugbe Kings Club, Warri, Delta State abducted along Agbor/Uronigbe/Obiaruku Expressway while travelling from Agbor to Warri around 6 pm last Friday. Reports indicated that about six of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to present the 2023 appropriation to the National Assembly in September. The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, disclosed this in Abuja at the training on budget preparation using the Government Integrated ...