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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, ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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 ...

  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 ...

Former minister of Sports and Youth Development, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Wednesday urged Nigerians to vote out the All Progressive Congress in the 2023 elections, saying that the present ruling party has ruined the nation. The ex-minister said the 2023 general ...

Three Nigerians have been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States over multimillion-dollar cybercrime leading to more than $5 million in losses. The defendants were Oludayo John Adeagbo, 43; Donald Ikenna Echeazu, 40; and Olabanji Egbinola, 42. The ...

Barely a week after the inauguration of the state security outfit known as Volunteer Community Guards in Benue State, armed herders on Wednesday killed six people at two communities in Logo Local Government Area. The incident, according to locals, happened ...

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s remark that millions of Nigerians were killed during the Biafra civil war to ensure the country’s unity. Igboho warned that such large-scale killing would never be allowed to happen ...

  An Abuja-based lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has appealed to chief executive officers of banks and billionaire businessmen including Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga to pay off the N1.1 trillion demands by the Academic Staff Union ...

In light of Nigeria’s dwindling revenue, the continued payment of trillions of naira on fuel subsidy by the government and the attendant economic challenges, the World Bank on Wednesday raised the alarm that the country might be facing an existential ...

  Two members of terrorists group the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP Al-Qasim Idris and Abdulhaleem Idris have been arrested over teir involvement in the June 5 attack on St. Francis Catholic Church Owo in Ondo State. Al-Qasim ...

  The detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafran, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been conferred with “Battle Axe of God” award by a church based in Umuahia, Abia State. Presenting the award to him, the President, ‘Women of Favour ...

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Seun Oladipupo, to 16 years’ imprisonment for attempted r3pe and indecent assault. According to the charge, “the defendant on February 19, 2021, at Igede Ekiti, in Irepodun/Ifelodun ...