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The Anambra State Police Command has arrested a 29-year-old lady, Miss Chinwendu Umegbaka, for stealing her neighbour’s child. She allegedly stole the three-year-old girl, with the intention to sell her, reports said. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who stated ...

Pope Francis has dismissed reports that he plans to resign in the near future. In an exclusive interview in his Vatican residence, Francis, 85, also denied rumours that he had cancer, joking that his doctors “didn’t tell me anything about ...

  The Peoples Democratic Party in Cross River State on Monday presented Emana Duke Ambrose-Amawhe as the deputy governorship candidate of the party in the 2023 election. She was presented at the party’s state secretariat on Mary Slessor Avenue in ...

House of Reps member, Shina Peller has removed the All Progressives Congress flag from his office after dumping the party for Accord Party. Recall that the lawmaker dumped the ruling after losing out on the senatorial primary conducted for Oyo ...

A letter presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi wrote in 2007 rejecting lands allocated to him as Governor of Anambra state has gone viral online. In the letter written to him by the Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, Peter ...

Angry mob has set ablaze three suspected armed robbers in Aba Local Government Area of Abia State. It was gatthred that the men were allegedly among criminals terrorising Point of Sale (POS) operators, traders, residents at Abayi, along Aba-Owerri Road, ...

Jide Kosoko, has given reasons for supporting the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speaking on his support for Tinubu in an interview with Punch’s Saturday Beat, the actor noted that he and other ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed why he yesterday rode a tricycle and picked a male passenger around Kuto area of Abeokuta. A statement by Mr Kehinde Akinyemi, Special Assistant to Obasanjo on Media, stated that he (Obasanjo) rode from ...

A former Lagos State Police PRO, Aliyu Giwa has taken to Twitter to warn that adultery is a criminal offense and attracts a punishment of 2 years imprisonment. He tweeted: “Do you know? Adultery is a crime liable to 2 years ...

A staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and ad-hoc staff in Osun state have been arrested for allegedly selling Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). According to a statement released by Yemisi Opalola, the Osun state police command spokesperson, the ...

Abdulmuhyi Bagel Garba has posted an emotional tribute on social media, six months death anniversary of his late fiancée. Hauwa Abdullahi Shehu, a 300-level student of the Bauchi State University, Gadau, died in a fatal motor accident, a month before ...

There was palpable tension at the secretariat of the Ogun State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abeokuta, on Friday, following the death of a member of the union, identified as Sunday Ogunjimi. Ogunjimi was among other workers ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, has warned that any individual that blasphemes Jesus will taste the wrath of God. Adeboye, who spoke to his congregation at the RCCG monthly Holy Ghost Service ...

  Nigerian Twitter influencer and entrepreneur, Pamilerin Adegoke has gotten engaged to his hearthtrob, Motunrayo. He proposed to her with a uniquely organised set up which he executed with the help of friend. Pamilerin and his girlfriend have been dating ...

Big Brother Naija reality star Emmanuel has come out finally to render an unqualified apology to his fans and the general public. Recall that during the Big Brother Reunion was exposed by his former girlfriend Liquorose on how he disrespected ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service and three banks to immediately release details of David Ukpo to the detained former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu to defend himself in a ...

The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has sentenced Senator representing Delta North District at the National Assembly, Peter Nwaoboshi, to seven years imprisonment. Nwaoboshi was convicted on Friday 1st of June for money laundering. The court, citing Section ...

Supporters of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, have whipped Poju Oyemade, the lead pastor of Lagos-based church, The Covenant Nation, over a controversial tweet perceived to be against the former governor of Anambra State. Poju, who on his verified ...

  A father who shot his daughter dead in a suspected “honour killing” reportedly after catching her in a park with a boy, has admitted that he shot her but claims it was an accident and he was only trying ...

A member of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Stephenie Se-Ember Terungwa, who was kidnapped and murdered in Abuja has been laid to rest. The 25-year-old corps member was laid to rest in her hometown, Mbakumbur, Mav-Ikyov in Ushongo Local ...

Russian citizens will from Friday, July 1, require a visa to enter Ukraine, as Kyiv scrapped a decade-long visa-free regime that facilitated travel across borders for citizens of both countries. The decision to end the visa-free regime was announced by ...

  At least 19 people, including one child, have died in overnight Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Ukrainian officials say. The state emergency service, DSNS, says nearly all of the victims were in a nine-storey building hit ...

  The Executive Director , African Governance and Leadership Initiative Chris Kehinde Nwandu has graduated with a Bachelor of Law Degree from prestigious Leadcity University Ibadan. CKN as he is popularly known is also the Editor in Chief of one ...

Bandits have attacked a mining site in Niger State and reportedly killed security agents, civilians, and kidnapped four Chinese nationals. The attack was said to have occurred on Wednesday afternoon in Ajata, Aboki in Gurmana ward of Shiroro Local Government ...

Police in Bungoma County are holding a 25-year-old woman over the mysterious death of a Ford Kenya official, Moses Nabibya. Mr Nabibya, who was the Ford Kenya’s national organising secretary in Bungoma, was found dead in one of the guesthouses ...