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General superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church Pastor William Kumuyi has cancelled his crusade in Aba, Abia State following warning from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The crusade was scheduled to hold in Aba from May 24 to ...

Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary, the Rescue Nigeria Mission, a group canvassing support for the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello’s bid to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, has foreclosed the chances of Bello stepping down ...

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in the Eket Local Government Area has dissolved a 13-year marriage over the allegation that the 36-year-old wife slept with a pastor of one of the new generational churches in the state. The ...

A suspected robber was on Saturday beaten to death by an angry mob in the Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State. The deceased, along with four other members of the gang, had reportedly robbed a 52-year-old man, Alhaji Usman ...

Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has announced a N10 million reward for anyone that has valuable information to lead to the immediate arrest of the perpetrators of Hon. Okechukwu Okoye’s death. The Governor expressed shock and deep ...

The Catholic Diocese of Gboko in Benue State has announced the suspension of Reverend Father, Hycainth Alia, for expressing interest in the governorship contest of the state. Alia is among the 12 governorship aspirants who purchased expression of interest and ...

  Isuofia community in Anambra State and the entire state were thrown into morning on Saturday as news filtered in that gunmen have beheaded the lawmaker representing Anambra Governor Charles Soludo in the Assembly. Hon Okechukwu Okoye’s head was found ...

Two internet fraudsters, Eghaghe Etinosa and Osaretin Kelly have been jailed four years by a court in Benin for N1.3 billion fraud. Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin-City jailed the duo on Thursday after ...

Riot reportedly broke out in Katangan area of Warji Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Saturday as irate youths reportedly burnt houses and injured a pastor over another case of alleged blasphemy. According to multiple reports, it was gathered ...

A landlord at Ekwulobia Street Mile 3, Diobu in Port Harcourt City Local Council of Rivers State, on Sunday, attacked a lady, Comfort Nwagadi and her fiancée, Stanley Nwagadi, with a machete out of perceived jealousy. It was gathered that ...

Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has sentenced George Turnah to four years imprisonment. Turnah was former Special Assistant to Dan Abia, a former Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He was ...

A political activist and former member of the House of Representatives, Dr Usman Bugaje, on Friday picked holes in the leadership recruitment process in political parties which, he said, had put Nigeria on a dangerous trajectory. According to him, Nigeria ...

Founder of Champions Royal Assembly, a megachurch in Abuja, Prophet Joshua Iginla has welcomed a baby boy with his South African wife Stella. Iginla announced the arrival of the boy in a Facebook post on Saturday, May 21, adding that ...

The newly appointed caretaker committee chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Fatai Adeshina, aka Akeweje, has accused his predecessor Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo of snatching his second wife from him. Akeweje was appointed ...

A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by the Lagos State ...

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in Rivers State, has said despite the number of aspirants vying for the All Progressives Congress presidential ticket, they must be willing to rally around and support whoever emerges candidate in the forthcoming primary ...

A yet to be confirmed number of commercial motorcycle operators also known as Okada riders were on Thursday arrested for allegedly attempting to run over Onireke Police Station, in Ojo area of Lagos. Over 200 commercial motorcycles belonging to the ...

The abducted village head of Karfi in Takai Local Government of Kano State, Abdulyahyah Ilo, has regained freedom from his abductors. The abductors have, however, held an associate professor at Kano State University of Science and Technology (KSTU), Wudil, Huzaifa ...

  A five-year-old pupil of the Redeemers Nursery and Primary School, Ogba, Lagos State, Chidera Eze, has drowned during a swimming lesson organised by the school in the Ikeja area of the state. Punch Metro gathered that some teachers and ...

Elon Musk, CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, is being accused of s3xual misconduct in a new report. Without directly commenting on the case, Musk is hinting that it is part of a campaign of “political attacks” carried out by ...

The international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was temporarily shut in the early hours of Thursday after the mangled body of a dead man was found on Runway 18R of the nation’s flagship airport. The identity of ...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has raised concerns about the emergence of Boko Haram and Ansaru enclaves in Birnin Gwari and Chukun local government areas of the state. The governor also expressed concerns over the use of Improvised Explosive ...

The Imo State police command has arrested some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/ Eastern Security Network (ESN) suspected to be the killers of a Police officer in Ubah Agwa Community, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Nsima Ekere for alleged diversion of funds to the tune of N47 billion through registered contractors of the ...

Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, has cautioned the North against thinking it would produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor in 2023. Igbokwe said the North should perish the thought of a Northerner succeeding ...