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Gunmen, on Thursday, attacked a bullion van at Ogbor-Nguru in the Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State. Punch correspondent gathered that the bullion van took off from Owerri, the state capital, and was billed to offload cash at ...

  The Federal Government has declared May 2 and 3 as public holidays to mark the Workers Day and Eld-el-Fitr celebrations. The minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in a statement by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Belgore on ...

The terrorists that kidnapped passengers of the AK9 Abuja-Kaduna bound train have released the picture of the newly born girl delivered by one of the pregnant women taken hostage. The mother of the baby was said to be eight-month pregnant ...

The Zamfara State government has dethroned two emirs and a district head over allegations of aiding the activities of bandits terrorising communities in the state. The affected monarchs are the Emir of Zurmi, Abubakar Atiku, Emir of Dansadau, Hussaini Umar. ...

Four persons have been reportedly burnt beyond recognition when a commercial bus caught fire at the Fidiwo area of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Ogun State. Punch correspondent gathered that the bus had a tyre burst, lost control, somersaulted and eventually went ...

A female captive said to be 8 months pregnant when she was kidnapped in the ill fated Abuja-Kaduna bound train, was reported to have delivered in the terrorists enclave. Sources said she was among the 2 pregnant women among the ...

  A young woman is in custody after she tricked her fiancé to follow her up a hill with the promise of a “surprise” gift before slitting his throat. The bride-to-be, Viyyapu Pushpa, 22, blindfolded fiancé Addepallu Ram Naidu, 28, ...

    A Brazilian man with nine wives has created a “s*x rota” to schedule in his wives – but he now says it has caused problems. Arthur O Urso, from Brazil, hit the headlines last year after he married ...

Ade Abraham, the pastor of Christ High Commission Ministry, also known as Royal Christ Assembly, Kaduna State, has convinced members of his church to relocate to a camp in Ekiti State with him, in order to “prepare for the end ...

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has become the first to pay APC’s N100m nomination fee. The Governor made the payment for the purchase of the forms to contest the 2023 Presidency under the platform of the All Progressives Congress ...

At least, nine men suspected to be kidnappers, have been apprehended in Ogun State, DAILY POST reports. The Ogun State Police Command said the suspects were “members of a notorious kidnap syndicate terrorising residents of Ogun State.” The command’s spokesman, ...

  A political support and economic advocacy group, Fusion 774, has urged the former Chief of Army Staff and Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, Ambassador Tukur Buratai, to join the 2023 presidential race. The group said it was ...

A 15-year-old girl in Adamawa State has confessed to beating an 85-year-old woman to death. The girl, Happy David, allegedly armed herself with a stick, stormed the residence of the woman and beat her up on accusation of witchcraft. It ...

  The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Monday visited the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and some leaders of the All Progressives Congress, as well as some political office holders in the state as the presidential primary of the ...

  No fewer than four children have lost their lives in Ondo State after they were electrocuted at the Oke-Aigo axis in the Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area of the state. The tragedy occurred after a newly installed power cable fell ...

Graham Douglas, a former Minister of Labour and Productivity, is dead. DailyTrust confirmed that the former Minister passed on Monday at a hospital in Abuja, FCT. Graham-Douglas served as minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity under Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. The ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take private a 16-year-old social networking platform that has become a hub of public discourse and a ...

A twitter user, Toyosi Olufade, in a thread has shared how he lost his fiancée in an accident last month in Ibadan. Olufade chronicled the different roles that operatives of government agencies and fellow citizens played during the accident and ...

    Twitter Inc has kicked off deal negotiations with Elon Musk after he wooed many of the social media company’s shareholders with financing details on his $43bn acquisition offer, Reuters has reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The ...

  A married woman, Funmilola Osundare escaped death by whiskers in Akure, the Ondo state capital, after her yet to be identified boyfriend, suspected to be a ritualist butchered her. Vanguard gathered that the timely intervention of neighbours saved the ...

A presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, has been mocked on twitter for appealing for funds in order to purchase the N100 million presidential forms of the party. Garba, who had earlier lamented over the huge ...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is changing passengers’ experiences at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by introducing innovations. Some of the innovations will include; e-tags to ease traffic flow at the toll gate, banning illegal car hire ...

    The lawmaker representing Oron Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Nse Ekpenyong, is dead. Mr Ekpenyong, 58, reportedly died on Saturday. The chairman of Mbo Local Government Area, Asuqwo Eyo, confirmed the death. He said the federal ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a suspected Nigerian “billionaire drug baron”. The suspect is Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu, Chairman of Mallinson Group. A statement this morning by NDLEA Media Director, Femi Babafemi said he is ...

A Japanese woman certified the world’s oldest person has died at the age of 119, local officials said Monday. Kane Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew ...