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A 47-year-old visually impaired man from Eziagulu in Ekwulobia community, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Mmaduabuchi Nnofu, has been allegedly killed and set ablaze by his younger brother, Onyedika Nnofu over a land dispute. The development had attracted ...

The Tinubu Support Group, TSG, in Kano paid a condolence visit to the family of the slain 5-year-old girl, Hanifa Abubakar, on Sunday. The delegation who visited Hanifa’s family was led by the TSG leader in Kano, Hon. Lamin Sani, ...

Jennifer Abubakar, the wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has issued an exclusive statement to The Trent on the ongoing divorce saga with her husband in which she provided insights into her marriage and the circumstances concerning their estrangement. ...

Two men, identified as Saheed Olatunji and Lukmon, have been arrested for allegedly invading the palace of the traditional ruler of Iraye community in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba Mosudi Owodina. It was gathered that the ...

A young baby was shot and killed on Monday, in the USA’s latest gun tragedy. The six-month-old was a passenger in a car before being caught up in a shootout in Atlanta, Georgia. WSB-TV were told by the boy’s mum ...

A 10-year-old was allegedly defiled by 16-year-old twin brothers, Chukwuemeka and Chukwuebuka Okpe in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Executive Director of Davina Care Foundation, Mrs Rachel Yohanna told reporters yesterday in Awka, the state capital ...

The Ondo State Police Command has commenced investigation on the circumstances surrounding the death of a 37-year old woman, Biola Soyinka who was allegedly killed by her married boyfriend in a hotel in Oke-Igbo in Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government Area of ...

  A woman who jumped to her death from a skyscraper in New York City on Sunday morning has been identified as former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst. Kryst, 30, was a lawyer and also worked as a correspondent for the ...

Suspected yahoo boy runs mad, pulls off clothes days after Pastor David Ibiyeomie course. After going insane, a young man suspected of being an internet fraudster (Yahoo Boy) yanked off his clothes on video. In the video, the young man ...

The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has released fresh warnings concerning the race for who becomes the next president of Nigeria which has already begun with politicians declaring their ambition. During the release of his 2022 ...

President Joe Biden has said he will nominate a Black woman –Nigeria — to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history, filling the vacancy left by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Candace Jackson-Akiwumi has been noted as one ...

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has declared restriction of movement from 11pm to 5am daily, following a sudden rise in incidents of armed robbery within his domain. Confirming the development in a chat with The Punch, Lowa Adimula ...

A real estate agent, 50-year-old Diran Elijah, has lost his life after having s3x with his former wife identified simply as Idowu, at a hotel in the Agbado area of Ogun State. Idowu, who has remarried with two children for ...

Three teenage boys have been caught burning the head of a girl, said to be in a relationship with one of them, for money ritual in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Men of the Ogun State ...

The Bayelsa government has promised to provide psychological and sundry support to a 14-year-old girl impregnated by her father. Mrs Dise Ogbise, Coordinator, Gender Response Initiative Team (GRIT) in the state, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa, on ...

All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, has travelled out of Nigeria weeks after declaring his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election. A member of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement’s Working Committees told Punch correspondent on Friday that the ...

The senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District in the NationaL Assembly, Senator Teslim Folarin, has lost his wife, Angela, who died in the afternoon of Friday, January 29. It was gathered that Mrs Angela Nwaka Folarin, who died in the ...

Entire families in Afghanistan have been forced to sell their kidneys so they can buy food, as the country plunges deeper into a humanitarian crisis. One family – including three brothers and two sisters – all underwent surgery and sold ...

Residents of Trans Nzoia county, Kenya were on Wednesday treated to a little drama after a man accused of stealing cows started walking like a cow and eating grass along Kitale-Eldoret Highway. Peter Wafula, a witness, told K24 Digital that ...

A family in Embakasi’s Tassia estate , Kenya is in mourning after their 3-year-old son Derick Okeyo, was abducted by his biological father and killed in cold blood. According to a police report seen by K24 Digital, Derrick’s father Victor ...

Gunmen in their numbers storm Thisday Newspaper Abuja office in Utako on Thursday and threatened to kill staff. The armed men were said to have scaled the fence of the company’s premises to gain access. According to the newspaper, the ...

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration has more achievements that the United States government, in terms of infrastructure. Fashola stated this in Kano during the “APC conversation series”, on ...

The Local Government Chairman of Emohua in Rivers State Dr Chidi Lloyd has uncovered an illegal mortuary where kidnappers abandoned their dead victims. His Chief Press Secretary, Bright Elendu, said in a statement on Thursday that his boss made the ...

A police helicopter which took off from the Federal Capital Territory has crashed at the Bauchi Airport. The Accident Investigation Bureau, in a statement on Thursday, said the incident occurred around 07:30pm on Wednesday. According to the statement signed by ...

The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 has deactivated the passports of 200 travellers who presented “fake Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests and vaccination cards.” The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this in a chat ...