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A 38-year-old businessman, Ofure Siakpere, was on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court for defiling and impregnating his 14-year-old in-law (name withheld). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye ...

Three robbery suspects were arrested on Tuesday night in the Agege area of Lagos State, the Lagos Rapid Response Squad has said. The suspects had attacked a pedestrian, Yusuph Ahmed, smashed a bottle on his head and dispossessed him of ...

The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has said he will declare his intention to contest in the 2023 presidential election after the national convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress. This is as he revealed that youths and women ...

Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two dismissed police sergeants and six others for allegedly hijacking four trucks with goods valued at N25m. The dismissed cops, Nwafor Onyebuchi and Idakole Benjamin, were part of seven suspects who ...

The four wedding guests abducted on Sunday by hoodlums around the Isara area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State, have regained their freedom. Punch correspondent learnt that their families, however, paid N7.5m for their release. The hoodlums, who were dressed ...

The world’s oldest man has died less than a month short of his 113th birthday. Father-of-eight Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia passed away at his home in the northern Spanish city of Leon on Tuesday morning. The retired shoemaker was ...

  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has urged Nigerians to exercise patience as the growing food production in the country, especially the expansion in rice farming, will eventually bring down prices of food, making it more affordable for ...

  The Ghana Police Service’s Asankragua Division has declared Kenneth Mensah, the head pastor of the Mega Word Chapel International in Enchi, wanted for allegedly attempting to set a nurse on fire in Kwasibokro, before eloping with her GH40,000. Divisional ...

The Niger Police Command has confirmed the killing of three of its men and two local vigilantes in an ambush by gunmen in Kwanan Dutse, Mariga Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Monday Bala Kuryas, ...

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Unguwar Idi, Gombe State, has adjourned a case presented by one Lawiza Muazu. The Presiding Magistrate, Garba Abubakar, adjourned the hearing to Monday, January 24, 2022, to enable the woman, Lawiza, to present her ...

  A man has been sentenced to three years in prison after attempting to r*pe his colleague’s wife – having been invited to do so by the woman’s husband. The harrowing story was told at Singapore Supreme Court this week. ...

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has not asked any official in his regime to implement the removal of petroleum subsidy. Lawan disclosed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday after a meeting ...

Alhaji Danladi Pasali, Coordinator President Muhammadu Buhari campaign organisation (BCO) is dead. Pasali was said to have died in an Abuja Hospital, after a protracted ilness. Late Pasali was President Buhari’s chief campaigner, during the 2015 and 2019 general elections. ...

Abdul Olajide Abayomi, a staff of the National Assembly, slumped on Monday while walking down the National Assembly staircase. Cleaners, who sighted him when he fell, were said to have alerted staff, who immediately came to his aid. His colleagues ...

Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer, who visited the IPOB leader in DSS detention yesterday, described the fresh 15 count charge the worst abuse ever of court process and a joke taken too far. “Today, we were served with a ...

Officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons have arrested a schoolteacher, Chioma Johnson, for allegedly brutalising a 10-year-old boy over a pot of soup in Makurdi, Benue State. Punch Metro gathered that the victim was ...

  A Nigerian side chick who requested anonymity shared her story with Blessing Okoro, a popular relationship blogger, as she frowned at the compliment she received from a married man she is dating. Noting that the married man severely abuses his ...

Hmm, a 41-year-old, Mr Azubuike Nwokolo aka Zubby More, has been found dead in a hotel room in Amichi, Nnewi North of Anambra state with his organs missing. Daily Trust gathered that the father-of-two attended a party in the area ...

  The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Monday, ordered prisons officers to shoot dead anybody who attempts to attack any correctional centre in the country. The minister gave this order while inspecting the facility at the Agodi Custodial Centre, ...

Female presidential candidate, Khadija Okunnu-Lamidi, has said despite the respect she has for the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, she still believes Nigerians are yearning for a young person with a vibrancy to steer ...

Another Plateau monarch has been kidnapped. The Paramount ruler of Vwang District, Jos South Local Government Area, Da Gyang Balak was kidnapped on Sunday by gunmen. His kidnap comes only three weeks after Charles Mato Dakat, Sum Pyem and Paramount ...

Bandits operating in Gando forest in Bukkuyum local government area of Zamfara State have written to nine communities asking them to pay their levies or face deadly attacks. This is coming a few weeks after bandits massacred at least 200 ...

We already reported the story HERE. Now here are photos of the man. He is 43 and knows the victim well. The victim, 80, leaves alone. He took advantage of that, went into her apartment and r3ped her.  

A nurse was caught ‘injecting’ doses of a Covid vaccine into a tissue before giving patients a faked vaccination pass in a huge scam. The racket which helped people to get a vaccine passport without ever having to take a ...

There was panic amongst the people of Ubudom Atta community in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo state as unidentified gunmen beheaded a 65 -year- old man, identified as Nnoruoka Onyeokwu. After beheading the man, his head was displayed ...