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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s representative was booed by youths at the 2021 Experience in Lagos all through his goodwill speech. Trending videos showed that the jeering audience downed the rep as he gave his speech at the Rock Cathedral in Lekki ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three suspects at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) while attempting to smuggle 1,144 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards out of the country. The suspects are Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar ...

Oyekanmi Oworu, age 35, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron and Special Agent ...

The Federal Ministry of Health has convened a special National Council on Health meeting. The meeting involves all health commissioners across Nigeria’s 36 states and other stakeholders in the health sector to review the gains and lessons learnt from COVID-19 ...

Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, (KADSUBEB) has said 233 public school teachers will be sacked for presenting fake certificates during a verification exercise conducted earlier this year. At a press conference in Kaduna, Chairman of the Kaduna SUBEB, Tijjani ...

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has suspended its planned strike. This followed interventions and engagements with government agencies and institutions, including the NNPC. The union expressed gratitude to NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Mr Mele Kyari ...

The operatives of the Imo state police command have arrested one pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, and others for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Fidelis Ekemgba. Parading the suspects and others, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said that the suspects ...

Nigerian Correctional Service has published the photographs of 51 of the 252 prisoners who escaped from the Jos Custodial Centre on Sunday, after an assault by gunmen. The photos have been uploaded on the agency’s Facebook account, with a promise ...

Meghan Markle has won a legal battle with the publisher of The Mail On Sunday over a letter to her estranged father. The Duchess of Sussex, 40, sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over five articles that reproduced parts of a ...

Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday rescheduled the trial of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from January 19 to 18, 2022.   The shift in the ...

The Police in Bayelsa have dragged 12 women from Agobiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state to court over “unlawful assembly and use of juju” to block the ongoing construction of the state government-sponsored Yenagoa-Oporoma Road. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Dubai. The President is in Dubai for the Expo 2020 holding in the city. Buhari is expected to meet prospective investors as well as the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander ...

Sokoto State recorded 1,137 fresh HIV infections between January 2020 and September 2021. Mr Muhammad Garba, the Acting State Coordinator of Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN), Sokoto State Chapter, disclosed this at a press conference in commemoration of ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday disclosed that cholera is killing more Nigerians than covid-19. According to NCDC, Cholera has killed 3,600 Nigerians in 11 months. Director-General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this in an interview on ...

An Austrian court has fined a surgeon for amputating the wrong leg of an elderly patient, a spokesperson for the tribunal in the northern city of Linz said on Wednesday. While the 43-year-old defendant said her actions were due to ...

Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 18 suspected illegal oil bunkerers. They were arrested on Monday, November 29, in a location within the new Government Reservation Area, G.R.A, Port ...

A leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Kunle Ajibade, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. Punch Metro gathered that the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at ...

Billionaire businesswoman, Folorunso Alakija, has revealed why she gave up jewelry and it is because of God. She narrated on Sunday in church how the journey began and how she is now free. According to Church Times, she said; “I ...

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa is in Nigeria. He was received by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Ramaphosa arrived at the Villa at about 10 am today, Wednesday, December 1, and was received by the President himself. ...

Civil servants and the general public without proof of vaccination and negative PCR tests are currently being prevented from accessing government buildings in Abuja. The Punch had reported that the Boss Mustapha-led presidential steering committee on COVID-19 had announced in ...

A 20-year-old mother of one is fighting for her life at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret after her 25-year-old husband Joseph Kariuki hacked her with a machete before drowning himself in 60 feet well. Residents of ...

About 15 people have been burnt beyond recognition in a motor accident along Achilafiya to Karkarna road in Yankwashi local Government, Jigawa State. An eyewitness said the accident occurred when two Golf vehicles had a head-on collision and caught fire ...

  Botswana’s government on Monday lost a legal attempt to overturn a landmark ruling that decriminalized homosexuality. The country’s High Court in 2019 ruled in favor of campaigners seeking to strike down jail sentences for same-s*x relationships, declaring the punishment ...

Magdalena Andersson has been elected as Sweden’s first female prime minister for a second time. Her historic initial appointment as Sweden’s first female prime minister lasted for just hours. Now, just a few days later, Magdalena Andersson is back and ...

After 19 months, Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja has declared as illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional, the banishment of the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to Awe, a remote community in Nasarawa State. The ...