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A woman, Sekinat Adesanya, has been killed by hoodlums during a robbery around Moro community, close to Odokekere, in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was gathered that Sekinat was on her way to join in the ...

  The Naval Head of Information and Public Relations Directorate, Navy Commodore Suleman Dahun, has told The Punch that popular Instagram comedian and personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Abdulgafar Ahmad Oluwatoyin, popularly known as Cute Abiola, is not missing but ...

The remains of late Alhaji Sani Dangote, the Deputy President, Dangote Group of Companies and brother to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was laid to rest in Kano today, Wednesday, November 17, 2021. The funeral prayer which was led by ...

A commercial driver in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi has bitten off and swallowed part of a finger of Iboko Kenneth, a member of the State’s Ministry of Capital City Development taskforce in a bid to escape arrest. The action ...

Nearly 300 people have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the COP26 climate summit.   The UN climate summit COP26 took place in Glasgow this month and has now resulted in close to 300 people testing positive for Covid.   ...

The Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the gruesome murder of CSP Kazeem Abonde. Abonde, the late Operations Officer of the Lagos State Command was killed on 23rd September, 2021 during a raid ...

Gunmen on Monday invaded the residence of the clan head of Ikpomolokpo at Gege Ward in the Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, killing his son and abducting his daughter. Sources told a Punch correspondent that the gunmen stormed ...

Instagram Skit maker, Cute Abiola reportedly missing This is so disturbing. According to thw SOS mwssage shared by Mr Maccorni Cute Abiola is indeed missing. The SOS states that he is allegedly been detained by the Nigerian Navy. Read the ...

The United States of America has said it welcomes the final report by the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on the EndSARS protests of October 2020. Recall the panel’s report was submitted in a brief ceremony at the Lagos ...

Businesses were paralysed on the ever-busy Ojekunle Street in the popular Ladipo Market area of Lagos State on Tuesday as over 1,000 shops were shut down as a result of the deadly gas explosion that rocked a mechanic workshop on ...

Nigerian actor and politician Desmond Elliot has reacted to the Lagos EndSARS panel report. Reacting to the report on the Wake Up Nigeria programme on TVC, he said that he read the report but already knew that the incident was ...

More than 140,000 U.S. children have lost a parent or caregiver during the Covid-19 crisis due to the coronavirus or pandemic-related causes, Business Insider reports, citing a new study. This was according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as revealed ...

Lagos Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has arrived at the scene of a gas explosion on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of the state. The death toll has also rised to 5. At the moment, five persons have been ...

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has said an open land with shanties and shops where gas cylinders were stacked caused the gas explosion which rocked the Ladipo area of the state on Tuesday morning. LASEMA, in a statement on ...

Jaruma has called out Gombe gubernatorial aspirant, Yusuf Chikaire over an alleged N13m debt. The controversial aphrodisiac specialist with real names as Hauwa Saidu, called out the Gombe state gubernatorial aspirant, Yusuf Chikaire for allegedly owing her a sum of ...

At least three persons died in the gas explosion that occurred this morning on Ojekunle Street in the Ladipo area of Mushin in Lagos State. Mrs. Margaret Adeseye, Director of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, has confirmed the incident. ...

The Federal Government on Monday warned that a black market for fake vaccination certificates now exists in the country. The Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, raised ...

Nigeria may experience fuel scarcity in coming days following the threat issued on Monday by The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas has given the Federal Government a two-week strike notice, raising the possibility of fuel scarcity across the ...

A suspected fraudster, Sikiru Adeniran, has been arrested while allegedly attempting to abduct a baby in Idomu-Owo, Ilese, in the Ijebu North East Local Government Area of Ogun State. Punch Metro gathered that Adeniran chased a young girl, Rodiat Iskilu, ...

No fewer than seven people were burnt to death while three others sustained varying degrees of injury in an accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Punch Metro learnt that the accident occurred on SLagos-Ibadan Expressway crashunday night around Ogunmakin in the ...

Anambra State Government has declared November 16 public holiday to honour their first President of Nigeria, late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe. Governor Willie Obiano said it will be right for President Muhammadu Buhari to do the same. The late Owelle of ...

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Ogun State, Akingbolahan Adeniran, has resigned. He tendered his resignation on November 8, following what was described as personal reasons. Confirming the resignation, Adeniran in a statement titled, ‘My reasons for resigning as ...

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters (Lagos EndSARS Panel) has reported the Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020 as a massacre. The panel indicted soldiers and implicated ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians over the existence of an Iranian hacking group called ‘Lyceum’ — which orchestrates cyber spying in the African telecoms space. In a statement on Monday, Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC’s director of public affairs, ...

Former governor Orji Kalu, has disowned posters indicating that he has already declared to run for the presidency in 2023 under the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC which flooded Umuahia, the capital of Abia State on Monday. The posters, ...