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The management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has expelled 29 students of the institution for alleged examination malpractices. The institution announced the expulsion of the affected students in a statement signed by Mrs Oluwakemi Opadiran on behalf of the Registrar, ...

An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River State has shot a man said to be urinating opposite the Calabar, Cross River State office of the Corps. The 32-year-old man simply identified as Nwa-Aba ...

Traffic has been disrupted at Wempco road, Ogba-Omole axis area of Lagos following an accident that occurred today. The lone accident according to LASTMA officials involved an articulated vehicle that was conveying a container to an undisclosed location. The accident ...

A man deliberately chopped off his own legs to claim a £2.4 million insurance payout but instead has ended up with a suspended jail sentence and a heavy fine. A court has determined the defendant named only as Sandor Cs., ...

Just like her husband, Governor El-Rufai’s wife, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai has received heavy knocks for tweeting outside the country. By the way Mrs El-Rufai in her tweet told her followers she was out of the country and said she was ...

The Senate on Tuesday held a minute silence to mourn the killing of over 120 Nigerians by bandits at Gorony market in Sokoto State. Lawmaker representing, Sokoto East, Senator Ibrahim Gobir, had drawn the attention of the upper chamber to ...

One Chris Simon Amadi, said to be a Pastor of a new generation church, Shalom Mercy Ministry located in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State is now in police custody after allegedly killing his 30- year-old wife, Solution ...

A woman who was publicly lashed for having s-x outside of marriage can be seen collapsing in agony during the brutal Sharia punishment. The shocking images are from the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh where the unnamed woman was whipped ...

The Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Nigeria has indicted three doctors of the Premier Specialists’ Medical Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos State, for the death of a chef, Peju Ugboma. It was reported that Peju died after a botched fibroid ...

  The Police in Enugu have arrested 36-year-old Chidi Onyishi and 95-year-old Pastor, Okeke Eneokwor for allegedly killing seven-year-old Chimdalu Chidi, son of Onyishi for money ritual. Police have also exhumed the decomposing corpse of the minor from a shallow ...

Tension has gripped residents of Ovwian community in the Udu Local Government Area of Delta State after a couple, identified as Mr and Mrs Iro Ese, were attacked and injured by cows belonging to a herdsman in the community. Punch ...

The Indian government has set up a gold refinery in Ghana, owning 80 per cent of gold refined in the first five years. Local media reports that Ghana deputy minister of Land and Natural Resources, George Mireku Duker, made this ...

The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Hakeem Odumosu, says his team has nabbed over a 100 persons camped in an illegal military training camp following a raid. Mr Odumosu paraded the suspects as he addressed the press in Ikeja on ...

The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s loan request for the sum of $16,230,077,718 (USD) billion, €1,020,000,000 billion (Euros), under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing plan. Also approved was a grant component of $125 million (USD), and the request to the ...

Some officials of the Local Education Authorities in Adamawa have been arrested for diverting school bags donated by UNICEF to pupils in the state. Dr Salihi Ateequ, chairman of the state Universal Basic Education Board confirmed the arrest of 10 ...

Abdulsalam Adinoyi, a self-confessed member of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, has been sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was handed down by Lekan Ogunmoye, a judge of Ekiti State High Court, in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday. Mr Adinoyi ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai returned to Twitter to reply a post yesterday and many wondered why. The Govenror like many political holders had abandoned the microblogging site shortly after it was banned in June. But Mr El-Rufai shockingly tweeted ...

Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has said that the removal of the clause that allows for the option of fine for drug offenders from the Agency’s Act ...

Founder and General Overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, today paid a condolence visit to the senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Taiwo Odukoya, over the death of his wife. The late wife of the ...

Nigerians have called out Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, asking him to explain how the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra, Andy Uba, polled over 230,000 votes in the party’s primary election. The reaction was coming ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the death of Pastor Nomthi Odukoya, wife of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya of The Fountain of Life Church. Atiku expressed sadness over the death of Pastor Nomthi. In a tweet, the former Peoples ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, has congratulated a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Charles Soludo, on winning the 2021 Anambra governorship election. The Punch had reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday declared Soludo the winner ...

Mrs. Adeola Oseni, the widow of Wale Bob-Oseni, one of the victims of the Ikoyi building collapse, has refuted the claims that the US returnee was one of the contractors in the skyscraper. Bob-Oseni, a real estate dealer and Executive ...

A staff of Arik Airline was apprehended while soliciting a bribe from a passenger at the general aviation terminal in Lagos, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said. At an emergency FAAN meeting, FAAN’s spokeswoman Henrietta Yakubu said the ...

Clement Ojukwu, National Organising Secretary, Anambra Labour Party, has pleaded with the kidnappers of the party’s candidate, Obiorah Agbadimalo, to set him free. Mr Ojukwu made the call in a press statement on Tuesday in Awka. He said the Anambra ...