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Medical council indicts three doctors for Lagos chef’s death

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 ...

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Police arrest father, pastor, for killing 7-year-old son for money ritual

  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 ...

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Stray cows attack couple in Delta community

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 ...

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India sets up gold refinery in Ghana

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 ...

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Police raid ‘illegal’ military training camp in Lagos, arrest 108

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 ...

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Senate approves Buhari’s $16.2bn, €1.02bn loan request

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 ...

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Adamawa officials arrested for diverting UNICEF donated school bags

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 ...

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Court sentences Boko Haram terrorist to death by hanging

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 ...

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Knocks as El-Rufai returns to Twitter to tweet

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 ...

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Atiku reacts to death of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya’s wife, Nomthi

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 ...

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Buhari congratulates Soludo on winning Anambra election

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 ...

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Arik staff allegedly nabbed for seeking bribe from passenger

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 ...

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Buhari lands in Paris for Peace Forum

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday afternoon arrived in Paris, French capital, for one-day official visit as guest of President Emmanuel Macron at Palais de l’Élysée. He will afterwards attend the three-day Paris Peace Forum (PPF), November 11-13, 2021. The President’s plane ...

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Abducted retired Army captain found dead, kidnappers arrested (Photos)

Operatives of the Rivers Police Command on Tuesday, exhumed the decomposed body of a retired, Army Captain, Godfrey Zwallmark, who was abducted on September 18, 2021. Rivers Commissioner of Police, Eboka Friday also paraded three suspects arrested in connection to ...

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Five Lagos residents arraigned for killing police informant

The police on Tuesday arraigned five men before Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay of the Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos Island, over the alleged killing of one Wale Kalejaiye during an attack on a police team ...

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Heartbreaking photo: Ogun teacher brutalises three-year-old for inability to write

A mother, Elizabeth Ebere, has accused a teacher at the Adeoye International School, Iyana-Iyesi, in the Ota area of Ogun State, of assaulting her daughter, Chizaram, aka Zara. Ebere said the beating her daughter received from the teacher, identified only ...

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Bandits gun down seven policemen on patrol in Zamfara

Seven policemen have been killed by bandits along Tofa-Magami Road in the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An indigene of the area, Salisu Sani, told The Punch that the incident occurred around 6pm on Monday when the police ...

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Police DENY bandits are imposing heads on Sokoto villages

The Sokoto Police Command has denied reports that bandits are imposing heads on villages in the state. There are reports that gunmen have chosen leaders in Sabon Birni, a community that has suffered several attacks recently. But in a statement, ...

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