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Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader has finally returned to Nigeria. The former Lagos Governor landed in the state Friday evening after months of medical sojourn. Tinubu was in London, United Kingdom, for surgery on his right ...

A young woman has died after paying the equivalent of £142 (N105000) for a bum lift and arm liposuction. Cinthia Lizeth Vega from Monterrey, Mexico lost her life after a shot of anaesthetic caused her blood pressure to rocket on ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, declared that his faith in a better Nigeria remains unshakable. Obasanjo insisted that, the country would not be destroyed by the myriads of challenges confronting it. Obasanjo disclosed this during the opening of Abeokuta ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, arraigned Mr Embelakpo Apere and his wife, Beauty, before a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa. The couple was arraigned for money laundering allegedly carried out in 2015. Embelakpo is a ...

A Spanish woman visited a doctor over an irregular menstrual cycle and was diagnosed as “homosexual,” sparking outrage from LGBTQ advocates. The 19-year-old woman visited Reina Sofia hospital in Murcia on Monday for a gynecological exam after dealing with polymenorrhea, ...

Thirty-five Nigerians have been arrested in North Texas by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, for involvement in a fraud worth $117million. The suspects, who have allegedly defrauded over 100 people nationwide, would face indictment for money laundering ...

Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, has said denied any wrongdoing while reacting to a report alleging that he breached the laws by engaging in secret businesses set up in tax havens. An online publication, Premium Times, quoting ...

A suspected thief met his death on Tuesday while allegedly vandalising an electric cable on Eric Moore Road, in the Surulere area of Lagos State. Punch Metro learnt that the unidentified suspect and his gang members had sneaked into the ...

The 100-year-old tree that fell on Monday due to heavy windstorm at Sabo area of Oyo in Oyo State, leaving four people dead, has reportedly risen again. Sources confirmed that the fallen tree rose back mysteriously on Tuesday, after all ...

A bullion van has crashed in Lagos. According to a report by Daily Post, the bullion van skidded off the Lekki-Epe expressway today around 1.30pm. It occured around the entrance of Ikate Elegushi. The officers and driver did not sustain ...

  A female student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, identified simply as Precious was on Thursday reportedly killed by a gas explosion. The incident The Punch gathered happened in one of the off-campus lodges of the university at ...

The University of Benin (UNIBEN) management has reacted to rape allegations against one of its lecturers, Dr Steve Ekundayo. In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Dr Benedicta Ehanire on Thursday in Benin, the university referred cases of alleged r’a’p’e ...

A 42-year-old woman, Hajarat Egbunu, has been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command over an alleged job scam. Punch Metro learnt that the Kogi State indigene was a former official of the Nigerian Immigration Service and was based in ...

A 45-Year-old primary school teacher has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison for defiling a 13-year-old student in 2016. While passing the sentence Senior principal magistrate David Ndugi slapped the teacher with the sentence saying its the minimum ...

E gbo? Maka why? The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mental health in Nigeria was rising, as one in six young adults aged between 15 and 24 years was currently experiencing ...

A young woman has narrated how her cheating boyfriend slept with her own mother while she was giving birth to their son. The mother of one identified as Alyssa-Mae disclosed that she was left devastated upon learning of the sex ...

  Faisal Maina, son of former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.   Faisal was convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday.   Delivering judgment, ...

Chris Ngige has told former striking doctors that they are lucky to have him as the Minister of Labour and Employment, NAN reports. The minister said this as an assurance to the doctors that their demands were being met during ...

  The Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, on Wednesday expressed his willingness to contest the 2023 presidential election only if Nigerians canvassed his candidature. The two-time governor of Abia State, however, said his ambition for now ...

The Anambra State Government has faulted the threat by the Federal Government to impose a state of emergency in the south-eastern state. As part of measures to tackle the worsening insecurity in Anambra especially as the state holds a governorship ...

  A retired employee of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), has been found dead in his re during a sex romp with two teenagers he had promised jobs in Akwa Ibom state. Speaking to Nigerian Tribune, a neighbour who would ...

  Operatives of the of Ebonyi State Police Command have arrested a suspected mentally-ill man, Kenneth Nwoha, for allegedly killing his wife, Mercy, and six-year-old son, Simpson, at Isiofumini village, Ishieke community area of the state It was gathered the ...

This is the story of how a driver with Guinness Nig. Ltd., Sodiq Ganiyu, diverted customers beer which is worth N6m. Ganiyu on Wednesday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing 20 pallets of stout worth six ...

A section of the Federal Secretary in Abuja was on Wednesday evening gutted by fire, with several cars reportedly burnt. The cause of the fire which started around 5 pm at the generator house could not be ascertained as of ...

The Taliban hung the dead bodies of three alleged criminals in public view in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a shocking display reminiscent of the Islamic militant group’s brutal regime of the late 1990s. The alleged criminals were killed by a man ...