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The Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Andrew Adejo, has said that a divided Nigeria cannot survive and prosper. Adejo, who is also the Secretary, inter-ministerial ...

Locals in Sokoto and Niger communities affected by telecommunication network shutdown imposed by the governments to fight rampaging bandits say they have been hit by the flip side of the security measure. Residents of some of the vulnerable villages lamented ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reminded countries and people that pandemics are not over. Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO Technical Lead on COVID-19, gave the advice at a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. The official stated that the world must ...

A 42-year-old man, Jacob Joel, who has been remanded in a Jos Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl, stated that the devil tempted him to rape the minor. The Police told the court that the victim, who is ...

A young woman has died after plunging 164ft while taking a selfie on a cliff near the bridge that featured in the opening sequence to the James Bond film ‘Skyfall’. Hatice Nur Karabulut, 21, was taking a picture with her ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, received Pastor Tunde Bakare of The Citadel Global Community Church, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Mr Femi Adesina, President Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, made the disclosure via a post on ...

  Dozens of people have been killed and more than 70 wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan today. The attack took place at Fatemieh mosque in Kandahar, the largest Shiite place of ...

A young man who disguised himself as the mad man was caught in his tracks after residents found him picking used and dumped sanitary pads and diapers at the refuse site. The unidentified man in a trending video looked unkempt ...

Tragedy struck in Sagamu when a 71-year-old man, identified as Ajibola Olufemi Adeniyi, reportedly died during a s.e.x romp with a commercial s.e.x worker inside a hotel in Ogun State. Punch correspondent gathered that the incident happened on Monday at ...

  The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, October 19, 2021, a public holiday to mark this year’s Eid-ul-Mawlid celebration in commemoration of the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made this declaration on ...

The Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, DIGC, Dr Paul Enenche, has said that the move to make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for everyone across the globe is a demonic agenda from the “pit of hell”. The renowned clergy man ...

An Indian court, on Wednesday handed a rare double life sentence to Sooraj Kumar, 28, who murdered his wife, 25, by making a cobra bite her while she was sleeping. It was reported that Sooraj Kumar was arrested at his ...

The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday arraigned the trio of Jessica Roselyn Edoleyi, Charles Endurance and Ayase Destiny. They were arraigned before Justice S. M.Shuaibu of the Federal High Court sitting in Benin ...

The Federal Government says it will direct the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to compel public and private television stations to feature sign language interpreters during their major news presentations. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, stated this on ...

  Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has warned against the consumption of red meat. Omokri gave the warning in a post via his Instagram account on Thursday. He opined that God did not create red meat to be eaten and ...

A 60-year-old father, Ikechukwu, has allegedly killed his son in Ogbozinne-Ndiagu Akpugo community, in the Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State. The father of four reportedly killed his son on Thursday on the claim that the 32-year-old allegedly ...

Former President of the United State of America, Bill Clinton has been hospitalized. A statement by Dr. Alpesh Amin, chair of medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center, said Clinton was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit for a urinary ...

Naira weakened further against the U.S. dollar at the official market on Thursday, after reaching a record low on Wednesday, following Vice president Yemi Osinbajo’s criticism of the central bank’s forex policy. While speaking at the Mid-Term Ministerial Performance Review ...

Police in Thika, Kenya are holding a Thika GK prison officer, who allegedly r*ped a stranded 21-year-old woman, in the pretence of accommodating her in his house, last week. Police reports say Amos Momanyi, allegedly r*ped the mother of one ...

A middle-aged man yesterday reportedly committed suicide in Ansar Ul Slam area along Oloje-Ogidi Road in Ilorin, Kwara State capital. The man, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was said to have committed suicide by hanging himself on a ...

The police in Ogun State have arrested three teenagers for allegedly killing a motorcyclist at the Ogere part of the state and snatching his motorcycle. This is contained in a statement released on Thursday by Abimbola Oyeyemi, the Ogun police ...

A doctor has issued a stark warning about the dangers of Covid after a patient had her hands and feet amputated as a result of the virus. Dr Wesley Ely, based in Nashville, US, posted a video on Twitter of ...

A photographer discovered one of the world’s most venomous spiders lurking under his bed with hundreds of its babies. Gil Wizen noticed tiny spiders in his bedroom and looked under the bed to see where they were coming from. To ...

The FedFG to create mass vaccination sites in varsities, churcheseral Government on Thursday announced its plans to create mass vaccination sites in higher institutions of learning and religious centres.   The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, ...

Three persons were on Wednesday night feared killed and many others injured after members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) clashed. Those feared killed were said to be ...