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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned Abel Lesi Goka for offences bordering on fraud. Goka was docked before Justice Modupe Osho Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Gudu, Abuja. The businessman is the ...

A 38-year old bus conductor, Seun Aina was on Tuesday sentenced to 25-years imprisonment by an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court for defiling a 15-month-old toddler. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Aina after finding him guilty of defilement. “The ...

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Kayode Fayemi, says only God knows what his political future holds in the 2023 general elections. Fayemi made this known on Sunday when he spoke on THISDAY Live, an interview ...

At least two persons were feared killed during a clash between members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and security operatives in Abuja.   Reacting to the clash, FCT police public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh said the Shiites ...

They were the trailblazers of women’s rights in Afghanistan. They were the staunch defenders of the law, seeking justice for their country’s most marginalised. But now, more than 220 female Afghan judges are in hiding due to fear of retribution ...

Police operatives have foiled a cult initiation attempt at Onicha-Ugbo community, Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, arresting 10 suspects. Police Public Relations Officer of the State command, Mr. Bright Edafe who disclosed this in a statement, said some ...

Evelyn Joshua, wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Temitope Balogun Joshua, T.B Joshua, has given conditions for the reopening of the church. Mrs Evelyn Joshua disclosed that SCOAN would resume church services following ...

Police in Ruaka, Kiambu County, Kenya on Sunday evening nabbed three club workers in connection to the murder of a civilian. The body of Brian Macharia was found lying six floors from the drinking establishment where he was captured by ...

The National Inland Waterways Authority has confirmed one death while 16 passengers were rescued when an Ikorodu bound boat capsized shortly after it departed CMS Ferry Terminal at 4.35 p.m. The NIWA, Lagos Area Manager, Mrs Sarat Braimah, made the ...

The Special Assignment Team of Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Nigeria Customs Service, has intercepted three Mazda saloon cars loaded with live cartridges concealed in sacks of garri [cassava flour]. The Acting Comptroller in Charge of the Unit, DC Hussein ...

A former Osun State Commissioner for Finance, Dr Wale Bolorunduro, on Monday, accused the present administration in the state of overflogging debt repayment in a bid to stain his former boss. A statement by Bolorunduro obtained by Punch correspondent in ...

The Defence Intelligence Agency has said some blacksmiths in Nigeria now have the expertise to manufacture assault weapons such as AK-47. The DIA noted that while blacksmiths and the rifles they traditionally produce are an integral part of some cultures ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that if the country breaks up in any way or becomes the subject of what some people will like it to be, “all of us will lose out.” This is as he urged journalists ...

These were the last words of a fresh graduate. A member of Kwara State House of Assembly, Saidu Baba Ahmed, has shared the devastating news of how a lady he calls his daughter died. According to the lawmaker, Rukayat Rukayat ...

Masked gunmen have abducted Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (retd.), in the Ajah area of Lagos State, The Punch can confirm. Smith is a cousin to a former Inspector-General of Police and current Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Musiliu ...

Hoodlums on Monday set ablaze a bus conveying tomatoes, vegetables and other foodstuffs to Enugu for allegedly violating the suspended every Monday sit-at-home order. This came as residents have continued to stay at home, defying even the orders of Indigenous ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday, said the state will do more for citizens if allowed to collect the Value Added Tax. The governor also explained that allowing Lagos to collect VAT is a way of promoting fairness ...

Residents of Kitui County, Kenyan woke up to depressing news after a middle-aged woman hacked her 10-year-old son over money-Ksh 100 disagreement. According to witnesses, the woman attacked her son on Saturday with a panga for reportedly losing the said ...

Suspected bandits have killed unspecified members of a joint patrol team when they attacked Burkusuma camp, a joint military base in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The attack in the early hours of Friday was confirmed to ...

  The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a suspected ritualist who allegedly abducted and killed a 9-year-old girl, Faith Samuel, for money ritual in Onireke, Offa Local Government Area of the state.   The suspect, Alade James, 25, of Alawe ...

The Peoples Democratic Party has again accused the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government of corruption over its decision to retain the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, as the naira further depreciated to N580/$1. This was contained ...

Ex-APC National chairman and former Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole’s wife, Iara has made rare public appearance after missing from the public scene for a while.   Iara joined her husband to attend the service of songs held in honor ...

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former governor of Borno State and a chieftain of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has declared that for the party to retain power at the centre for the next 50 ...

  The Federal Government has said that those who have been vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease could still get infected and infect other people who come in contact with them. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, gave the charge on ...

A US federal grand jury has indicted 11 Nigerians for defrauding elderly victims in romance schemes. According to the court document, the defendants preyed on elderly victims, many of whom were widows or divorced. This is as the FBI estimated ...