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Nigerian creative artist, Yemi Akinyemi-Dele, has been shortlisted, alongside 19 other applicants, for a trip around the moon on SpaceX rocket. Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa, had announced on March 2 that he would choose eight members of the public to ...

Abba Kyari allegedly ordered the immediate diversion into private custody all cash and assets seized from slain abduction lord Collins ‘E-Money’ Ezenwa in 2018, Peoples Gazette can report based on police internal memo and testimonies of a police prosecutor. The ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress has said it would call out workers on industrial action if the Federal Government implemented a proposed hike in electricity tarrifs. It reminded the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, about the agreement reached by ...

A Lagos airport staff, Emmanuel Eluu has returned $20,000, phone, jewelry and other valuables forgotten by a traveler. Eluu drives one of the buses used for conveying passengers at the Airside of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Terminal Two (MMA2). He ...

Many friends of Mrs Deborah Mbi were shocked when they woke up to photos of men who looked like hearders on her Facebook wall. Deborah Mbi was robbed on her farm in 2020, but surprisingly she saw the faces of ...

.   An 84-year-old man, Maxwell Akuwuodor, has allegedly rendered a widow, Mrs Rosena Akuwuodor, and her four children homeless. Punch correspondent, who visited the scene of the incident at Umuokoji Umuorii Uratta in the Owerri North Local Government Area of ...

.. An aide to Rauf Aregbesola, former governor of Osun State and current Minister of Interior, Abosede Oluwaseun has described as partisan and full of concocted lies the claims by the Nigerian Police, Osun Command that the incident at his ...

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State and other members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC have been sacked. A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, Wednesday, restrained the Governor and the others ...

Popular Nigerian Cleric, Reverend Mother Esther Ajayi, has narrated how an unbeliever was instrumental in building her new Cathedral in Lagos. The Reverend also revealed that the said unbeliever had earlier bought a church worth £5.2 million for her in ...

Ten-year-old Ifunanya is currently battling for her life in an undisclosed hospital in Abia State after she was allegedly scalded with hot water by her employer, Ojiugo David. Punch Metro learnt that the victim lived with David at their residence ...

  A form four student from Kuresoi South, Nakuru County, Kenya succumbed to injuries inflicted to him by a man identified as Japheth Bii, who is said to have caught him in the act with his wife. Kuresoi DCIO Peter ...

Photos have emerged showing Taliban supporters in Afghanistan holding a mock funeral while hoisting coffins draped with flags from the U.S. and other NATO countries. Reuters obtained some of the photos that were taken in Khost on Tuesday, less than ...

A middle-aged man, Chibisi Irem, on Tuesday chopped off his girlfriend’s hand for allegedly dating another man in Ebonyi. The incident, it was gathered, took place at Ishieke community, in the Ebonyi Local Government Area of the state, where the ...

  A pregnant American woman is still trapped in Afghanistan after she was forced into hiding when the Taliban blocked her at a checkpoint and kicked her in the stomach as she tried to flee with her husband. The California ...

Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy was today refused bail ahead of a potential trial on r*pe charges – amid reports he had a ‘meltdown’ in prison because he mistakenly thought he would be housed in a ‘VIP wing’. The 27-year-old, ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Ministers of Power, Saleh Mamman and his Agriculture and Rural Development counterpart, Alhaji Sabo Nanono.   The President also announced the redeployment of two Ministers to take over from them.   The Minister ...

A 33-year-old woman was this morning found dead with her private parts bleeding inside her house in Lakeview estate, Nakuru, Kenya. Martha Waithera Kibiru is said to have been allegedly murdered yesternight by her come-we-stay husband of three years identified ...

  Japan has put a batch of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine on hold after a foreign substance was found in a vial. A pharmacist saw several black particles in one vial of the vaccine in Kanagawa Prefecture, according to authorities. Some ...

The Federal Government through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency has disclosed that so far 2, 897, 201 eligible persons had taken the jab across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal ...

Afghan women will be allowed to study at university, but not in the same room as men, the Taliban has declared. The group’s acting higher education minister also said that male teachers will not be permitted to teach female students ...

The Abuja Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of 10 internet fraudsters to various prison terms. The convicts are Ulukpo Victor Obokparo, Osondu Stanley, Habib Iko-Ojo, Precious Ani, Emmanuel Philip Ikpan, ...

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, hinted that it might sanction anybody who refused to take COVID-19 vaccines after they had been made available to all Nigerians. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, gave the ...

The no-COVID-19 vaccine, no-public gathering order of Governor Godwin Obaseki led to massive protest by civil society groups on Monday in Benin, Edo State. The protesters under the aegis of Equity Initiatives, matched through various streets in Benin, to the ...

  A sick man who suspected his wife of sleeping with another bloke has sewn her genitals shut in a horrific act of revenge. And, in a baffling turn of events, the woman has pleaded with police not to arrest ...

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, has donated N50 million Naira to the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the Aisha Buhari Cup to ensure the success of the competition. The minister, made the announcement on Tuesday when ...