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Special forces who seized power in Guinea on Sunday, capturing President Alpha Conde, announced a nationwide curfew “until further notice” as well as the replacement of governors by the military. The junta also said in a statement read out over ...

The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) has instructed all telecommunications companies to shut down their services in Zamfara over lingering insecurity in the state. Zamfara state has become a hot spot for banditry and kidnappings in recent times. Recall Bello Matawalle, ...

… Scores of residents of Apete, Awotan, Araromi, Jeje, Arola in Ido Local Government Area and their counterparts from Ajibode, Masoke and Laniba in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State are currently on the streets to launch a “no ...

Photos of bullet-ridden vehicle driven by Olajide Sowore before he was murdered on Benin-Ore Expressway have emerged.   Olajide, the junior brother of activist, Omoyele Sowore was murdered by suspected herdsmen /kidnappers in Edo State.   According to Sowore, his ...

Two Nigerians, simply identified as Tony and Ubaka, have been arrested in India on charges of r3ping a woman in her late 20s, who works at a software company in Bengaluru. According to the Karnataka police, the victim was dating ...

Sowore’s younger brother is dead. Olajide, the younger brother of Sahara Reporters Publisher and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has been shot dead. The activist confirmed the incident in a Facebook post minutes ago. According to him, his brother was ...

Adigun Oladapo Oludele, a final year student of the University of Ilorin, has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for internet fraud. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin who convicted him on Friday ordered ...

An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ado Ekiti, on Thursday, ordered that two men – Gesture Omolade, 72, and 42-year-old Ayodeji Adejugbe – be remanded in a custodial centre for the alleged r3pe of a minor. The defendants were charged ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it has handed over a 19-year-old candidate in the 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination to the police for investigation over what it described as “result tampering.” According to the board’s Registrar, Prof ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the Lekki area of Lagos a cybercrime hotbed. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren in a statement said this followed data from investigation activities of the Lagos Command in the second quarter of ...

  Taliban officials have declared China as their closest ally in the international community. Militants say Beijing is “ready to invest in and reconstruct” Afghanistan and describe the nation as their “principal partner”. Zabihulla Mujahid, spokesman for the group, has ...

  Senior Sergeant George Omomdi Omwa attached to Siaya- Huduma centre , Kenya was found dead in his house at Administration Police line this morning. According to witnesses, the cop burned down his house at around 8:00 am, and efforts ...

A formal investigation into a leak of plans for what will happen when the Queen dies could be launched in a matter of days, according to reports. The Royal Family is said to be furious and officials are trying to ...

Ganiyu Oboh, a professor of applied biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has emerged Nigeria’s best researcher according to the 2021 Alper-Doger Scientific Index.   From being ranked the number one in food science in Nigeria and ...

All assets and funds to the tune of N19.1B belonging to Francis Atuche, the convicted former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB Plc have been frozen by a Lagos High Court. Justice Lateefat Okunnu gave the order on Tuesday, ...

  Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are set to unveil their new government today as the country’s economy teeters on the verge of collapse amid food shortage warnings. The impending announcement comes more than two weeks after the Islamist militia captured ...

A peacemaker, Aminu Yusuf, has been killed during a fight between two customers in a bar around Volks, in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that one Jones Ogelejeme and a yet-to-be identified man were ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo says that one out of four girls are usually abused in the state before getting to the age of 18. Onigbanjo, who is Chairman, Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response ...

A Florida restaurant owner raised eyebrows after posting a sign outside the front door telling Biden supporters to dine elsewhere, citing his recent handling of the American military withdrawal from Afghanistan. “If you voted for and continue to support and ...

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 ...