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Britain said it will run its last evacuation flights from Kabul on Saturday before pulling out its troops, leaving several hundred Afghans otherwise eligible to fly to the UK behind. The UK is winding up its operation to airlift civilians ...

A helicopter yet-to-be-identified has reportedly shot at a local passenger boat travelling from Port Harcourt to Bonny in Rivers State.   Many passengers are feared killed in the incident.   According to reports, the boat which departed Bonny through Treasure ...

  A heartbroken bride-to-be wore her wedding dress to her fiance’s funeral after her was killed in a car crash just hours before their ceremony. Miles ‘Miley’ Harty was to wed Kate Quilligan, at St Munchin’s Church in Limerick, Ireland, ...

A pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has been vandalised by suspected vandals in the Igando-Ikotun area of Lagos State. The Punch gathered that the suspects vandalised the pipeline in a bid to steal petrol in the early ...

A gothic model was left with severe facial injuries when she got into a leopard’s cage during a photoshoot in Germany and it mauled her. Self-professed animal rights activist Jessica Leidolph was airlifted to hospital and underwent immediate surgery after ...

More than 70 Islamiyya school pupils kidnapped from Tegina community in Niger State have been released. A large number of bandits stormed the village late May and took the students. A security agent told PRNigeria on Thursday night that the ...

  A middle-aged man, Mr Patrick Markson, has allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife over what eyewitnesses described as domestic matters in their Yenagoa residence in Bayelsa State on Thursday morning. It was gathered that Mr Markson allegedly struck ...

Operatives of the Department of State Services, on Thursday, dispersed medical doctors, who stormed the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, to take part in the recruitment interview organised by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health. Medical consultants in their hundreds flooded the ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has received the report of the Special Investigation Panel on the alleged indictment of the erstwhile Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police, by the Federal Bureau ...

Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore and some Nigerian broadcasters have stormed the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Abuja over the query issued to Channels Television for interviewing Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State. The NBC has also summoned ...

A Taliban leader appeared to confirm on Wednesday that music in public will once again be banned in Afghanistan following the group’s rapid takeover of the country in recent weeks. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, gave an interview ...

Some gunmen attacked a police team taking some murder suspects to prison in Ilesa. The Osun State police command said three murder suspects lost their lives while the gunmen escaped with gunshot wounds. According to the spokesperson of the command, ...

A Nigerian, Eguveso Enifome, has taken to social media to share his shock after a child he accepted while at 2 turns out not to be is. Eguveso says right from day one, he had doubted of the child was ...

Popular cleric and founder of Victorious Army Ministries (VAM), Reverend Joseph Agboli is dead. He was reportedly diagnosed with a heart-related ailment and had been under treatment in a London hospital, but eventually died on Wednesday. Agboli, in his 50s, started ...

Another bullion van has been attacked in Ondo state. Two mobile policemen and one civilian were shot dead by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers in the bullion van attack in Ondo State. The attack occurred on Wednesday evening in ...

Kathy Hochul has been sworn-in as first female governor of New York, promising to change the state’s political culture and work to ensure that New Yorkers believe in their government again. Hochul, a Democrat from Buffalo who turns 63 this ...

Former Petroleum Minister, Ibe Kachikwu has denied smuggling a car stolen from a Jaguar assembly in the United Kingdom into America. Peoples Gazette reported that a United States court ordered the confiscation of the vehicle found in Kachikwu’s possession. The ...

The Plateau government has re-imposed the 24-hour curfew on Jos North Local Government Area, following growing tensions arising from fresh attacks in Yelwa Zangam community in the area. Yelwa Zangam community was attacked by gunmen on Tuesday night, where people ...

The chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos, Dr Adegbola Dominic, also a medical practitioner is dead. He died of COVID-19-related illness. Publicity secretary for PDP in Lagos, Taofeek Gani, confirmed his death on Wednesday. Mr Gani also ...

Gunmen have killed no fewer than 36 persons while several others were injured in a fresh attack which occurred in Ahwol Ward, Naraguta community, in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau state. It was gathered that the gunmen stormed ...

  TikTok has responded to the viral, bone-breaking Milk Crate Challenge, saying they will “remove” such videos from their platform. The low-cost, high-impact stunt involves stacking a bunch of plastic milk crates into stairs, then climbing up to the top ...

Former Navy Commodore, Kunle Olawunmi on Wednesday hinted that the Nigerian government knows those behind the decade-long Boko Haram insurgency in the country. He made the comment during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. “They [government] know. Of course, ...

  Suspected bandits have killed over 35 persons during an attack at Yelwa zangam community behind the University of Jos (UNIJOS). Eyewitnesses told The Nation the gunmen invaded the community around 9pm on Tuesday, burning houses and shooting anyone on ...

Here are burial photos of the seven wedding guests who died in Delta road accident while returning from a relative’s wedding ceremony last Saturday. All seven have now been buried in Bomadi, Delta State. More photos below…      

The Defence Headquarters has denied claims that military personnel monitoring the closed-circuit television at the Nigerian Defence Academy were fast asleep when the attack on the facility happened. It also said a board of enquiry has been constituted to ascertain ...