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The Kaduna State Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, (PFN), Apostle Emmanuel Egoh Bako and his wife, Mrs Cindy Bako, were on Friday evening, 25th December 2020, kidnapped by unknown gunmen at their residence in Albarka Camp, Fadan Kagoma, ...

First lady Melania Trump hasn’t been “in Vogue” or other fashion mags — nearly enough, President Trump said this week. Not a single major magazine has featured the former model on its cover during her husband’s presidency, prompting the Commander ...

Four cases of a coronavirus variant believed to be particularly infectious that recently emerged in Britain have been confirmed in Madrid, the regional government said Saturday, the first cases detected in Spain. All four cases involved people who recently arrived ...

The Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos will be totally shut for 72 hours from midnight Saturday, Federal Controller of Works, Olukayode Popoola said. The closure is to allow for casting of concrete on the expansion joints. Popoola said that the ...

A Russian politician has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for beating her 12-year-old son to death with a dumbbell during an argument, reports said Thursday. Authorities said Galina Morozova, 56, bludgeoned her son, Alexander Parakhnyakov, in March because ...

A fire at a hospital north of Cairo on Saturday killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said. The blaze in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Obour district, on the outskirts of Cairo, also injured five ...

The chairman of a Netflix-affiliated Chinese gaming company who was poisoned this month has died and a co-worker remains the prime suspect in the shocking case, according to reports. Yoozoo Group boss Lin Qi — executive producer of the streaming ...

The Owa of Igbajo, Oba Olufemi Fashade has passed on. He died after an illness at the age of 81. The late monarch was crowned king of Igbajo in 1990, a town in Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State. ...

Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Matthew Kukah, says the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has sacrificed the dreams of Nigerians on the altar of nepotism by allegedly pursuing Northern hegemony. The bishop also said Nigeria appeared to be ...

  The Kano State Police Command has arrested a suspect who broke into a warehouse located at Tal’udu Quarters and stole goods worth N8m.   Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on ...

Kwara State government has explained why it disengaged 2,414 teachers from the service of the State Universal Basic Education Board. The teachers’ disengagement was announced in a statement titled, ‘Kwara govt takes stand on 2019 SUBEB workers, offsets pending seven ...

Anthony Joshua said he thought the #EndSARs protests which rocked Nigeria in October was a fight against a virus Severe acute respiratory syndrome which also has the SARS acronym. In an exclusive interview with Punch  correspondent, Joshua said because he ...

The Nigerian Medical Association on Friday raised alarm that the second wave of COVID-19 has been merciless on medical doctors. Dr. Enema Amodu, FCT NMA chairman told journalists in Abuja that no less than 20 members of the association have ...

Muslims from some parts of northern states, who are residents in Kaduna State, on Friday, attended church service to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas). They came in a large number to show love, companion to their Christian counterparts. ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested three robbery suspects terrorising Ikeja area of the State. The command also said it has beefed up security during the Yuletide period, especially to apprehend traffic robbers. A statement issued by the command’s ...

The remains of Alhaji Musa Saleh-Kwankwaso, the father of former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa-Kwankwaso have been buried in Kano. Sale-Kwankwaso, who until his death was the Makaman Karaye, died in the early hours of Friday, in Kano. He was ...

712 new cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Friday, December 25 as confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. A breakdown of the new cases is as follows; Lagos-388, FCT-77, Kwara-39, Katsina-35, Bauchi-33, Plateau-22, Ogun-18, Akwa Ibom-16, ...

  The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Kwara, on Friday, confirmed that 10 persons lost their lives in an accident along Idofian-Ilorin road. Kwara Sector Commander, Jonathan Owoade, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the crash was ...

The HAK Air building at Sowemimo street, GRA Ikeja was engulfed by fire in the early hours of Friday. The two-storey building got burnt as a result of the explosion of the static inverter used in the building, Lagos State ...

Lashin Ibrahim, Egypt’s head of electoral commission, has died of Covid-19 complications, Dpa reports. Ibrahim was a deputy chief judge of the country’s top court State-owned al-Ahram Online revealed that he tested positive for coronavirus 20 days ago. Ibrahim had ...

The family of Idowu Olawuyi has been grieving after he was stabbed to death by robbers around Bunkas junction, AIT Road in the Alagbado area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the 33-year-old was on his way to work ...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered Vice-Chancellors of universities to stop academic activities amid increasing Covid-19 cases. Chris Maiyaki, Deputy Executive Secretary (Administration) signed the circular. Classrooms, hostel accommodation, conferences and seminars are to be put on hold. Maiyaki ...

The Tunisian presidency on Friday announced a six-month extension of the country’s state of emergency, in place since a 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus claimed by the Islamic State group. President Kais Saied “decided on the six-month extension ...

A man has been confirmed dead in an accident involving a motorcycle at Awkuzu junction, on Enugu-Onitsha expressway, Anambra State, on Christmas Day. The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps in Anambra, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, who confirmed the ...

Some yet-to-be identified gunmen have attacked the residence of Eris Paul, a former ex-militant leader also known as Ogunbos, at his country home in Peremabiri Community in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, burning down his mansion. ...