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Adamawa State police command has arrested a 26-year-old man Eson Fatgoel a  resident of Guyuk in possession of  counterfeit naira notes in Adamawa .   The state PPRO DSP Sulaiman Yahaya in  a statement confirmed that  the suspect has allegedly ...

  President Buhari has announced that over 1million youths have registered for the Youth Investment Fund programme which opened on October 12, 2020.   Speaking at the maiden maiden National Youth Day celebration observed on November 1 and coinciding with the African ...

Nigerian youth calling for an end to police brutality and extrajudicial killings in the country on Sunday stormed the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, to paint #ENDSARS on the floor of the facility’s entrance.   The protesters arrived the international ...

No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States. Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic Party, the candidates are bidding for different offices at the federal, state and local ...

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has urged parents to instill family values in their children as a way to save the country from degeneration.   She made the call on Saturday in Kaduna during a ...

  Staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, received N357.098 billion as salaries, wages and other benefits in 2019, according to the corporation’s recently released audited financial statement. The NNPC Group had disclosed that its staff strength, as at ...

Former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has told Islamic clerics and fellow Muslims raining curses on rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, in mosques, to apply caution.   Aisha had last week lamented the ill-treatment she gets from fellow Muslims. Yesufu, co-convener of ...

A 40-year-old jealous lover, identified as Etifa Obukulubu, on Saturday in Igbogene area of Yenagoa Local Government Area, the Bayelsa State, allegedly set ablaze the home of his girlfriend over suspicion of cheating.   The deceased, a pastor working with ...

A 90-year-old widow in India was allegedly gang-raped by two men who stormed into her house at night.   The old woman said they left her “almost half-dead” after the attack in India on October 24. When she regained her ...

Two men who allegedly duped a doctor into buying an “Aladdin’s lamp” for $93,000 and even conjured up a fake genie have been arrested in India, an official said Sunday.   Laeek Khan approached police in the northern state of ...

The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate on the night of October 20, 2020 has summoned the army to appear before it, Sunday Punch has learnt.   But the army ...

  The Nigerian Government has finally reacted to the vandalization of the properties of Television Continental, TVC, and the Nation Newspaper by hoodlums in Lagos State.   Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, on Saturday, described the ...

The Queen will step down and make her son, Prince Charles, king when she turns 95, a royal expert has claimed.   The Monarch will celebrate her 95th birthday in April, meaning we could see a change very soon if ...

  Ghana legend Asamoah Gyan, Africa’s top scorer in the history of the World Cup, has returned to his homeland in a surprise move to sign for local side Legon Cities. His return was confirmed by the Ghana Premier League on ...

More than 10 persons lost their lives in Ondo State on Saturday night in an accident that occurred in Akungba-Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government of the State.   The accident was caused by a truck loaded with rice, which ...

  Sam Adeyemi, the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, has urged Nigerian youths to continue to insist on the government’s implementation of the 5for5 demands.   Following the EndSARS protests, youths had presented the five demands to the Federal ...

A Florida man was left with his scalp hanging off after paying $150 for a “full contact experience” with a black leopard.   Dwight Turner is suing “real estate investment expert and exotic animal breeder” Michael Poggi after claiming he ...

US president, Donald Trump, has hailed the courageous soldiers who rescued an American hostage in Nigeria today.   Philip Walton, 27, was seized by armed bandits on Monday, October 26. Walton was moved to a location in northern Nigeria where ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the resumption of all civil servants on salary grade one to 12.   This was contained in a circular by the Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, on Saturday. In the circular with ...

Rare parasites which can cause human miscarriages have been found in donkeys, it has been claimed.   Scientists in Israel reportedly believe the animal carries Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora, major pathogenic parasites that can have a detrimental impact on pregnant ...

Nigeria, on Friday, confirmed 170 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total cases registered in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic to 62,691, according to Nigerian health authorities.   It is now the 13th consecutive week that Nigeria’s COVID-19 ...

  Two dismissed soldiers and others arrested in connection to the attack on a bullion van which left 4 policemen dead in Ebonyi state, have narrated how their operation was cordinated by one Clement Abanara aka Millions from Ikoyi prison in Lagos, ...

  The caretaker chairman of Iganna Local Council Development Area of Oyo State, Mr Olayiwola Adeleke has regained freedom after spending days in kidnappers’ den.   We reported earlier that Adeleke who was on his way to Ibadan for a meeting ...

  Pastor Laurie Idahosa has shared her experience after a worrisome mammogram she underwent in the United States.   Recounting how she lost both of her grandmothers to breast cancer because it wasn’t detected early enough, Laurie said the doctors found something ...

Dozens of North Korean soldiers have been injured by exploding landmines which they were laying on the border with China, a source in the country has said.   The explosion happened while the border guard troops were burying the mines ...