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Lesotho’s former first lady, Maesaiah Thabane, has left the country a day after a Court of Appeal ordered her rearrest, according to the nation’s police on Saturday. Maesaiah Thabane is suspected of orchestrating the shooting of Lipolelo Thabane her husband’s ...

The Nasarawa State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria and the General Overseer, Word of God Worldwide Gospel City, Archbishop Joseph Masin, who was kidnapped on Thursday, May 28, 2020, has regained his freedom. The Police Public Relations Officer ...

Grief overwhelmed Mrs Kehinde Kolawole as she spoke with Sunday Punch about her son, Tunde Kolawole, who died few days after his return from the United Arab Emirates while observing a 14-day supervised quarantine at a Lagos facility with other ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have shot and killed the All Progressive Congress (APC) chairman of Batsari council area of Katsina state, Alhaji Abdulhamid Mamman. Mammam was killed on Sunday afternoon, at about 2:45pm, after the gunmen besieged Sabon Garin ...

The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Kayode Popoola, on Sunday said the government had begun “systematic maintenance of all bridges in Lagos’’ to ensure smooth rides and safety. Popoola told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the ...

  Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries, has condemned the alleged killing of a female student of University of Benin, UNIBEN, in Edo State, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa. Uwaila, a 100 level Microbiology student of UNIBEN was gruesomely raped and ...

The management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) has reacted to the alleged r.a.p.e of one of its students, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa. It was learned that Uwaila, who was a 100-level Microbiology student of UNIBEN, was r.a.p.e.d and killed by ...

The source of contracting coronavirus in 7,276 cases in Nigeria is yet to be known, The punch reports. This was contained in the COVID-19 Situation Report 92 of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control published on Sunday. In the report, ...

Manchester United are close to agreeing to a loan extension for former Nigerian striker, Odion Ighalo, until January 2021, the striker’s loan deal expires today (Sunday). Giving an update on the loan extension Sunday morning, Skysports reports that “the proposed ...

A yet- to- be named policeman on Sunday morning allegedly opened fire on his colleagues at Onikan, killing some of them. The yet- to- be named officer went berserk around 5am following a disagreement with other members of his team. ...

A middle-aged man from Kitale in Trans-Nzoia County , Kenya died after he was stabbed by a fighting couple that he had gone to separate. Kennedy Nyukuri was stabbed in the chest and back by the couple on Wednesday night, ...

22-year-old Vera Uwaila Omozuwa who was  a 100 level student of the University of Benin, UNIBEN from the department of Microbiology, faculty of Life Sciences, has reportedly been r.a.p.e.d and killed inside a church in Edo state. The victim was ...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday  said he will delay the G7 summit scheduled to take place in June and invite other countries — including Russia — to join the meeting. “I don’t feel that as a G7 it properly ...

The Kaduna State Government on Saturday disclosed that the four-month-old child that tested positive for COVID-19 has been discharged. The government, however, said there are still 76 active cases in the state as at Friday. In an update by the ...

Nigeria has announced 553 new coronavirus cases, its highest number in a single day. The NCDC made the announcement Saturday night, with the new figure taking Nigeria’s virus caseload to 9,855. The national death toll increased from 261 to 273, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Alhaji Ibrahim Dauda is dead. Ibrahim Duada died in Daura, Katsina State, following a prolonged illness. Disclosing this in a statement signed by Senior Special Assistant to the President, Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari said ...

Electricity supply is expected to rise to 11,000 megawatts by 2023 under an agreement with the German firm Siemens, Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said on Friday. According to him, it will first grow to 7,000MW by the end ...

The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has said that his predecessor, Mohammed Abubakar, spent N50m to travel to Abuja from the state each time he travelled. He said this during a media chat to mark his first year in office ...

Rihanna and Beyonce have spoken out on the killing of George Floyd who died earlier this week during a brutal arrest in Minnesota, United States. George Floyd, who is an African-American man, died on May 25, 2020, when Derek Chauvin, ...

Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have ...

A Nigerian lady took to her social media page to share the story of a man who was declared missing five years ago when he stepped out to buy suya and never returned but was just discovered to have been ...

The Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to immediately implement all the agreements it had with the Association or it will embark on an indefinite strike. The ultimatum was issued by the ...

The family of Chief Imam of Kabba, Kogi State, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Ejibunu, on Saturday, confirmed that the Chief Imam is not dead. This came following reports, on Saturday, that the Kabba Chief Imam is dead. The spokesperson of the ...

At least 268 Nigerians evacuated from China have arrived in Abuja, The Punch confirms. The flight that conveyed the evacuees landed at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport on Saturday afternoon. Disclosing this in a tweet, the Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora ...

The family of Chief Imam of Kabba, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Ejibunu, has stepped into the war between NCDC and Kogi state Government over covid-19 stating the Chief Iman died of coronavirus. Kogi State Government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease ...