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The police have arrested a widow, Mrs Stella Ekwerekwu, for allegedly presenting a four-month-old baby boy as the next of kin of her late husband, Victor. Punch correspondent learnt that she would be arraigned today (Friday). The suspect, according to ...

  A die hard fan of wizkid has died days after tweeting about death and asking everyone to enjoy life. Dolapo, who was a fan of the musician, had taken to his Twitter handle, @Kinyels, where he wrote, “Anybody can ...

A man who was left unable to have s.e.x after his p3nis was bitten by a rat inside a New York jail is reopening his lawsuit against city authorities. Vietnam war veteran Peter Solomon, 63, made headlines in 2011 when ...

A 52-year-old trader, Moruf Olushola, was arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates Court for bathing a pregnant woman and her two children with petrol with intent to set them ablaze. The defendant, who resides at Surulere, Lagos, was arraigned before Magistrate ...

The Police Command in Cross River State on Thursday paraded 9 suspects before newsmen, among them is “one Raphael Nwanakwo Sam ‘M’ who is an alleged serial kidnap kingpin who escape from the DSS custody sometime in 2018 while he ...

  All hell went free at some point back when a well known k*ll sovereign and runz darling, name retained took to her Facebook record to declare and gloat about how she has laid down with practically all the rich ...

A yet -to- be identified police officer is on the run after his lover died while allegedly making love inside the room of the deceased located at Atayese street, Bawa Estate, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state capital. A source who craves ...

FedEx has named its newest CEO and she’s Ramon Hood, a woman who began as a receptionist at the same company. Today, Hood is the first Black woman to become CEO in the company’s history. The company announced Wednesday, February ...

A woman in Japan who recovered from coronavirus and was released from hospital has tested positive again. The 40-year-old woman was working on a tour bus with sightseers from Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in January. She was first ...

Pope Francis has missed a planned Mass with Rome clergy due to illness. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a ‘slight indisposition’ and would proceed with the rest of his planned work on Thursday but Francis ‘preferred to stay ...

The Lagos State commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi has said the Chinese citizen who was isolated at Reddington Hospital, Ikeja yesterday for suspected Coronavirus has tested negative. Abayomi made this known  this morning and gave assurance to residents that ...

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board on Wednesday released the results of the November-December 2019 examinations Thirty-two thousand three hundred and forty-nine, 32,349 candidates representing 72.91% who sat for National Business Certificate/ National Technical Certificate examinations obtained scores with ...

Justice Yetunde Adesanya of an Ikeja High Court on Thursday struck out a suit filed by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, seeking to stop his probe by the state Assembly over purchase of 820 buses for Bus Reform Project. ...

  A High Court sitting in Lokoja has declared the impeachment of Simon Achuba, former Kogi deputy governor by the State House of Assembly as illegal, null and void. Delivering the judgment, Justice John Olorunfemi said Achuba’s impeachment from office ...

The male hostel of Government Secondary School (GSS) in Gboko area of Benue state was on Wednesday gutted by fire. The fire started around 8:30am barely few minutes after the students settled in class for the day’s lesson. It was ...

A pupil of IMG Grammar School, Oke-Bola, Ibadan was on Wednesday feared dead while some others were injured during a clash between pupils of the school and those of Oke-Bola Comprehensive High School. Students of the two schools, which are ...

  British Airways has cancelled its flights to Italy. Thousands of Brits face having their holiday plans ruined by coronavirus as it continues to spread across Europe and British Airways has now cancel flights to bug-ravaged Italy. The UK government ...

  The Government of Mexico has returned an Ile-Ife bronze sculpture to Nigeria after it discovered that it was illegally exported. This was contained in a press statement obtained on Mexico’s website yesterday. The statement said the origin of the ...

Six people have been shot dead after a gunman opened fire at the MillerCoors beer factory headquarters in Milwaukee. The shooter, described only by police as a 51-year-old local man, has been confirmed by the company CEO as a former ...

Soldiers at the Nigerian Army Brigade, Malam Fatori, Borno State, currently fighting the Boko Haram insurgency were thrown into mourning, on Wednesday, as a depressed soldier, who allegedly got information that someone was sleeping with his wife, turned his gun ...

Nigerian Sherifdeen Mogaji has been arrested by Colorado’s Boulder County Sheriff’s Office more than three years after he stole about $850,000 from the Boulder Valley School District in an email scam. According to the arrest affidavit published by the local ...

  A prisoner may well have staked a claim to the worst attempted escape from jail ever after it ended with her plummeting through the ceiling of the waiting room. Jessica Boomershine, 42, was in jail after allegedly breaking into ...

  A teenage boy was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates Court in Lagos after he was arrested and accused of stealing money from worth 340,00 Naira in a bank. The Prosecuting Inspector, Peace Chukwudi of the Ajah Police Division stated ...

  A 25-year-old US woman has gained some prominence on the internet as she lives her life as a fulltime baby, wearing a diaper, playing with toys and sleeping in a crib. The woman identified as Paigey Miller belongs to ...

  Former Governor, Seriake Dickson and Sen. Duoye Diri were on Wednesday seen on their knees after the Supreme Court struck out the All Progressives Congress, APC suit seeking a review of the judgement that sacked ex-Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David ...