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  The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC) has put the current and past management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) under scrutiny. The committee said it discovered that the fund’s management failed to produce relevant documents to justify ...

Mr Dele Momodu has revealed his phone conversation this morning with PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. He said Atiku’s aide had called him this morning and asked him to hold on for Mr President, who wants to speak with him. ...

Mr Macaroni Raises Alarm Over Threat Against His Life, Family For Not Supporting A ‘Particular Presidential Candidate’ Nigerian comedian and skit maker popularly known as Mr Macaroni, has said threats have been made against him and his family by supporters ...

  A 19-year-old comedian, Eyinatayo Iluyomade, has landed in prison for playing pranks by dropping a threat note of robbery at the counter of FirstBank, in Ondo town, Ondo State. Iluyomade was charged to court by the police on three ...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has faulted the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on the position of the Federal Government in the detention and trial of Senator Ike Ekweremadu for alleged ...

Nigeria beat South Korea 1-0 on Sunday in the Group C football match at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, Complete Sports reports. Esther Onyenezide’s late strike gave the Falconets victory in their second match of ...

The Lagos State Government has ordered the reintroduction of History as “a stand-alone subject” into the basic and junior secondary schools in the state. According to a memo addressed to private school owners and signed by the Director of Research ...

  Will Smith and wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, were spotted together in public for the first time since the infamous Oscars slap, which occurred in March. The couple enjoyed an afternoon date at Nobu Malibu on Saturday as they were photographed ...

  Annie Idibia has reacted following reports that her husband, Tuface has impregnanted a banker. Tuface’s management, led by Efe Omorogbe, responded to the viral claim by refuting it and labeling it as malicious and false. In the midst of ...

An electrical fire swept through an Egyptian Coptic Christian church during Mass on Sunday, causing a stampede and killing at least 41 people, most of them children and many suffering from smoke inhalation. The blaze started just before 9 a.m. ...

Activist, Deji Adeyanju has hit at the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, saying that he is raising terrorists in the name of running for president. Adeyanju, in a tweet on Sunday lamented that everyone who criticised Obi had been ...

Munkaila Ado, a 27-year-old houseboy in Bauchi, has been arrested for the gruesome murder of his boss’ 13-year-old girl daughter after he impregnated her. Ado allegedly impregnated the minor and connived with her mother to take her to Gombe State ...

A woman has been arrested for attempting to sell her seven-year-old son to strangers in the hopes of receiving £4,000 in return. The mother-of-three, 36, allegedly advertised her son as being up for sale in an attempt to pay off ...

  Six people, which include players and officials of a grassroots female team, were reportedly kidnapped by gunmen in Uronigbe, a border community between Edo and Delta states in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State. Punch correspondent learnt that ...

  The governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, on Saturday said the All Progressives Congress would lose the case challenging his victory in the July 16 governorship poll because the election was free and fair. Adeleke spoke in Ijebu-Jesa, ...

Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo, and her husband, Pastor Blessed Uzochikwa, on Saturday tied the knot in a church ceremony. This is coming a day after the couple celebrated their traditional marriage ceremony in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital. Singer and ...

  Super Falcons forward player, Asisat Oshoala has been nominated for the 2022 Women’s Ballon d’Or player of the year award on Friday.Her exploits with FC Barcelona femeni earned her a place on the 20-woman shortlist. In July, Oshoala was ...

Akwa Ibom State High Court, presided by Justice Edem Akpan, has sentenced 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom in Ika Local Government Area of the State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong, to death by hanging for murder. The monarch, married to ...

  Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, on Friday, sentenced an 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom, Ika Local Government Area of the State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong to death by hanging for murder. The convict, who is ...

  The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court, Ikeja, yesterday, ordered the remand of Michael Chinasa, an indigene of Anambra State, accused of setting fire on a BRT bus terminal, at Oyingbo, in Lagos, during a protest in October 2020, over alleged ...

Renowned rights activist, Joe Okei-Odumakin has urged Nigerian leaders to commence the process of restructuring backed by a constitutional framework. The President of Women Arise revealed that restructuring was her husband’s last word before he died. Okei-Odumakin spoke at the ...

  Governor Simon Bako Lalong of Plateau State and the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign for the 2023 general elections, has apologized over his ‘blasphemous’ remarks about the Holy Father, Pope Francis. He tendered an unreserved apology ...

The Nigerian Police Force, has dismissed a police officer, for searching a commuter’s phone by the road side contrary to the directives of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba. Corporal Opeyemi Kadiri with No. 509745 attached to Dolphin ...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has denied filing any suit seeking the removal of Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 Presidential election. It was widely reported this morning that Wike and ...

A man in Adamawa State has been jailed for five years for killing his girlfriend. 33-year-old Wakil Mohammed, a sacked military officer, was found guilty of smashing the girlfriend, 23-year-old Patience Amos, on the wall of her room and leaving ...