Teenage girl with no vag!n@ gets pregnant from giving oral s£x. Medics have recorded a unique case of a teenage girl who became pregnant from giving oral s£x through a series of events that are hard to believe. According ...
Read More »Tension as 30-year-old cultist stoned to death in Bayelsa
A 30-year-old man, Darlington Watson, was on Wednesday evening, stoned to death by rival cult members at the Agudama-Epie community in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, as the ongoing cult war between the Greenlanders and Bobous intensified. PUNCH Metro ...
Read More »Policemen reject N1m bribe, arrest Imo child traffickers
Operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested two suspects in connection with two separate child trafficking cases even as they rejected N1m bribe offer. The spokesperson for the Imo State Police Command, DSP Henry Okoye, made the ...
Read More »Rivers monarch faults market closure order over burial ceremony
A monarch and village Head of Ngo Town in Andoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, His Royal Highness Ujeile Ngere, has raised the alarm over a looming crisis in the community following an order to shut down markets ...
Read More »Lagos lecturer gets life jail for raping student
An Ikeja Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a part-time lecturer at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Kolawole Muyiwa, to life imprisonment for raping a student. Justice Rahman Oshodi, who handed down the jail ...
Read More »Two friends jailed seven years for assault in Osun
Two friends, Oluwashina Wakeel and Yusuf Adewale, have been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for conspiracy and assault of a road user in Osun State, AbdulSalam Oyewale. Wakeel and Adewale, who were arraigned before an Osun State High Court ...
Read More »Wema Bank to Train and Empower 800,000 Nigerian Businesses
Wema Bank to Train and Empower 800,000 Nigerian Businesses …Signs MOU with Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) Reinforcing its reputation as an institution committed to empowering SMEs, Wema Bank, Nigeria’s foremost innovative bank and pioneer ...
Read More »FIRSTHOLDCO: REINFORCING ESG, SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES AS IT REBRANDS
By A.Ezekiel In a world where approximately 20% of new businesses fail within the first two years, 45% within five years, 65% within ten years, and only 25% make it to 15 years or more (according to the US ...
Read More »21-year-old jailed six months for stealing fowl in Ogun
A Magistrate Court sitting in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, has sentenced 21-year-old Adebanjo Segun to six months imprisonment for stealing a fowl. The Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dyke ...
Read More »Two policemen killed, four arrested in Plateau clash
A daring confrontation between the police and kidnappers in Plateau State has resulted in the deaths of two police officers and the arrest of four suspected kidnappers. The spokesman for the Plateau State Police Command, DSP Alabo Alfred, confirmed ...
Read More »17 arrested for plotting violent protests in Kano
No fewer than 17 suspected thugs, who were planning a violent protest in the metropolitan city of Kano, were nabbed by the Kano State Police Command on Wednesday following credible intelligence reports. The suspected thugs were arrested by the ...
Read More »One army officer, villager hospitalised in A’Ibom communal clash
An Army officer and a villager have been hospitalised while several cars were set ablaze in the Ette community of Ikot-Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State following a clash that erupted in the area on Tuesday. Our ...
Read More »Five mourners killed, 20 missing in Delta boat collision
No fewer than five people have lost their lives, while 20 others are still missing following a head-on collision of two boats alongside the waterways in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, PUNCH Metro learnt on Wednesday. ...
Read More »US to remove transgender soldiers from military
The United States will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo. The memo became public as part of a court ...
Read More »US to remove transgender soldiers from military
The United States will begin removing transgender troops from the military within 30 days unless they obtain a waiver on a case-by-case basis, the Pentagon said in a Wednesday memo. The memo became public as part of a court ...
Read More »Lawyers call for Babangida’s prosecution over June 12 poll annulment
The release of General Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography, A Journey in Service, has sparked widespread controversy, with many Nigerians and human rights groups calling for his prosecution, writes Onozure Dania More than three decades after the annulment of the June ...
Read More »CUPP slams APC for hosting caucus meeting at Aso Villa
The National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Chief Peter Ameh, has condemned the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC for hosting the caucus meeting of the party at the banquet hall of the Presidential villa. In a ...
Read More »IBB dancing on graves of June 12 martyrs – Opadokun
A chieftain of the National Democratic Coalition, Ayo Opadokun, has described former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida’s recent admission of wrongfully annulling the June 12, 1993 election as pretentious, dubious, and lacking remorse. Reacting to Babangida’s 420-page autobiography, Journey ...
Read More »Why I’m not married, yet to have kids – Ruggedman
Why I’m not married, yet to have kids – Ruggedman Veteran Nigerian rapper Michael Stephens, popularly known as Ruggedman, has revealed why he does not have children. Speaking on a recent episode of TVC’s Your View Pidgin, the 51-year-old ...
Read More »Lagos Assembly: Pro-Obasa clerk denied entry, threatens contempt suit
The reinstated Clerk of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olalekan Onafeko, has threatened a contempt suit against the acting Clerk of the House, Ottun Babatunde. The development followed the drama that occurred at the Assembly complex on Wednesday ...
Read More »Niger, others’ exit from ECOWAS affecting counter-insurgency war – Air chief
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar, has said that the recent withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali from the Economic Community of West African States has significantly increased the security burden on Nigeria’s military. ...
Read More »USAID-donated drugs found in Lagos, Abia markets — NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Wednesday said it seized 87 truckloads of banned, expired and substandard medicinal products, including USAID and UNFPA-donated antiretroviral drugs, male and female condoms, among others. NAFDAC’s Director-General, Prof. ...
Read More »Immigration arrests 378 illegal immigrants in Ogun
The Nigeria Immigration Service said, on Wednesday, that it arrested 378 illegal immigrants involved in fraudulent activities across Ogun State. According to a statement on Wednesday, the suspects were apprehended at their hideouts during a joint operation by officers ...
Read More »N1.9bn fraud: Ex-accountant general seeks out-of-court settlement
A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to grant him time to negotiate an out-of-court settlement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged N1.96bn fraud. ...
Read More »Election cases: APC accounts seized over N8.9bn debts, says Ganduje
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday, sought a bailout for the ruling party over N8.9bn election debts. Ganduje revealed that the party’s accounts had been garnisheed following the huge debt resulting from ...
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