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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has suspended its planned strike. This followed interventions and engagements with government agencies and institutions, including the NNPC. The union expressed gratitude to NNPC’s Group Managing Director, Mr Mele Kyari ...

The operatives of the Imo state police command have arrested one pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, and others for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Fidelis Ekemgba. Parading the suspects and others, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said that the suspects ...

Nigerian Correctional Service has published the photographs of 51 of the 252 prisoners who escaped from the Jos Custodial Centre on Sunday, after an assault by gunmen. The photos have been uploaded on the agency’s Facebook account, with a promise ...

Meghan Markle has won a legal battle with the publisher of The Mail On Sunday over a letter to her estranged father. The Duchess of Sussex, 40, sued Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) over five articles that reproduced parts of a ...

Justice Binta Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday rescheduled the trial of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from January 19 to 18, 2022.   The shift in the ...

The Police in Bayelsa have dragged 12 women from Agobiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state to court over “unlawful assembly and use of juju” to block the ongoing construction of the state government-sponsored Yenagoa-Oporoma Road. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Dubai. The President is in Dubai for the Expo 2020 holding in the city. Buhari is expected to meet prospective investors as well as the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander ...

Sokoto State recorded 1,137 fresh HIV infections between January 2020 and September 2021. Mr Muhammad Garba, the Acting State Coordinator of Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN), Sokoto State Chapter, disclosed this at a press conference in commemoration of ...

R. Kelly’s accusers are suing the disgraced singer and his manager for allegedly trying to intimidate them with tactics that included calling in a shooting threat to a theater premiering a documentary about the singer, new court papers show. Lizette ...

The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Wednesday disclosed that cholera is killing more Nigerians than covid-19. According to NCDC, Cholera has killed 3,600 Nigerians in 11 months. Director-General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this in an interview on ...

Following the controversial circumstance that led to the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, the management of the school has refuted claims that the deceased was beaten to death. In a statement made available to Press, Dowen College ...

A Ghanaian actress Akuapem Poloo who shared unclad photos with her son has been sent back to jail. Akuapem is to serve 90 days jail term as Court dismisses her appeal. An application filed by the actress to challenge her ...

An Austrian court has fined a surgeon for amputating the wrong leg of an elderly patient, a spokesperson for the tribunal in the northern city of Linz said on Wednesday. While the 43-year-old defendant said her actions were due to ...

Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 18 suspected illegal oil bunkerers. They were arrested on Monday, November 29, in a location within the new Government Reservation Area, G.R.A, Port ...

Lionel Messi’s dad has hit out at the critics of his son’s seventh Ballon d’Or title with a post on Instagram. Messi got his hands on an unprecedented seventh title on Monday night, eclipsing Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski by ...

Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde ‘K1 De Ultimate’ on Tuesday berated his band boys “for turning themselves into a nuisance” at a public function, where he was billed to be honoured. The ceremony, held at the events centre of the Olusegun ...

Tonto Dikeh stuns in new Instagram photos   We love!    

A leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Lagos State, Kunle Ajibade, has been murdered by suspected hoodlums in Ijeshatedo, in the Surulere area of the state. Punch Metro gathered that the assailants stabbed the 28-year-old at ...

Davido has revealed that he wasn’t close to his father, Adedeji Adeleke, when he was a child. The Afropop artiste made this revelation during an interview with an American-based podcast, Earn Your Leisure, which was published on Wednesday. Davido stated ...

Billionaire businesswoman, Folorunso Alakija, has revealed why she gave up jewelry and it is because of God. She narrated on Sunday in church how the journey began and how she is now free. According to Church Times, she said; “I ...

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa is in Nigeria. He was received by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Ramaphosa arrived at the Villa at about 10 am today, Wednesday, December 1, and was received by the President himself. ...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s bodyguards are under investigation on suspicion of working illegally in Portugal, according to local reports. The twins, Sergio and Jorge Ramalheiro, former elite soldiers currently on unpaid leave from the police, are at the centre of a probe ...

Civil servants and the general public without proof of vaccination and negative PCR tests are currently being prevented from accessing government buildings in Abuja. The Punch had reported that the Boss Mustapha-led presidential steering committee on COVID-19 had announced in ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has publicly backed claims from a fan account that Lionel Messi stole the Ballon d’Or from himself and Robert Lewandowski. PSG star Messi won his seventh Ballon d’Or on Monday night, beating Bayern Munich marksman Lewandowski to the ...

A 20-year-old mother of one is fighting for her life at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret after her 25-year-old husband Joseph Kariuki hacked her with a machete before drowning himself in 60 feet well. Residents of ...