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The 45 soldiers of the Nigerian Army, who were court-martialed and jailed seven years ago for demanding adequate weaponry to aid the fight against insurgency, have been released. The soldiers were convicted and jailed at Ikoyi Correctional Centre and Kirikiri ...

  Lionel Messi seems to be settling in well and fast at Paris Saint Germain after the Argentine showed his new teammates what he will bring to the table.   The 34-year-old completed a two-year deal with the French League ...

Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have attacked a bullion van in Ondo State. The bullion van belonging to a commercial bank was attacked at Emure-Ile junction, on Owo local government area of Ondo state. With details of the attack ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated how he had been managing diabetes for the past 35 years. Obasanjo lamented that many of his friends have died of diabetes because they were unable to manage the disease. The former president said ...

A 32-year-old serial burglar who specialises in stealing plasma TVs has been arrested in Kwara, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said. Olaleke Tope, a father of two, is said to be a graduate of business and entrepreneur of ...

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted eight pupils of an Islamiyya school at Sakkai village, Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State. Also abducted was one of their school teachers, The Punch was told on Wednesday. The identities of ...

Plans by some Shuwa Arabs, an ethnic group from Borno, to crown Idris Adanno as the Sultan of Shuwa Arab of Edo State, is generating palpable tension across Benin Kingdom. The coronation ceremony is slated to hold on Saturday, 21 ...

A 62 year old man identified as Moshood Lasisi has committed suicide in his room in Ayede ogbese, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. It was reported that Lasisi, who was walking on crushes, hung himself after his ...

Niger Republic on Wednesday declared 48 hours of national mourning after 37 people were killed in a fresh massacre by suspected jihadists. “Flags will be flown at half-mast across the country” with immediate effect, a government statement said. It reaffirmed ...

Students of the Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro, on Tuesday, celebrated the exit of the Rector as the institution was upgraded to the University of Science and Technology. Photos posted online show the jubilant students sweeping the Main Gate to express ...

The authorities of the University of Lagos, Akoka have approved the reopening of hostels to students from Thursday, August 26. The varsity’s authorities also okayed the commencement of the second semester examinations physically on campus. This was contained in a ...

Cardi B shows off her growing baby bump while house-hunting with husband Offset The rapper is due to give birth to her second child later this year, and she appeared to be searching for new luxury digs for her growing ...

A 36-year-old man, Adeyemi Tosin, who is a banker/marketer with a first generation bank, has been arrested by Oyo State Police Command for allegedly siphoning N10 million from the account of 78-year-old Oladele Adida Quadri. The bank account of the ...

A seven-month-old infant has been found separated from parents during chaos at Kabul airport. The photograph, which was posted by the Aśvaka news agency on Twitter, shows an infant who was reportedly separated from parents. The child, who according to ...

Speaking in a weekly news conference, Manchester City Council leader Sir Richard Leese said Manchester would not turn its back on refugees from Afghanistan and that Afghan refugee flights are already on their way to the UK. Sky News correspondent ...

  Residents of Ogbeso via Oke-Suna area, Apomu town in Isokan Local Government Area of Osun State on Tuesday morning fled when a family of seven were found dead in their residence. The Nation gathered the house located in a ...

Governor Aminu Masari has urged residents of Katsina, specifically in areas prone to banditry to acquire weapons and defend themselves. Masari said it is morally wrong for people to submit cheaply to the bandits without any attempt to defend themselves, ...

A bold sign of ”No Journalists, No Camera allowed here” rocked the 80th birthday shindig of former Nigerian leader, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in Minna yesterday, as Journalists were shut out. Though now wheelchair bound, many dignitaries came to Minna to ...

Women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai says millions of Afghan women and girls were educated in the last 20 years – but the future they were promised is “dangerously close to slipping away”. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by ...

The Taliban “wants the world to trust us” and is not seeking revenge in Afghanistan after regaining control of the country, the group has said in a news conference. A spokesman for the militant group said Afghanistan has now been ...

Nollywood actor, Goriola Hassan, on Tuesday, failed to appear before the Ogun State House of Assembly despite threats to order his arrest for parading himself as the Oba of Imobi, Ijebu East Local Government Area of the State. However, Hassan ...

  Tissue paper used by Lionel Messi during his farewell news conference for former club Barcelona has been auctioned off for one million dollars. At the farewell conference to Barcelona, messi shed tears which led to his wife, Antonella handing ...

The draw for the group phase of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, was conducted at the Yaoundé Conference Centre in host nation Cameroon on Tuesday evening. The draw was conducted by CAF competitions director Samson Adamu, and assisted ...

The Federal High Court Abuja has frozen the bank accounts of some investment and trading platforms that Nigerians have been using to transact online. Justice Ahmed Mohammed made the order on Tuesday while delivering his ruling in an ex parte ...

Flood has submerged a cemetery which resulted in the collapse of many graves in Potiskum town, Yobe State. The popular NEPA graveyard was said to have been flooded last Monday following a heavy rainfall which also killed five children as ...