A lawmaker representing Takum I Constituency in Taraba State has been abducted by three men on a motorcycle who took him to their hideout. The kidnap...
The decision by President Donald Trump to recognise Jerusalem as the new capital of Israel has forced authorities in Palestine to recall its envoy to the...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has described 2017 year as one in which Nigerians were subjected to various dehumanizing conditions. The union also lamented how millions...
Memories of the recent #ENDSARS campaign embarked upon by some Nigerians on social media were again thrown up following the arrest of a journalist in Nnewi,...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)) in its New Year message has lamented how the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government threw tens of thousands of Nigerians...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says approximately 20,210 babies will be born in Nigeria on New Year’s Day. The UN agency lamented that while many...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have decided to go ahead with the conduct of the re-run election for the vacant Anambra Central senatorial seat...
Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Muhammed, yesterday urged Nigerians to brace up as the new year maycome with more misery and suffering for the people. He told...
The deadline for the sale of 9Mobile, formerly Etisalat Nigeria, lapsed yesterday without the process producing a major buyer. The Guardian learnt that the five bidders...
FOLLOWING the recent directive of the National Pension Commission, PenCom, which limits access to such contribution after retirement, employees making voluntary contributions into their Retirement Savings...
Armed policemen and officers of the Department of State Services kept vigil, as usual at the Cedar Crest Hospital, Gudu District, Abuja, welcoming the New Year...
The Lagos State Government has recovered N13 million paid into accounts of dead colleagues and overpaid salaries of staff in its ministries and parastatals. This is...
President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that Nigerians are too impatient, and want improved conditions faster than may be possible considering available resources and capabilities. The president...
Super Eagles forward, Alex Iwobi was on from the start as Arsenal were held to a 1-1 draw by West Brom in a Premier League encounter...
A viral internet video of two dead demonstrators who passed away in Dorud, Iran after sustaining gunshot wounds fired by anti-riot police has forced authorities to...
A Panama-flagged tanker named Koti, has been seized by South Korean authorities who suspect that the ship may have supplied oil to its neighbours, North Korea...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to without further delay withdraw the list of appointments to the boards of agencies...
One week after a deadly attack on Atan Ota, Ogun State by land grabbers, traumatised residents have begged Governor Ibikunle Amosun and the state police command...
Four days after the only son of President Muhammadu Buhari, Yusuf, was involved in a motorbike crash in the Gwarinpa area of Abuja, reliable sources at...
Crisis has erupted in Garkem, Bekwara Local Government Area of Cross River State over the alleged killing of one Edward by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)....
Abuja, some petty sellers close to the hospital are happy about the boost in their sales due to the influx of dignitaries, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt....
It is now a criminal offence to make phone calls or smoke cigarettes at any filling station, as “anyone caught could land in jail”, the Nigerian...
Almost everyone makes a New Year’s resolutions and far fewer stick to them. “Losing weight” and “exercising more” are among the most popular goals. TechCrunch reviewed...
New year’s resolutions don’t always work! Probably most people you know make new year’s resolutions and they’ve been making them for donkey years. Perhaps you’ve always...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) claims it has successfully cleared petrol queues in Abuja and Lagos and has moved to increase truck-outs to other states...
Violent demonstrations and clashes continue to trail protests by scores of disgruntled Iranian citizens who are protesting against the rising costs of food items and fuel...
As President Muhammadu Buhari and his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) continue to receive knocks for appointing no less than six dead persons into federal boards,...
The “organiser and executor” of the explosion that rocked a supermarket in the Russian city of St. Petersburg which left as much as 14 people injured...
As the government continues to give conflicting reasons responsible for the enduring fuel scarcity in the country, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the...
Closer perusing of the recently released list of appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari into the boards of some government agencies and parastatals has shown that six...
Super Eagles forward, Victor Moses was on from the start for Chelsea as they cruised to a 5-0 victory against Stoke City in a Premier League...
Ex-Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsi has been handed a three year jail term alongside 19 others on charges of insulting the judiciary. According to Egyptian news sources,...
The Supreme Court in Russia has paved the way for President Vladimir Putin to return unopposed after it upheld election officials’ decision to bar opposition leader...
Real Madrid and Portugal winger, Cristiano Ronaldo says he will try new businesses like filmmaking when he finally retires from football. Ronaldo won the fifth Ballon...
Following the inclusion of the names of three dead men in the list of the recent appointments made by President Muhammadu Buhari, the former Minister of...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Friday, told newsmen that the $1 billion from Excess Crude Account (ECA) recently approved by the governors to fight insurgency...
Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has described the quest by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...
Scientists have made a discovery which raises the likelihood of finding alien life on one of the planet’s orbiting a distant star called TRAPPIST-1. It’s been...
The bloody explosion that rocked a supermarket in the Russian city of St. Petersburg which injured no less than 13 people has been claimed by the...
The ban on oil imports into North Korea slammed by the United Nations is being imposed by its neighbours South Korea after a Hong Kong-flagged vessel...
For the second time in one week, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday visited the Cedar Crest Hospital, Gudu District, Abuja, to see his son Yusuf who...
Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has denied the allegation that over N3 billion was missing from the funds allocated to it in 2015. In a statement by...
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Mr. Hassan Bello, yesterday said the Federal Government is capable of realizing more than N17bn per annum...
There are indications that the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari has been hospitalised following trauma she suffered after the shocking news of the condition of...
The Federal Government, through the Department of Petroleum Resources, has sealed over 62 petrol stations across the country. The petrol stations were shut down due to...
Reigning English Premier League champions, Chelsea have announced a record £361.3m turnover for the 2017 financial year. According to a statement on the club’s website, the...
For investors in Nigerian equities, 2017 is a year to remember. Nigerian equities closed the year with average year-to-date return of 42.30 per cent, equivalent to...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari directed it to subsidise the pump price of petrol for Nigerians, a revelation that...
Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says petrol scarcity which he maintained was the result of “rumoured price increase” has...
The Peoples Democratic Party Friday urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to issue any New Year message to Nigerians having failed to deliver on any...
