Armed robbers have shot dead a cashier, identified only as Genesis, in the Ilupeju area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that Genesis, a cashier with a...
THE Lagos State Government yesterday warned that it will not hesitate to confiscate houses and hotels used as hideouts for kidnappers and other criminal activities. Commissioner...
AHEAD of the 2017 governorship election in Anambra State, traditional rulers from Anambra North senatorial zone of the state have endorsed the incumbent governor, Chief Willie...
Two housewives, identified only as Muyibat and Biliki, have suffered severe burns after a fight over a man. PUNCH Metro learnt that the two women emptied...
Kidnappers of Chief Watson Iti, the father of the member representing Brass Constituency 2 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Alfred Belimote Watson have demanded N70...
The Federal Government has dragged the Turkish Airlines before a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged criminal violation of the enabling law of the Consumer...
The nation’s two famous fertilizer manufacturing company, Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals (IEFCL) and Notore Chemical Industries has refuted the statement credited to the National Security...
As scandals continue to rain on Team Nigeria like a deluge, the presidency, we gathered, has noted all the unpalatable events down and is expected to...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State yesterday said the trip by the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari to the United States of America,...
Doctors at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, will begin a three-day warning strike today (Monday) over the failure of the management to pay full salaries...
Gani Adams National Coordinator of the OPC, Otunba Gani Adams, has threatened to make Yorubaland a no-go area for militants to perpetuate their nefarious activities. Adams,...
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it would consider competence above zone in picking its governorship candidate for the November...
Celestial Church of Christ Worldwide has condemned one of its pastors, Prophet Francis Taiwo, for chaining and starving his nine-year-old son for weeks. The Board of...
A 46-year old man identified as Emmanuel David has been jailed by an Oredo Magistrates Court sitting in Benin City for stealing credentials, cash and clothings....
The police in Ogun on Wednesday arraigned six men in an Ota Chief Magistrates’ Court for burglary. The accused were Bashiru Moshood, 25; Task Abiala, 25;...
A local boat carrying nine passengers and three motor-cycles which capsized at Ngira village across River Donga in Sadauna local government area of Taraba state has...
This year’s edition of the annual Abuja Housing Show (AHS) has come and gone with the housing sector stakeholders leaving in its trail a robust and...
MONARCHS from the oil producing parts of Ondo State have alleged that the appointment of Mr Tokunbo Ajasin as representative of the state on the board...
Harrysong, the popular singer of ‘Reggae Blues’, was involved in a deadly car crash along with his crew. The talented singer and his crew survived. According...
Senators elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday denied their involvement in any alleged plot to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari. They...
The Ogun State Police Command have commenced a manhunt for a pastor who allegedly chained his son inside a room for over month. The nine-year-old son,...
The Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has said it did not direct foreign-based athletes going to the Olympic Games in Rio to buy their own...
Fire has gutted the famous Sabon-Gari market in Kano state just few months after the market recorded a major fire outbreak where properties worth trillions of...
Two brothers, Saidi and Idris Amadu, from Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State, have confessed to killing a woman, Rohimat Kehinde, and a girl, Fasilat...
The Benenibowei of Gbaramatu Kingdom Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Chief Godspower Gbenekama, weekend, challenged the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalung,...
Barely a week to the July 30 inconclusive rerun in Rivers State, the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was bombed yesterday in Bori-Ogoni,...
Former Senate President, Senator David Mark has again triumphed at the Court of Appeal over his election as the senator representing Benue State South Senatorial District....
President Muhammadu Buhari, has dropped a former Commissioner of Information in Rivers State under the administration of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, Mrs Ibim Semenitari as the...
The Federal Government maybe inching closer to getting ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly called Tompolo, as two of his known associates have been arrested by the...
The Federal Government, again on Wednesday, said the Nigerian military has defeated the violent Islamic insurgent group, Boko Haram. This was stated in Port Harcourt,...
The Federal Government may soon engage the services of officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, to guard farms and farmers against the...
The board of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has given a seven–day ultimatum to the Technical Department to recommend another foreign Manager for the Super...
There are fears that Nigeria’s crude supply and income may again drop as the militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers have issued a quit notice to...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has gone beyond threat to finally sue Governor Ayo Fayose and his media aides over allegation of her involvement in the...
Indications emerged last night {Wednesday} that embattled Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, may be returning to his former party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The much...
The Archbishop of the Anglican Communion, Enugu Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma, has warned that President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of governance may lead...
The crisis of confidence in the Senate is far from being over. A member of the Unity Forum – a group of senators opposed to the...
A 34-year-old man, Kennedy Michael, has been arrested by police in Lagos for allegedly impregnating his 13-year-old daughter. The suspect, who was said to have been...
The Inspector-General of Police, Ag.IGP Ibrahim Idris has appointed Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Jimoh Olohundare Moshood as the new Deputy Force Public Relations Officer. CSP...
Pandemonium broke out at the Lagooz Schools on Omotoye Estate in the Orile Agege area of Lagos State after some hoodlums invaded the school premises. PUNCH...
Days after his acclaimed meeting with the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), Sports and Youth Development Minister, Mr. Solomon Dalung, appears to have run into...
Lagos State Governor Akinwumi Ambode has said everything is being done to rescue the abducted Oniba of Iba, Oba Yushau Goriola Oseni. The governor presided over...
Kaduna indigenes under the aegis of Kaduna State Citizens for Peace (KSCP), Tuesday, held a mass rally in the state metropolis, condemning religious extremism in the...
One time Nigerian Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Amb. Yahaya Tabari is dead. Tabari died in an auto-crash on Monday night on Kaduna-Zaria expressway at the age...
The paramount ruler of Oluasiri, Nembe Local Government Area, Bayelsa state, Chiefson Awululu, was on Tuesday attacked with machetes by suspected assassins in his house in...
Temporary reprieve came the way of the former Director of Media and Publicity for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode,...
The Managing Director of Almond Properties Ltd, Olugbenga Obadina, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on an eight count charge bordering...
The organised labour turned its fury on the Nigerian Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, as the Joe Ajaero faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Friday, disrupted...
In what may be ambitious territorial expansions of its sphere of operation, suspected Niger Delta militants, on Tuesday, attacked a gas pipeline belonging to the NNPC....
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have launched a manhunt for the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Maurice Iwu...