No fewer than seven residents of Otodo Gbame, an Egun community in the Lekki Phase 1 area of Lagos State, are missing after a clash between...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has made his first set of appointments, with his former former campaign Director General, Osarodion Ogie, named as the Secretary to...
The delivery of 360 exotic cars to members of the House of Representatives has begun amid the economic downturn in the country. Investigations by The PUNCH...
State governments are spending billions of naira of public funds on constructing and maintaining presidential lodges that are rarely used by presidents. This practice has continued...
The Bishop of the Anglican Communion, Benin Diocese, Rt. Rev. Peter Imasuen, has called on Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo to extend a hand of fellowship...
Lagos – Igbo traders in Lagos under the aegis of Igbo Traders in All Progressives Congress (APC) have urged the Lagos State Government to increase its...
Just over a year into the tenure of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, at least four top officials of his administration have been linked to...
Four persons, including a soon-to-wed young security guard, were reportedly killed by dare-devil armed robbers robbery during an attack on a Bank at Otun-Ekiti in Moba...
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hajiya Khadija Abba-Ibrahim, has said that Nigeria will soon stop the importation of wheat from Russia. . Abba-Ibrahim, represented...
The recent ransom paid to Boko Haram in exchange for the release of some Chibok girls have contributed to the recent upsurge in the killings and...
A businessman, Nurudeen Lawal, on Friday pleaded with the Oja-Oba Sharia Court in Ibadan to dissolve his marriage because his wife allegedly abandoned him to make...
Three suspected female suicide bombers were on Friday shot dead by security agents after they tried to gain entry into Maiduguri to cause havoc, Borno Police...
A 62-year-old man, Adesanya Akanni, is seeking the dissolution of his 32-year-old marriage to Florence Akani, over religious differences. Adesanya Akanni approached a Lagos Island Customary...
THE struggle for supremacy between suspected rival cult groups have claimed two lives in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. It was gathered that the incident occurred, Wednesday,...
A woman, Biola Simon, has been arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly defrauding bank customers after giving them fake prophecies in the Dopemu...
An Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Thursday remanded Dickson Uwadinusu, 30, in prison for allegedly threatening to kill his parents. The Magistrate, Mrs E.E. Edokpayi,...
Abia State Police Command on Thursday said one person died after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmanship primaries in the sates on Wednesday turned bloody. According...
A father of two who allegedly stole a pot of soup, 12 wraps of fufu and a half basin of garri flour in Bayelsa State has...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to go after the promoters of the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox, otherwise known...
The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, yesterday said it had arrested over 2,600 motorists for not installing the speed limiting device in their vehicles. Commander of...
A sales boy, Akeem Tajudeen, has been stabbed to death in Ilaje Otumara, in the Iponri area of Lagos State, by some hoodlums. PUNCH Metro learnt...
The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has reacted to the election Donald Trump as the President of United States of America, saying those who imposed...
The Appeal Court in Lagos has declared the environmental sanitation exercise held monthly in the state as illegal. Justice Ugochukwu Ogakwu made the declaration while delivering...
The Police Command in Enugu State on Wednesday said that it had arrested three armed robbery suspects ridden with bullet wounds through hospitals’ surveillance in Nsukka...
Nigerians on social media have called on Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, to tear his green card, following the vow he made, should U.S Republican candidate...
by Yusuf Alli, November 09, 2016 at 12:09 am in Featured, News FacebookTwitterSMSWhatsApp Gunmen have invaded Bindin village in Zamfara State, killing over 36 gold miners....
When Princewill Jumbo, a 300-level student of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, and his friends were returning to Port Harcourt from a burial in...
The Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose on Tuesday paid a visit to a former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode who is being detained by the EFCC....
THE House of Representatives on Tuesday, called on military authorities to award post humours promotions to the late Lt. Colonel Muhammad Abu-Ali, and other fallen heroes....
Two people have been arrested in Minna, the Niger State capital for allegedly attempting to commit suicide. it was gathered, that the duo who tried to...
The Akwa Ibom Police Command says it has arrested one Peace Chukwuemeka, 30, for allegedly stealing a month-old baby from her mother. The Commissioner of Police...
A policeman attached to the Bayelsa Police Command on Tuesday shot his colleague dead over a N20, 000 largesse. The incident occurred following an argument between...
There is tension on E1 Close, 7th Avenue in the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State after gunmen invaded the area and abducted two residents. The...
The Police in Abia on Monday established that Ndi Okereke Abam in Ovukwu Autonomous Community in Arochukwu LGA of Abia State was attacked by suspected herdsmen...
Delta State Police Command has arrested two Mobile Police Corporals attached to MOPOL 31, Ogwashi-Uku, over alleged involvement in kidnap of one Efe Daniel Umukoro. Vanguard...
The Governing Council of the Osun State University, Osogbo, has terminated the appointment of Dr. Olabode Ojoniyi of the Department of Languages and Linguistics, Ikire Campus,...
The Christian Association of Nigeria, (CAN) in the 19 Northern States and Abuja is not happy that the five suspects in the case of Bridget Agbahime,...
Six people are reported to have died when two fuel laden tankers collided in Mokwa, Niger State. Malam Ahmed Inga, Director General, Niger State Emergency Management...
Suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, says other members of the house were blackmailed to back down in the fight to expose...
The Sultan of Sokoto Caliphate, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has called on Nigerians to question their political leaders and hold them accountable for the underdevelopment in...
The stubborn terrorists group, Boko Haram, which has continued to wreck havoc lost 37 of its members to the Nigerian Army on Saturday. According to Army...
49 suspected armed robbers, cultists and two notorious kidnappers, Alex Obubu and Alaso Igbo, caught with two human skulls, were on Friday paraded by Rivers State...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday morning whisked away a pastor identified as Ojo, his driver and three othrs in Ekiti State. It was learnt that the victims...
Some bush meat sellers in some major markets have said the business is booming again barely two years after the country was declared Ebola Virus Disease...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested four drug couriers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, while attempting to export narcotics with a total...
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command yesterday paraded 49 persons in connection with different crimes in the state. The suspects, whose offences included cultism, kidnapping...
Hisbah, the Sharia law enforcement agency in Jigawa, on Friday said it had destroyed 238 confiscated bottles of assorted beer in Kazaure Local Government Area of...
Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State and the Fulani herdsmen have reached an agreement to co-exist in peace and harmony. Before the peace agreement, there...
DETECTIVES in Ondo State Police Command have arrested the leader of a three-man armed robbery gang who held a mother of four, Folashade Jayeoba, hostage and...
The Lagos State Police Command has detained a dog breeder on Rufus Olaniyan Estate, Irawo, Ikorodu, Lagos, in connection with the death of a five-year-old boy...
