A septuagenarian, Godwin Agbada, has blamed the devil for the alleged defilement of two girls aged 12 and 14 years in his workshop. Agbada, who was...
Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Mr Ajibola Oyedele, popularly known as 50/50, wife has been kidnapped at gunpoint. Oyedele, who disclosed the wife’s abduction...
Delta State Commissioner of Information, Mr Patrick Ukah has said that Governor Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa was more preoccupied with spreading democratic dividends to the people of...
The Federal Government failed to commence its free National Home Grown School Feeding programme at the beginning of the current academic session in September as promised....
The Federal High Court in Ibadan has sentenced a former employee of Wema Bank, Ademola Oni, to 12-year imprisonment for conspiracy and money laundering. The court,...
The Presidency has urged Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups in the coastal region to leave the creeks and enlist in the amnesty programme for...
A frontline academic staff of Bayero University, Kano, Saminu Aliyu Kiri has been abducted by hoodlums in Kaduna. Aliyu Kiri was said to be on his...
A member of the House of Representatives, Mr Johnson Agbonayinma said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost Sept. 28 governorship poll in Edo due to disunity...
Plateau State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would take legal actions against Senator Joshua Dariye if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fails to...
A suicide bomber who tried to enter Maiduguri and unleash havoc in an unidentified location was on Friday intercepted by troops of Operation LAFIA DOLE in...
Professor Olufemi Bamiro, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), was shot in Ibadan on Tuesday evening by gunmen after their attempt to...
The Nigerian Army said it has finally captured the insurgent group, Boko Haram’s last stronghold in Northeast Borno State. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the...
Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has said that suicide bombers will go to hell...
The Nigerian military has decared that it was in full support of effortds resolving the crisie in the Niger Delta through dialogue. It however threatened that...
A Rivers State chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Nnamdi Abbah, has reportedly been abducted by unknown gunmen. This is coming less than 24...
A 35-year-old woman, Loretta Ewere, has been electrocuted at her fiance’s home on Ajoke Kazeem Street in the Idimu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt...
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has resolved to take the case of its leader Mr Nnamdi Kanu, to the Economic Community of West African States...
Chairman Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has ruled out withdrawing from the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki. Saraki had through his lawyer, Kanu...
Youths said to be loyal to the APC national Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Thursday called on Senator Bola Tinubu to stop playing god. This is...
The Senate on Tuesday put up a-10-man ad-hoc committee to probe the diversion of the N5 billion funds meant for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in...
An Imo State resident, Chidozie Anyanwu, has said he is ready to die if the standard of living in the state does not improve. Anyanwu, who...
Nigeria’s Senators had agreed to contribute N300, 000 each to alleviate the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in all camps in the country. The senators...
Three of the survivors of last week’s ‘invisible hands’ attack in a hotel on 44, Uyo Street, Umuahia metropolis, Abia State, have regained consciousness, but cannot...
The Minister of Environment under President Goodluck Jonathan, Laurencia Laraba Mallam and her husband Pius, have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. They were abducted on Monday...
The Federal Road Safety Corps has issued about 2,800 commercial vehicles tickets of fine on take off of the enforcement of speed limiting device nationwide. In...
Former Anambra Gov. Peter Obi has frowned against indiscriminate award of titles by churches to worshippers, saying that it was at variance with the essence of...
Head of December 9, 2015 Supreme Court ruling on the perjury suit against Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, by a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,...
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, of Lagos State Police Command, weekend, arrested a club girl, who allegedly stole one of her male customers’ Automated...
A diplomatic row may be brewing between Nigeria and Turkey following the arrest and deportation of some Nigerian students from Istanbul by the Turkish police. Rukkaya...
A former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has retrieved 48 of his properties seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, The PUNCH has learnt....
The police in Lagos State have arrested a sex worker, identified as Grace Onome, for allegedly selling her two-year-old child in the Badagry area of the...
The Nigerian Navy said it has apprehended four crude oil thieves who illegally refine crude oil into automotive gas oil (AGO) in Niger Delta. A statement...
Ekiti State House of Assembly Committee Chairman on Information, Gboyega Aribisogan, has said there was no plan to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose by the lawmakers. This...
Soldiers fighting banditry, kidnapping and livestock rustling in the North West, have arrested several bandits in Kaduna and Katsina states. During a clearance operation, some of...
There are strong indications that the United States (US) government may launch attacks against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East, as a drone base being constructed...
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome has urged the Federal Government to walk its talk on agriculture and the quest...
Residents of Assakio Development Area in Lafia, Nasarawa State were thrown into confusion on Saturday following the sudden appearance of a strange cross five feet away...
Residents of Olakula area of Idiroko in Ipokia Local Government Area (LGA) of Ogun State witnessed a jaw-dropping spectacle on Wednesday as maggots dropped continuously from...
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has denied reports that he called the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, to accept the result...
Abdulmumin Jibrin’s suit filed in August 9, seeking a court order to stop any plan by the lower legislative chamber to suspend him, has been fixed...
National Judicial Council (NJC) has sent Chief Judge (CJ) of Enugu High Court, the highest ranking justice for state, Justice Innocent Umezuruike on a compulsory retirement...
The police in Lagos State have launched a manhunt for a resident of Azeez Olaosebikan Street, Agege, Babatunde Igbara, after he allegedly battered his wife’s eyes....
The United States (US) government on Friday congratulated Nigeria as it marks its 56th Independence Anniversary on Saturday October 1. The message which was sent by...
Bauchi State Governor Mohammed Abubakar on Friday pardoned 22 inmates serving different jail terms in the state. He declared this in a broadcast to the people...
The office of the embattled Abdulmumin Jibrin at the House of Representatives building Abuja has been sealed up. The former Appropriation Committee Chairman was on Wednesday,...
Ahead of 2017 election in Anambra State, All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) ex- governorship aspirant, Dr Chike Obidigbo and 50,000 others have defected to the All Progressives Congress...
There was confusion at Sycamore Junction, Ajara Topa area of Badagry, Lagos State, after some customs officers allegedly opened fire on some residents. It was learnt...
A Pastor, Prince Adewale Fagbire, who was alleged to have been struck dumb and motionless has shared his experience. He had invaded his community shrine at...
A 35-year-old man, Ejike Onyejekwe, has been killed in the FESTAC Town area of Lagos State by yet to be identified person. PUNCH Metro learnt that...
Nigerian Federal Government has announced Monday, October 3, as Public Holiday to mark the country’s 56th Independence Anniversary. This is contained in a statement signed by...
