Afeez Hanafi and Deji Lambo Echi Uche, one of the 19 pregnant women rescued from four baby factories in the Ikotun and Abaranje areas of Lagos State, said she intended to sell her baby upon delivery so that she could use the proceeds to take care of her three other children. The Imo State indigene […]

Daniels Igoni, Yenagoa Mother of former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, is praying for her abductors to be arrested and prosecuted. Mrs Beauty Siasia said this during an interview with our correspondent in her home in Odoni community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Monday. The 80-year-old was released by her abductors […]

Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt  THE Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said on Monday that the state government decided to acquire Shell Petroleum Development Company’s 45 per cent stake in Oil Mining Lease 11 because it was in the best interest of the people of the state. Wike, who said this during a state broadcast at […]

Ade Adesomoju,  Samson Folarin and Oladimeji Ramon The Federal Government on Monday arraigned the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, on seven counts of treasonable felony, cybercrimes and money laundering. They both pleaded not guilty to the charges read to them when the operatives of the Department of State […]

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday re-arraigned a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suwsam, and the then Commissioner for Finance in his administration, Omadachi Oklobi, on N3.1bn money laundering charges. Suswam, who is now the Senator representing Benue North East, and his co-defendant, pleaded not guilty when the nine […]

Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The National Youth Service Corps has said that it will allow female corps members, who are Muslims, to use white, shoulder-length hijabs for religious purposes. The NYSC added that only three types of dressing used for different occasions would be acceptable for corps members. The corps stated this in a document exclusively […]

Daniels Igoni, Yenagoa The Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Tonye Isenah, was on Monday removed amidst sporadic gunshots fired in the Assembly Complex in Yenagoa following his refusal to resign. In his place, the Leader of the House, Mr Monday Bubou-Obolo, representing the Southern Ijaw Constituency 2, was elected speaker. But […]

Friday Olokor, Oladimeji Ramon, Olaleye Aluko and Godwin Isenyo The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said terrorism and terrorist groups could not be eliminated alone by the military unless religious bodies and organisations in the country come to the ‘forefront of the spiritual battle.’ The army chief noted that the focus […]

Olaleye Aluko, Abuja Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested a bus driver and seven passengers who are illegal immigrants and believed to be working for the Islamic State West Africa Province and the Boko Haram fighters along Yola Road in Borno State. The eight suspects were rounded up by troops of 331 Artillery Regiment […]

Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Federal Government is planning to borrow fresh N4.6tn within the next three years, covering 2020 to 2022, to finance its programmes, figures obtained from the Ministry of Budget and National Planning have revealed. If the N4.6tn new borrowings scale through legislative scrutiny and get executed, then Nigeria’s indebtedness to local and […]

Samson Folarin No fewer than 1,000 pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, have been taken home by their parents after the outbreak of what is suspected to be an infection. “It is over 1,000 (pupils) now as we speak. See, I cannot talk about what I don’t know. What you have in your palm, you […]

Tayo Oke [email protected] In the normal run of things, a Vice President has no other job than being a President-in-waiting, quite literally. Like the Crown Prince, he is a useful spare; a ‘just in case’ personality, who may, emphasise may, one day, inherit the Crown. Otherwise, his only guarantee of wearing it is the natural […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja A mob, on Monday, lynched three men, who allegedly robbed a woman in a car at Dutse Alhaji, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The suspected robbers were stoned to death and their bodies set ablaze with disused tyres. Their operational vehicle was also torched. Posing as passengers in the […]

Friday Olokor, Abuja The Organisation of Ebonyi State Indigenes in Diaspora on Monday berated Governor Dave Umahi for banning his aides from criticising President Muhammadu Buhari, saying he should stop such intimidation. The organisation said the gag order not only demonstrated the governor’s lack of any clear grasp of the Nigerian constitution, “but also brings […]

Punch Editorial Board UNLIKE the ongoing effusion of national pride in China (today) and Botswana (yesterday) that are also marking their national days, gloom, anxiety and seething discontent are pervasive among Nigerians at home and abroad on the country’s 59th anniversary. The reasons are not far-fetched: In June 2018, Nigeria grabbed the title of host […]

Anna Okon Car dealers across Lagos State, whose sales outlets were shut down by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service in search of cars smuggled via the land borders, have condemned what they describe as harassment and attempt by the NCS to label them as smugglers.  The dealers condemned the Gestapo style the shutdown was […]

Sodiq Oyeleke Blessing Okagbare was on Monday disqualified again at the ongoing World Championships in Doha, Qatar. Okagbare, who was earlier disqualified for pulling out of the 100m events at the competition, faced another disqualification in her women’s 200m heat for lane infringement. On Saturday, the IAAF had disqualified Okagbare and Divine Oduduru for running […]

In this interview monitored by SODIQ OYELEKE, Divine  Oduduru, who faced a disqualification scare before he crashed out at the 2019 Doha World Championships talks about his experiences at the meet You were disqualified from the World Championships on Saturday, before you were reinstated after an appeal. How was the issue resolved? They worked on […]

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja A former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank Plc (now Polaris Bank), Mr Tunde Ayeni, on Monday pleaded with Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja for more time to conclude settlement talks with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the money laundering charges the agency instituted against […]

Chdiebube Okeoma, Owerri The police have foiled attempts to cart way property belonging to the immediate past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha. The building was sealed by the Economic and  Financial Crimes Commission. The force arrested 12 people and impounded two trucks said to have been driven to Okorocha’s house and one of […]

Ademola Babalola, Ibadan Some academics have said that xenophobic attacks on foreigners living in South Africa would continue if the country’s leadership fails to tackle the problem with the right measures.  They made this known at a lecture held at Lead City University, Ibadan in Oyo State to commemorate the 77th birthday of Prof. Alaba […]

Ade Adesomoju Abuja  Mrs Busola Dakolo, wife of Nigeria’s inspirational singer, Timi Dakolo, has asked the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja to dismiss the preliminary objection filed against the rape case she instituted against the Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo. She stated in her response to the […]

Raphael Ede, Enugu The Igbo Union in Benue State, comprising Igbo residents in various parts of Benue State, on Monday said their lives and property were no longer safe in Benue State despite government assurances. Speaking through its Public Relations Officer, Mr Emmanuel Ezeadi, to journalists in Enugu, the union said as at Monday, September […]

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The mother of a two-year-old girl, on Monday, narrated to a Lagos State Sexual Offences Court how her daughter was defiled by the driver of her school bus, Afeez Balogun. The mother told the court that 27-year-Balogun, who was the bus driver of the Holbrook School in the Gbagada area of Lagos, defiled […]

Sola Shittu, Benin Irate youths from the Urora community in Edo State, on Sunday, unleashed terror on the pastor and members of the City of God Rest Ministry for allegedly violating the community chief priest’s directive that churches should end their services by 8am for the annual Ikpoleki festival. The General Overseer of the City […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The South African Government has granted a request for Air Peace to begin commercial flights to Johannesburg, South Africa. The confirmation was granted last Friday as part of the implementation of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Nigeria and South Africa at the meeting of the 9th session of the Nigeria/South Africa […]

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Tragedy struck in Imo State on Sunday as fumes from a generator killed a couple and their daughter. The incident, which occurred in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of the state, caused pandemonium in the area. When contacted on Monday, the police spokesperson in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, said the police […]

Peter Dada, Akure The coordinator of a youth group that organised a political rally in support of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, last week in Akure, Mr Bamise Akintomide, has been quizzed by Ondo State Police Command. Akintomide was alleged to have been arrested and detained by the police for organising the rally for […]

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The Nigeria Technology leaders have launched a campaign against the illegal arrest of citizens in the technology sector by the police. The #StopRobbingUs campaign, led by Bosun Tijani of the Co-Creation Hub, Jason Njoku of IROKOTv, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji of Future. Africa and Oluyomi Ojo of Printivo, among others, came after a Lagos-based software […]

Peter Dada, Akure The Ondo State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, on Monday, said one person lost his life in a road crash that occurred on Sunday at Iyere in the Owo Local Government Area of the state. The accident involved a Honda Accord car with number plate WWW 331 MW and […]