US-bound passengers face new security interviews at check-in
US-bound travelers will face security interviews before checking in to flights at a number of global airlines beginning Thursday as anti-terror measures are stepped up around the world. Lufthansa,...
View ArticleObasa urges help for youths
Sesan Olufowobi The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Wednesday urged privileged people to create avenues for youths to exhibit their talents. The Speaker in a statement...
View ArticleENSIEC makes a U-turn, recalls disqualified APC candidates
Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu The Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission has reversed the disqualification of some All Progressives Congress’ candidates who were barred from participating in the...
View ArticleHarmful drinks: Reps, NECA disagree over probe of private firms
John Ameh, Abuja The House of Representatives and the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association on Wednesday disagreed over the powers of the National Assembly to probe the activities of private...
View ArticlePensioners seek payment
Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Vice-Chairman of the Association of Pensioners in Ogun, Onibajo Ashiru, has called on the Federal Government to speed up the process of payment of arrears of pensions...
View ArticleUnpaid wage: Senators donate 1,280 bags of rice to Kogi workers
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja Members of the Senate have donated 1,280 bags of rice as of Wednesday to Kogi State Government’s workers whose salaries have not been paid for some months now. This was made know by...
View ArticleMetuh’s trial: Court gives bailiff five days to subpoena Jonathan …orders...
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday gave the court bailiff five days to serve former President Goodluck Jonathan with the witness summon, compelling him to appear in court...
View ArticleAir strike kills Shekau’s wife, others during Boko Haram meeting – NAF
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Nigerian Air Force said on Wednesday that it believed that Mallama Fitdasi, the wife of Boko Haram terrorists’ leader, Abubakar Shekau, had been killed in air strikes on a...
View ArticleMisau mentions Aisha Buhari, Emefiele, Ambode in IG probe
Everest Amaefule, Olalekan Adetayo, Leke Baiyewu and Adelani Adepegba Lawmaker representing the Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Isa Misau, on Wednesday open a can of worms on the crisis between...
View ArticleRobbers shoot Lagos policeman, steal gun
Samson Folarin The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State, has arrested four hoodlums for robbing and shooting a police corporal attached to the Meiran Police Station, Lagos. The suspects – Segun...
View ArticleAir Force’s $900,000 found in Badeh’s account –Witness
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Abubakar Madaki, said his investigative team found in the account of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief...
View ArticleSome Lake Chad’s islands in possession of Boko Haram –Military
Kayode Idowu, Maiduguri The military has said that some islands within the Lake Chad Basin are still held by the Boko Haram sect. The Commanding Officer of the Multinational Joint Task Force Brigade in...
View ArticleThugs attack, cut off Lamido supporter’s hand in Kaduna
Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna Hell was let loose in Kaduna on Wednesday as thugs and supporters of a former governor of Jigawa State and Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential aspirant in the 2019 election,...
View ArticlePower-drunk Edo PPRO bars PUNCH from command
Alexander Okere, Benin The Edo State Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Nkombe, has barred The PUNCH newspaper from the state command. Nkombe warned our Edo State correspondent never to step on the...
View ArticleOnly 30% UTME candidates can be admitted, says NUC
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The National Universities Commission has said that limited spaces for admission into Nigerian universities can only accommodate about 30 per cent of the 1.7 million candidates who...
View ArticleEdo police arrest seven for murder of UNIBEN professor
Alexander Okere, Benin The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday said that it had arrested seven persons in connection with the murder of a lecturer at the University of Benin, Prof. Paul Otasowie....
View ArticleBoko Haram kills eight soldiers in Damaturu
Kayode Idowu, Damaturu Suspected Boko Haram members took soldiers by a surprise in a village near Damaturu, Yobe State capital, killing eight soldiers. According to a military source, the insurgents...
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Fire razes Fayose’s G-Class in Lagos • We saw driver packing burnt cash from...
Kamarudeen Ogundele and Samson Folarin The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, escaped death by a whisker on Tuesday after fire consumed his Mercedes-Benz G-Class on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway,...
View ArticlePolls open in Kenya election re-run
Polls opened in Kenya’s contentious election re-run Thursday morning, with the country tense after weeks of protests and political turmoil. The re-run comes after the Supreme Court threw out the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Indonesia fireworks factory fire kills 10
More than 10 people have been killed and dozens injured after a blaze tore through an Indonesian fireworks factory, police said on Thursday. “We are still evacuating victims, more 10 than people died...
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