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In a trending video, a civil servant being owed 10 months salary broke down in tears after his daughter died as a rsult of his inability to pay for the hospital bills. President Muhammadu Buhari had last week challenged state governors for owing wor...

Former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for refusing to honour repeated invitations by the Commission since 2015. Maina was appointed by former P...

The Nigerian House of Representatives’ Committee on Health, has made a shocking discovery of obsolete equipment worth billions in several hospitals across the nation, the Guardian newspaper reports. Although the Guardian report mention only the Univ...

The Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere has fixed Friday, October the 27th for the arraignment of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans. Evans and three others would be arraigned on fresh charges of conspiracy a...

Security guards in Rivers State on Monday have denied teachers and pupils access into some public primary schools in the state over unpaid salaries READ MORE HERE...

At the #BuhariActOrQuit protest in Abuja, one of the speakers appears to have captured the mood of the rally with an impassioned speech to Nigerians to wake up. What are your thoughts?...

Six years ago, workers of the Kakatar Ce (Nigeria) Limited arrived the Karshi area of the federal capital territory (FCT) with bulldozers and trucks to construct roads in the area. But six years down the line, with billions of Naira invested, there a...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has released details of online registration for 2017 Batch ‘B’ corps members. According to the timetable released by the scheme, the online registration for foreign and locally trained graduates, begins 24th O...

The authorities of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina have engaged the services of snake charmers to rid the campus of snakes and other dangerous reptiles, Punch Newspapers reports READ MORE HERE...

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ruled against the Nigeria Police Force in the fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by one Mr. Okwuchukwu Obiechina said to be the brother-in-law of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias...

About 17 people lost their lives and 18 others wounded in multiple blast in Maiduguri on Sunday night, official said. The incidents occurred about 8:50 pm in Muna Garage general area in Jere Local Government Area of Maiduguri. According to a CJTF s...

A Nigerian Police officer has been recorded asking a group of people in a car for Dollars as bribe. When offered some amount of money in Naira, he refused saying currency has no value.. Watch video below ...

The Kogi State Government says Mr. Edward Soje, the late director who recently committed suicide after his wife gave birth to triplets, was last paid salary in December 2016. The government, however, dispelled rumours that Soje took his life because...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted partly cloudy to sunny weather conditions over the Central States of the country on Monday morning. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office on Sunday in Abuja also predicted day...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper, October 23, 2017. Headlines from Punch N2bn fraud: Arrest ex-pension boss now, Sagay, Falana tell Buhari BVN court ruling: Bank heads to meet, Nigerians in diaspora kick Nnamdi Kanu is in Aba...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has launched a fresh manhunt for the former head of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina. Mr. Maina was sacked from the civil service in 2013 and was in 2015 placed on the wa...

George Weah, retired footballer, on Sunday visted the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos, to seek the support of TB Joshua, founder of the church, in his bid to lead Liberia. Weah, who is the leading candidate in the Liberian president...

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says it has recovered the body of Mr Oluseye Adekunle, who allegedly jumped into a Lagos lagoon on Friday. The LASEMA General Manager, Mr Adesina Tiamiyu, told newsmen in Lagos that a fisherman sa...

A show of bravery and gallantry turned awful as a member of Isan Gona Vigilante Group, Ahmadu Maikare of Gidan Jimina village of Malumfashi LGA shot himself dead while testing a new charm meant to protect him from gunshots. It was gathered that memb...

Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police, has charged police personnel to be disciplined and dedicated while in the line of duty. The IGP made this statement via the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG Operations, Taiwo Lakanu who rep...

The Nigerian Law School on Saturday released the summary of the final examination results conducted in August. Chinedu Ukekwe, Head of Information and Protocol of the Nigerian Law School, in a statement said 1,272 candidates failed out of a total of...

Nigeria’s image received a boost on Thursday before the international community as former Agriculture Minister Akinwumi Adesina formally received the 2017 World Food Prize (WFP) Laureate award in the U. S. Adesina was confered with the laureate in D...

The Nigerian Army has announced the promotion of 123 officers from the ranks of Majors to Lieutenant Colonels and from Lieutenant Colonels to Colonels with varying effective dates of seniority. A statement issued on Saturday by the Director Army Pub...

The former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, is still on its wanted list for his alleged role in pensions biometric scam in the office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation to the tune of N2bn, the Economic and Financ...

The Nigerian Air Force said it bombed a large gathering of Boko Haram terrorists in Urga, close to Konduga, Borno State on Thursday. The bombs also razed down the structures of the terrorists. A statement by the Nigerian Air Force Director of Publi...

A new report by BudgIT, a civil society organisation, has shown that only four states in Nigeria can pay salaries without resorting to lending or going to Abuja for bailout funds. The report, state of State 2017, was launched on Thursday and release...

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested a 24-year-old housewife, Mrs Basira Sagiru, for pushing her sister-in-law into a pot of boiling water. The Head, Press and Public Relations Unit of NAPTIP, Mr Jo...

A director in the Kogi State civil service, Mr Edward Soje has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in Lokoja, the state capital. It was gathered on Saturday in Lokoja that the dangling body of Soje was found on a tree behind the...

A team of four missionaries from Great Britain have been the abducted by a group of suspected kidnappers in Delta State, Nigeria. The four missionaries, including a Doctor and his wife were taken from their dwelling around the area where they had b...

A family member of the man who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon has reacted to the incident saying he left his Ondo state residence three days ago. The Nation reports that the family member said the man identified as Adekunle Oluseyi attended a church p...

General overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo, explained how Enoch Adeboye, his counterpart at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, had a revelation about a potential plane crash involving him. Oyedepo and his wife, Faith Abi...

Eyewitness reports states that the security detail of former First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan, allegedly assaulted a Deputy Director of the FCT Department of Development Control at a building site currently under const...

Boko Haram ambushed a military convoy in Damboa, Borno State, on Thursday, killing at least three soldiers. The attack would be the second against the military within a week as last Friday, one soldier was killed while nine others were injured when ...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper October 2, 2017. Headlines from Punch I’ll make Nigeria attractive for investment, says Buhari Take action on NHIS report now, NMA tells Buhari Nigerians trust Buhari, President’s aide replies...

An unidentified man on Friday reportedly jumped into the Lagoon in Lagos from the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. The Nation reports that officials of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and the Marine Police have a...

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has advised its members in Anambra State not to go out between 6pm November 17 to 6pm om November 18 in a bid to boycott the gubernatorial election in the state. In a statement by the IPOB spokesperson, Emma Po...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper, October 20, 2017. Headlines from Punch FG arraigns Misau, senator gets N10m bail ISIS’ support for B’Haram disturbs me, Buhari admits Nigerians may repay .5bn loan for 30 years, says FG 1,...

A Nigerian student living in the United States, Amechi Amuegbunam, has been jailed for 46 months after he was found guilty of perpetrating fraud worth .7m. The 30-yyear-old was also ordered to pay 5,555.12 in restitution for his role in a sophi...

Following the reported invasion of his home by the Nigerian army, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is nowhere to be found. He seems to have vanished into thin air or teleported to another place in the galaxy. No one seems to k...

Imo state's governor Rochas Okorocha caused a controversy when he unveiled a statue of South Africa's President Jacob Zuma in the state. Apparently, Zuma's statue is not the only statue to be unveiled. Here's a leaked picture of other statues being...

Pandemonium in Maiduguri, Borno state capital over reports of vaccination of school children against monkeypox virus. According to multiple reports, school activities were cut short after reports filtered into town that students were being injected ...

The Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria (ASCSN) and Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Unit, have embarked on an indefinite strike over failure of the management to adhere to public servic...

An Igbo socio-activist group, the Igbos for Nigeria Movement , says it has uncovered the person behind the recent Monkey Pox vaccine hoax with sole aim of causing disaffection between the Military and the residents. According to National President o...

Prof. Mahmud Yakub, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) told the Senate Committee on INEC yesterday that the commission would recruit about one million ad hoc members of staff for the conduct of the 2019 general elect...

The Federal Government, on Thursday, arraigned Senator Isah Misau before an Abuja High Court at Maitama for making “injurious falsehood” against the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Ibrahim Idris and the Nigerian Police Force. Senator Isah Ham...

Evans, the billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike has changed his guilty plea to “not guilty” on two counts of conspiracy and kidnapping. Evan, who appeared before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court o...

The Lagos State Government has amended the charges it filed against Evans and the five others. The Director of Public Prosecution, DPP Lagos State, Titilayo Shitta-Bey told Justice Hakeem Oshodi that the amendment relates only to the punishment sect...

The Chancellor of Covenant University, Bishop Oyedepo has spoken on how his adopted son was rusticated from the university sometime ago. While being interviewed by reporters, he stated that that the school has zero tolerance for malpractices and who...

Six suspected cases of Mokeypox have been recorded in Agbor, Delta State. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nicholas Azinge confirmed the development to Channels Television on Thursday morning Three of the suspected cases have been treated...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of the pensions of retired Biafran police officers. These are police officers who served in the defunct Biafran Police during the 30-month civil war ages ago. Those who were granted presidential p...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has stated that he chose the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, as the new Are Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland because he has exhibited passion for defending his people, their culture and...

Police and community leaders have confirmed that suspected militants kidnapped four British nationals in Delta State. According to Chief Theo Fakama, from the local Enukorowa community, the four had been providing “free medical care and religious a...

Litigants, workers and lawyers scampered into safety as unknown armed men stormed the Chamber of the State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Paschal O. Nnadi. Speaking exclusively to Vanguard, a female judicial staff said that “in an apparent move to forest...

The God’s Spirit Touch Church International, a.k.a. Chosen Chapel, reportedly charged N5,000 as 'deliverance fees' , among its members for rebuilding of the church following damages from erosion. A receipt which surfaced online indicates a man paid ...

An 87-year-old lawyer and former lawmaker, Senator Cyrus Nunieh, said he decided to marry another wife because he was alone and needed a companion. Nunieh officially married a lady in her 40s on Tuesday at the Presidential Hotel in Port Harcourt, th...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper, October 18, 2017. Headlines from Punch Foreign hospitals stealing kidneys, FG warns President signs petroleum varsity bill into law State governors demand fresh bailout from Buhari Court ord...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated the emergence of Gani Adams as the next Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland. “Dear Otunba, I congratulate you on your appointment as the next Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland,” Tinubu described the OPC leader as a man w...

Here are trending pictures of some children in Rivers state running away from school over alleged vaccination by some uniform in the state. The Rivers state government has said that it did not authorise the Nigeria Army or indeed any other body or p...

Lagos is the eighth most dangerous megacity for women to live in, according to a Thompson Reuters survey. Cairo, capital of Egypt, was rated the world’s most dangerous megacity for women while London, the best. The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey...

Mild drama ensued in Court in Tuesday before the trial resumption of Nnamdi Kanu at the Federal High Court in Abuja. An IPOB member and co-accused, Benjamin Madubugwu, reacted angrily and sparked at security operatives after he was allegedly manhand...

Legendary Nigerian footballer and philanthropist, Nwankwo Kanu, is launching the biggest lotto in Africa to raise funds for the Kanu Heart Foundation (KHF) (www.KanuHeartFoundationNg.com) and help build a specialist cardiac hospital in Abuja. The...

Panic in some parts of Rivers State as speculations that soldiers were entering schools with the aim of forcing school children to receive vaccination allegedly from the Nigerian Army. Several callers to some Port Harcourt-based radio stations had t...

The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) yesterday has stated that 950 domestic and sexual violence cases have been reported this year alone, compared to about 452 cases laste year, representing a 100% increase. The alterna...

Nigeria, 14 other States have been elected to serve on the Human Rights Council, the highest intergovernmental body in the United Nations system for matters relating to protection and promotion of human rights worldwide. The 3-year term will commenc...

Panic gripped parents on Tuesday morning over alleged vaccination of school children of monkeypox in Ondo state. “As early as 10am in Igbokoda, Ondo State, parents started invading schools to whisk their children off over the lethal immunization rum...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu was absent at an Abuja Federal High Court as the treason case against him began on Tuesday. However, co-defendants: Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi were in ...

The police in Ebonyi State have confirmed the rescue of a Catholic priest, Timothy Nwanja, abducted by gunmen in Okpokueze Nkomoro community, Imoho Development Centre, Ezza North Local Government Area of the State. Also rescued was the cook to the p...

One of the patients afflicted with monkeypox at a Bayelsa quarantine center has taken his life. The isolation centre is located at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, in Yenagoa LGA of the state. He was among the 21 suspected v...

Twenty-nine persons were on Monday murdered at an Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Nkiedonwhro village, Bassa Local Government Area, Plateau State. More than a hundred people were taking refuge at the camp, a primary school, when the gu...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper October 17, 2017. Headlines from Punch World Bank disagrees with Adeosun on borrowing … says cost of debts not sustainable Senate panel summons Baru, Shell boss in oilfield probe Fire guts pet...

17-year-old Hannah Osazuwa, has reportedly stabbed her boyfriend, Tomide Akintoye, to death in Gowon Estate, Lagos state. It's not clear what events led to the stabbing but it's believed that the relationship has a violent past. Three days before...

Former militants are currently protesting in Benin, Edo state over their unpaid monthly allowance, New Telegraph reports. The ex-militants who are under the First Phase in Niger Delta, in Edo State, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to prevai...

The Federal Ministry of Health says all the Monkey Pox test samples obtained from Lagos tested negative. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said this during a press conference in Abuja on Monday. He said only four cases of monkeypox have ...

The leader of a pro-Biafran separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, has apparently gone missing, prompting speculation as to his whereabouts on the eve of his trial on treason charges. Nnamdi Kanu has not been seen in public since troops were...

A lifeless child allegedly came back to life after Apostle Johnson Suleman's prayer at Omega Fire Ministries headquarters. See photos below ...

The Nigerian Army has declared that it has ended it’s operation in the Southeast. General Officer Commanding (GOC), 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar, speaking on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff. Lieutenant General TY Bu...

The President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, Sunday, warned that no Nigerian citizen should be killed in any parts of South Africa. Zuma was quoted to have made the statement, through a release issued to newsmen in Owerri, by the Chief Press Secretary...

Twenty persons have reportedly been killed in a fresh attack in Bassa local government area of Plateau state, TheCable reports. A source told the online medium that the attack occurred in Miango district of the area on Monday morning. But Tyopev M...

Mr Nze Charles Ugwu, through his lawyer Simon Kanshio, has dragged the US Embassy in Nigeria before a Federal High Court in Abuja, for saying it does not view the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, as terrorists. The em...

The Nigeria Police Force has debunked claims by Counsel to billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also known as Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje, that officers of the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team extorted over N50m and ot...

Here are some selected headlines in today's newspaper October 16, 2017. Headlines from Punch Lawmakers enjoy free treatment at Aso Rock clinic –Presidency .5bn loan: FG not borrowing to pay salaries, says APC Reps summon NBC, Seven-Up, Cadbury,...

The Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III on Sunday declared the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Chief Gani Adams as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo (Generalissimo) of Yorubaland. The acclaimed wi...

There has been an onslaught on the residents of a community in Plateau state which has left 6 persons murdered, 5 injured, and over 10 houses set ablaze. According to reports, the attacked on Taagbe village near Kent academy at Bassa LGA happened i...

The family of leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has dismissed claims by Abia Commissioner of Police, Anthony Ogbizi that police recovered lethal weapons when, in a joint exercise with the Army, raided their compound...

Senator, Dino Melaye yesterday met the Russian President, Vladimir Putin at the 137th Inter-parliamentary Union Assembly in Moscow. The Super excited senator representing Kogi West took to his Instagram ...

The founder and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (Amen), Reverend Father Ejike Camillus Anthony Mbaka, has anointed and blessed Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state, fortifying him spiritually for the forthcoming November 1...

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has urged Nigerians to disregard allegations about the spread of Monkeypox through military medical outreach. Director of Defence Information, Major General John Enenche, in a statement on Saturday explained that...

Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Oyo, Most Reverend (Dr) Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, has reacted to the position of Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie on comment by General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, that RCCG will ha...

Operatives of the Lagos state police command have arrested the chairman of Celenca Community landlords association, located along Badagry expressway, Lagos State, for stealing and snatching cars. According to NewTelegraph, the suspect, Daniel Egwe, ...

Governor Rochas Okorocha has unveiled a giant statue of South African president Jacob Zuma in Imo state. This happened during Jacob Zuma's visit to Imo state where he was conferred with a chieftaincy title. The purpose for President Zuma’s visit w...

Without doubt, churches have denominations and patterns of worship differ, but when you stumble on one, where weird activities are the order of the day and alcohol, animal sacrifices and biblical villains like Nebuchadnezzar, Ahab and even Satan are ...

The Ogun State Police Command have arrested seven suspected ritualists in the state who allegedly have been terrorizing the inhabitants of the state The Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Ahmed Iliyasu spoke on the arrest of the suspects who operated ...

Most Reverend (Dr) Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Oyo, , has condemned Christians crying foul about the purported attempt to islamize Nigeria. According to him, Muslims have a right to Islamise Nigeria because one of t...

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was on Friday evening conferred with a chieftaincy title in Owerri, Imo State. Zuma was given the traditional title of “Ochiagha Imo” by Eze Imo, HRH Samuel Ohiri. The chieftaincy title certificate was presented ...

The Nigerian organized labour unions have rejected a N30,000 minimum wage offer from the federal government. The House of Representatives had offered an upward review of the minimum wage for Nigerian workers to N30,000 from the current N18,000 to a...

The National Youth Service Corp has released the mobilization time table for Batch B 2017. See timetable below ...

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A Nigerian man who reportedly spent 2 years in ritualists' den, has been released by his captors because he wasn't useful. He was reportedly dropped along BCJ road, Apata area of Ibadan. ConnectIbadan shard a video of him on Instagram; "A Good Sama...

Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has spoken on the condemnation of Aso Rock clinic by wife of the president, Aisha Buhari. Aisha had on Monday said the facility was redundant despite a budget of N3bn. She further lamented that the clinic ha...