nigeria news 170418

Chelsea’s Marcos Alonso has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association after an incident during the Premier League match against relegation-threatened Southampton. The left wing-back appeared to stand on the back of Southampton striker Shane Long’s leg during Saturday’s game...

No fewer than two people died and three sustained various degrees of injuries in Babura the hometown of governor Muhammadu Abubakar of Jigawa state when a borrow pit collapsed on them while digging for building soil. This was contained in a press statement issued, signed and made available to...

Barely one week after President Muhammadu Buhari blamed the rise in attacks by suspected herdsmen on foreign militia once trained by Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, the United States military Monday expressed great concern over incessant attacks by foreign extremists in Nigeria and other West African...

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday told the British Prime Minister Theresa May at her No. 10 Downing Street office in London that he was more worried about the state of Nigeria’s security and the economy than the 2019 election, which he declared last week that he intends to re-contest. The...

Centrum Initiative for Development and Fundamental Rights Advocacy, CEDRA, a non-Governmental Organization, has described as “lawless and suppressive” the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government’s attitude towards the yearnings and aspirations of aggrieved groups in the country. CEDRA...

The United States of America (USA), Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Stuart Symington has advised Nigerians to be concerned about the country being peaceful, united and prosperous rather than dominating the county’s space with issues about 2019 general elections. Symington made this know...

President Muhammadu Buahri has approved further healthcare intervention in the communities of Ogoni, Rivers State, to alleviate the suffering of residents of the area following much exposure to oil pollution. This came as the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People, MOSOP, pleaded with the...

operatives of the state police command have arrested a dismissed policeman for carrying out illegal duty in Lagos. He was paraded alongside a fake doctor, Abdulrahman Mohammed, by the state commissioner of police Mr. Edgal Imohimi, at the state command yesterday. Click here to read more

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has busted the activities of an online company, Swiss Golden Company Limited, which defrauded over 7,000 Nigerians to the tune of over N3 billion. Spokesman, EFCC zonal office, Kano, Idris Isyaku, who disclosed this in a statement, yesterday...

There was confusion in the Alapere area of Ketu on Sunday after the Divisional Crime Officer of Sagamu Road Police Division, Ikorodu, SP Opawoye Adetunji, allegedly shot a bus passenger. Adetunji was said to have been attacked by a mob, who beat him to a pulp. Click here to read more

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Abdulrahman Mohammed for allegedly impersonating a medical doctor and operating a clinic in the Idi-Araba area of the state. Mohammed, a primary school-leaver, had allegedly paraded himself as a doctor for four years before luck ran out on him on...

Joel Obi has set his sights on being at the World Cup this summer with Nigeria. The 26-year-old was omitted from the last tournament in Brazil, but took a step closer to realising that ambition last month by playing in the Super Eagles’ two friendlies. Click here to read more

The Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, has said the varsity may involve the police to verify a telephone conversation involving a professor at the institution who was accused of demanding sex from a female student. The VC said this while speaking to our...

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders have allegedly killed 32 Tiv villagers at various locations across the southern senatorial district of Nasarawa State. The coordinated attacks reportedly took place on Saturday and Sunday. The Punch learnt that the attacks were carried out simultaneously in...

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, allegedly received N250m from the Office of the National Security Adviser under the leadership of the embattled former NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s report has said. The report, which...

A former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, says Nigerians no longer take him seriously because he annulled the June 12, 1993 Presidential election adjudged as the most credible election in the history of Nigeria. Babangida said this during a programme on Channels Television titled, ‘Roadmap...

Scores of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria were injured on Monday in Abuja during a clash with policemen at the Maitama area of the city. It was gathered that the police arrested about 115 Shiite members who were protesting against the continued incarceration of their leader, Sheik...