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A supermarket owner and his employees have been arraigned in court for beating a man to death for stealing a portion of meat. According to iHarare, Tawanda Chivaya, 32, Clive Dizamuhupe, 33, Fidelis Mutandwa, 33, Chiona Nyakunuwa, 32, Cloete Soko, 21, Enough Rusere, 32, and Adolf Nyamayedenga...

Kano businessman, Isyaku Rabiu, died on Tuesday in a London hospital aged 89, after a protracted illness. Messages of condolence have been pouring in from eminent Nigerians to the family. Although not much was heard about him in the years leading to his death, Rabiu was one of … Read...

The police in Edo State on Wednesday in Benin disclosed that its personnel had arrested seven members of a kidnap gang. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Johnson Kokumo, announced this at a news conference on the command’s achievements in the fight against crime. Kokumo, who said the …...

Russia’s football association has been fined 30,000 Swiss francs (25,000 euros) following racist chants by supporters during a friendly between the World Cup hosts and France in March, FIFA said on Tuesday. Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele were the...

A baby fell to his death after his mother lost her balance in high heels and dropped him from a balcony. He was reported to have suffered spinal injuries and died before he could be taken to the hospital. Police were called to the scene and later ruled … Read more via Punch Newspapers –...

The senator representing Ekiti South, Abiodun Olujimi, has stepped down for a former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, in the race for the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate. Olujimi said she sacrificed her ambition for peace, progress, and stability of the …...

Arsenal midfielder, Mesut Ozil, is not expected to return for the remaining two games of the English Premier League season due to a back injury. However, the German is confident he will be fit for the FIFA World Cup starting next month in Russia. Ozil, who played in … Read more via Punch...

Some stakeholders in the Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Monday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crises rocking the party at the state level. The stakeholders, who were mainly Senator Magnus Abe’s supporters, also insisted that there … Read...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation says the recruitment advertisement by the corporation currently trending on social media is false. In a statement in Abuja on Sunday, the NNPC spokesman, Mr Ndu Ughamadu, said that the advertisement was intended to mislead innocent members of the...

The All Progressives Congress will spend N1.4bn for its congresses and the national convention. The figure was contained in the budget approved by the party’s caucus and the National Executive Committee at its..... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2weFVzg Get More Nigeria...

Arsene Wenger will bid farewell to a stadium he helped to build in more ways than one when he leads Arsenal at the Emirates for the final time at home to Burnley on Sunday. Wenger’s final season after 22 years in charge is destined to end in disappointment … Read more via Punch Newspapers...

A woman, Mrs. Henrietta Anthony, on Saturday, said three of her cousins were killed when a mast belonging to a telecommunications company fell on them during a rainstorm in Jalingo, Taraba State. No fewer than five people were killed, while many others sustained varying degrees of … Read...

The Chief Executive Officer of Trash2Wealth initiative, a firm that turns car tyres into household furniture, Olubukola Bamiduro, in her 30s, tells ANNA OKON about her business in this interview Tell us a bit about yourself. I was born in Lagos. I am a wife and mother of … Read more via...

A 35-year-old athlete, Bertha Chimutu, who went for her routine jogging session was stabbed to death near new Ngoni service station in Zimbabwe. Bertha, a mother of three was reportedly stabbed multiple times during an ambush and left dead. She was immediately rushed to Norton Hospital where...

Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team, Cristiano Ronaldo, has reportedly engaged his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, with a Cartier diamond ring..... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2IeDIIU Get...

Chief Press Secretary to Niger State Governor, Jibrin Ndace, has disclosed that Governor Sani Bello has been living in a boys quarters apartment for the past three years due to the dilapidated state of the official quarters he inherited. Ndace said on Thursday (today) when the Coalition …...

A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Thursday granted a petition filed by Mr Akeem Folorunsho for the dissolution of his two-year marriage on the grounds that his wife had a habit of stealing. Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of the Court in pronouncing the dissolution of the … Read...

Prominent leaders of the southern and Middle Belt parts of Nigeria are currently meeting with the Senate hierarchy. They include Chiefs Ayo Adebanjo, Edwin Clark, Obong Victor Attah, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, John Nwodo, and Mr. Yinka Odumakin Receiving them were President of the Senate, Bukola...

The social media has been agog since the ace Nigerian musician, Davido, presented his girlfriend, Avril Chioma Rowland, a Porsche worth N45m as birthday gift on Tuesday. Someone took to Twitter to compare Chioma’s expensive gift with the N45m total prize won by the just-concluded BBNaija...

Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has reiterated his support for Nigerian workers’ demand for an upward review of the monthly national minimum wage. Ekweremadu stated this in his goodwill message on the occasion of the 2018 edition of International Workers’ Day, issued by …...