20 under rubble as two buildings collapse in Anambra
Two buildings collapsed on Wednesday in different locations in Anambra State . While a two-storey building under construction collapsed in Amikwo, in the Awka South Local Government Areas, another...
View ArticleSyria village with language of Jesus prepares for returning pilgrims
In the ancient Syrian village of Maalula, whose residents still speak the language of Jesus, volunteers rake stones and scrub graffiti in preparation for the return of Christian pilgrims after years of...
View ArticleProtesting youths block highway as bandits abduct 14 in Kaduna
Gunmen have invaded Ungwan Gimbiya, near Juji in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, kidnapping no fewer than 14 residents. The hoodlums, it was learnt, attacked the community at 10:30pm...
View ArticleDriver missing as tanker kills six Army school pupils in Delta
Tragedy befell Army Children Primary School, Effurun in the Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State on Thursday as no fewer than six students of the school were crushed to death by a fuel laden...
View ArticleScandalous petrol smuggling and subsidy
REPORTS and pronouncements by officials reveal astronomical levels of petroleum products smuggling, the high landing cost of imports, and subsidy amid seeming helplessness by the government to resolve...
View ArticleBaptist school students: Parents panic as bandits threaten starvation, demand...
The parents and management of the Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Rido, Kaduna State, have raised money to buy foodstuffs being demanded by abductors of the 121 students of the school. A father of...
View ArticleTributes, tears as multitude throng TB Joshua’s lying-in-state
Tears flowed, while tributes continued on Thursday at the Synagogue Church of All Nations Ikotun, Lagos, as its late Founder, Prophet TB Joshua, was laid in state. Joshua died on June 5 at the age of...
View ArticleInbound traveller imports COVID-19 Delta variant into Nigeria
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday said it had detected a confirmed case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2. The NCDC in a statement said the variant was...
View ArticleSeven arrested during 7/7 cult celebration
The Lagos State Police Command has said that seven suspected cultists of the Aiye Confraternity during the annual 7/7 celebration in the Ajah and Ogombo areas of the state. The state Police Public...
View ArticleAPC summons Lai Mohammed, minister faces anti-party activities allegation
THE Kwara State Elders caucus of the All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, called for the immediate suspension of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed over alleged...
View ArticleOnochie contradicts affidavit, says I stopped APC membership in 2019
PRESIDENTIAL aide, Lauretta Onochie, on Thursday disavowed the All Progressives Congress during her screening by the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission. Onochie was among...
View ArticleIgboho drags FG before Abuja court, demands release of detained aides
Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services at his house in the Soka...
View ArticleTension as Delta police shoot man dead, label him robber
There was tension in Asaba, Delta State, on Thursday, following the killing of a yet-to-be-identified man by the police at the DLA Road, Asaba. PUNCH Metro gathered that some men, suspected to be...
View ArticleOgun Assembly proposes three-year imprisonment for open grazing offenders
The Ogun State House of Assembly has passed Animal Grazing Regulation and Cattle Ranch Establishment Bill, 2020, recommending three years jail term for offenders without any option. The violators,...
View ArticleLagos politician killed during APC rally
Gunmen have shot a politician, identified simply as Ekpo, to death in the Agboju area of Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered that Ekpo, who. until his death, was also a member of the National Union of Road...
View ArticleIf we silence Kanu, Igboho, others will rise – PFN
The National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Bishop Wale Oke, has asked the Nigerian government to practise good governance and equity as a means of resolving the agitations across...
View ArticleDiesel price surges to N290/litre as crude rises to $74.27
The price of a litre of Automotive Gas Oil, also known as diesel, has maintained an upward trend as it rose to a record high of N290 this week. The PUNCH had reported last week that the price of a...
View ArticleMessi, Neymar battle for first title in Copa America final
Former Barcelona teammates Lionel Messi and Neymar will line up opposite each other in Saturday’s Copa America final looking to end a hoodoo that has also affected some of their countries’ greatest...
View ArticleYou need my LG votes to win Rivers gov election – Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said he will not support anyone, who does not have the vision and clarity of mind to make the state to progress, to succeed him in 2023. The governor said he was...
View ArticleBe fair to us in resource allocation, North-Central govs tell FG
North-Central geo-political zone has demanded fairness in the allocation of resources, saying they have been shortchanged since the return of democracy in 1999. Niger State Governor and Chairman,...
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