Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Department of State Services has denied the rumours making the round that a huge sum of money and weapons were found in the house of its sacked Director General, Mr. Lawal Daura. The service said that the rumours emanated from some fake videos which it said were circulated as being the […]

A special tribunal in Bangladesh capital Dhaka sentenced five men to death on Monday for crimes against humanity during the country’s war of independence in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal, led by its Chairman Justice Shahinur Islam, found the suspects Esahaque Shikder, Abdul Gani, Md Awal, Md Pada and Solaiman Mridha guilty of the charges […]

More than 250 people have been injured, five of them seriously, after part of a wooden promenade collapsed at a music festival in Spain, local officials said Monday. The seafront platform, which was 30 metres (98 feet) long by 10 metres wide, was packed with people watching a rap artist in the northwestern city of […]

The blue light from digital devices like smartphones could accelerate blindness, researchers found. According to a research by the University of Toledo in the U.S., exposure to blue light continuously might cause poisonous molecules to be generated in the eye’s light-sensitive cells and lead to macular degeneration. Researchers said as one of the leading causes […]

Alexander Okere, Benin THE Christ Chosen Church of God has disowned its suspended pastor, one Ngbeken Elvis, who was reportedly arrested over the death of a 38-year-old mother of four in the Egor Local Government Area of the state. It was also gathered that Elvis could face additional sanctions as he had yet to fulfil […]

The Nigerian Army said calm has been restored at Maiduguri Airport seized for two hours on Sunday by riotous troops, that it described as ‘unscrupulous”. In a statement today, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole Theatre Command said the protest by the few unscrupulous troops happened while the command was conducting […]

Femi Makinde, Osogbo The management of the Adeleke University, Ede has alerted the police in OsunState  to the threat from the Oshun Ceramic Industries Limited to demolish all buildings on the premises of the university. The Registrar of the university,  Oyerinde  Oyejola, said in a letter written to the Commissioner of Police in Osun State  […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed four operatives of the Intelligence Response Team during an ambush in Kaduna. The operatives were investigating the abduction of a Muslim cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Algarkawy, when they were attacked. The cleric was abducted on August 2 and was subsequently released after payment of ransom by […]

…declares Wednesday, Thursday public holiday for PVC Gibson Achonu, Owerri Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has said that the Igbo alone cannot produce a president of Igbo extraction, adding that the Igbo would need the rest of Nigerians to be able to have a president of Igbo origin. Okorocha spoke while fielding questions from […]

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja Human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the acting Director-General of the Department of State Services, Matthew Seiyefa, to immediately release all illegally detained suspects which he claimed to be over 100. Falana said this in a letter addressed to the new DSS boss on Sunday. The activist, therefore, advised […]

…ask President to stop running nation like military govt Olaleye Aluko, Abuja Leaders of Nigerian socio-cultural groups, Afenifere, Northern Elders Forum and Ohanaeze -Ndigbo, on Sunday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to “stop running Nigeria asif he is the head of a military junta.” The socio-cultural groups, which also included the Pan-Niger Delta Forum and […]

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested an ex- convict, Yisa Nwachukwu, in Ota, in the Ado Odo/Ota Local Government Area for allegedly stealing a MAN diesel truck belonging to one Alhaji Owonifaari. The alleged buyer of the stolen truck, one Yusuf Sanusi, was equally arrested. The police in the state […]

Deji Lambo  A suspected thief, Daniel Ekwerekwu, has died while allegedly escaping from where he had gone to steal in the Maryland area of Lagos State. The Anambra State indigene was said to have hit his head on a concrete floor while attempting to scale a fence. The police alleged that Ekwerekwu sneaked into Okungade […]

Peter Dada, Akure A farmer, Segun Daniel, has allegedly killed his lover’s mother, Mrs Beatrice Lajuwomi, at a farm settlement in Igbotako, in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was learnt that the 29-year-old farmer allegedly had a heated argument with the 42-year-old mother of his lover over the custody of his […]

Femi Makinde, Osogbo The Osun State Police Command has arrested three members of an armed robbery gang who specialised in snatching motorcycles (okada), as well as those buying the stolen motorcycles and other stolen goods. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs Folasade Odoro, who led other officers from the command to parade the suspects  […]

Samson Folarin Risikatu Uthman, a 14-year-old pupil of a public secondary school in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State who got missing about two months ago, has been found. She reportedly returned home on Thursday, saying she was abducted by human traffickers, who allegedly sold her to Burkina Faso for prostitution. PUNCH Metro had reported […]

Cristiano Ronaldo on Sunday gave a display of pure star power in his debut for Italian champions Juventus, showing his class on and off the pitch at the club’s traditional alpine curtain raiser. Nearly 5,000 fans crammed into the compact “Gaetano Scirea” stadium in Villar Perosa at the foot of the Italian Alps, as supporters […]

A landlord has made 183 videos featuring how his tenants had sex. The unsuspecting tenants discovered that the man who rented the house to them had installed cameras in their bedrooms and bathrooms. The landlord made sex videos from their intimate activities. The perverted landlord confessed to law enforcement agents that he made secret videos […]

In-laws have stated their objection to a new relationship by their daughter’s husband six months after his wife died. However, the 33-year-old widower who found love six months after his childhood sweetheart died from cancer says she would be happy for him. As reported by The SUN, Jake Coates’ wife, Emmy, died in June 2017 […]

  A polling station chief was killed by suspected jihadists in northern Mali as security concerns disrupted a presidential runoff vote on Sunday. Security had been drastically boosted ahead of the election’s second round between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and former finance minister Soumaila Cisse. But over 100 stations had to be closed in the […]

A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, has said that if a court of competent jurisdiction ordered that former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, be released, it should be obeyed. He also stressed the need to respect the rule of law in order for democracy to thrive in the country. Kalu, a chieftain of […]

A Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker, Boma Goodhead, who challenged the DSS operatives that barricaded the National Assembly on Tuesday, tells JOHN AMEH why she lost her cool and confronted the masked men You confronted the DSS operatives who invaded the National Assembly on Tuesday, are you not afraid that you could be shot? READ ALSO: I […]

ETIM EKPIMAH Some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State have rejected former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, as the party leader in the state. A party chieftain, Emmanuel Sam, said on Thursday that he would not accept Akpabio as the party leader. READ ALSO: Anxiety as defection gale hits state assemblies […]

A 17-year-old girl, Ramatu Tafida, has cut off the manhood of her 25-year-old fiance, Mr Abdullahi Sabo, in Jigawa State, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence has said. The corps Spokesman in the state, Adamu Shehu, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Saturday, said the incident occurred in Babura […]

TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN writes about how scavengers resell surgical waste from hospitals dumped in a Lagos rubbish dump Hospitals generate waste daily; some ordinary, others surgical and they all end up in a dump. The process of disposing of the waste is however largely unknown to many. But SUNDAY PUNCH can authoritatively report that surgical waste […]

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has berated gospel preachers for failing to support the Federal Government’s anti-corruption war by not preaching against the scourge. Speaking at the 30th National Biennial Conference of the Students Christian Movement of Nigeria holding in Enugu, Osinbajo noted that preachers were preoccupied with preaching prosperity rather than righteousness. READ ALSO: I confronted […]

Hindi Livinus Ambassador James Barka, a former acting governor of Adamawa State and ally of Governor Umaru Jibrilla has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress. Barka while renouncing his membership of the APC, also severed his ties with the state governor on account of his alleged lack of integrity. READ ALSO: I don’t mind my gospel […]

Chukwudi Akasike The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State took a fresh turn on Saturday when suspected thugs vandalised the parallel secretariat belonging to Senator Magnus Abe’s faction of the party. It was learnt that the thugs, allegedly protected by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, stormed the secretariat located along Aba […]

Simon Utebor Four cult members have been killed in a renewed supremacy battle between two rival cult groups in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. It was learnt that members of one of the rival groups on Friday killed a man identified only as God-do-Well at the Swali Market in the Yenagoa metropolis. Our correspondent gathered that […]

Tragedy struck on Friday night in Irukpen along the Benin-Auchi Expressway in the Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State when a magistrate of the Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court, Ondo State, Banji Ayeomoni, reportedly lost his life in an inferno caused by a petrol tanker spillage. The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the incident […]

TONY OKAFOR The Peoples Democratic Party has said it will reclaim Anambra State in memory of a second Republic Vice President, the late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, who played a major role in founding the party. The leader of PDP reconciliation committee in the state, Mr. Ngozi Agudozi, stated this in a chat with SUNDAY PUNCH […]

SUNDAY ABORISADE, LEKE BAIYEWU, ETIM EKPIMAH and WILLIAMS BABALOLA The nation may witness yet another showdown in the Senate as the senators cut short their vacation to discuss President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 polls budget request. Apart from the fact that constant fierce arguments between members of the All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic […]

Kenya Anti-Doping Agency, Chief Executive Officer, Japhter Rugut, on Saturday, said that lawyers would be trained and sensitise on anti-doping cases to fight the scourge in the country. Anti-doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletes. The use of drugs to enhance performance is considered unethical, and therefore prohibited, by most international […]

Some voters in Sabongari polling unit of Dot ward in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi on Saturday protested over the mix-up in their voters’ register in Saturday’s Senatorial bye-election. A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria covering the election reports that immediately accreditation started, names of those who registered in that polling unit […]