A 45-year-old man, Solomon Olatunji, has dragged his wife, Alaba, before an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi in Ibadan, Oyo State, seeking the dissolution of their 14-year-old union over alleged stubbornness. Solomon, while testifying before the court on Tuesday, alleged that his wife was in the habit of fomenting trouble among her neighbours. According to him, […]

Director, Muslim Rights Concern, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, has urged Muslims in the country to spend within their income rather than borrowing money to celebrate the forthcoming Eid-el-Kabir. He gave the advice on Tuesday in a statement in Lagos. Akintola, who is also a lecturer at the Lagos State University, said, “Just like Hajj, the sacrifice […]

An Ikeja High Court has dismissed the murder charge filed against Mr. Moshood Salvador, the chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party. Salvador was remanded in the Kirikiri Prisons following his arraignment at a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court alongside 10 others on a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful killing on […]

Retired Brazilian striker Ronaldo left a clinic in Ibiza on Tuesday following a four-night stay for treatment for a flu infection. “He left this morning at 10:30am, not wanting to depart from the side where the press were waiting,” said a spokesman for the clinic in the centre of Ibiza. A spokesman for the former […]

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Presidency on Monday said the victories recorded by the ruling All Progressives Congress in legislative elections held in some states over the weekend had further confirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari would win the presidential election. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in […]

John Ameh and Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Presidency on Monday said President Muhammadu Buhari was still within the time frame allowed by the constitution to consider the revised Electoral Act Amendment Bill sent to him by the National Assembly before assenting to it. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The military authorities will sanction troops who protested at the Maiduguri Airport on Sunday following their deployment in the Marte Local Government Area of Borno State. The soldiers, who apparently were unhappy with their posting to a new operation theatre, were said to have shot in the air while threatening to deal […]

Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, said on Monday that more than 150 individuals were tried and convicted by the EFCC between January and July 2018. He stressed that the commission would not respect the status or political affiliation of anyone found guilty of corrupt practice. Magu […]

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki,  held a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his penthouse within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta on Monday. Saraki, who came in a black Toyota Landcruiser jeep in company with some security aides, arrived the OOPL around 5.30pm and emerged from the […]

John  Alechenu, John Ameh,  Olusola Fabiyi, Leke Baiyewu  and Alexander Okere The House of Representatives said on Monday the National Assembly never agreed to reconvene on Tuesday (today) to consider the budget for 2019 elections. The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr Abdulrazak Namdas, disclosed this to The PUNCH in an exclusive […]

Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan A 54-year-old, who claimed to be a professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Ibadan, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command after he fraudulently collected N1m from a man under the pretext of manufacturing animal multivitamins for him. The state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Odude, said the suspect, […]

Success Nwogu and Chidiebube Okeoma Scores of visually-impaired graduates and students on Monday protested against government’s failure to pay bursary and provide jobs, blocking the main gate to the Imo State Government House in Owerri to air their grievances. The protesters, who alleged marginalisation by the Governor Rochas Okorocha-led administration, said the government was treating […]

John Charles Makurdi A Makurdi Upper Area Court on Monday remanded a senior lecturer at the Department of Catering and Hotel Management, Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo, for allegedly defiling his 13-year-old housemaid. The accused, Andrew Ogbuja, who was arrested last Friday, pleaded with the judge to temper justice with mercy and grant him bail to […]

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The family of an electrician in the Surulere area of Lagos State, Hakeem Sanusi, has been thrown into confusion after he went missing. PUNCH Metro learnt that Hakeem left home on Wednesday after dropping a suicide note and had not returned. It was gathered that the 28-year-old had a conversation with his mother […]

’Femi Asu The nation’s power generation plunged by 777.9 megawatts on Monday as output from the hydropower plants and some gas-fired stations, including Egbin in Lagos, suffered declines. A total generation capacity of 4,463.3MW was unavailable as of 6am on Monday, compared to 3,631.4MW on Friday, according to the latest data obtained by our correspondent […]

Eniola Akinkoutu, Abuja Two lawmakers, Senator Rafiu Adebayo and Senator Isa Misau, have sued the Attorney-General of the Federation, the police, the Department of State Services, the Senate and seven others in order to stop the attempts to remove Senate President Bukola Saraki. Senators Adebayo and Misau, who are supporters of Saraki, instituted the fresh […]

Everest Amaefule, Abuja The Fiscal Responsibility Commission has recommended the expansion of the list of Ministries, Departments and Agencies that are scheduled to pay operating surplus to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government. The Acting Chairman of FRC, Mr Victor Murako, confirmed this development in an interview with our correspondent. The Fiscal Responsibility […]

Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi A domestic airline, Air Peace, has said it is considering opening mini-hubs for its operations in Kaduna, Kano and a few other cities to help decongest the Lagos airport. The airline’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, who stated this during an inaugural flight to Kaduna on Monday, […]

Samson Folarin A housewife, Bose Ogedengbe, has been arrested by the police for allegedly brutalising her ward, Favour, at their house on Bush Street, in the Anthony Village area of Lagos State. Bose and Favour are from  Akoko Edo in Edo State. The victim’s father, a farmer, had reportedly handed her over to Bose’s husband, […]

A 35-year-old bricklayer, Sunday Ajayi, has been jailed for six months by an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court sitting in Iwo Road after being found guilty of breaking into the Oyo State Government House in the Agodi area of Ibadan and stealing property worth N535,000 from members of the police bomb squad stationed on the premises. Police […]

Oluwatobi Akindele A septuagenarian, Rasheed Adebayo, has been arrested by the police for allegedly torturing his grandson, Fuad Badmus, in the Oko-Oba, Agege area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the 18-year-old was staying with his maternal grandfather on a holiday visit. Adebayo was alleged to have flogged his grandson with a cane for […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Commuters plying the Abuja/Keffi highway went through a harrowing time on Monday night following a crash involving an articulated truck which lost control and crushed 15 vehicles, including four Sports Utility Vans, three trucks, a hummer bus, taxis and other vehicles. Our correspondent learnt that the accident, which occurred sometime after 9pm, caused […]

The Chief Executive of German Car maker Audi, Rupert Stadler, is to remain in pre-trial detention after a Munich Court dismissed an appeal against his arrest warrant, a judicial spokesperson said on Monday. Stadler remains under suspicion of turning a blind eye to the sale of vehicles with manipulated diesel motors, the spokesperson said. The […]

President Beji Essebsi of Tunisia on Monday proposed giving women equal inheritance rights despite protests from thousands of people objecting to any challenge to Islamic law. The North African Muslim country, which toppled autocrat Zine Ben-Ali in 2011, grants women more rights than other countries in the region, and since in 2017 has allowed Muslim […]

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Persons suspected to be ritual murderers have beheaded a woman in Imo State, while one of her breasts was also cut off. The incident happened in Mgbirichi community in the Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State on Monday, sending residents into a state of panic when the headless body was found […]

Abayomi Shogunle, Director of Police Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit on Sunday challenged his followers to provide visual proofs of police brutality. On his twitter handle, @yomishogunle,  Shogunle, who is an Assistant Commissioner of Police, shared a video of police brutality in Baltimore, US and said; “I believe Nigeria policemen don’t do this, I will […]

Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger has warned government organisations against outright rejection of corps members posted to them in the state. He gave the warning during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘B’ orientation course of corps members in Paiko Local Government Area of the state. Alhaji Mamman Musa, the state Commissioner for Water […]

Floods in India’s Southern State of Kerala have claimed 39 lives and caused a loss of 1.1 billion dollars, officials said on Monday. This is as the region braces for more rains during one of its worst monsoon seasons in a century. As many as 33,372 people evacuated from villages in low-lying areas were housed […]

Fire razed about 21 shops at Fish Market in Maiduguri on Sunday night. Mr Ambursa Pindar, the Public Relations Officer of Borno State Fire Service, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri on Monday. He said that preliminary investigation into the incident by the state fire service department indicated that an electrical spark […]

The Nigeria Para Powerlifting Federation has praised its athletes for winning 11 gold and two silver medals at the World Para-powerlifting Africa Championships that ended in Algiers, Algeria on Sunday. The President of the federation, Queen Obuh, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos that the athletes did the country proud with […]

African goal poachers Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah tormented West Ham United as Liverpool went top of the English Premier League with a 4-0 opening-round triumph at Anfield. Senegalese Mane bagged a brace and 2017-2018 Premier League Player of the Season Salah from Egypt also scored while new Guinean signing Naby Keita sparkled. “Naby is […]

A Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, granted four traders bail in the sum of N400,000 for alleged theft and receipt of stolen property. The accused are; Bashar Malami, 28; Hassan Umar, 27; Mubarak Hassan, 26 and Saifullahi Mohammed, 26. The suspects, who reside in Sokoto metropolis, are facing three charges of criminal conspiracy, theft […]

Olusola Fabiyi, Armstrong Bakam, Gbenga Odogun and Olaide Oyelude The Kogi and Katsina  chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party have rejected the results of the Lokoja/Kogi Federal Constituency and Katsina North Senatorial Zone by-elections, which held on Saturday in the states. The Chairman, PDP Kogi State, Mr Sam Ohuetu, made the call on behalf of […]

• APC dismisses allegation, says Senate President, deputy must go • PDP Senate caucus passes vote of confidence in Saraki, deputy John Alechenu, Olusola Fabiyi, Success Nwogu and Gibson Achonu The Peoples Democratic Party claims it has again uncovered a plot by the All Progressives Congress and a group in the Presidency to use security agencies […]

Eniola Akinkuotu and Umar Muhammed The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has berated the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, for accusing the EFCC of playing out a script written by Senate President Bukola Saraki. Ojudu had in an article titled, ‘Fifth columnists in our recent history’, accused Saraki of […]