Apple on Wednesday unveiled updated versions of its priciest iPhones along with a new smartwatch that allows users to take their own electrocardiograms, as the US tech giant looks to boost its momentum in a sputtering market. The California tech giant revealed its iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, updating the top-of-the line handsets released […]

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday set up a ministerial committee to investigate the tremor witnessed in some parts of Abuja last week. The FEC meeting presided by President Muhammadu Buhari was the first since the President returned from the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation held in Beijing, China. READ ALSO: Buhari is Nigeria’s […]

Arrests of migrant families illegally crossing the Mexican border into the United States jumped 38 percent in August from July, official data showed Wednesday, despite efforts by Donald Trump’s administration to crack down on the flow. The Department of Homeland Security said that 12,774 people who crossed the border as families without immigration documents were […]

Kenya’s Central Bank on Wednesday penalised five banks in the East African nation for facilitating the transfer of money looted from the National Youth Service. The banks have been fined between 200,000 dollars and 1.5 million dollars for their role in the scandal, Central Bank Governor, Patrick Njoroge, said in a statement on Wednesday. The […]

Cameroon’s government vowed Wednesday that next month’s presidential election will be peaceful and voting will take place nationwide, despite mounting bloodshed in the central African country’s restive anglophone regions. “The October 7 presidential election will be held in a calm and serene environment throughout our country,” minister of territorial administration Paul Atanga Nji said on […]

Lagos State Governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, on Tuesday submitted his nomination form at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. Photos of Hamzat submitting his form was shared on the APC verified Twitter handle, @APCNigeria. The party tweeted: “Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat (aka Femi Hamzat), submitted his APC nomination […]

The Dreamville Festival in which Davido was expected to perform in Raleign, North Carolina, US on Saturday has been  postponed indefinitely by the organisers due to “Hurricane Florence”. The festival which is the inaugural edition was slated to hold on Saturday at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh North Carolina. The one-day festival offers attendees a […]

A 55-year-old mechanic, Salisu Adamu, on Wednesday appeared before Sharia Court II at Magajin Gari Kaduna for allegedly abandoning his family. Aisha, his wife of 20 years told the court that Adamu is no longer a responsible husband and father, as he has not been taking care of them. “My husband has not been fulfilling […]

The Presidency on Wednesday reassured workers of the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to increase the minimum wage. Senator Ita Enang, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. Enang spoke in response to alleged lack […]

A 28-year-old housewife and mother of one, Mautin Idowu, on Wednesday asked a Badagry Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve her five-years marriage to her husband, Michael, to prevent her from committing suicide. The petitioner threatened to jump into a river in the coastal city if the court declined to grant her request due […]

Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger state says he has no anointed candidate for the 2019 general elections, while the state opted for direct primaries in the best interest of stakeholders. He said that the process would provide level playing ground for those who wished to contest elective positions, stressing that he has no anointed candidates […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed himself chairman of Turkey’s multi-billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, according to a decision published Wednesday in the Official Gazette. In an overhaul of the Turkiye Wealth Fund, seven new members were appointed, including Erdogan’s son-in-law, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, as the deputy chairman. The fund was created in the […]

Leading Brexit supporters on Wednesday denied reports they were manoeuvering to remove Prime Minister Theresa May — while stepping up opposition to her plan to withdraw Britain from the EU. Up to 50 of May’s Conservative MPs held a meeting late Tuesday at which they reportedly openly discussed how to unseat her, amid anger over […]

John Alechenu, Abuja All appears set for President Muhammadu Buhari to submit his nomination and expression of interest forms. Security officials made up operatives of the Department of State Services and the Police from the Presidential Villa, have taken over security at the APC National Secretariat, located at Blantyre Street, Wuse II, Abuja. Buhari had […]

Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria on Wednesday confirmed that the National Executive Council  removed the former National President, Musa Isiwele over alleged embezzlement of N5 billion. The Acting National President, Osakpamwan Eriyo told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the money was the accumulated dues and tickets sales since 2013 belonging to […]

Since, the news broke on Tuesday that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State was no longer in the good books of the All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu, thus endangering his second term bid, Twitter users have been reacting. While some Twitter users wondered why they should vote for Ambode for a second term, […]

Members of the senior national men’s team, D’Tigers, on Wednesday said that they were always excited over any opportunity to represent their fatherland and would do everything for the team’s success. Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos said that the entire team operated like one big and happy […]

Luis Enrique described it as the perfect start after Spain backed up their win over England with a 6-0 demolition of Croatia on Tuesday. Spain were three up at half-time against the World Cup runners-up thanks to Marco Asensio’s two long-range strikes, the second going in off goalkeeper Lovre Kalinic, and an early header from […]

Friday Olokor, Jos Barely 72 hours after getting an award from the Arewa Christians and Indigenous Pastors Association, thieves have visited the family house of Leah Sharibu, one of the 110 female students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, stealing generator and foodstuffs. THE PUNCH reported that Leah had been held […]

Super Eagles stars Alex Iwobi and Wilfred Ndidi are the latest footballers to rock the new Wizkid jersey, according to  Pulse Nigeria. Both players represented Nigeria  at the 2018 World Cup  in Russia. Arsenal  forward  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang modelled the jersey through a post on his official Instgram account. Leicester City midfielder  Ndidi   and Arsenal attacker […]

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus,  and governors elected on the platform of the party met with those that had indicated interest to run for the Presidency in the party in Abuja on Tuesday night, The PUNCH has learnt. The meeting, according to investigations by our correspondent, was held […]

• Eight landlords reportedly died from shock • We are helpless – Ogun govt Samson Folarin Owakurudu community in the Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State is becoming deserted due to a gully that is eating into the community. PUNCH Metro learnt that no fewer than 50 houses had fallen into the gully […]

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe A 100-level student of Educational Management at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Efeosa Adagbonyin, is not starting her academic programme on a good note after missing a course in her first exams in the school for arguing with a technical worker. PUNCH Metro learnt that Adagbonyin, after sitting for her first paper in the […]

Everest Amaefule, Abuja Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Mr Bawa Bwari, has submitted a report on the recent earth tremor that threatened some areas in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja to President Muhammadu Buhari. Reports submitted to the President included an investigative report prepared by the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency as well […]

Oladimeji Ramon The Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has presented a 2018 Revised Appropriation Bill for the sum of N9, 926,527,772.86 to the Ekiti State House of Assembly for urgent passage. Our correspondent sighted a copy of the document signed by the outgoing governor on August 30, 2018. It was learnt that though members […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja A former Commonwealth General-Secretary, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has been invited by the Ghanaian President, Nana Ado, to join other dignitaries in paying their last respects to a former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan in Ghana. Anyaoku, who leaves for Accra on Wednesday (Today), in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday, described the […]

Adelani Adepegba and Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, on Tuesday, inaugurated a six-man technical committee in Abuja to investigate “the extent of foreign involvement” in the herdsmen/farmers’ crisis which has ravaged the country in 2018 particularly. Dan-Ali, who admitted that there had been so many reports to the Federal Government on […]

Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday, urged the people not to leave a man with quality education who is well-tested to vote for “a dullard as governor” He said the All Progressives Congress is “ordained to deliver the state from under-development.” The governor spoke during a rally in Ikire to mobilise […]

A cartoon that was drawn by an Australian cartoonist, Mark Knight, about Serena Williams’ reaction at the US Open on Saturday has become the subject of a trending conversation on Twitter. Knight’s cartoon was published in Australia’s Herald Sun on Tuesday. It depicted the tennis star having a tantrum on the court at the US Open after she […]

US President Donald Trump has put off a visit to Ireland that had been scheduled to follow a commemoration in Paris of the end of World War I, the Irish government said Tuesday. “We can confirm that the proposed visit of the US president is postponed. The US side has cited scheduling reasons,” the office […]

Barcelona and Girona have both signed a request for their La Liga fixture in January to be played in Miami. The formal request was submitted by La Liga to the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) on Monday, with the support of both Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu and Girona president Delfi Geli. The proposal asks permission […]

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Reverend Adewale Martins, has urged Nigeria’s political leaders to stop heating up the country. Martins gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday. “Our political leaders are heating up the environment too much; we need them to cool down the temperature; […]

National Security Adviser, Major General Mohammed Monguno (rtd), has warned security operatives against any act of infraction or misconduct during the 2019 general elections. He gave the warning at the meeting of Inter-agency Consultative Committee on Election Security held at the National Headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday in Abuja. Monguno, who is […]

Roberto Mancini remains defiant his strategy will reap rewards after a 1-0 defeat to Portugal in the Nations League piled pressure on the Italy coach as the country craves a victory to ease the pain of their World Cup absence. An Andre Silva strike just after the break ensured Portugal — even without star striker […]

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday swore in Mrs Veronica Onyeke as the first female Head of Service in the state. Ortom said in Markudi that since the creation of the state in 1976, a woman has not been appointed as its Head of Service. “This is the first time the state will be […]