Olufemi Atoyebi Officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in some council areas within the Ibadan metropolis in Oyo State have been accused of requesting money to register voters on Friday, when the voter registration was concluded. Some prospective voters, who called our correspondent from Ido council and other areas of the city, alleged that […]

The Director of Relief, Niger State Emergency Management Agency, Garba Salisu, has said at least 14 persons died due to flooding in different parts of the state. Salisu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday in Minna, said the agency had engaged the services of no fewer than 200 local divers […]

John Charles B arring any unforseen circumstance, the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, will, on Monday (tomorrow), take control of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state. Our correspondent gathered that the process of taking control of the party had been concluded at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja. A source informed our […]

Adelani Adepegba with Agency Report At least, 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram militants who overran a military base in Zari near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday. Scores of the terrorists in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in northern Borno State late on Thursday […]

Following the recent mega-cash transfer of Russia 2018 World Cup Super Eagles’ forward Ahmed Musa to top Saudi Arabian side Al-Nassr, it appears the doors of the oil-rich nation have been flung open for Musa’s compatriots. Al-Nassr splashed a reported £25m to prize away the former VVV Venlo of Holland man to the Middle East, […]

The decision of the All Progressives Congress at its National Executive Committee’s meeting on Wednesday on the use of direct primary to elect its candidates for the 2019 general elections is causing confusion in the party in some states. Investigations by SUNDAY PUNCH, on Saturday, revealed that while some states had embraced the direct primary […]

Senegal’s president, Macky Sall, on Friday sacked the mayor of Dakar, one of the country’s most popular politicians, after an appeal court upheld a five-year jail term against him. “Mr. Khalifa Abacar Sall has been relieved of his duties as mayor of the city of Dakar,” a presidential decree said. Sall, 62, on Thursday lost […]

US President Donald Trump will not attend regional summits with Asian allies in November but will send Vice President Mike Pence instead, the White House announced Friday. Pence will travel to Singapore to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit and the East Asia Summit, it said. He will then go on to Papua […]

Lady Gaga spoke of her painful road to fame after she shone in her big Hollywood movie debut, “A Star Is Born”, which premiered Friday at the Venice film festival. “Many times at the beginning of my career I was not the most beautiful woman in the room — but I wrote my own songs,” […]

When John McCain’s flag-draped casket was carried into the US Capitol Friday, among those honoring the senator was a woman who lived through the turbulence of his iconic career and life: his 106-year-old mother. Half a century after she was told her son had been shot down over Vietnam — where he was held prisoner […]

Three British smugglers trying to reach Britain on a small boat with 12 Vietnamese migrants were taken in for questioning on off the French coastal town of Boulogne, local maritime authorities said in a statement on Friday. The three were detained on Thursday in an operation that saw the “dismantling of a network of smugglers […]

A woman was shot and later pronounced dead after she pointed what Police later discovered was a BB gun at officers who had tried unsuccessfully to make her surrender in a 90-minute stand-off. BB guns are a type of air guns designed to shoot metallic ball projectiles called BBs. The woman, Vanessa Marquez, a series […]

Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel signed a new contract on Friday that will keep him with the former Premier League champions until 2023. Schmeichel was instrumental in Leicester winning the English title two years ago and has maintained that fine form through to this year’s World Cup. The Denmark international, the son of former Manchester United […]

US President Donald Trump will travel to Paris in November for the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and then visit Ireland, the White House said Friday. Trump will attend the November 11 ceremonies to “highlight the sacrifices that Americans have made, not only during World War I but […]

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja. A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the party has all it takes to win the September 22 governorship election in Osun State. Tinubu said this in an interview with State House correspondents after he led the party’s stakeholders from the South West to a […]

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has promised to support female politicians aspiring for political offices across party lines. According to a statement on Thursday by her spokesman, Suleiman Haruna, the President’s wife spoke while receiving members of a political group, the South-East Women for Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja […]

The Hajj Commission in Zamfara on Friday confirmed the death of three local government chairmen of the All Progressives Congress  from the state in an auto crash in Saudi Arabia. The Public Relations Officer of the commission, Malam Yakub-Yahaya Talata-Mafara, confirmed the death to the News Agency of Nigeria  in a telephone interview. Talata-Mafara said […]

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed sacked the country’s energy minister, Khaled Gadour, and four senior ministry officials on Friday over corruption allegations, an official source told Reuters. Those dismissed included the secretary of state for energy, director general of fuel,head of the Petroleum Activities Company and director general of legal affairs at the ministry. NAN […]

’Tunji  Ajibade It is the last Friday of the month and as usual I take note of happenings on TV.  I’ve known for some time that ours is a nation where anyone can, for selfish purposes, take advantage of the system that doesn’t work. For instance, fortune seekers and some government officials have turned approval […]

Roger Federer on Thursday set-up a US Open third round clash against Nick Kyrgios who found himself at the centre of an impartiality row after an umpire climbed down from his chair to tell him: “I want to help you”. Second seed and five-time champion Federer, 37, made it 18 wins in 18 second round […]

Students and teachers in South Korea will need to find new ways of staying alert through the long school day, after the government said Friday it will ban coffee sales in schools. Selling highly caffeinated drinks to students in schools has already been banned since 2013, but with coffee vending machines still available for teachers, […]

Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, was being held at a government hospital Friday after being rearrested while attempting to seek medical treatment abroad. Kyagulanyi — who faces treason charges alongside 32 others after President Yoweri Museveni’s car window was allegedly broken by a tossed stone — was released on bail on […]

Australia’s former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday resigned from parliament, a source familiar with the matter said, stripping the government of its one-seat parliamentary majority. Turnbull last week said he would resign from parliament after he was ousted from office in a bitter party-room contest which ushered in the country’s sixth leader in the […]

Mike Tyson believes Anthony Joshua is the best heavyweight in the world, ahead of the likes of Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury, Metro reports. Joshua holds the IBF, WBA (Super) and WBO champion, while his direct rival Wilder is the WBC king. Wilder and Joshua were in talks to fight this summer, but it now […]

Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, on Thursday re-appointed his two vice, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi. Chiwenga was Zimbabwe’s defence forces chief who led the military intervention which toppled former President Robert Mugabe. The two vice presidents were sworn into office by Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the State House in the presence of Mnangagwa and […]

Late singer, Michael Jackson, would have been sixty years old on Wednesday if he were to be alive. To celebrate the day, his sister, Janet Jackson, collaborated with a social media influencer, Kwaylon Rogers, to release a video inspired by Michael’s 1992 music video. Janet shared the video on both her Twitter and Instagram social media […]

John Alechenu, Abuja Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and his deputy, Suleiman Lasun are conspicuously absent from the on-going National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress. The two are currently the highest ranking members of the party in the legislature, following the decision of the Senate President Bukola Saraki to […]

Theresa May pledged support for East Africa’s fight against Islamist militancy on Thursday during the first trip by a British prime minister to Kenya in 30 years. In Nairobi, the last stop on her three-country Africa trip, May was also at pains to assure the region’s biggest economy that Kenya would not experience any trade […]

British Foreign Minister, Jeremy Hunt, accused Google on Thursday of abandoning its moral values by failing to remove child abuse content while launching a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites. The government has repeatedly criticised online platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for failing to remove abusive material […]

Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun aadelakun@punchng.com This week must be one of the most humiliating ones for the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency. Here and there, he has had to endure insults and unpleasant observations from leaders of western countries he has spent valuable time trying to impress. First, it was the gratuitous insult from the United States president, […]

Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri The gunmen who killed a businessman, Theo Mbakwe, and abducted his kid sister on Saturday in Amaigbo, in the Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State, have demanded N1m to free the lady. According to a family source, the gunmen earlier demanded N3m, but settled for N1m after much pleadings. The source […]

Peter Dada, Akure Some youths in Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday took to the street to protest against the death of two persons – a man and lady – who were allegedly killed by the men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. It was gathered that the deceased were siblings, but their identities […]

Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Some suspected cult members have killed a 90-year-old man after setting his house ablaze. The incident was said to have happened in Egbeda community in the Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State on Tuesday. The victim, who was identified as Assor Woke, was killed in his house by the assailants. […]

Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta A 42-year-old prophet, Olusola Akindele, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing his lover, identified as Iya Anu, for ritual. Akindele’s alleged accomplice, Pastor Ayodele Bamiduro, was equally arrested by the police. The prophet was said to have invited Iya Anu to his rented apartment […]

A 49-year-old man, Gbenga Olomilua, has urged a Grade C Customary Court sitting at Inanlende, Ibadan, to uphold the divorce request of his wife, Rashidat, alleging that her promiscuity has no bounds. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Olomilua told the court on Wednesday that his 10-year union with the plaintiff was characterised with […]