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Police authorities in Lagos State on Friday said the 12-year-old student of Dowen College in Lekki, Sylvester Oromoni, died a natural death. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Hakeem Odumosu, disclosed this while briefing reporters at the Command Headquarters in Ikeja on the investigations conducted into the death of the boy. He stated that […]

The Federal Government has formally declared bandit groups operating in the country as terrorists. After weeks of footdragging, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), gazetted a court judgement that ordered the government to declare bandits as terrorists. States in the North-West geopolitical zone including Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna […]

President Buhari says the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, should defend himself in court for peddling false information about his regime while he was overseas. Buhari stated this in an interview aired on Channels Television on Wednesday night monitored by Punch. Punch had earlier reported that some respected Igbo elders led by […]

President Buhari has expressed fear that his favourite presidential candidate may be “eliminated” if he is known now. The President made the disclosure in an exclusive interview with Channels Television aired on Wednesday. He said this after noting that he has no special interest in the 2023 election. “It is not my problem,” he replied when asked […]

Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, says Rochas Okorocha, his predecessor, wants to be in charge of the state despite leaving office. The governor spoke on Tuesday at a stakeholders’ forum in Owerri, the Imo capital. Speaking on Okorocha, he said the former governor should realise that he is no longer in office. “The difference between […]

President Muhammadu Buhari believes state police is not an option for the nation. The President made the remark in an exclusive interview with Channels Television which is scheduled to air on Wednesday at 7 pm (WAT). Calls for state policing have been made by several Governors as a way to solve insecurity across the country. […]

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department have arrested a suspected fraudster, Mr Imaobong Akpan, for allegedly impersonating the state Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources, Pastor Umo Eno. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko MacDon, who disclosed this while parading the suspect at the command […]

Farmatof Paul, a bride-to-be, was kidnapped hours to her wedding in Plateau State. The resident of Ngyong community in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau was abducted at her pastor’s house where she was expected to pass the night before the wedding. Witnesses said the gunmen stormed the pastor’s house at about 10:45 pm on […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday said the recitation of the Nigerian national anthems will no longer be allowed in Southeast schools. The group’s head of Directorate of State (DOS), Chika Edoziem, stated this in a New Year message announcing the plans of the separatist group for 2022. Edoziem said school authorities in […]

Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, would tomorrow publicly name those behind the spate of insecurity in the state. Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, in a statement in Owerri, said the governor would use the occasion of the sixth edition of Imo Stakeholders Forum to name sponsors and financiers of insecurity in the state. He […]

The presidency says visitors to the presidential villa in Abuja will be required to take rapid COVID tests before they would be allowed in. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, confirmed the development to state house correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. Rapid COVID tests are designed to tell in a few minutes if someone is infected with […]

The Spiritual Director of the Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, on Saturday, appealed to his fellow priests to stop castigating him for praying for and blessing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, over his travails. The cleric, who intensified prayers for the release of the IPOB leader […]

A kidnap suspect named Ayobamidele Ayodele who was nabbed in Ogun State confessed that he learnt the act of kidnapping by watching Zubby Michael’s movies. Ayodele was arrested for abducting a six-year-old boy, Ebube Eze, after the victim’s father sent a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba. The 23-year-old was nabbed by […]

The United Nations Children Emergency Fund on Friday decried the high rate of children’s abductions, violations among others in 2021. This was as the UN organisation classified Nigeria, Somalia, Congo, Chad, Cameroon and Niger as the countries with the highest cases of verified abductions. This was also as a tally conducted by Saturday Punch revealed that no […]

The People’s Democratic Party has urged Nigerians to use the New Year to rekindle the virtues of love, unity, social justice as well as the quest for good governance in the country. This is as the party noted that surviving the year 2021 under the “repressive, treasury-looting, completely rudderless and lying All Progressives Congress-led administration […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday met with the former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, at the presidential villa, Abuja. The agenda of the meeting with the former president which took place at about 3 pm was not made public. However, Jonathan regularly comes to the villa to brief the president on his activities as ECOWAS Special Envoy […]