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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) is currently recruiting personnel across different cadres. The E-portal availability and dates for each cadres and educational requirements is stated below: Customs Superintendent Cadre ASC II (CONSOL 08)E-Portal Availability Date – 13 December 2021Applicant must possess a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND). Customs Inspector Cadre AIC (CONSOL 06)E-Portal […]

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said Nigerians will pay more taxes. She said this has been captured in the medium term as proposed in the Finance Bill 2021. The minister disclosed this Monday during a public hearing on the bill organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance. […]

The onslaught on traditional rulers in the Southeast continued on Sunday with the abduction of two monarchs in Imo State. After whisking away the royal fathers, the gunmen also burnt their palaces and vehicles. The affected traditional rulers are Acho Ndukwe of Amagu Ihube and Paul Ogbu of Ihitte Ihube, both in the Okigwe Local […]

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a pastor, Peter Taiwo, of the Christ Apostolic Bible Church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta, for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old chorister in his church. The police also arrested his wife, Elizabeth Taiwo, for allegedly conniving with him by shutting the door on the victim during the act. […]

COVID-19 cases  are on the increase raising fears that the country is on the verge of the fourth wave of coronavirus, findings by Punch have shown. Epidemiological data obtained on Sunday from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control showed that from November 28 to December 4, a total of 585 cases were reported. But from December 5 […]

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has singled out religion as the number one problem hindering Nigerians from being liberated as “rational beings.” The venerated writer made the comment while speaking recently with a professor of African Literature, Dr. Louisa Egbunike. “All over the place, I find that religion has been cosseted too much. And liberty has […]

The Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu, has said that one in three women worldwide face sexual and other physical abuses mostly from their intimate partners. Speaking Friday in Abuja during a road walk to commemorate the 2021 International Human Rights Day, he lamented that violence against women and girls […]

Men of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a pastor of a white garment church for allegedly raping a pregnant woman. According to the victim, identified as Bukola, the pastor allegedly committed the crime while she came for deliverance at his church. Narrating her ordeal at the police headquarters on Igbatoro road, Akure, on […]

Five students of Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos, who were arrested by the Police in connection to the death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, have been remanded in a juvenile home. Oromoni Jnr. died of complications, last week, as a result of injuries sustained from an attack by a group of five senior colleagues for allegedly […]

Billionaire businessman, Prince Ned Nwoko, has broken his silence on his split from Moroccan wife, Laila Charani. Last month, Laila had publicly announced that her marriage to Nwoko was over and she didn’t want anyone to reach the billionaire through her. On Wednesday, the media team of Nwoko issued a statement to clear the air […]

Gunmen have shot dead a Nollywood actress, Chiemeke Ngozi, at Boji boji Owa in the Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State. It was gathered that the actress was killed on Wednesday along Deeper Life Road, in the Boji boji Owa area of Agbor.. Sources told Punch correspondent that they heard gunshots but […]

Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. Punch correspondent gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town. The killing, which […]

Tragedy struck, yesterday, at Ojodu Grammar School Bus Stop on Ogba-Ojodu Berger Road, Lagos, when a delivery van allegedly chased by officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency, LASTMA, rammed into school children returning from school, causing the death of no fewer than 17 students and left many injured. Vanguard learned that an angry mob, […]

Precious Chikwendu, a beauty queen, has opened up on the experience with her estranged husband and former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Speaking in an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, she described the marriage as a violent one, describing how some persons, including Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday announced the discovery of three additional cases of the Omicron variant in the country. The agency had on Wednesday detected the first three cases of the variant. With Tuesday’s discovery, the total number of the omicron variant cases in Nigeria stands at six. Last week, Canada after […]

Ibrahim Jubril, one of the parents whose children were found dead in an abandoned car in Lagos, says nobody knows how they got into the vehicle. Eight children were found dead in a Honda Pilot parked on Adelayo street, Jah-Michael, along Badagry expressway in Lagos, on Saturday. The children were said to be between the ages of […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will take actions on the Federal Government’s failure to meet its demand in the next 48 hours. President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this to Daily Trust in a telephone interview, on Monday. The labour leader said the union will conclude its consultation with various […]

A coalition of northern groups under the umbrella of Arewa Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has declared support for the zoning of the 2023 presidency to the South-East in the interest of equity, fairness and justice. The group said that zoning the presidency to the South-East will automatically stop the agitations for secession by […]