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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has remanded two unemployed men in a custodial centre in Lagos for allegedly being in possession of a toy gun. The police charged 25-year-old Toheed Tajudeen and 27-year-old Segun Jayeola, whose residential addresses were not given, with conspiracy and unlawful possession of a firearm. Magistrate Elizabeth Adeola did not take their […]

Ibrahim Mantu, a former deputy president, is dead. A family source, who confirmed the demise to our correspondent, said he died at a private hospital in Abuja after nine days of sickness and isolation. He said the former deputy senate president died at about 2am on Tuesday. “He fell ill about nine days ago and […]

The United States has given conditions for recognising a Taliban government in Afghanistan. US Department spokesman, Ned Price, said on Monday that the US would only recognise a Taliban government in Afghanistan if it respects the rights of women and shuns, denounces extremist movements such as Al-Qaeda. “Ultimately when it comes to our posture towards […]

The family of late Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, have asked a constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, to defend their interest and ensure that justice is served. In their instruction letter to Ozekhome, the family decried the “low level of professionalism” exhibited by the police in the prosecution of the suspected killers of Ataga. […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the planned return of toll gates on the nation’s highways as plot by the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government to impose more hardship on Nigerians. In a statement signed its spokesman Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP noted that “the move to return the toll gates to allow APC interests […]

Business mogul Femi Otedola has said a former Head of State, Gen Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) asked Goodluck Jonathan, as vice president, to sit on the unoccupied seat of then President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting following Yar’Adua’s medical trip abroad. In his 80th birthday message to Gen Babangida, yesterday, Otedola […]

At last, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has suspended its sit-at-home order. Kalunta Kanu, brother to the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, had last week announced that the order would not hold on last Monday to allow students in the Southeast sit for their external examination, but IPOB members flouted his directive and went ahead […]

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido, said on Saturday that Nigeria had made zero progress since 1981. Sanusi, who said this in Kaduna at a colloquium to mark his 60th birthday, maintained that the government must make the economy grow for the sake of ordinary Nigerians. According to him, in […]

Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, has cautioned Federal and State Governments over the lingering strike action of the National Association of Resident Doctors which has paralyzed hospital activities across the country. NMA warned that it would join force if resident doctors were not paid all their due wages to call off the strike. NMA in a […]

The widow of the late President Shehu Shagari, Hadiza Shagari, has died from COVID-19 complications She died on Thursday in Abuja. She was aged 80. A son of the late Second Republic president, Bala Shagari, announced the development in a statement on Thursday. He said the octogenarian died at Gwagwalada COVID-19 isolation centre in Abuja. “We regret […]

The Federal Government Thursday appealed to the striking resident doctors to reconsider their action, saying that for doctors to embark on strike in the midst of the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic with the arrival of Delta variant, cholera outbreak in 22 states and Marburg virus (similar to Ebola) outbreak was not only dangerous but […]

The Federal Executive Council has approved the reintroduction of toll collections on some selected dual carriageways across the country. This is as it exempted diplomatic, military, para-military vehicles, tricycles, motorcycles from the scheme. Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed these on Wednesday while briefing the State House correspondents at the end of the […]

No less than 31 lawyers have expressed their interest in defending a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, suspended in connection with a $1.1m scam involving a self-confessed fraudster, Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi. Barrister Bappah Salisu, who spoke for the group of lawyers drawn from the 19 Northern states in the country, disclosed this on […]

The Federal Government has approved N4billion for fueling of police operational vehicles across 36 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory. The Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed this at the National Institute of Police Studies in Abuja on Tuesday. Dingyadi stressed that approving such a large sum of funds for […]

A businessman, Ali Numan, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly insulting Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State. Magistrate Japhet Ibrahim Basani of the Chief Magistrate Court 2, on Monday ordered the remand of Numan, who was arraigned for insulting Fintiri on social media. Punch learnt that Numan had on the11th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 20th […]