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Eight persons died in an accident on Osogbo-Ibadan road on Saturday when a trailer fell from a flyover bridge. The trailer which carried kegs of palm oil and 61 males lost control while ascending the bridge. The men of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state, policemen and officials of the Osun State […]

The Nigeria Police has continued to assign cops to VIPs, including entertainers and businessmen, for personal security, despite the rising insecurity in the country and an order that such escort duties should stop, Saturday Punch has learnt. While checks by Punch showed that at least 269 people, including security agents, were killed by bandits and terrorists in […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has threatened to expose what it described as the antics of Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, to the Pope. Mbaka had called on the National Assembly to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari if he fails to resign over the increasing spate of insecurity in the country. The APC […]

The Presidency on Friday attributed the recent call by Father Ejike Mbaka of Adoration Ministry, Enugu on President Buhari to resign to the President’s decision to reject a contract request made by the cleric. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement titled ‘Father Mbaka […]

Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Fr Ejike Mbaka, has alleged that God is not happy with President Muhammadu Buhari. Mbaka, who was one of the staunch supporters of Buhari in the buildup to the 2015 elections, has asked the president to resign or be impeached. Speaking at the Adoration Ministry in Enugu, Mbaka said it […]

President Buhari says he is disappointed he is receiving the blame for the recent attacks in Benue state. Following a series of killings in the state by gunmen, Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue, had call for the urgent intervention of the federal government. About 11 soldiers, who were on peace keeping task, were recently killed in […]

The family of a woman, Joy Owoyele, is in grief after she died during a 14-day fasting in the Isheri Olofin area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Owoyele had sought spiritual help regarding her matrimonial challenges at the Christ Apostolic Church, Ori-Oke Gbogunmi, aka Ajanpelenbe Mountain, located on Pipeline Road, Isheri Olofin. She was […]

Mary Daniel, the 27-year-old amputee hawker, has received over N25m in donations from kind-hearted individuals from within and outside Nigeria. The single mother, who used to hawk bottled water in traffic in the Oshodi area of Lagos, is now set to have a new lease of life with plans to establish her business being finalised […]

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has said some parents usually aide candidates to cheat during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations. Oloyede, while monitoring the 2021 UTME registration in Lagos on Wednesday, said many parents did not allow the candidates to take the exam based on their abilities. He […]

A senior officer at the Lagos State Police Command has confirmed to Punch Metro that a directive had been given for the release of Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, from custody. The source said due to the ongoing strike by members of the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, courts had ceased from sitting and the […]

The British Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, has described Nigeria’s security situation as massively complex. He said no partnership would resolve the multiplicity of the country’s problems, whether it is Boko Haram insurgency or a number of other issues. Duddridge was fielding questions from newsmen in Abuja yesterday during his courtesy visit to the Minister […]

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has insisted that his administration will not bow to the blackmails from kidnapers in the state to abandon it “no ransom, no negotiation” policy. According to him, the kidnappers had resorted to killing as part of their efforts to compel his government to ditch it policy. In a statement […]

Nigeria recorded the third-worst score in the inaugural Chandler Good Government (CGGI) Index launched on Monday in Singapore. The country scored 0.319 points to sit at number 102 out of 104 countries on the league table which measures 104 governments’ effectiveness and capabilities in almost 90 per cent of the world’s population. The data, published […]

The All Progressives Congress on Monday said President Buhari and his regime, will soon deal with those behind Nigeria’s growing insecurity. It said the current security challenge was real, as such, the APC as a political party would not play politics with human lives. This was contained in a statement titled, ‘We must unite against […]

In his Saturday article titled, ‘The Endless Martyrdom of Youth’, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka said Nigeria is at war but her leaders are pretending. Indeed, that is the perfect description of the current situation of Africa’s most populous nation where kidnappings and killings have become the order of the day. In the past week, at least 239 […]

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra has confirmed the killing of one its commanders, saying Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma will pay dearly. Punch had earlier reported that police operatives and their counterparts from the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services killed IPOB’s commander known as Ikonso and six other militia members in Imo. The […]