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A prison riot left 16 inmates dead and five wounded in the central Mexican state of Zacetecas on New Year’s Eve, local authorities said Wednesday. Prisoners fought each other using handguns and knives, which were seized after the fight, the Public Security Ministry said. “On Tuesday afternoon a fight occurred inside the Regional Center for […]

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has said that an estimated 26,039 babies will be born in Nigeria on New Year’s Day (Today). UNICEF, in a statement made available to Punch correspondent on Tuesday, said Nigerian babies would account for almost seven per cent of the estimated 392,078 babies to be born on New […]

Senator Rochas Okorocha has described himself as the ‘highly misunderstood’ person in Nigeria, owing to the feedback he gets from people who define him from different angles. Okorocha who is representing Imo West Senatorial district said this on Channels Television programme Newsnight. The former governor of Imo stressed that since he ruled the state for eight […]

A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 29 intelligence officers to death for torturing and killing a teacher. Ahmad al-Khair, 36, died in custody in February following his arrest for taking part in protests against former President Omar al-Bashir’s administration. These were the first sentences handed down over the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the months […]

Motorists will have to endure additional 12 months of  nerve-racking traffic on the 35-kilometre Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota highway  in Lagos for its  reconstruction to be completed. Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, who inspected work on the road in company with President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said on Sunday that the road would be delivered end of […]

Former Brazil international Hulk has reportedly been dating the niece of his wife following the end of their marriage. Hulk, real name Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, is currently plying his trade with Shanghai SIPG in China. The 33-year-old split from his wife Iran in July 2019 after 12 years together. The couple have three children […]

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has projected a high cost of doing business in 2020. Muda Yusuf, the LCCI Director-General, made the projection in the LCCI 2019 Economic Review and Outlook For 2020 made available to journalists on Thursday in Lagos. He attributed the projected high cost to poor infrastructure, multiplicity of […]

A passenger plane carrying almost 100 people crashed seconds after takeoff in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more. Flight Z9-2100, a Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakhstan-based carrier Bek Air, was scheduled to fly from Almaty, the country’s largest city, to the capital Nur-Sultan. But the plane, which was […]

The Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has been nominated and may be given the ‘Prisoner of Conscience honour award’ by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Representatives. The publisher of Sahara Reporters, who was released by the Department of the State Service, DSS, by the order of […]

The Ooni of Ife, in company of dignitaries and celebrities at the second edition of Queen Moremi Ajasoro musicals on Dec. 24 in Lagos. The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has said that women can rise to be president of Nigeria because they have the strengths and potential of good leadership. The Ooni spoke at […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja declared 2019 as a very successful year for the nation, thanking Nigerians for believing in him and supporting his administration to take Nigeria to the Next Level. ‘‘We thank God. It has been a very successful year, relative to the composition of this country, both politically and ethnically,’’ […]

Members of the ‘cabal’ in the presidency are not hungry individuals and do not deserve the public criticism they get, a presidential aide has said. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also said it was improper to refer to the president’s advisers as a ‘cabal’ and it is […]