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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday stayed away from the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, asking his cabinet to allow him to rest. The meeting, which lasted barely one hour and forty-five minutes, was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, later told State House correspondents that President […]

A National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has alleged that Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, worked against the plan to make him President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2015 presidential election. Tinubu stated that Saraki, El-Rufai and other stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic […]

Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday issued a fresh interim order of forfeiture of the sum $5.8m belonging to a former First Lady,  Dame Patience Jonathan. The new order was granted barely 24 hours after the Economic and financial crimes commission (EFCC) withdrew an application for stay of the […]

When Carmen and Lupita Andrade were born, doctors said they only had three days to live. The conjoined twins, now 16, originally born in Mexico and now living in New Milford, Connecticut, defied those odds and lived far past doctors’ expectations. Health problems have emerged and placed the girls’ futures at risk, but they tell […]

In the first federal case involving female genital mutilation filed in the United States, two Michigan doctors and the wife of one of the doctors have been charged with performing the banned procedure on two 7-year-old girls. Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, were arrested Friday at their medical office in […]

An Abuja-based civil servant, Mrs. Oluwakemi Uduehi,  who gave birth to quintuplets at the National Hospital, Abuja last week, shares her labour experience with Punch… Read excerpts below: What is your name and age? My name is Oluwakemi Uduehi. I am 30 years old.   Where do you work? I work with the National Population […]