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President Muhammadu Buhari says many black migrants claiming to be Nigerians even when they are not. He said Nigerian embassies in North Africa were now overworked, trying to identify the true Nigerians. His spokesman Mr Femi Adesina quoted him as saying this at the State House Abuja Tuesday while receiving Hon. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Minister […]

The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, is alive but “is in a terrible state of health,” the Nigerian Army said on Monday. The army has repeatedly made contradictory claims on Mr. Shekau. Statements like Shekau had been killed or does not really exist have been made by the army in the past putting doubts in […]

The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, on Sunday restated a widely held stance by federal officials that the Boko Haram insurgents have been defeated. Mr. Buratai’s statement on Sunday follows similar ones by other officials of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Earlier on New Year day, President Buhari had also said the Boko Haram had […]

A number of Deposit Money Banks in the country have barred their customers from using debit and credit cards to withdraw dollars, euros, pounds and other foreign currencies whenever they travel abroad, investigation by Punch correspondent has revealed. The development may put business and leisure travellers, who may need hard currencies to meet some obligations […]

The Nigerian government has warned its Libyan counterpart against molesting Nigerians in the north African country. The government said it made clear to Libyan authorities that it has “zero tolerance” for such treatment. The warning followed reports of enslavement and maltreatment of Nigerians stranded in Libya. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this […]

Donald Trump will attempt to end speculation about his mental and physical suitability for the presidency next week by undergoing a formal health check. The US president is to be examined by the same doctor as his predecessor Barack Obama and a summary of the results will be made public. The physical test will last around […]

An overly honest man reported himself to police for drink driving, in one of the most bizarre 911 calls ever. Michael Lester, of Polk County in Florida, called 911 on New Year’s Eve and told the operator he had been drink driving ‘all night’. He could not even tell the operator where he was when […]

A Pennsylvania man Christopher I. Hauptmann has been sentenced to prison after he was found guilty of marrying a 43-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter at the same time. The 44-year-old Hauptmann was convicted of bigamy, forgery and unsworn falsification to authorities as he married the young lady without first divorcing her mother. The presiding […]

Allegations that a young engineer was kidnapped and made to marry at gunpoint are being investigated by police in one of India’s poorest states, which has a history of forced marriage of men. Video footage apparently showing Vinod Kumar being forced to go through with a wedding by his bride’s family sparked the probe, police […]

Majority of Nigerians who participated in an opinion have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign as Minister of Petroleum Resources. The call follows the fuel scarcity that lingered across the country through the festive season and which is still on in some states. In the poll conducted by Premium Times, 66.9 per cent of […]

A former minister for education, Oby Ezekwesili, has said that her political agenda for 2019 is to stop the two major political parties in Nigeria – the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP – from winning state and national elections. Mrs. Ezekwesili, who is also a co-leader of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, […]

A spokesperson to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has released a statement saying the governor was attacked in the state. Robin Crusoe also said the Managing Director of BUA’s Obu Cement Company, Yusuf Binji, has been declared wanted over the attack. BUA and Dangote cement have been at loggerheads over the ownership of a […]

At 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a phone rang in a room in an uninhabited village in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. For the first time since February 2016, the North was calling the South. And South Korea answered. Little is known about the contents of the 20-minute call, which ended at 3:50 […]

A massive “bombogenesis” — an area of rapidly declining low pressure — will wreak havoc on the Northeast this week, threatening hurricane-force winter wind gusts and blinding snow. The bombogenesis will result in what’s known as a “bomb cyclone.” And the bomb cyclone, expected to strike Thursday, will likely dump 6 to 12 inches of snow in […]

There was blackout across the country on Tuesday as a result of the collapse of the national grid. The situation was caused by a fire incident on one of the pipeline systems in the country, the ministry of power said in a statement. It identified the pipeline system as Escravos Lagos Pipeline System near Okada, […]

The Israeli government has issued a notice for thousands of African migrants to leave the country or face imprisonment. Israel said on Wednesday that it would pay thousands of Africa migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March. Each migrant will be […]