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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 […]

Dr Omuku Samuel, a gynaecologist at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, has said women at menopause can still bear children with the aid of Invitro- Fertilisation (IVF). Samuel stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa on Wednesday. He explained that the oestrogen of such women that were lost […]

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 […]

A bar operator on Lekki Beach Road, Ademola Ogunbona, says he has lost his livelihood to the alleged debt of N757,750 incurred by one Mrs. Shaw, aka Mama G. According to Punch, the woman had gone to the bar around 6am on August 15, 2016, to have fun, which lasted till about 1am the following day. […]

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 […]

Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 26-year-old man, Abiodun Joseph, for allegedly impersonating the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, and duped two American-based ladies of N600,000. The suspect also reportedly duped his victims of two i-Phones 6 which were later recovered from him. The suspect, who was arrested […]

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 […]

There are indications that the burial of late Isiaka Adeleke may not take place soon as earlier anticipated, as his body is held up at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo where an autopsy is expected to be conducted. Mr. Adeleke, a senator, died in the early hours of Sunday, after holding series of […]

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 […]

Popular columnist and convener of ‘Every Nigerian Do Something,’ Perry Brimah, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is “chronically ill” and needs rest. Brimah, in a statement on Friday, alleged that the President was being locked up in Aso Rock by some “selfish cabal” instead of allowing him to attend to his health. The columnist […]

A lady by name Ebele , shared a video on Facebook which has gone viral. In the video, a bride and her groom can be seen dancing when a woman comes close to the bride and rubs her tummy while wearing malevolence look.  Ebele tagged the video “Mind who touches you (Evil woman),” Watch the video […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is considering declaring a former Commissioner of Local Government in Niger State, Kantigi Liman, wanted after a further N2billion was traced to his United Bank for Africa account by the agency. An EFCC insider told  Premium Times the discovery brings to N6 billion funds traced to accounts held by […]

Marcus Rashford sent Manchester United into the Europa League semi-finals after they struggled to kill off a stubborn Anderlecht. England’s last European representatives came into the quarter-final second leg boosted by Sunday’s surprisingly dominant win against Premier League leaders Chelsea and Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s away goal. The Armenian struck again early on but United were given […]