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Brazilian defender Dani Alves will be tried on sexual assault charges in Spain, the high court of Catalonia told AFP on Monday. The former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain star was detained in January after being accused of raping a young woman in the bathroom of a nightclub in late December. The court said a date […]

President Bola Tinubu on Monday said the Federal Government of Nigeria has saved N1tn in the two months since the removal of the petrol subsidy. Tinubu said these monies that would have been otherwise squandered by those he called “smugglers and fraudsters” will now be channeled into intervention programmes targeting families nationwide “In a little […]

The Nigeria Labour Congress has commenced mass mobilisation ahead of its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin Wednesday to protest the hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal. In a schedule obtained by Punch correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, the NLC urged Nigerians to “join us at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on Wednesday, August 2, […]

A police officer, Zachary Lockwood who was driving and responding to a call struck and killed a popular pastor in Connecticut, in the United States. According to CBS, the 24-year-old police officer from Stamford was driving a police sport utility vehicle (SUV) when he hit 69-year-old Tommie Jackson. The accident happened shortly after 4 pm […]

The number of deaths across Mexico due to extreme heat has hit 249 over the past four months, its Ministry of Health has reported. A hundred deaths were registered in Nuevo León, 28 in Tamaulipas, 26 in Veracruz, and 26 in Sonora between March 19 and July 22. The rest of the deaths were registered […]

International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said at least 1,200 Nigerians have died while trying to migrate through the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea this year. The acting Deputy Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, disclosed this Thursday during the 2023 Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Nationwide Sensitization and Enlightenment Campaign at the […]

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday,  urged Nigerians to persevere with his administration some more, saying he understands the pains they must be experiencing since the discontinuance of the petrol subsidy on May 29. The President gave the assurance that the hardships of the moment would eventually give way to a more prosperous, equitable and inclusive […]

Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen is expected to earn €50m (N43bn) if he makes the move to French giants Paris Saint-Germain in this transfer window. Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis expects to receive a million-dollar offer for the player and has credited PSG as the only club that can afford the Nigeria international. Other top clubs like […]

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors declared an indefinite strike on Tuesday night. NARD President, Dr Emeka Orji, who disclosed this to Punch correspondent, said the strike will begin today, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, at 12am. Orji said the decision was made during the July National Executive Council meeting in Lagos. The doctors are demanding […]

A former Ghanaian Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, who resigned over the weekend after her houseworkers allegedly stole more than $1 million in cash from her home, has been arrested for suspected corruption, a special prosecutor said on Monday. Dapaah has denied any crimes, but the case drew criticism from Ghana’s opposition, which questioned why […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, decried Nigeria’s inability to live up to expectations since it got independence about 63 years ago, stressing that the country had not only disappointed itself but also Africa and the world. Obasanjo disclosed this while delivering the keynote address at the public presentation of the book titled ‘Reclaiming the […]

The Federal Government has announced over 100 percent fee increment for new students going to Federal Unity Colleges, otherwise known as Federal Government Colleges across the country. New students are expected to pay N100,000 as against the N45,000 paid last year. A circular bearing the breakdown of the fee was issued to all principals of […]

Amidst escalating cost of living in the country, some educational institutions have announced significant increases in tuition and other fees, while others are planning to do so in order to cope with the effects of the removal of subsidy on petrol. This is putting parents on the edge as the current academic session draws to […]

Nigerian music star, Ayodeji Balogun fondly known as Wizkid or Big Wiz, has revealed why he rarely makes comments about politicians in his music and interviews. Wizkid said the Nigerian masses don’t care about politics, adding that they only care about how to make ends meet. He spoke in a recent interview with Evening Standard, […]

Mmesoma Ejikeme, the candidate at the heart of a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results forgery debacle, has written to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) asking for leniency. The 19-year-old on Wednesday read a letter of apology before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the manipulation in Abuja. Mmesoma had claimed a […]

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayoode Ariwoola, has denied rumours that he had a telephone conversation with President Bola Tinubu and the Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, over the pending post-election petitions before the Presidential Election Petitions Court. Ariwoola said the judiciary has no plans to favour any of the […]