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The Federal Government has shifted from 3 August to 2 September, the planned closure for repairs of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mr Adedamola Kuti, made the announcement in Lagos on Friday. He explained that due to the busy nature of the highway, the Federal Ministry of Power, Works […]

The Presidency on Friday disowned a list of ministers-designate and portfolios currently in circulation, especially on the social media. It said President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to assign portfolios to the 43 ministers-designate who were confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday. The President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, made this known in a […]

Doctors have discovered about 526 teeth inside a 7-year-old Indian boy’s mouth.  “He always complain of jaw pain”,  the hospital that treated him said. The boy whose name was not mentioned, was admitted last month in the southern city of Chennai because of swelling and pain near his molars in his lower right jaw. When […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said that Nigeria will not continue to import food to feed its population of about 200 million people. President Buhari has also restated the commitment of his administration to creating jobs for the youthful population of Nigeria. Speaking in Abuja when he had audience with Guy Ryder, the Director General […]

The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on all churches and Christians in the country to pray against a “deadly plane crash.” The Secretary to the Conference of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Rt. Rev. Michael Akinwale, said this in a memo to its archbishops and bishops, dated August 1, 2019 and titled, ‘Request for urgent […]

The family of Ayo Oluwaniyi, the wife of one of the soldiers, who allegedly stole N400m they were escorting, has lamented the arrest and detention of the woman and her three children by the Nigerian Army in Ondo State. It was gathered that 37-year-old Ayo and her children were arrested after her husband, Gabriel, was […]

A 23-year-old woman, Eniola Shitu, reportedly filmed her female friend being raped by her 31-year-old boyfriend, David Peremobowe. The incident happened at Ikopa-Tuntun, Abiola Way, Abeokuta, Ogun State, last week Wednesday after Eniola had allegedly lured the victim to her boyfriend’s room where she was drugged and raped. Punch correspondent gathered that while the victim […]

A Kano High Court on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man, Umar Yakubu, to death by hanging for stabbing his friend, Ibrahim Adamu, 22, to death during an argument over N20 loan. Yakubu, who lives at Sabuwar Gandu Quarters in Kano, was convicted on one count charge of culpable homicide, contrary to Section 221 of the […]

The Federal Government has pledged to install CCTV’s strategically along highways, monitor forests, and bushes with the use of aerodrones. This follows the security challenges affecting the country. President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed this on Wednesday when the Ooni of Ife, Imperial Majesty Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi Ojaja II, and some elders of the state visited him […]

The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has suspended a medical director and four resident doctors, who were not at their duty posts on the night he paid surprise visits to some public hospitals in Maiduguri. The governor had, on Monday night, paid unscheduled visits to some of the state-owned general hospitals to find out how […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday presented his West African School Examination certificate from Cambridge University to the presidential election tribunal. Mr Buhari made the submission through his counsel, Wole Olanipekun. The certificate was admitted as evidence in the matter. Presenting the certificate, Abba Kyari, a witness Mr Buhari called on Tuesday, told the tribunal that […]