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First City Monument Bank’s Managing Director, Adam Nuru, is currently enmeshed in a marriage scandal with one of the bank’s female staff members in an alleged extramarital affair which is said to have produced two children. Apart from the two children, the husband of Moyo Thomas, the woman in contention in the alleged mess, Mr. […]
Continue ReadingDeputy National President of Nigeria’s Trade Union Congress (TUC), Chika Onuegbu, has passed away. Onuegbu died in the early hours of today Saturday, January 2, after a brief illness. Late Onuegbu was the immediate past Chairman of TUC in Rivers State between December 2012 and July 2016. He also served as National Industrial Relation Officer of the […]
Continue ReadingHis Royal Majesty, Rilwan Akiolu, the Oba of Lagos, returned to his palace on Friday, about two months after a mob forced him to evacuate, during the #EndSARS protests Akiolu, whose palace, Iga Idungaran, in Lagos Island was looted and vandalised by rioters, danced into the renovated facility, amid drumming, singing and chant of welcome […]
Continue ReadingA 16-year-old girl, Barakat Mayowa, has accused the Ogun State Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abdul-Balogun, of sexual harassment which allegedly occurred at Ita Otu, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of the state. Mayowa recounted that the sexual harassment occurred on Thursday, December 31, in the commissioner’s apartment, where he allegedly fondled her breasts and […]
Continue ReadingFounder and Senior Pastor of the House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, said Nigerians endured all forms of hardship in 2020 to emerge stronger and better in 2021. Punch reports that Pastor Adefarasin, who is also the host of popular gospel concert, The Experience, stated this during a crossover service at the church’s headquarters […]
Continue ReadingIn a new year message, Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has promised to re-energise and reorganise Nigeria’s security apparatus as well as the personnel of both the armed forces and the police in the new year, as part of his administration’s commitment to battling the security crisis facing the country. Below is the full speech: NEW […]
Continue ReadingUnited States President-elect, Mr. Joe Biden, has named a Nigerian-American woman, Osaremen Okolo as his Covid-19 policy advisor. She was among 100 names announced as additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition team on Wednesday. Biden won US presidential election in November and is expected to be sworn-in on January 20. […]
Continue Reading28-year-old pregnant woman, Marian Pelemo died after she was hit by a stray bullet allegedly fired by some men in military uniform in Kogi State. The tragic incident occurred on Wednesday December 29, at about 9 pm in Magongo, Ogori/Magongo local government council. The mother of one from Oturo Quarters was struck by the bullet while […]
Continue ReadingThe Kaduna State government has demolished the building picked as venue for the botched sex party organised by some youths in the state. One of the major organisers of the sex party has also confessed that, he conceived the idea but that ‘it was a mere joke between him and his friends. The Public Relations […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from Kaduna state police command have arrested Army Corporal, Charles Thomson, for allegedly stabbing his mum, Modupe Thompson, multiple times to death at their resident in Sabon G.R.A on Tuesday, December 29. Charles who has been known for always beating up his mother at the slightest opportunity stabbed her and went into hiding. He […]
Continue ReadingThe family of a Nigerian man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia has appealed for clemency and forgiveness for their son. Suleimon Olufemi has been on death row in Saudi Arabia for 18 years. He went for a lesser hajj in Saudi Arabia in 2002 and was accused alongside others of being part of a mob action […]
Continue ReadingPentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has warned the federal government against making Bishop of Sokoto Catholic diocese, Mathew Kukah a sacrificial lamb for speaking the truth in his Christmas message. Kukah had accused President Buhari of nepotism. He had also alleged that there would have been coup if someone from another region did ‘a fraction […]
Continue ReadingJigawa state High court sitting in Rinjim has sentenced 29-year-old man, Mustapha Idris, to death by hanging for the killing of his pregnant girlfriend, Nafisa Hashimu. Mustapha and late Nafisu, a divorcee, were live-in lovers in Daneji village. On January 12, 2020, she was found in a pool of her blood. Following the police investigation, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.58trn (N13,588,027,886,175) into law. The president signed the budget at the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja on Thursday morning, December 31. Nigeria’s National Assembly (Senate and House of Reps) had on December 21, 2020, passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill with an aggregate […]
Continue ReadingElectricity customers in Nigeria who paid for prepaid meters under the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) scheme will be refunded, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said. NERC said this on Wednesday in an emailed response, through its Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Michael Faloseyi, to questions from The Punch’s correspondent. As a result of […]
Continue ReadingOfficers from Kaduna State Police Command are reported to have arrested the organizers of an event tagged “Kaduna Sex Party” The event which was promoted on social media platforms was slated to hold last Sunday, December 27, 2020, at an undisclosed location in the state capital. According to details on the invite, participants were expected […]
Continue ReadingServing overseer of Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), Pastor Tunde Bakare has dared a former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode to “expose” him for speaking glowingly of a former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu, according to reports. Pastor Bakare had last week likened Tinubu to […]
Continue ReadingPolice Command of Ogun State, Nigeria on Wednesday, says it suspects a foul play in the alleged suicide committed by an ex-student of Ogun State Institute of Technology, Igbesa, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the state. The deceased, simply identified as Nonso, a National Diploma graduate of the institution from the department of Business Administration, […]
Continue Reading14 family members from two families have died in a horrific auto crash along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway in Mutoko, Zimbabwe. Eight of the deceased were from the Rutsito family while 6 were from the Chitimbe family. The other 4 are yet to be identified. The horrific accident occured on Sunday, December 27, near the Mutoko Business […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Aviation and Buhari’s critic, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has attacked the Senior Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), Pastor Tunde Bakare over his romance with the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Fani-Kayode said, Bakare has desecrated the pulpit by praising Tinubu to the highest heaven, […]
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