Arsenal confirm Welbeck out for nine months
Arsenal have announced that striker Danny Welbeck, has undergone surgery on his right knee. Specialists advised the England international to have the surgery, after scans and tests showed significant...
View ArticleEx-Ministers confess how they shared N1.1bn during 2015 general election
Two ex-ministers that served under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Arch Musa Sada from Katsina State and Asabe Asmau Ahmed from Niger State have revealed how they handled...
View ArticleNigeria inherited corruption from Britain – Hon. Omogbehin
The member representing Okitipupa/Irele federal constituency of Ondo State in the House of Representatives, Hon. Mike Adeniyi Omogbehin has stated that Nigeria indeed inherited corruption from former...
View ArticleSubsidy removal: NLC blasts Buhari, vows to shut down economy
Contrary to government’s claims that the organized labour was part of the agreement for the total removal of fuel subsidy, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Wednesday described the development “as an...
View ArticleNewcastle, Norwich relegated from Premier League
Sunderland’s emphatic 3-0 win over Everton on Wednesday night, secured their Premier League status for one more season, but confirmed the relegation of Norwich and North East rivals, Newcastle United....
View ArticleProperty Saraki declared was different from one EFCC tendered as evidence –...
Counsel to the Senate President, Bukoka Saraki, Paul Usoro, SAN, on Wednesday disclosed to the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, that the prosecution tendered a different property as evidence from that...
View ArticleKilling of security operatives will trigger massacre – Governor Dickson warns...
The Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has warned militants in the state to desist from killing security operatives in the state. Dickson while citing the killings of seven Naval and Joint Task...
View ArticleFresh explosion kills two, injures scores in Borno
Barely 24 hours after a suicide bomber suspected to be a Boko Haram member detonated an improvise explosive device, IED in a mosque in Sulimanti ward of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, another...
View ArticleHerdsmen attack: CAN stages protest in Enugu, rejects grazing bill
The Association made its stance known at the Government House, Enugu during a peaceful protest to condemn and register their grievances over the unfortunate incident of killing, maiming, raping and...
View ArticleMilitants issue 2-week ultimatum for oil firms to vacate Niger Delta
The militant group which has claimed responsibilities for recent attacks on oil installations, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA on Thursday issued a two-week ultimatum to all oil companies operating in...
View ArticleNEMA shuts down 6 IDPs camps in Adamawa
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday confirmed that it had closed down six Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Adamawa, following the return of the inmates to their...
View ArticleMilitary debunks Amnesty Report on civilians’ death inside Giwa Barracks
The Nigerian military has completely disassociated itself from a report by Amnesty International, which alleging that some civilians died in a detention cell at Giwa Barracks. “The accusation comes as...
View ArticleBREAKING: Residents flee Enugu community over rumoured herdsmen attack
There is a state of confusion in Nze community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State over reported plan by Fulani herdsmen to invade the community, this (Thursday) night. An indigene of the...
View ArticleINEC releases time-table for Ondo, Edo governorship elections
The Independent National Election Commission (INEC) has fixed June 12 for commencement of political campaigns ahead of the Sept. 10 governorship election in Edo. Similarly, it said that electioneering...
View ArticleReuben Abati: Buhari, Cameron and corruption
“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”, UK Prime Minister David Cameron was...
View ArticleThose who benefited from my labour are the ones insulting me – Oshiomhole
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has attributed the lingering crisis in the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to enemies of the state and the party, lamenting that they are now...
View ArticleBREAKING: PDP cancels tomorrow’s South-West zonal congress
The South West zonal congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, scheduled for tomorrow has being cancelled by the party’s national leadership. Speaking with the Punch on Friday in Abuja, the...
View ArticleCourt arraigns two dismissed policemen for collecting N14m salaries in Ekiti
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate Court sitting in Ekiti state on Friday arraigned two men, Remi Odili and Stanley Obanor, over alleged impersonation. The duo, aged 42 and 35 respectively, was arraigned on a...
View ArticleSexual molestation: We lack evidence to indict accused teacher – FG
The Ministry of Education, said the investigative panel into alleged sexual molestation on a female student of Queens College, Ikeja, Lagos could not establish any evidence to indict the accused...
View ArticleAgency gives out condoms in Auchi
The Edo State Agency for the Control of HIV and AIDs (EDO-SACA) on Friday distributed condoms to residents of Auchi as part of activities to commemorate the 2016 International Aids Candle Light...
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