The 20 prospective National Youth Service Corps members kidnapped while travelling from Oyo State to the orientation camp in Abia State have regained their freedom. They were freed seven days after they were abducted along the Owerri-Onitsha road in Umunoha, Imo State. The detail...
The late gospel artist, Toluwanisings...Photo Credit: IG/ Toluwanisings
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, has insisted that the union has the authority to negotiate alone on labour matters, countering the position of his Trade Union Congress counterpart, Festus Osifo, that both labour centres must participate in such negotiati...
President Bola Tinubu. Photo: State House
Kylian Mbappe. Credit: Yahoo Sports.
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti. Photo: File
File photo: Ex-National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has launched a manhunt for the killers of a woman, Unwana Okon, who was murdered in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of the state. Okon, a resident of Ndot Village, was allegedly lured to Mbiaikot Village under the guise of buying Afang leaves be...
The crashed vehicle...Photo Credit: Samuel Omotere
I was roughly 10 years old when I had my first encounter with cult recruitment as a secondary school student in Festac Town, Lagos. The approach appeared harmless at first. Older students began joking with me and making deliberate efforts to build proximity. Then came drugs, part...
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume. Photo: OSGF
The Nigeria Customs Service is deploying Artificial Intelligence and digital intelligence tools to combat fake news and online scams that threaten its reputation. Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, disclosed the move in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the se...
Thirty-two people arrested in recent months in Senegal amid a crackdown on homosexuality have been charged and brought before a court for “unnatural acts” and “wilful transmission” of HIV, authorities announced Friday. These new charges, which the public prosecutor for the northe...
Nigerians’ outstanding personal loans increased by an estimated N58.5bn in the second quarter of 2026, reaching N1.99tn at the end of June, as households faced persistent inflationary pressures and high borrowing costs. An analysis by The PUNCH of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Se...
The Federal Government has vowed to crack down on inflated public contracts and procurement violations, warning heads of government-owned agencies, corporations, councils, authorities and commissions that they risk sanctions for breaching procurement regulations. The government r...
Women of the African Democratic Congress in Lagos State will take to the streets of Ikeja, the state capital, on Thursday, November 5, 2026, for a solidarity walk in support of the party’s presidential ticket of Atiku Abubakar and Rotimi Amaechi. The event, billed as the “ADC Wom...
For the first time in as many years, Yewa land in Ogun State is presenting a gubernatorial candidate for election. That is Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, a.k.a. Yayi. Hitherto, Yewa would field candidates for other parties for healthy competition to give people the opportunit...
Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya has revealed that he has signed a new UFC contract and will return to the octagon fairly soon. Adesanya made the disclosure on the Precision podcast, confirming that he has put pen to paper on the deal for his comeback. The 37-year...