Beyond the Headlines
A boat carrying five passengers has capsized in Lagos State. The PUNCH gathered that the boat was heading to Badagry when the incident happened on Friday. An official of the Lagos State Waterways confirmed the incident, saying that the five passengers have been rescued. “No Cause for Alarm! The boat was going to Badagry but […]
The Imo State police command has announced the arrest of Darlington Ogubike and Ihuoma Emeriole suspected to be notorious armed robbers. CSP Micheal Abattam, Police Public Relations officer in a statement on Friday said that both suspects were arrested after reports that a gang of armed robbers terrorizing Mbasie were sighted in the community. The […]
Stella Oduah, senator representing Anambra north, says she abstained from voting on the electronic transmission of election results because she didn’t want to reject the work she was part of. Oduah, a member of the committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was among 27 senators who were absent when voting was held. The […]
Robert Mede, a resident of Adamawa, has been arrested for allegedly beating his pregnant wife to death. The suspect, who hails from Bodere village in Ribadu District of Fufore Local Government Area of the state, is currently being detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police headquarter s in Yola. He confessed to Daily […]
The death toll from devastating floods in Europe soared to at least 126 on Friday, most in western Germany where emergency responders were frantically searching for missing people. Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the “flood of death” by Germany’s top-selling daily Bild. Streets and houses were submerged by water […]
A strange disease on Friday killed seven persons and left nine others in critical conditions at the New Artisan Market, Enugu. It was gathered the bodies of the deceased, four men and three women, were discovered by shocked residents on Friday morning. Chairman of the Livestocks Market, Alhaji Danladi Abubarkar, who confirmed the incident to […]
The Imo State Police Command on Friday constituted a committee to apprehend fake and quack lawyers in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, who spoke when a team from the Owerri branch of Nigeria Bar Association visited him at the command headquarters in Owerri, said quackery was a crime in law. Yaro […]
Chukwuma Soludo, one of the candidates of the November 6 governorship election in Anambra, says he is still in the race. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had excluded him from the list of governorship candidates. In a statement which his campaign organisation issued on his behalf, the former governor of the Central Bank of […]
The House of Representatives has passed the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, maintaining the controversial Clause 52(2) as presented. The clause allows the Independent National Electoral Commission to determine when, where and how voting and transmission of results will be done. Clause 52(2) reads, “Voting at an election and transmission of result under this bill shall […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday discharged and acquitted the immediate past President of the Nigerian Barr Association (NBA) Paul Usoro SAN, of the N1.4billion money laundering charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC). Justice Rilwan Aikawa held the anti-graft agency failed to establish any prima facie case […]
