Members of the Kwara State House of Assembly have accused Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, of attempting to impose himself on the state. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and the minister have been having a running battle. Speaking while inaugurating the secretariat of a faction of the APC in Kwara, Mohammed said the party […]
Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri has rejected the reported overtures by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state for him to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He declared his total commitment to the PDP, saying he is going nowhere. He said though he appreciated the APC for acknowledging that his administration is performing in […]
Phone snatchers have stabbed a man, Umar Muhammad Ahmad, to death in Kano State. His brother, Mustapha Modi Adamu, disclosed this Sunday in a Facebook post. According to Adamu, the assailants waylaid the deceased on Saturday night under the ongoing Kwari Market Flyover, where they stabbed him and made away with his phone. Activities of […]
Unknown armed men again on Saturday night attacked a divisional police station in Udung Uko local government of Akwa Ibom State and injured three police officers on duty. It was gathered that the hoodlums stormed the police station in a vehicle and opened fire on the unsuspecting officers. A source, who pleaded anonymity, told our […]
Gunmen suspected to be members of a rival cult group, on Saturday, shot dead a member of a vigilante group in Benin. The killers were said to have trailed their victim who was simply identified as Endurance from his house in uptown Benin to a Lotto Betting shop at Ologbotsere Street, off Benin Technical College […]
Irked by alleged lopsided appointment of management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), an umbrella body of all the Oil Producing Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Imo State, Urashi Peoples’ Congress (UPC), has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari. The group appealed to President to reverse the trend, complaining since inception of the intervention agency, nobody […]
The mother of the 14-year-old girl killed allegedly by a stray bullet during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos on Saturday has expressed sorrow on receiving the news of her daughter’s death. Agitators for Yoruba self-determination had gathered at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota amid the presence of armed policemen and soldiers. This was […]
Some Youths have been arrested for wearing ‘Buhari Must Go’ T-shirts to a Sunday Service at Dunamis Gospel Church Headquarters in Lugbe, Abuja and chanting, The PUNCH has learnt. The activists were handed over to the Department of State Services, according to activist, Omoyele Sowore. He said, “Security men at Dunamis Church have arrested activists […]
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra said it has concluded plans to drag the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to the International Criminal Court of Justice over what it described as systematic annihilation of pro-Biafra agitators in Nigeria. MASSOB, in a statement on Sunday signed by its National Director […]
A 10-year-old primary four pupil, in Akpoha community, Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Favour (surname withheld), who was allegedly defiled by a 24-year-old man in the area, Francis Ikpor, has refused to return to school after the harrowing incident. The girl, who is an orphan and lives with her 60-year-old grandmother, Mrs. […]
