Beyond the Headlines
Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa’s last white President, is dead. According to reports, he died at his Cape Town residence on Thursday morning. The FW de Klerk Foundation confirmed this in a statement. “Former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle against mesothelioma cancer,” […]
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, says there are over 3000 inmates still at large following jailbreaks in Nigeria within the last year. Speaking at a media briefing organized by the Presidential Media Team at the State House in Abuja on Thursday, Aregbesola further disclosed that 4,860 inmates escaped from various custodial centers from 2020 […]
The Nigerian activist and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, paid for his botched Cotonou-Paris-Hamburg flight through a United Kingdom-based travel company, findings by The PUNCH have shown. Further findings also revealed the ticket was paid for in British pound sterling using a cheque as means of payment. Igboho, following a security raid […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offloaded company shares worth $5 billion, days after setting off a Twitter poll — in which millions voted — asking whether he should sell 10 percent of his huge stake in the electric carmaker. The zany billionaire, the world’s richest man with a net worth of around $300 billion, sold […]
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has said the National Identification Number will enable the Federal Government and security agencies to know the identity of Internet users in the country. This is as he stated that NIN will be the foundation of the economy and the security of the country. Pantami said […]
Iran is sending tens of thousands of Afghan migrants back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan every week despite the threat of famine, aid agencies and witnesses say, with many Afghans alleging they have been mistreated by Iranian authorities. During decades of conflict, millions of Afghans have crossed into their western neighbour seeking to escape violence and a […]
Police in Enugu have arrested a man and a pastor over the disappearance and murder for money ritual of the man’s seven-year-old son. Police spokesman in Enugu State, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said in a statement issued on Thursday in Enugu that the murdered minor was earlier reported missing on Oct. 22. Ndukwe said that following […]
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State yesterday said he never supported the idea of direct primary elections for political parties because it will cause more problems than envisaged. Ortom, who was reacting to questions from journalists in Makurdi about his thoughts concerning the amendment of the electoral law just passed by the National Assembly, also […]
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Victor Oye, says that aggrieved persons who left the party in the build-up to the November 6 Anambra State Governorship Election are free to return to the party if they choose to. He spoke in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday shortly after the […]
Governors of the All Progressives Congress have begun reaching out to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), with a view to getting him to convince the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to withhold assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill as passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday. […]
