Beyond the Headlines
The Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress Campaign Council, Mr Dele Alake, has denied reports that the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is under pressure to choose his cabinet, with just six weeks to his inauguration. He also dismissed rumours that Tinubu travelled abroad for medical attention. Rather, he said Tinubu was […]
Sunday 22 April 2023 Tinubu not under pressure over cabinet – Alake Sudan conflict: FG raises evacuation panel as trapped Nigerians knock govt South Africa is open for tourism, says Consul-General Bandits Release Four Kebbi Schoolgirls After 22 Months In Captivity 21 Bodies Exhumed In Kenya Cult Probe – Police Sources Taraba Rep-Elect Maihanchi […]
A human rights group, the Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA) has asked Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State to step down from the state’s governorship race over the recent killing of five police officers and a couple in the state. Gunmen had on Friday morning, killed the five officers who had stopped by to […]
A block of flats in the Sango Police Barracks in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, on Saturday evening, collapsed. However, the number of trapped persons or casualties, if any, remained unknown. The collapsed structure is in front of a residential three-storey building in the area. All attempts to reach the officials of the National Emergency […]
Angry mob has lynched a suspected cultist, Chima, also known as Jasper, after stabbing a mechanic Chigozie Anumwee to death over a minor quarrel at Umuonyeashi, Nsokpo Ogbaku in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State, on Fridaym It was learnt that Jasper, who hails from Amakohia Ubi in Owerri West LGA but lives […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the commission is focusing its searchlight on fraudsters who use real estate to launder money. Speaking during a media workshop in Benin, Edo state capital, Chris Mishela, a lawyer with the EFCC, said many estates springing up in the country, especially in Abuja, are built with […]
Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in Kenya in a probe into a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources said Saturday, warning the toll could rise. Officials had earlier reported seven deaths in connection with the investigation in eastern Kenya following the arrest of Makenzie Nthenge, who […]
The Federal Government has commenced the payment of the 40 per cent pay rise arrears for civil servants, Saturday PUNCH has reliably learnt. Our correspondent who spoke to some federal civil servants on Saturday learnt that workers started receiving bank alerts of the arrears on Saturday, April 22, 2023. A high-ranking civil servant who […]
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, on Friday, said the rising cost of living is not only peculiar to Nigeria alone but a global phenomenon. Shehu, who spoke during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, defended President Muhammadu Buhari on some of the problems encountered by […]
The Kaduna State Police Command has apprehended a middle-aged man, identified simply as Kenneth, for allegedly hacking his girlfriend to death in the state capital. City Round gathered that the man allegedly hacked his girlfriend, Ebenezer Agada, 27, using a machete to cut her into pieces for allegedly plotting to dump him for another […]
