MINISTER of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Sunday warned that people that lacked his kind of political pedigree could not displace him in the fold of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State. This is according to a statement signed by Sola Fasure, the Media Adviser to Aregbesola. Aregbesola, who is the immediate past governor of […]

There was a mild drama on Sunday after the Chief Press Secretary to the Niger State Governor, Mary Noel-Barje, ordered the arrest of The PUNCH correspondent in the state, Adebayo Ayinde. Noel-Barje’s latest action is coming after many attempts by the aide to coerce our correspondent into writing stories from her point of view. There has been […]

IFON community chiefs in the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State say they have been invited to Abuja by the police for allegedly killing a cow belonging to a herdsman identified as Abdullahi, an allegation they described as false. However, the police have made no arrests for the murder of the town’s monarch, Olufon […]

The FCT Police Command has arrested nine robbery suspects along Jabi-Utako, Wuse and Kwali axis. The suspects were arrested during different intelligence operations between February 10-18,2021. The suspects are Adah Johnson, 20years; Ebere Ekueme, 19; Freedom Emmanuel ,20; Gambo Alanana ,19; Gideon Adaga, 35; Friday Adanu ,20; Danjuma Gambo, 19; Abubakar Aliyu ,20 and Jude […]

The tranquility that characterises Nassau Village in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was on Sunday disturbed when a jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash landed in the area. Noise from aircraft is not strange to residents of the village, being one of the settlements that bordered the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport. But the […]

Members of the National Assembly from Anambra State on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) have resolved to support former Central Bank Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, to clinch the ticket of the party for the November governorship poll. This was revealed yesterday during a meeting of the caucus with the state executive committee […]

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) yesterday said that in response to public health concern over the detection of new variants of COVID-19, the severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), it has commenced work on the sequencing the virus in Nigeria. The agency said that in the short term, a random selection of viruses […]

Nigeria recorded 662 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, taking the number of confirmed cases to 150,908 with 127,500 discharged and 1813 deaths.

The Imo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Cyprian Akaolisa, has said that the government invited the military to Orlu to flush out members of the Eastern Security Network linked with the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra. Akaolisa, who informed journalists of this development in Owerri yesterday, said the government would try the ESN […]

Hope was initially raised yesterday on freedom for the abducted 27 students and 15 others at Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, but later dashed, with the bandits insisting on N500 million ransom before releasing the abductees and other people kidnaped in NSTA bus earlier in the week. The bandits attacked the school last Wednesday, […]