Policeman’s four children die in Lagos mudslide
Samson Folarin and Tobi Aworinde Tragedy struck on Saturday in Orisha Community, Magodo, Isheri area of Lagos State, after a mudslide hit a three-bedroomed apartment killing all the four children in...
View ArticlePwajok did not donate kidney to Jang, says family
Jude Owuamanam The Lo-bard family of Du in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, where late Senator Gyang Pwajok came from, has pleaded with Plateau people not to compound their sorrows...
View ArticleBuhari’s ministers get portfolios Wednesday
Olusola Fabiyi and Olalekan Adetayo President Muhammadu Buhari will formally inaugurate the much-awaited Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. Buhari will administer oath of...
View Article[VIDEO] PUNCH undercover reporter exposes mass cheating at NECO ‘Miracle Centre’
TOBI AWORINDE went undercover to sit for the 2015 Senior Secondary Certificate Exams conducted by the National Examination Council at a private secondary school in Lagos Earlier this year, I bought the...
View ArticleOyo CP meets herdsmen, farmers
Olufemi Atoyebi The Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade, met leaders of the Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Ibarapa area of the state on Thursday, warning that anyone caught in the act of...
View ArticleDogara shuns aggrieved Reps, inaugurates committees Monday
John Ameh Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has ignored complaints of some of his colleagues who are dissatisfied with the sharing of the chairmanship positions of 96 standing...
View ArticleAbduction: Ex-militant leaders back Buhari
Simon Utebor Worried by the rampant cases of kidnapping, sea piracy and other crimes in Bayelsa State, ex-militant leaders, under the umbrella of the Third Phase Amnesty Programme have asked aggrieved...
View ArticleVirgin Atlantic fires Nigerian flight attendants
Oyetunji Abioye British mega carrier, Virgin Atlantic Airways, has fired all its Nigerian flight attendants, SUNDAY PUNCH can authoritatively report. The carrier, majorly owned by the British business...
View ArticleWada, Umahi, others worst governors —Report
Bayo Akinloye Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Idris Wada (Kogi), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi) have been rated as the worst performing among the 36 state...
View ArticleGod hasn’t told me to replace Kefee — Teddy Don-Momoh
Peter Okeugo Teddy Don-Momoh is a radio presenter and widower of the late award-winning artiste, Kefee. He opens up on life after her death and his career What is the most challenging aspect of your...
View ArticleA woman once called me a monkey —Ibukun Jegede
Peter Okeugo Background My name is Ibukun Jegede; I am a model and an entrepreneur. I was raised in Lagos and I schooled in Nigeria before I relocated to the United Kingdom for my Bachelor’s and...
View ArticleI’m inspired by different cultures – Kola Kuddus
Kola Kuddus is an urbane native menswear designer who runs his own eponymous label. He speaks about the Nigerian fashion industry and his passion for fashion designing Q: Why the switch from being a...
View ArticleI didn’t want to marry an ugly woman — Von Apochi
Peter Okeugo Nollywood actor and Gulder Ultimate Search 1 contestant, Von Apochi, is married to Noella, a business development manager. They share the story behind their successful union How did you...
View ArticleBayelsa poll: Sylva’s hometown welcomes Dickson
Simon Utebor Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, the council area of the candidate for the All Progressives Congress, Chief Timipre Sylva, was agog as Governor Seriake Dickson took his...
View ArticleNoise heard on cockpit audio of crashed Russian plane
Aljazeera The cockpit voice recorder of the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula has been deciphered and “a noise” was heard in the last second of the recording, Egyptian investigators...
View ArticleHopes of survivors fade in Pakistan factory collapse
Aljazeera The rescue operation of a factory collapse in Pakistan is too slow and ineffective, family members and colleagues of those crushed under the building have said. Speaking to Al Jazeera on...
View ArticleISIL frees 37 Assyrian Christians in Syria
Aljazeera The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group has released 37 Assyrian Christians from the towns of Tal Shiram and Tal Jazira, according to a monitoring group. The Assyrian Human Rights...
View ArticleProtesters demand closure of UK detention centre
Aljazeera About 1,500 people have protested outside the UK’s Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre, demanding that the government close its doors and release its detainees. Wet and muddy conditions...
View ArticleGunmen kill seven in Burundi capital bar attack
Gunmen have shot dead at least seven people in an attack on a bar in the Burundi capital, forcing them lie on the ground before executing them, government officials said Sunday. “It was an execution…...
View ArticleStreet celebrations as Sierra Leone declared Ebola-free
Aljazeera Residents of Sierra Leone’s capital have celebrated the end of an Ebola epidemic that has killed almost 4,000 people since it began last year. Following 42 days with no new cases, the West...
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