A fatal motor accident has claimed the life of Akintoye Benson, an aide to the chairman of the Lagos Chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo. According to a viral video, Benson’s lifeless body was seen in a wrecked vehicle after the auto crash on Third…
A report released by Save the Children International (SCI) has revealed that about 70 schools were attacked and 1,683 school children kidnapped across Nigeria between February 2014 and December 2022. The report is entitled Education Under Attack: Review and Analysis of Attack on Schools, Teachers, and Learners from the Kidnapping of the Chibok Girls, Borno,…
Ghanaian millionaire, Dr Kwaku Oteng, has recounted how he started making a lot of money and it has a lot to do with his faith in God. According to the businessman mogul who owns a chain of businesses in Ghana’s herbal medicines, broadcasting, beverages and transport industries, he realized his first million after he consistently…
An 80-year-old man, Isiyaka Ayinde, has reportedly committed suicide at the Watch Tower in the Araromi Imota area of Lagos State. PUNCH Online gathered that the incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. A police source told our correspondent that, according to a tenant in the compound, the deceased hung himself with a rope…
A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Kingsley Moghalu, has asked President Tinubu to reshuffle his cabinet. According to him, this would help to restore investor confidence in Nigeria and improve the economy. Moghalu made this appeal in an interview with Arise Television on Thursday. “To restore confidence, President Tinubu needs…
An EFCC witness, Bamaiyi Mairiga on Thursday told an FCT high court, Maitama that the signatures of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, were forged. Mairiga, a forensic document examiner with the EFCC, said this while testifying in the ongoing trial of the…
A married policeman who left his radio on while having sex with a female colleague on duty has been given a “final warning” after a misconduct hearing and allowed to keep his job. Inspector Darren Lane, who has been a police officer for 23 years, placed his radio on the bedside table while having “full…
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has described US President Joe Biden as ‘mad and mentally disabled’ following his State of the Union address. On Thursday, March 7, Biden opened his address with a reference to a 1941 speech to Congress by 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who declared the union faced an unprecedented turning…
Suspected Gunmen have again attacked a police Station, Friday around Ebiya bridge along hilltop area in the Abakaliki metropolis. Sources in the area say, six police men were brutally killed in the violent attack. Two girls suspected to be civilians were said to have equally been killed during the attack. The attack of police operatives…
One of the teachers who escaped abduction narrates how bandits kidnapped 287 students from the school on Thursday. Following the abduction of 287 students from their schools in Kaduna State on Thursday, March 8, 2024, Sani Abdullahi, a teacher who escaped captivity has narrated how the bandits invaded the schools. The teacher recounted the incident…
A British man has taken to social media to celebrate the enterprising spirit of Nigerians. In a video making the rounds on social media, the man with the handle TT/Bye_bye_fatman, said he had travelled extensively and has lived in 10 different countries and hasn’t seen a more enterprising people like Nigerians. ”Nigerians are among the…
ANAMBRA state Governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, has appointed Bayo Ojeyinka as permanent secretary in the Anambra state civil service. The appointment which was based on merit has been praised by civil servants in the state as one that is deserving. Ojeyinka, a native of Osun state, has been in the Anambra state public service…