President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will today, Wednesday, depart the country for Paris, France, on a short working visit. Tinubu’s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday. According to the statement, during the visit, Tinubu will appraise his administration’s mid-term performance and assess key milestones. Onanuga said the president will […]

Lagos State Police Command has uncovered and smashed internet fraud training facility, commonly referred to as “Yahoo School”, operating in the Iju area of the state. This was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesman, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, on Tuesday in Lagos. According to Hundeyin, the police arrested four yahoo experts and six trainees. […]

The Nigeria Economic Summit Group has warned that the Federal Government could face revenue shortfalls if it does not increase the value-added tax rate as part of the ongoing tax reform process. The Chief Executive Officer of NESG, Dr Tayo Aduloju, made this statement during an interactive media session held over the weekend in Abuja. […]

Thirty-five states voted N214 billion for local security outfits, defence initiatives, and the purchase of arms and equipment in their 2025 budget, The PUNCH reports. Despite the substantial funding allocated to eliminate insecurity, no fewer than 367 individuals have been killed during Yuletide and Sallah celebrations between 2019 and 2025. The states’ budgets are contained […]

The General Overseer of a new generation church in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, simply identified as Elijah, has been arrested by the police for alleged homosexuality. PUNCH Metro gathered that the cleric whose church is on Eagle Island, Port Harcourt, landed in trouble after videos of him indulging in the act were leaked […]

Operatives of the Department of State Security have arrested two principal suspects involved in the killing of 16 Nigerians of northern extraction in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government last week. According to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Monday Okpehbolo, Fred Itua, the suspects were arrested by operatives of the DSS […]

The Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, threatened to withdraw oil blocks from owners that have failed to develop them. This is against the backdrop of the Federal Government calling on international oil companies operating in Nigeria to ramp up investment in the country’s oil and gas sector, emphasising that the current […]

A mini-bus has crushed an employee of the Lagos State Waste Management Authority to death in an accident that occurred in the Ketu area of Lagos State on Monday night. The Permanent Secretary OF the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to the perm sec, the […]

The family of Memunah Abdulrahman is appealing to the public for assistance after their five-year-old daughter was abducted by a suspected kidnapper in the Ejigbo area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt on Tuesday that the missing girl was abducted on March 9, 2025, while she and her sister were returning from an Islamic school. […]