UNIZIK 100-level student dies after hostel lockout crisis
The management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, have confirmed the death of Miss Isabella Ajana, a 100-level student in the Faculty of Law and has launched investigation into the circumstances leading to the incident. This is barely four days after a 300-level student of the Department of Microbiology at the institution, identified […]
No Southerner can take out Tinubu in 2027 – Dele Momodu
Former presidential candidate, Dele Momodu said no Southerner can wrest power from President Bola Tinubu in 2027. According to him, the president already has the South locked down and only if the North has a stake in the election, like it did in 2015, would it have the incentive and impetus to come out en […]
Akume denies interest in APC national chairmanship, appoints Odunuga as media adviser
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, has rebuffed reports that he is vying for the position of national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The denial followed a recent publication by a national daily newspaper that listed him among top politicians competing for the party’s top leadership role. In a […]
Release Nnamdi Kanu – Actor Yul Edochie urges Tinubu
Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie has urged to President Bola Tinubu to release detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Edochie, a staunch supporter of the president, made the appeal in a Facebook post on Thursday. Kanu was re-arrested in June 2021 in Kenya, through what his family and lawyers described […]
Troops bust arms syndicate in Taraba
Troops of 6 Brigade Nigerian Army deployed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Wukari, in Taraba State, have arrested 55 year old Buba Idi and 29 year old Isiyaka Yusufa, who are suspected members of a gun running syndicate and recovered an AK 47 riffle. Captain Olubodunde Oni, Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 6 Brigade […]
Atiku, Peter Obi ticket can’t defeat Tinubu, coalition no threat to APC – Presidency
President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has declared that a merger of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi presidential ticket can’t defeat the president in 2027. Onanuga said the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress, APC, does not see the coalition as a threat. He disclosed this while featuring on […]
Dele Momodu, business owner clash over alleged N380,000 debt from small chops supplied in 2022
Dele Momodu, a former Director of Strategic Communications of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Committee, has denied allegations of contracting one Black Diamond Kitchen in 2022 to supply Small Chops and owing the outfit the sum of N380,000. Momodu, a former presidential candidate, said he has never met such a person or visited any Black Diamond […]
Lawyer, three Ghanaians face trial in FCT over alleged forgery
The Inspector General of Police has dragged an Abuja-based legal practitioner, Abu Arome, and three Ghanaians —Sam Jonah, a Knight of the British Empire, Kojo Ansah and Victor Quainoo, along with their company, Mobus Property Nigeria Ltd —before the Federal Capital Territory High Court over allegations of forgery. In a charge marked CR/402/2025, dated June […]
Man remanded for illegal firearm possession in Lagos
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the remand of a 30-year-old man, Ogunjimi Mayowa, at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre over charges of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke issued the remand order following Mayowa’s arraignment by the Department of State Services on three counts bordering on conspiracy, unlawful […]
Coastal highway: Protesters demand justice for landowners, detained activist
A coalition of civil society organisations on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest in Lagos over the alleged wrongful displacement of residents and landowners in Okun Ajah, a community reportedly affected by the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. The protest monitored by PUNCH Metro was held at the annexe office of the Federal Ministry of Works, Tafawa […]