A 56-year-old man, Wakilu Sarafa, has been brought before the Candide Johnson Magistrates’ Court, Ikorodu, for attempting to murder one Jamiu Balogun with cutlass and broken bottles. The accused was alleged to have used the cutlass and the broken bottles…
Lagos trader commits suicide to spite mother (Punch)
A trader, Funmilola Adeodu, has committed suicide in Ilogbo-Eremi, in the Morogbo area of Lagos State. The 28-year-old mother of two was said to have taken a local insecticide, Sniper, to spite her mother, Ifatunmibi Adegbenle, for allegedly maltreating her…
Obasanjo’s son meets Buhari inside Aso Rock (Punch)
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday granted audience to Olujonwon, one of the sons of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The meeting was held inside Buhari’s official residence at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and…
Certificate saga: APP chairman asks court to disqualify Buhari from 2019 poll (Punch)
The Chairman of Action Peoples Party, Mr Ikenga Ugochinyere, said on Thursday that he had filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari from participating in the 2019 presidential election over what…
Atiku will reduce fuel price, says PDP (Punch)
The Peoples Democratic Party has said its presidential candidate has worked out a pricing template that will immediately crash the pump price of fuel in the country. The party said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress administration had failed…
Undergraduate cultists arrested after a successful hit (Punch)
Five undergraduates of a tertiary institution in Owerri, Imo State, have been arrested for alleged involvement in secret cult activities. The Imo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said the youths were nabbed after an alleged…
MTN issues frightened foreign investors. US ,UK envoys (Punch)
The envoys of the United Kingdom and the United States of America in Nigeria have said that the problems being faced by leading telecommunications giant, MTN, have scared investors from both countries from Nigeria, resulting in some of them pulling…
Alleged $5m bribery: Kano Assembly panel summons Ganduje today (Punch)
As the alleged $5m bribery scandal against Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, lingers, the seven-man panel probing the allegations has summoned the governor to appear before it on Friday (today). In a letter dated October 31, 2018, duly received…
ADC insists on Lanlehin for Oyo gov (Punch)
The National Working Committee of the African Democratic Congress on Wednesday maintained that Senator Olufemi Lanlehin remains its Oyo State governorship candidate. The National Chairman of the ADC, Chief Okey Nwosu, said during a press conference in Abuja that the…
2019: Ondo APC members protest, reject senatorial candidate (Punch)
Thousands of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ondo State on Thursday took to the street of Ore, the headquarters of the Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, to protest against the alleged imposition of Senator Yele…