NDLEA charges 32-year-old with peddling cocaine, heroin (Nation) The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA on Friday charged one 32-year-old Basit Gbolagade with cocaine and heroin trafficking before a Federal High Court in Lagos. The NDLEA brought a two-count charge…
A socio-cultural group, Enyaharo Isoko has called on the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government and the Ifeanyi Okowa-led Delta State government to urgently mobilise materials and personnel to aid victims of the flood disaster currently ravaging over 80 per cent of…
The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation (PCO) Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, says the organisation has not set aside its drive for votes kick-started on Monday. Special Adviser Media and Publicity to the…
Award-winning Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has said that her non-appearance at Tuesday’s conferment of national honours by President Muhammadu Buhari was a rejection of the award. Adichie was recently decorated with Harvard University’s iconic W.E.B. Du Bois Medal. A…
ASUU suspends strike after eight months (Punch) The Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its eight month old strike, The PUNCH can authoritatively confirm. Though the union is yet to make an official pronouncement, our correspondent gathered that the…
The Court of Appeal on Thursday in Abuja quashed the terrorism charge brought against Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Delivering judgment in an appeal filed by Kanu, a three-member panel led by Justice…
Farm labourer bags life imprisonment for raping Lagos teenager (Punch) Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Wednesday, sentenced a farm labourer, Isiaka Adeoye, who raped a 17-year-old girl, to life imprisonment.…
First Bank of Nigeria Limited has partnered with Junior Achievement Nigeria to implement the 22nd National Company of the Year (NCOY) competition which will be held on Thursday, 13th October 2022. The annual flagship event which was last held physically…
Musings on the current trend of japa-ing abroad If you haven’t noticed, everyone, their family, and their dog seem to be departing the country in large numbers every day, at least if social media and WhatsApp groups are to be…
Confession: How I killed Super TV boss – Chidinma (Punch) A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square on Tuesday watched the video recording of the lifeless body of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, allegedly…
