The residents of Ìrele community in the Ìrele Local Government Area of Ondo State have raised the alarm over the rising attacks on the community, where residents were claimed to have sustained varying degrees of injury and destruction of farmlands by suspected hoodlums. Some of the residents who spoke with PUNCH Metro in separate telephone Read More
The National Security Adviser to the President, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Thursday, expressed concern about what he described as the booming illegal firearms market in the North. This was as he decried the high level of poverty in northern Nigeria, saying the North-West was worst hit. Ribadu expressed the concerns while speaking at the convocation Read More
The Nigeria Correctional Service has refuted claims that controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, who was handed a six-month prison sentence over abuse of the naira notes, was moved from the Ikoyi custodial centre to its other facility in Kirikiri, Lagos State. Bobrisky was reported to have been discreetly transferred to Kirikiri Prison last weekend Read More
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on Thursday carried out an enforcement raid at two supermarkets in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to ensure adherence to price display and quantity regulations. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Dr Adamu Abdullahi, said the exercise targeted at reducing the high cost of food commodities nationwide, would Read More
Motorists and traders have raised concerns about the illegal dumping of refuse into a drainage canal opposite Adebola Idowu Street in the Kosofe Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent, who visited the area on Thursday, observed that the canal was clogged with refuse consisting mostly of disposable Styrofoam and plastics. It was also Read More
The immediate-past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on Thursday, failed in his bid to quash the N4bn theft charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja dismissed the preliminary objection filed by Obiano to challenge the powers of the EFCC to Read More
A grandmother, Fatimo Ganiyu is now in police custody for allegedly locking up three infants in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect was arrested on Wednesday at about 4:00 p.m. A video sent to our correspondent by a resident in the area showed how malnourished the male and female Read More
Former militant leader in the Niger Delta, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, was the cynosure of all eyes as the 2024 Amaseikumor Annual Festival came to a joyful and remarkable end on Wednesday at Oporoza, traditional headquarters of the Gbaramatu kingdom in Warri South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. Tompolo is Read More
The Nigerian Army has embarked on a week-long weapon handling competition for soldiers within the ranks of corporal and Below drawn from the 6 Division in the Niger Delta region. South-South PUNCH gathered that the competition aimed at “building their endurance and preparing them for the tasks ahead, Other features of the competition include: stripping Read More
No fewer than 577 blind candidates are set to take the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME in 11 centres nationwide. Chairman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Equal Opportunity Group, Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola made this known on Thursday while addressing newsmen in preparation for the 2024 UTME for blind candidates and others Read More
The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday, unveiled surveillance drones acquired by the state to be deployed on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Abiodun said the drones, to be operated by trained personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, Department of Stata Service and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, would help to tackle criminal Read More
THE leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students has petitioned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, demanding the arrest and prosecution of the factional President of NANS, Pedro Obi, over the alleged impersonation of NANS President, Lucky Emonefe. Emonefe, on Thursday, led hundreds of students on a solidarity rally to Read More