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[ICYMI] FULL LIST: UEFA Champions League play-off draw unveiled
The stage is set for the final hurdle before the group stages, as the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League play-off round draw took place on Monday, August 5, at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switz...
6th August 2024
Paris 2024: Men’s Olympics football fixtures
The men’s football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris promises to be a thrilling spectacle, featuring 16 teams from around the globe competing across seven cities in France. The tou...
22nd July 2024
Ekiti rejects TCN's two-month power outage plan
The Ekiti State Government has rejected the planned power outage for two months—July and August. Benin Electricity Distribution Company, earlier in a circular, informed the public, especially its cu...
1st July 2024
ICYMI: Davido sues Sophia Momodu for Imade’s custody
International award-winning singer, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has dragged Sophia Momodu, the mother of his first child, Imade, to court, seeking custody of the daughter. In an originat...
21st June 2024
JUST IN: CJN summons Chief judges over Kano emirate tussle
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has summoned the Chief Judges of the Federal High Court and the Kano State High Court in response to the recent legal turmoil surroundin...
29th May 2024
Slain soldiers for burial today, military demands killers’ capture
The Nigerian Army says soldiers killed in the Okuama community in Delta State are to be buried today (Wednesday), at the National Cemetery, Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement posted on the Niger...
27th March 2024
24.5% interest rate: Private sector foresees higher inflation, massive job cuts
The hike in Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Rate, also known as interest rate, from 22.75 per cent to 24.75 per cent by the Central Bank of Nigeria will further accelerate the country’s inflation and le...
27th March 2024
I attempted suicide five times after hit-and-run driver crushed my leg – Victim
Kwara State-born event planner, Faridah Busari, tells ABDULLATEEF FOWEWE how she suffered memory loss after a Lagos commercial driver who disobeyed traffic regulations broke her leg Can you narrate ho...
3rd March 2024
Masquerader fled to Lagos after killing my dad – Anambra man
Indigene of Umuawulu in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chidubem Okoye, tells IKENNA OBIANERI how a masquerader killed his father How many of you did your parents give birth to?...
3rd March 2024
Disability aborted my dream of becoming air hostess – Fashion designer
Lagos-based sickle cell survivor and amputee fashion designer, Emiola-Dakobiri Damilola, tells TEMITOPE ADETUNJI how she was born without a tibia bone in one of her legs How did you come about with a ...
3rd March 2024
Teachers, lecturers to sign sexual harassment prevention form
Teachers and lecturers in various institutions of learning across the country are now required to sign the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Code of Conduct form. The action is part of measu...
18th February 2024
Benin-Ore Expressway kidnappers freed my father after N3m ransom –Son
A man, Akeem Kareem, has regained freedom after spending about three days in the den of kidnappers who abducted him along the Benin-Ore Expressway last Wednesday. Sunday Special had reported that Kare...
22nd January 2024
Senate will summon Wike over kidnapping epidemic - Kingibe
The Senator Representing the Federal Capital Territory, Ireti Kingibe, said the Senate will summon the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, over the rising rate of insecurity in Abuja. There has been an incr...
22nd January 2024
NDLEA nabs female bandits’ drug supplier, intercepts colos consignment
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos, on New Year’s Day, intercepted a consignment of colorado, a very strong strain of c...
8th January 2024
US returnee hospitalised after alleged assault by policemen
Residents in the Jogor Centre area of Ibadan, Oyo State, have kicked against the alleged assault of a 17-year-old boy who was hospitalised after he was reportedly slapped by a policeman. PUNCH Metro g...
8th January 2024
Unending trauma: Rape victims recount heartrending encounters at childhood (1)
The sickening events of rape have left indelible marks on its victims even as they grow into adults, Naomi Chima writes. Twenty-eight-year-old Rose Chukwuka, a beautiful lady from Enugu State, curvy, ...
18th December 2023
NDLEA seizes convicted Lagos baron’s mansion, nabs grandma
A multi-million-naira mansion located at K-5A/2 Road 14, Victoria Garden City estate, Lekki area of Lagos used as a clandestine laboratory for the production of methamphetamine by a convicted drug bar...
18th December 2023
Three die, seven injured in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway crash
Three persons were confirmed dead while seven others sustained injuries in an accident involving two vehicles at the Conoil filling station area on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday. The Public ...
18th December 2023
Tinubu inherited govt almost in a coma, says Ogun governor
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Sunday, said the country was almost comatose when President Bola Tinubu came into power. Abiodun disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s...
27th November 2023
WAFCON qualifiers: Oshoala, Echegini late withdrawals shock NFF
Onumonu, Alozie also out The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed huge surprise following the late withdrawals of Asisat Oshoala and Jennifer Echegini as both players voluntarily opted out of the...
27th November 2023
Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, others nominated for Grammy awards
Following the release of nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards on Friday the names of Nigerian music stars shone brightly in various categories. Grammy-award winner, Burna Boy, bagged four nomination...
11th November 2023
Why I stopped Shaibu from entering my house – Obaseki
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said his deputy, Philip Shaibu, is desperate to become the next governor of the state and will explore every possible means to achieve his desperate ambition, i...
12th August 2023
Anthrax: Cattle sellers, butchers lament as chefs, families cut down on beef
In this report, VICTOR AYENI examines how the detection of anthrax in some states and fears over its spread across the country threaten the businesses of butchers and cow sellers as well as patronage ...
5th August 2023
Tinubu vows to restructure civil service payroll, says CBN audit underway
President Bola Tinubu on Friday said his administration is undertaking a comprehensive forensic audit of the Central Bank while a thorough overhaul of the Civil Service payroll is imminent. ”A c...
5th August 2023
Niger: Don't go into needless war - Bode George warns Tinubu
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, on Friday, warned President Bola Tinubu to think twice before declaring war on the Niger Republic. George gave ...
4th August 2023
Tinubu orders NNPCL to complete 350MW plant in three years
President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to complete the 350 megawatts power project currently being constructed in the Federal Capital Territory in ...
4th August 2023
Niger: ECOWAS Defence Chiefs to prioritise dialogue
The Economic Community of West African States Chiefs of Defence Staff on Friday, resolved to place dialogue at the forefront of the regional body’s approach to resolving the crisis in Niger Repu...
4th August 2023
Niger coup: Support ECOWAS stand, FG urges international community
The Federal Government has urged the international community to remain resolute in their support for the Economic Community of West African States stand to return the country to democratic rule. The P...
4th August 2023
Crisis: Osun poly panel begins probe, govt begs workers to resume
The panel instituted to investigate the matters that led to the suspension of the rector of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Dr. Tajudeen Odetayo, has been inaugurated. At the inauguration of the panel, ...
4th August 2023
Outrage greets Adamawa gov's appointment of 47 media aides
Criticisms have greeted the appointment of 47 media aides by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State. Fintiri had on Thurday night, announced the appointments on his official Twitter handle. He tweet...
4th August 2023
Troops kill 36 terrorists, arrest 143 criminals in two weeks
The Defence Headquarters has said troops killed 36 terrorists and arrested 143 criminals across the various theatres of operations in the last two weeks. Also, the military high command said troops re...
3rd August 2023
