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A national leader of the Accord Party, Dr Doyin Okupe has declared that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cannot win the 2019 Presidential election. Okupe, a former Senior Special Assistant...

Senate President Bukola Saraki said the N125billion budget of the National Assembly is not enough to cater for the needs of the legislative arm of government. Recall that the budget of the National Assembly was increased from N115bn to N125bn at the National...

World footballer of the year Cristiano Ronaldo is expanding his ‘CR7’ hotel portfolio by opening new franchises in New York, Madrid and Marrakech, his associate said on Wednesday. Real Madrid star Ronaldo has already opened CR7 hotels, alongside Portuguese...

Members of the national coalition of American sex workers have drawn attention to their existence, warning the authorities that they deserve to be heard or recognised because they also cast votes during elections. Of the many impactful statements made...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, for alleged fraud to the tune of N223m, The PUNCH can confirm. It was learnt that Lawal arrived at the Abuja office...

The Federal Government on Wednesday said former President Olusegun Obasanjo might have been too busy to notice the efforts being made by the Muhammadu Buhari administration to revamp the nation’s economy. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vows to ‘thwart’ Kurdish opposition in move that may generate US reaction. Turkey has said it will extend its incursion in Syria to the town of Manbij, taking its forces to the edge of the US-backed Kurdish presence in the country’s...

Beyond the whims and caprice of the old adage often rhetorically used to end debate discussion that: 'it is visible to the blind and audible to the deaf', there is a compelling need to brook standpoint with this axiomatic maxim with special regard to...

A Tanzanian prophet, Nabii Tito, has been arrested by the police days after sharing photos of himself kissing his wife and home-help. Photos of Nabii Tito kissing the two went viral on the social media and irked quite a number of Tanzanians who called...

Zambian authorities have arrested a Nigerian pastor for allegedly trafficking 26.29 kilograms of ephedrine, a medication and stimulant drug, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Prophet Isaac Amata, 42, is known for having predicted that President Edgar Lungu...

Twelve camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia’s annual camel beauty contest after receiving botulinum toxin injections to make their pouts look more alluring. Saudi authorities have raised the profile of the King Abdulaziz camel festival by relocating...

A 42-year-old housewife, Fatimot Abiola, on Wednesday in Lagos lost her 22-year marriage to her husband, Rasheed, for wearing trousers against her husband’s wish. Delivering the judgment, the President of Igando Customary Court, Lagos, Mr. Akin Akinniyi,...

With an increasing rate of violence orchestrated by cattle herdsmen in recent time, the reactionary tactics taken by the government towards embarking on the provision of cattle colony may be slow but urgently needed. Suchlike is a palliative measure quite...

The joint session of the Oyo State Executive Councils of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and the Joint Negotiation Council said workers in the state would begin three-day warning strike from Wednesday, in solidarity with their colleagues...

The convener of the BringBackOurGirls group, Oby Ezekwesili, has been arrested and detained by the FCT Police Command for unknown offences. In series of posts on her Twitter handle, @obyezeks, the former Minister of Education, said she was arrested alongside...

Elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday, lambasted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government for performing below the expectations of Nigerians. Obasanjo, who ruled Nigeria at different times as a military and democratic president, had...

The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) in Osun State of has charged the people of the state to come out en masse on Saturday to vote for its candidates in the local government election. The party advised the people, particularly the APC supporters to ensure...

Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOS), on Tuesday, said the Federal Government had employed Mr Imudia Uduehi, the father of the quintuplets born April, 2017 in Abuja. Oyo-Ita, who made this disclosure in Abuja on Tuesday...

The Kaduna State Bureau of Statistics ( KADBS ) has budgeted N152.97 million to undertake surveys across the state in 2018. Reports say that the figure is contained in the state’s 2018 budget, a copy of which was obtained from the state’s Planning and...

A 22-year-old woman was dragged out of a car and raped in front of her husband and brother-in-law, who were held at gunpoint in the northern Indian state of Haryana, the police said on Tuesday. The woman was raped, according to police, on Sunday night...

Police say a Pakistani student shot and killed his school principal on Monday, in a dispute over the student skipping classes to attend rallies supporting the country’s strict blasphemy laws. Sareer Ahmed, principal of the private Islamia College in the...

Turkey has acknowledged its first combat death in a military offensive against the Kurdish-dominated enclave of Afrin in neighbouring Syria that was launched over the weekend. The military said in a statement the soldier had been killed in clashes with...

The University of Lagos ( UNILAG ) television station will begin operations in February to facilitate research-oriented education and ease communication within and outside the university community. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Oluwatoyin...

No state in the southern Nigeria has volunteered to provide land to the Federal Government to set up cattle colonies in order to address the incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers. It was also learnt that the 16 states that had volunteered to...

Cristiano Ronaldo reinforced his claim as the vainest footballer in the world after he appeared to take a Real Madrid physio’s smartphone in order to check damage to his face. The Portuguese, who netted a brace in Real Madrid’s 7-1 rout over Deportivo...