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Doctors demand 70-year retirement age in new FEC memo
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Defamation: LPDC declines to disbar Farotimi, activist leaves prison
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Sharia court inauguration suspended as Makinde intervenes
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Ooni’s ex-queen, others to spend Christmas, New Year in Agodi prison
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I’ve never lied against anyone, says Dele Farotimi after regaining freedom
INTERPOL declares 14 Nigerians wanted for human, drug trafficking
No fewer than 14 Nigerians have been declared wanted by the International Police for offences ranging from human trafficking, drug trafficking, robbery, cheating, and forgery, among others. PUNCH Metr...
25th December 2024
Doctors demand 70-year retirement age in new FEC memo
The Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria has revealed that the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, is set to submit a memo to the Federal Execu...
25th December 2024
Defamation: LPDC declines to disbar Farotimi, activist leaves prison
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee has rejected the request to disbar human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi, over the allegation that he criminally defamed legal luminary and Senior Advocate ...
25th December 2024
Sharia court inauguration suspended as Makinde intervenes
The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (Oyo branch), on Tuesday, announced the indefinite postponement of its plan to inaugurate a Sharia court in Oyo town. The postponement followed widespread...
25th December 2024
Ooni’s ex-queen, others to spend Christmas, New Year in Agodi prison
A Chief Magistrate’s Court 1 sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of an ex-wife of the Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola; the Chief Executive Officer of Agidigbo FM, Or...
25th December 2024
I’ve never lied against anyone, says Dele Farotimi after regaining freedom
A human rights advocate, Dele Farotimi, has been released from the correctional centre in Ekiti State after meeting his bail conditions. Farotimi was released on Tuesday morning. Last week Friday, at ...
24th December 2024
Ibadan funfair tragedy: Court remands Ooni’s ex-wife, Oriyomi Hamzat
A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of the former wife of the Ooni of Ife, Naomi Silekunola; the Chief Executive Officer of Agidigbo FM,...
24th December 2024
No regrets removing subsidy, tax reform’ll go ahead — Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has said there is no going back on the tax reforms bills. Tinubu, who stated this during a media chat in Lagos on Monday, said the tax reforms were necessitated by the need to el...
24th December 2024
APC, opposition bicker over N27bn budget for ex-presidents
The ruling All Progressives Congress and major opposition parties in the country have disagreed over the humongous N27bn voted by the Federal Government for the entitlements of former presidents, vice...
24th December 2024Budget: FG prosecutes terrorists with N780m, SSAs get N2bn vehicles
The Federal Government has earmarked over N780m for prosecuting terrorism-related cases, anti-money laundering initiatives, and other criminal matters in 2025. According to the 2025 Appropriation Bill...
24th December 2024
NAPTIP reunites 1,200 trafficked victims with families
About 1,200 victims of human trafficking were reunited with their families in one year, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has said. NAPTIP revealed this in a three-ye...
24th December 2024
Lookman eyes more success after CAF award win
Newly crowned African Footballer of The Year Ademola Lookman marked his return to Atalanta’s starting lineup with a crucial goal in their 3-2 victory over Empoli on Sunday, helping extend La Dea’s...
24th December 2024
Organisers responsible for multiple fatal stampedes, says Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has stated that organisers are responsible for the death of over 60 people recorded in the stampedes in Ibadan, Anambra and Abuja. Tinubu stated this on Monday during his first P...
23rd December 2024
Tax reforms here to stay, says Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration’s tax reforms have come to stay. The Nigerian leader stated this on Monday night while speaking during his first presidential media chat in L...
23rd December 2024
PICTORIAL: Hollywood actor Denzel Washington gives life to Christ, baptized, ordained
Veteran Hollywood actor Denzel Washington has publicly committed his life to Christ and was baptized over the weekend. The 69-year-old actor received baptism at Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ, l...
23rd December 2024
Presidency accuses Obi of politicising stampede tragedies
The presidency on Monday criticised Peter Obi, the former presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 General Election, over his comments on the recent tragic stampedes that claimed lives, ...
23rd December 2024
Lagos 72-hour shopping festival begins today
The Lagos State Government’s 72-hour non-stop shopping extravaganza will begin today (Monday). The event, known as Lagos State Shopping Festival, will take place at the iconic Mobolaji Johnson Arena...
23rd December 2024
392 Nigerians repatriated from Niger
The National Emergency Management Agency in collaboration with various stakeholders, has welcomed the second batch of Nigerian returnees from Niger at the Immigration Training School on Airport Road, ...
23rd December 2024
Speed Darlington granted bail, says lawyer
Stanley Alieke, the counsel for popular controversial rapper, Darlington Achakpo, aka Speed Darlington, said the singer has been granted bail after nearly a month in police custody. Alieke disclosed t...
23rd December 2024
NNPCL stations drop petrol price to N965 in Abuja
The retail price of premium motor spirit popularly known as petrol, has dropped to N965 per litre in the Federal Capital Territory. Checks by PUNCH Online on Monday revealed that the Nigerian National...
23rd December 2024
Wife flees after setting Ogun cop ablaze during dispute
A wife, Sarah Ayinde, is on the run after setting her husband, a special constable with the Ogun State Police Command, Abidemi Ayinde, ablaze in the Iperu area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered from ...
23rd December 2024
Tinubu repeating Buhari’s borrowing mistakes, says Atiku
The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has criticised the 2025 budget proposal, accusing President Bola Tinubu of making the same borrowing mistakes by his pr...
23rd December 2024
Tinubu’s 50% transport reduction scheme may begin Tuesday
The proposed 50 per cent interstate transport fare price slash by the Federal Government, initially planned to commence on December 20, 2024, may now begin on December 24, The PUNCH reports. The slash...
23rd December 2024
Petrol to sell N935/litre from today – IPMAN
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has said that petrol is going to sell at N935 per litre beginning from Monday (today) based on the latest arrangement with the Dangote Petrol...
23rd December 2024
Tinubu cancels engagements as 39 killed in Anambra, Abuja food stampedes
•IG orders probe, Peter Obi blames systemic failure No fewer than 39 Nigerians have lost their lives following stampedes during food-sharing events in Okija, Anambra State, and Maitama, Abuja, on Sa...
22nd December 2024
Real reason I was sentenced to death – Osun ‘boy’ convicted of fowl theft
Nigerians were stunned on Tuesday as social media was awash with reports of an only child, Segun Olowookere, who was sentenced to death in Osun State for stealing fowl. There were different versions o...
22nd December 2024
Christmas: Fear spreads among northern churches over fresh bomb attacks
Barely three days to Christmas and New Year celebrations, many Christians living in the northern part of the country have expressed fear of terror attacks in states plagued by violence and terrorism. ...
22nd December 2024
Marketers in suspense as NNPCL, Dangote refinery lower petrol price
Intense pricing competition emerged in the nation’s downstream sector on Saturday after the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited reduced its ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, commonly r...
22nd December 2024
LASG hospitals operate without dialysis machines as N5.6bn renal centre suffers
Lagos State N5.6bn Cardiac and Renal Centre, Gbagada, with 24 dialysis machines remains in ruins since it was commissioned in March 2015 by a former governor of the state, Babatunde Fashola, to provid...
22nd December 2024
Did police fail to stop only one robbery in Lagos since 2007?
Claim: Speaking at the 18th Annual Town Hall Meeting on Security organised by the Lagos State Security Trust Fund on Thursday, the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, said Lagos State has r...
22nd December 2024
IG orders CPs to probe stampedes, police may prosecute organisers
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has expressed concerns over the unorganised distribution of palliatives and relief items across Nigeria during the festive period. In the past few da...
21st December 2024