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Emir Muhammed Sanusi of Kano has again reiterated his stance that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) failed to remit billions of dollars to the federation account. Speaking through a piece he wrote for Financial Times, the Kano Emir stated that he can be suspended as Governor of the Central ...

A 19-year-old boy, Oluchukwu Anosike, has killed his friend, Nonso Monyasa, 15, during a struggle for a seat. The incident happened on Sunday at the Abule Egba area of Lagos State. According to PUNCH Oluchukwu and Monyasa were both sales apprentices on Layi Padeola Street, and had been friends for ...

A Romanian lady named Anna Ursu 18 has passed on after attempting to take a ‘special selfie’. Anna and a friend went to a train station in the town of Iasi in the northeast of the country to take the selfie that she intended to post on Facebook. But as ...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has given an account of how an undergraduate of the school, Mayowa Alaran , died last Thursday which resulted in major protests in the school. Fellow students of the deceased had alleged that their colleague who slumped while watching ...

No wonder the trekking wont stop! His mission has been accomplished! The man who embarked on a trek from Yola to Abuja for Buhari finally met with Tinubu and ex vice-president, Atiku in Abuja. He was received at Atiku’s house

An Army general has announced that, he has overthrown the president Pierre Nkurunziza who travelled to Tanzania for EAC Summit. Major General Godefroid Niyombare, who was fired by Nkurunziza as intelligence chief three months ago, told reporters at a military barracks in the capital, Bujumbura, that he was working with ...

35 year old Mrs. Alice Daniel, has joined the league of trekkers and is doing so from Minna to Abuja for President elect, Buhari. In the case of Mrs. Daniel, she said her Husband said he had a dream that President Jonathan would lose the election. She said it was ...

Governor of Edo state, Adams Oshiomole is reportedly re-married, 5 years after losing his first wife, Clara, to cancer in 2010. According to sources close to the governor, Governor Oshiomole will be getting married to an Ethiopian lady, Miss Lala Forte at the Etsako West Local Government Council Marriage Registry, ...

First Lady Mrs Patience Jonathan has denied allegations of plotting to prevent wife of the President-elect, Aisha Buhari from replacing her as President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM). Mrs Jonathan had in April sent out a letter of invitation to other first Ladies calling for the 8th ...

North Korea’s defence minister has been executed with an anti-aircraft gun for falling asleep during military meetings and answering back to leader Kim Jong-Un, it has been claimed. Hyon Yong-Chol, who was named Minister of the People’s Armed Forces in 2012, was killed in the capital Pyongyang by the unconventional ...

A woman gave her 1-year-old son a kiss before shoving him off a bridge into a river and jumping in after him, authorities said Monday as they announced she was being charged with homicide. Johnesha Monae Perry, 19, is charged with killing Zymeir Perry, of Allentown, who died Saturday, Lehigh ...

A picture of former military ruler, Gen Sani Abacha with former Palestine leader, Yasser Arafat taken on Sunday, June 7, 1998, a day before he died on June 8, 1998 has gone viral. Abacha died while at the presidential villa in Abuja. He was buried on the same day, according ...

Senator-elect and media mogul, Ben Murray-Bruce, has continued his campaign for reformation, urging that no state governor or aide should get salary or allowance until all workers in the state are paid. He also frowned at the ‘wastage’ of state resources to sponsor elite on pilgrimage while the poor in ...

In an exclusive interview with�Punch, the Oba of Lagos, Riliwanu Akiolu, says there is a need for non-indigenes in Lagos State to respect the tradition and culture of their host. �Eze Odimegwu, who is a former CEO of Nigerian Breweries, is still my best friend as well as many others. ...

President Jonathan, during his Thanksgiving farewell service yesterday told his audience that he’s been abandoned by people who he once considered friends. He said despite this, he is a fulfilled man and will continue to give his best to Nigeria. “As long as live, I will continue to do my ...

A 54-year-old Abia State-born Prophet, Onyenonachi Ihezuk�wu Agwu, has been found dead in his four-room apartment in Umuosu Afugiri, in Umuahia North Local Gov�ernment Area of Abia State. Prophet Ihezukwu, who was blind was the founder and General Overseer of Faith Healing Taberna�cle Ministry, Nkwoegwu. He was a native of ...

President-elect Buhari appeared to have dashed the hopes of the governors elected on the platform of the APC when he rejected their plans to submit a ministerial list to him. The APC governors, led by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, had, last Tuesday, visited Buhari in Abuja to pledge ...

Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari on the shuttle bus at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja.

You have sold some shares and you’ve got some money to spend. Now you want the ultimate: Your own football club. Hold on there, are you sure?� Football clubs are a nightmare to run. In fact, almost two-thirds of premiership clubs have been in receivership at some point. Remember Portsmouth ...

According to a new report on PUNCH, senators and members of the House of Representatives that will constitute the 8th National Assembly and ministers to be appointed by President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on assumption of office receive welcome perks amounting to N9bn. The perks of office include the ...