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BREAKING: Archaic Saudi women driving ban ends, leaps into the 21st century

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, June 23rd, 2018

Saudi Arabia’s decades-long ban on women driving ended on Sunday, according to a previous government announcement. Potentially thousands of women are expected to take the wheel, as the kingdom overturns the world’s only ban on female motorists. Details soon -Punchwp_posts

Girl sent to buy garri raped to death in Anambra

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Friday, June 22nd, 2018

Tony Okafor, Awka A 17-year-old girl has been gang-raped and killed in Ogwugwu village, Oba, in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State. he deceased, who just finished her West African Senior School Certificate Examination, was said to have been attacked and raped by six young men while on her way to buy […]

Lekki doctor flogs, orders nurse to kneel down

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 22nd, 2018

Samson Folarin A doctor in the Lekki area of Lagos State, Dr Emmanuel Okolo, has been accused of brutalising a nurse, Dorcas Adeyera. The incident happened at the Awoyaya Hospital and Maternity Centre, Ibeju Lekki. PUNCH Metro gathered that Okolo and Adeyera’s misunderstanding stemmed from the treatment of a patient rushed into the medical facility in […]

DSS Arrests Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe

Posted by admin Corruption Politics, Headlines, Legislature, Senate Friday, June 22nd, 2018

The Department of State Security has arrested the lawmaker representing Abia-South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe. According to his Special Adviser, Mr. Nwokoma Okorie, Senator Abaribe was picked up on Friday morning at his barber’s shop in the Apo area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. The DSS could not be reached for confirmation but […]

Police clear alleged billionaire cop in viral video, declare masked woman wanted

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Friday, June 22nd, 2018

Edgal Imohimi The Lagos State police command has unmasked the policeman called ‘MCON’ who was accused in a viral social media video by a masked woman as living above his means.Though the policeman’s name is Inspector Christopher Nnabugwu, he is a noble officer living an honest life, the command claims. In the video clip, a […]

U.S. deports 34 Nigerians over immigration, other offences

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) Friday, June 22nd, 2018

The deportees arrived at the cargo session of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMlA), Lagos, aboard a chartered Omni Air International aircraft with Registration Number W342AX. The Spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, Joseph Alabi, confirmed the development, saying: “At about 14:30 hours (2:30 p.m.), we received 34 Nigerians who were brought back from […]

Buhari will win despite APC Crisis – Senator Girei

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Latest Politics, Party Politics, Top Stories Monday, June 18th, 2018

Senator Abubakar Girei bares his mind on the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the conduct of the party’s congresses nationwide, maintaining that in spite the crisis bedevilling the party, Buhari still remains the favourite to win 2019 presidential contest. What do you make of the just concluded APC congresses? The congress is […]

Zamfara killings: Residents relocate to Katsina as Masari pledges support Agaju Madugba, Katsina

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Zamfara Monday, June 18th, 2018

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has pledged to provide succour to the thousands of traumatised Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the neighboring Zamfara State, currently seeking refuge in the state. The IDPs estimated at over 3,500 fled their Zamfara communities, to Dansabau village, in Kankara local Government Area of Katsina State, following the […]

Air force jets bomb Benue villages

Posted by admin Air Force, Armed Forces, Benue, Headlines, State News Monday, June 18th, 2018

Olaleye Aluko Fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force conducted air strikes on at least three Benue State communities on Saturday, in an operation which lasted several hours. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, confirmed the air strikes to our correspondent. He noted that it was an ongoing […]

The Eagles who will make Nigeria proud

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports Friday, June 15th, 2018

Yes, yours sincerely calls them the “gladiators”; because one is sure they will stretch every muscle, they will contest for every ball, they will run on the field for all of ninety minutes, fighting very hard for Nigeria, during the World cup competition. They will certainly make their shirts wet, very wet, as they play […]