A 34-year-old trader, Mallam Isiaka, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly raping a nine-year-old boy in the Iju area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that Isiaka was arrested and detained on Saturday by the Iju Police Division after the victim, Christopher, (pseudonym), complained about pains in the anus to […] More
When a lifeless 14-year-old girl shot during the Kalamazoo rampage was brought into hospital, doctors immediately thought she was dead. Police announced the teenager was the seventh victim of the horrific shooting spree on Sunday night while hospital staff got ready to harvest her organs. But as her mother stood next to her, for what […] More
Virginia McLaurin, who turns 107 next month, wanted more than anything to meet President Obama. So, she wrote to him — even offering to go to his house, if it would make it easier. The president told her to come on over. In a video released by the White House, the 106-year-old was so excited […] More
He wrote on his facebook page; Nigeria’s elected leaders are legally entitled to paid holiday and typically they take these holidays in exotic foreign holiday destinations. But the world is changing. Nigeria is changing. And as Nigerians, we have to adjust our behaviors so that they make economic sense in today’s world. Instead of vacationing […] More
Thirteen-year-old Pelumi Fawibe, an apprentice photographer, has yet to recover from pains after his boss, Olajide Olaoye, reportedly damaged his scrotum while he was beating him with a wire for being stubborn. The Punch reports that the boy had been living with the boss for three years before the incident happened on Sunday, February 15, […] More
The scarcity of foreign exchange for importation of raw materials by local industries is adversely affecting the sector as over 50,000 workers have lost their jobs in Abuja in the last two months. The President, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Tony Ejinkeonye, confirmed the job losses in an exclusive interview with our correspondent […] More
In line with its zero tolerance to illegalities in the maritime domain, operatives of the Nigerian Navy (NN) has arrested six suspected pirates, of Ghanaian and Nigerian nationalities, who hijacked an oil vessel off the Coast of Cote D’Ivoire. This is just as two of the pirates escaped from the stolen vessel by using two […] More
The Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday reversed its earlier declaration that the Kogi-Central senatorial rerun election was inconclusive. More
The leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. Tompolo, has washed his hands off the reported new threats to blow up oil installations in the Niger Delta. In an e-mailed statement to THISDAY in Asaba Delta State, yesterday, Tompolo, who is currently locked in legal tussle […] More
Deji Akinwande, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, is one Nigerian scaling hurdles, pushing boundaries and breaking stereotypes. Akinwande has been identified by US President Barack Obama as one of the recipients of “the highest honours to be bestowed by the US government for science and engineering professionals in the early stages […] More
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a visually impaired man, Dr. Samuel Ankeli, as his Senior Special Assistant with responsibility for his dealings with persons living with disability. Dr. Ankeli headed the Directorate of Persons with Disability at the Buhari/Osinbajo APC presidential campaign headquarters, the first of any such department in a political party in Nigeria. […] More
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Abel Abel
