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  • 5th July 2022

    UPDATED: PSG to appoint Galtier after Pochettino's departure

  • 30th June 2022

    JJC announces separation from Funke Akindele after six years of marriage

  • 3rd February 2022

    Gunmen attack Aregbesola's campaign office

  • 9th November 2021

    Updated: Gunmen kill retired Air Vice-Marshal Maisaka, grandchild in Kaduna

  • 8th June 2021

    UPDATED: UK government website back online

  • 2nd December 2020

    Court rejects EFCC's request to order Fani-Kayode's arrest

Filling stations adjust pump prices, sell petrol at N162

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Black Panther star, King T'Challa, dies of colon cancer

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Buhari fires Dokubo as amnesty programme coordinator, names interim administrator

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Ogunsola emerges UNILAG Senate nominee as acting VC

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Lagos health commissioner Abayomi contracts COVID-19

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Paris Saint-Germain have parted company with coach Mauricio Pochettino, the French champions confirmed on Tuesday ahead of the expected announcement of Christophe Galtier as the Argentine’s succ...

5th July 2022

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Rapper, Abdulrasheed Bello popularly known as JJC Skillz has announced his separation from his wife, actress Funke Akindele. JJC announced via his official Instagram handle on Thursday morning stating...

30th June 2022

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There was panic around Coca Cola Area of Osogbo, Osun State, where Oranmiyan House, used as a campaign office by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday following an attack on the pre...

3rd February 2022

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A retired Air Vice-Marshal, Muhammad Maisaka and his grandchild have been killed by gunmen at their residence in Ragasi, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna. The Kaduna State Police Command’s Pu...

9th November 2021

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The UK government’s main website was unavailable on Tuesday morning, as several international media platforms went down, including The Guardian and the Financial Times newspapers. The portal gov...

8th June 2021

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Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday rejected an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for the arrest of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fa...

2nd December 2020

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‘Femi Asu Less than 24 hours after the increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) was announced, some filling stations in Lagos and Ogun states have adjusted their pump pric...

3rd September 2020

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Chadwick Boseman, star of the ground-breaking superhero movie “Black Panther,” has died from colon cancer. This was made known via his verified Twitter handle @chadwickboseman. The tweet r...

29th August 2020

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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has sacked Prof Charles Dokubo as the Coordinator, Amnesty Programme. He has also approved the appointment of Col. Millan...

27th August 2020

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Sodiq Oyeleke and Grace Edema Professor Folasade Ogunsola has secured the highest number of votes in the election held by members of the University of Lagos Senate to choose an acting Vice-Chancellor....

24th August 2020

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The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has contracted COVID-19. This was made known via a tweet on Monday by Gawat Jubril, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Lagos St...

24th August 2020

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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Federal Government has approved the sum of N13.3bn for the take-off of community policing initiative across the country. The approval is part of measures aimed at containin...

20th August 2020

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Oladimeji Ramon A former United States ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, is dead. His wife, Arese Carrington, announced the death in an email to The PUNCH on Wednesday, titled, “Press Releas...

12th August 2020

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Friday Olokor, Abuja The Governing Council of the University of Lagos on Wednesday announced the sacking of its Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olawatoyin Ogundipe. The sack was announced at a meeting of the G...

12th August 2020

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Britain’s economy contracted by a record 20.4 percent in the second quarter with the country in lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Wednesday. “It is clear that th...

12th August 2020

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Kayode Oyero and Peter David, Benin Some men on Thursday vandalised the Edo State House of Assembly and removed its roof. According to a video shared byChannels Television, the men were seen removin...

6th August 2020

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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is currently presiding over a meeting of the security council. The meeting, holding inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja,...

4th August 2020

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Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The immediate past Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, is dead. Baru’s death was announced by the current GMD of the corpor...

30th May 2020

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Lara Adejoro The Lagos Government on Thursday said it has discharged seven patients from the Mainland Hospital, an infectious disease facility in Yaba area of the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu di...

9th April 2020

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Lara Adejoro The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced four new coronavirus infections in the country. The announcement states that Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections now peak at 40. The N...

23rd March 2020

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election on Monday after exit polls put his right-wing Likud party several seats ahead of its main challenger, the centrist ...

2nd March 2020

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The number of US deaths from the novel coronavirus rose to six on Monday, all in the state of Washington, officials said, signaling the contagion has taken root in the Pacific Northwest. Five of the s...

2nd March 2020

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Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Supreme Court, again, on Monday, adjourned till Tuesday the hearing of the application seeking the review of its judgment which upturned the outcome of the last governorship e...

2nd March 2020

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Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis The Lagos Ministry of Health has identified the state’s index Lassa fever patient as an indigene of Ebonyi who arrived at the Nigerian Law School in Lagos over the wee...

19th February 2020

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Samson Folarin A former Rector of Igbajo Polytechnic, Osun State, Mr Olaolu Akinola, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission. Akinola was arraigne...

12th February 2020

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Ade Adesomoju, Abuja A former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), on Monday, expressed his preference to be remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre to th...

10th February 2020

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Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Senator representing Plateau South Senatorial District, Ignatius Longjan, is dead. One of his colleagues in the Senate confirmed his demise to our correspondent on cond...

10th February 2020

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Peter Dada, Akure No fewer than four persons were reportedly killed in a bank robbery involving two commercial banks in Ile Oluji town, the headquarters of Ile Oluji/Oke-Igbo Local Government Area of ...

6th February 2020

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President DonaldTrumpwas acquitted by the US Senate on Wednesday following a historic impeachment trial that shone a harsh light on America’s divisions, without ever shaking the loyalty of h...

5th February 2020

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Samson Folarin A policeman, identified as Eze, has reportedly hanged himself in a cell at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba. The PUNCH exclusively gathered that the co...

5th February 2020

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The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, hosted by the International AIDS Society, has expressed deep disappointment that the Phase 2b/3 HIV vaccine study HVTN 702 has been stopped by the trial sponsor, the...

3rd February 2020

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