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A lawmaker in the Bauchi State House of Assembly, Musa Baraza, is dead, The PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered that Baraza was killed by gunmen on Thursday night at his residence in the Dass Local Government Area. The lawmaker ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed says the nation needs more weapons and platforms to win the insurgency war. He disclosed this in Abuja, the nation’s capital during a New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Thursday. “To ...

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Thursday said it would commence punishment for any broadcast station that violates any of its code. It warned that all broadcast stations should be guided by the ethics and code of the profession. Citing the ...

Global rights group, Amnesty International, has condemned the death sentence handed down to a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, by a Sharia Court in Kano State for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed. Amnesty also called on the Abdullahi Ganduje-led government to immediately quash the ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested a 42-year-old man, Mohammed Prince Momoh, for posing as an aide to the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, to defraud one Benson Aniogo of $50, 000. Momoh attempted to ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday commissioned the 13.65km Oshodi-Abule-Egba Bus Rapid Transit corridor, deployed additional 550 high and medium capacity buses on the road and launched the extended E-ticketing system. The governor said the 13.65 kilometer journey to ...

THE Commandant of the Ekiti State Security Network code-named Amotekun, Brig.-Gen. Joe Komolafe (rtd), has said the corps will use supernatural and modern security techniques to combat banditry, kidnapping and other crimes. He spoke yesterday at Efon Alaaye during a ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has empathised with the acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, following his collapse at the ongoing N40 billion probe. Gbajabimila, who made a surprise appearance ...

Following the complaint by the family of late NAF Helicopter Combat Pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotille, through her elder sister, Mrs Damilola Adegboye that the death of the combat pilot was suspicious and should be investigated, authorities of the Nigerian ...

A report by the Presidential Probe Panel has shown details of how Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), allegedly used a cleric to launder funds abroad. Magu is currently being interrogated by ...