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In Fowowawo, Ajerogun and Magbon-Etido communities, the gunfire had stopped, but fear remained. Hours after a failed kidnap attempt at a dredging site reportedly left six people dead, a visit to the communities revealed not only the scars of violence but also the challenges of poor roads, weak security access and years of neglect, write Idowu Johnson and Iyanuoluwa Abiola The journey to Fowowawo, Ajerogun and Magbon-Etido communities in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State offered an early glimpse into the challenges residents face. At about 8:55 a.m., a colleague and I boarded a commercial motorcycle from Ofada, the…

Bridget Moynahan gave her ex Tom Brady a subtle shoutout after the pair reunited to celebrate their son John “Jack” Edward Thomas Moynahan’s high school graduation. “So proud of our boy Jack,” Moynahan, 55, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, June 14, alongside a slew of photos from her son’s high school graduation. “We are all excited to see what you do next!” Moynahan tagged her ex Brad, 48, in the post, giving another subtle nod with the hashtags #wedidit and #proudparents. One of the photos shared in honor of her son’s academic achievement featured the exes standing on either side…

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has defended the Federal Government’s investment in road infrastructure, describing President Bola Tinubu’s four legacy highway projects as strategic economic corridors designed to transform agriculture, trade and industrial development across the country. Umahi also disclosed that the government is constructing what he described as the “longest flyover in Africa” near the Dangote Refinery axis of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway to address anticipated traffic congestion arising from industrial activities around the Lekki Deep Sea Port and the refinery. The minister spoke on Saturday during the Renewed Hope Media Tour at the site of the ongoing…

Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have set ablaze a block containing five classrooms and a staff office at Government Day Secondary School, Kautikari Village, in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident occurred around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday.Confirming the incident exclusively to PUNCH Metro on Sunday, the Education Secretary of Chibok Local Government Area, Malah Kyari, said the affected section of the school was the junior secondary school.“I can confirm that the insurgents attacked the Kautikari community yesterday, killed one person, and set ablaze one block containing five classrooms and an office at Kautikari JSS,” he…

Lagos, Africa’s commercial capital and one of the world’s fastest-growing megacities, is facing a familiar but worsening crisis: waste management failure. Across the state, mountains of refuse are reappearing, collection timelines are becoming increasingly unreliable, illegal dumpsites are multiplying, and residents are slowly adapting to unacceptable realities. This is no longer a temporary inconvenience. It is becoming a structural threat to public health, urban sustainability, and social stability. Many solutions are currently being proposed: rehabilitation of dumpsites, waste-to-energy projects, recycling initiatives, new technologies, and fresh private-sector participation. These proposals sound attractive on paper and may indeed have long-term value. However,…

Second Lady Usha Vance is opening up about her husband Vice President JD Vance’s faith and failed attempts at conventional mental health therapy. “It’s not that therapy doesn’t work for other people,” Usha, 40, told CBS’ Sunday Morning national correspondent Robert Costa on the Sunday, June 14, episode of the news program, confirming that she once told her husband, “Therapy didn’t work for you, church does.” “JD just didn’t have the right kind of trust in that [therapy] process,” Usha continued. “He just didn’t feel at home in it, really exploring some of the feelings that he had in trying…

The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday unveiled Alhaja Kudirat Adegunwa-Balogun, a Chartered Accountant and daughter of industrialist, Alhaji Adebola Adegunwa, as the deputy governorship candidate of the party and running mate to its 2027 governorship candidate, Senator Solomon Adeola, popularly called Yayi. Governor Dapo Abiodun announced this during the state APC strategic caucus meeting held at the party’s secretariat at Iyana Mortuary, Abeokuta. Abiodun said the decision was reached after consultations with party leaders and stakeholders in the state. Adegunwa-Balogun’s nomination follows the earlier zoning of the deputy governorship slot to Ogun East senatorial district…

The Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Amotekun, said it had arrested no fewer than 97 persons in connection with various criminal activities in some parts of the state. According to the corps, the suspects were allegedly involved in criminal activities, including kidnapping, burglary, robbery, and violation of the anti-open grazing law, among others. Speaking on the development on Sunday, the state Commander of the Amotekun Corps, Akogun Adetunji Adeleye, said the suspects were arrested within two weeks of raids. Akogun said among those arrested were individuals identified as members of armed robbery and kidnapping gangs operating in…

The National Organising Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Umar Bature, has warned former party members who defected to other political platforms, declaring that they have lost every right to identify with the PDP. Speaking in Sokoto on Saturday during a state congress organised by the Nyesom Wike-aligned faction of the party, Bature said defectors should stop attending PDP functions and presenting themselves as members of the opposition party. Bature said, “They know they are not members of the PDP, so they should stop attending events as members of the PDP. They were legally removed because they had moved to…

The Real Housewives of Orange County alum Jo De La Rosa is giving what she says is the most difficult update yet in her ongoing fertility journey. “I’m sitting here figuring out how to start this video, because I always start the same: 45 and trying to get pregnant,” Jo said in a video shared via TikTok on Saturday, June 13. “But today, it just feels really heartbreaking to say it because I’m 45 and I actually cannot get pregnant and I cannot tell you how heartbreaking that is to admit.” The reality TV star continued, “We’ve been trying to…