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Shania Twain is peeling back the complexities from her childhood. “[Singing in] bars when I was a child were definitely the hardest,” Twain, 60, said on the Monday, January 25, episode of the “How to Fail” podcast. “They were smoke-filled rooms at the time. By the time, I was allowed in the bar as a child, … a child could enter a bar, a liquor premises, only after the physical bar stopped serving [alcohol].” Most bars stopped serving drinks at midnight, which was when Twain would be allowed to take the stage. “I would go to do the ‘after hours’…

Civil rights activists and advocacy groups have condemned the Lagos State Government and the Lagos State Police Command over the violent dispersal of peaceful protesters and journalists at the Lagos State House of Assembly complex in Alausa, Ikeja, on Wednesday. PREMIUM TIMES reported earlier on Wednesday that residents from Makoko, Owode-Onirin Spare Parts Market, Oworonshoki, Bariga, Ajegunle and other affected communities had marched from Ikeja Underbridge to the Assembly to protest years of forced evictions and demolitions that have displaced families and destroyed livelihoods. The protesters carried placards with inscriptions such as “Save Our Souls” and “Stop the Killings, Stop…

A legal practitioner, Opatola Victor, has hailed President Bola Tinubu for seeking to increase the number of Appeal Court Justices. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television on Wednesday, Victor, however, said that this measure alone is not enough for the Nigerian judiciary. He called for total independence of the judiciary, particularly its capacity to draw its budget directly from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. According to him, judicial independence is central to building public confidence and ensuring that people trust the system. “Expanding the Appeal Court Justices is a welcome development. It will ensure that cases at the appellate level…

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has dismissed as inconsequential, the opinion by a former Rivers SouthEast Senator, Magnus Abe, that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, is the leader of the Rivers State All Progressives Congress APC. In a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, the APC Chieftain said, Abe and the FCT Minister are non members of the APC and therefore have no stake whatsoever in the party to warrant the frequent meddling that adds no value to the electoral chances of the progressives party. Eze said, “Abe left the APC in…

A man has been reportedly killed by suspected armed herders in a renewed attack along the Agagbe–Naka–Agatu axis in Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State. Security sources informed Zagazola Makama that the incident took place on January 27 at about 6:01 p.m. According to the source, military personnel alerted the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the Naka Division through a distress call, reporting that a resident of Naka, identified as Iorsugh Genabe, was attacked and killed while travelling on the road by suspected herder bandits. “The DPO immediately mobilised a patrol team alongside other tactical units and proceeded…

Galatasaray striker, Victor Osimhen, has picked his all-time Super Eagles five-a-side team. In a quick-fire chat with Bleacher Report Football, Osimhen revealed his favourite players in each position. The 27-year-old selected mostly former internationals and only one of his current team-mate. Osimhen picked Vincent Enyeama as goalkeeper, when asked for his ideal Nigerian line-up. Calvin Bassey, who he has played alongside even at the just-concluded AFCON, as his only defensive pick. In midfield, Osimhen went with the duo of Jay-Jay Okocha and Mikel Obi, while his attacking options were Nwankwo Kanu and Odion Ighalo.

Nigerians living in Norwich, United Kingdom, have launched a fundraising campaign to repatriate the remains of Uchenna Okirie, fondly known as “Common Man,” who was stabbed to death in his student apartment in November 2025. Okirie, a Nigerian national, was allegedly murdered under circumstances that shocked both the local and wider Nigerian community. A 27-year-old Congolese national, Benjamin Katabana, has been charged in connection with the killing. To support the repatriation and burial, the Nigerian Community Norwich created a GoFundMe appeal titled: “Rest in Peace, Uche: Help Us Return Him to His Family.” As of Wednesday, the fundraiser had gathered…

Operatives of the Commissioner of Police Special Assignment Team of the Delta State Police Command have dismantled a suspected cult killing network linked to recent violent clashes in Ughelli town, arresting 11 suspects and recovering weapons and other incriminating items. PUNCH Metro gathered that the operation followed renewed cult-related violence and killings in Ughelli and other parts of the state, prompting CP Aina Adesola, the state Commissioner of Police, to order an intensified, intelligence-driven manhunt for cultists and other violent criminals. Acting on the directive, CP-SAT operatives, led by ASP Julius Robinson, arrested two suspects—Warri Ochuko (40) of Orogun Community…

When the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, speaks about affordable housing for police officers, he is not advancing a welfare argument. He is identifying a structural vulnerability in Nigeria’s internal security architecture. Across modern security systems, police welfare is not treated as a social benefit but as an operational necessity. In Nigeria, however, the persistent neglect of police housing has produced consequences that extend far beyond discomfort. It has weakened morale, increased vulnerability to corruption, exposed officers’ families to insecurity, and created systemic risks within the policing ecosystem itself. The recent engagement between the Nigeria Police Force and the Federal…

Former Kano State governor and national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, will not win the 2027 governorship election following his defection to the All Progressives Congress. But the APC, in a swift reaction, dismissed Kwankwaso’s prediction as mere rhetoric, saying Yusuf will win. L-R: Kwankwaso and Abba Kabir Yusuf. File Photo Kwankwaso made the remark during an interview with BBC Hausa, where he described Yusuf’s move as a betrayal of the Kwankwasiyya movement and warned that joining the APC-led political bloc known as “Gandujiyya” would only weaken the…