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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…
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a constitutional amendment bill seeking the establishment of state police, paving the way for the creation of a decentralised policing system in Nigeria. The proposed amendment seeks to alter the 1999 Constitution to allow states to establish their own police forces, ending the current arrangement where policing is controlled mainly by the federal government through the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). With insecurity continuing to plague communities across the country, lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a proposal to amend the Constitution and pave the way for the establishment of state police. While the bill enjoyed near-unanimous…
A woman who went shopping on Sunday at the popular Vegetable Market, off Airport Road in Benin City, has reportedly been abducted. The woman was at the market with her children and husband when gunmen reportedly came to the scene and whisked her away. In a video online, a woman who claimed to have witnessed the incident described it as kidnapping, stressing, “Today, for the first time, I witnessed someone being kidnapped.” She continued, “Who said kidnapping is not in Benin? A kidnapping happened in my presence right at Airport Road by the Vegetable Market. Just because it has not…
Panic has gripped Pissa Village in the Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State following a deadly attack by suspected bandits who killed three residents and set several houses ablaze. The incident, which occurred on Saturday morning, also triggered a military response as troops engaged the attackers, though details of the encounter remain unclear. The command’s spokesperson, Wasiu Abiodun, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday that the bandits attacked the village at about 9:00am. He stated that some houses were set ablaze during the attack and added that the bandits were engaged by the military, but details of…
