The Osun State Government has warned residents across the state to prepare for possible heavy rainfall, flash flooding, and windstorms as the rainy season intensifies. The warning was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Director-General and Special…

For many Nigerian civil servants, owning a home has long seemed unattainable. PRINCESS ETUK explores the country’s deepening housing affordability challenge and how the N10bn collaboration between the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Government Staff Housing Loans…

The Nigerian Army has disclosed that it deployed a company of troops to the Republic of Benin in April to support regional stability and prevent breakdown of law and order during the country’s electioneering period. A company in the Nigerian…

A fresh controversy has emerged over the traditional leadership of Anioma Autonomous Community in Isuokoma, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. This is as a kingship claimant, Wisdom Chukwuma Okoye, has approached the court seeking to invalidate the recognition…

The Police in Niger State say they are already hunting for the killers of an aide to the Niger State governor, Kafar Dadawu Abdullahi. Abdullahi was stabbed to death last week by suspected miscreants. Arewa PUNCH learnt that suspected masked…

Thousands of travellers and motorists have been stranded in a massive traffic gridlock along the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, resulting from the Eid-el-Kabir travel rush. The gridlock, which affected several sections of the busy highway, particularly the Nasarawa–Azara axis between Katari and…

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, says it killed several terrorists and disrupted a planned attack in Niger State during a series of intelligence-led operations. The NAF spokesperso, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.…

The price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) is inching closer to N2,000 per kilogramme in different locations as Muslims prepare for the 2026 Eid-el-Kabir celebrations. The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, May 27, and Thursday, May 28, 2026, as…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Saturday, 13 June, for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mop-up exercise following technical glitches and examination infractions that disrupted the main examination. The board said the mop-up examination would…

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has condemned the federal government under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over its inability to offer free train services during the forthcoming Eid Kabir festival. MURIC made this assertion in a statement signed…

Professor Is-haq Oloyede is, by all standards, regarded as one of the most influential education administrators in Nigeria today. As a transformational leader who assumed office on August 1, 2016, as the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,…

Despite a certificate forgery scandal on his neck, a former Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, has emerged as the 2027 Enugu State’s governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) His candidacy, however, is of the faction…

It added that 69 firearms were recovered from the suspects during the month under review. The Commissioner of Police, CP Baba Azare Mohammed, who disclosed this during a press conference at the police headquarters, Ikot Akpanabia, Uyo, on Monday, said…

The Federal Road Safety Corps, Anambra State Sector Command, has deployed over 210 personnel across the state for its 2026 Eid-el-Kabir special patrol operations aimed at ensuring safer roads during the festive period. In a press statement released on Monday,…

Fidelity Bank posted a 37.9 per cent boost in gross earnings in the first quarter of the year, compared to the same period of last year, on the back of interest income, according to its latest financial report published on…