The Super Eagles of Nigeria were on Tuesday beaten 2-0 by Serbia at Hive Stadium in London in a 2018 FIFA World Cup warm-up match. Goals from Aleksandar Mitrović, who plies his trade at Newcastle, in the 68th and 81st minutes ensured Mladen Krstajic’s men flew over the Super Eagles. Serbia booked their spot in Russia for the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undergoing tests in the Hadassah hospital of Jerusalem on Tuesday after being admitted with a case of “high fever”, his office said. The premier was also suffering from a “cough”, the office said in a statement. “The prime minister’s personal physician…believes the prime minister did not recover and should […]
Afeez Hanafi The Lagos State Police Command has commenced investigation into the death of a visitor to a Chinese lounge and bar on Adeniran Ogunsanya Street, Surulere, Lagos. The visitor, Willie Uyime, had gone to the bar in company with his friends on Saturday to have fun. While they were drinking, PUNCH Metro learnt that […]
The monthly Federal Account Allocation Committee meeting, which began on Tuesday was inconclusive due to discrepancies of about N37.76 billion in revenue presented by the NNPC. The Accountant-General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris told journalists in Abuja, that the meeting was inconclusive because of irregularities in figures presented by the NNPC. “Obviously, you are […]
The National Assembly has postponed the approval of this year’s budget until May 2018. This is contrary to expectations that the 2018 budget estimates of N8.612trn would be passed by April. Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Mustapha Dawaki, made this known at the 2018 National Budget Hearing in Abuja on Tuesday. The hearing was jointly […]
An Italian man has finally been acquitted of stealing an aubergine nine years after first being charged, ending a legal wrangle over a piece of fruit worth pennies that cost taxpayers thousands. The man, then aged 49, had the incriminating aubergine in his bucket when police caught him trying to escape through a privately owned […]
A British man who used his role as an unqualified teacher at an Islamic school to try and recruit an “army” of children to commit terror attacks was on Tuesday handed a life sentence. Umar Ahmed Haque, 25, will serve a minimum of 25 years in jail after being found guilty at London’s Old Bailey […]
*Says security issues can’t be left for security agencies alone Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Tuesday backed a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, on his call for people to rise and defend themselves in the face of killings across the country. Ortom gave his support to the call in […]
Russians vented their anger at authorities on Tuesday over a huge mall fire that killed at least 64 people, including 41 children, many of whom were trapped in the inferno by locked doors. President Vladimir Putin flew to the scene in the Siberian city of Kemerovo two days after the tragedy and laid roses at […]
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has lauded a former Minister of Defence, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), for having the courage to say the truth about the killings by herdsmen across the country. Wike said though it was not in his habit to fast, he would embark on a […]
Kylian Mbappe scored twice and Paul Pogba netted a brilliant free-kick as France beat World Cup hosts Russia 3-1 in a friendly at Saint Petersburg on Tuesday. Mbappe’s impressive double and Pogba’s strike helped the 1998 world champions bounce back from Friday’s 3-2 home defeat by Colombia, while Fedor Smolov’s goal for Russia proved to […]
The Minister of Youths and Sports, Solomon Dalung, on Tuesday inaugurated a five-man committee to investigate the alleged violation of doping rules and improper conduct in the ministry. Dalung charged the committee to be “fair and thorough” in its investigation on the matter that has brought much misconceptions in the ministry. Dalung informed the committee […]
Teams will be allowed to make a fourth substitution in Champions League and Europa League matches that go to extra-time from next season, UEFA announced on Tuesday amid other changes. The fourth sub-rule would be available in knockout-stage games and will also be applied by FIFA at this year’s World Cup in Russia, having previously […]
An Upper Area Court 3 Kasuwan Nama Jos, on Tuesday sentenced a 20-year-old student, Aminu Salihu, to two-year imprisonment for stabbing a man with a knife. The judge, Yahaya Mohammed sentenced the accused to two years with an option of N20,000 fine. Mohammed also ordered the accused to pay N5,000 compensation to the victim. He […]
Lagos State Government has declared Thursday, March 29, a work-free day in the State ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s two-day visit to the state. A statement by Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, on Tuesday said the declaration was to enable residents to come out en masse to welcome President Buhari. Also, the […]
Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Imohimi Edgal, on Tuesday said there would be temporary road closure and diversions in some areas. The routes to be closed are Ikeja, Agege, Maryland, Ikoyi, and Victoria Island. Edgal made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos to update […]
A 58-year-old driver, Kasali Raji, has said that his wife refused to get pregnant after their only child was born 22 years ago. He alleged that his wife aborted a pregnancy that would have produced another baby. He therefore urged an Agege Customary Court to dissolve his 24-year marriage with his wife, Toyin, citing “lack […]
The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in Dalston, Hackney, just […]
The graduate son of a leading Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in Dalston, Hackney, […]
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 30 and Monday 2nd April, 2018 as public holidays to mark Good Friday and Easter Monday respectively. The Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, by the Director Overseeing the Office of the Permanent […]
The founder and senior pastor of Christ Ambassadors Church International, Pastor Francis Gachieki, has said he has not had sex with his wife for over 10 years. The Kenyan pastor explained that the reason is not spiritual; rather, he said, he was forced to abstain due to a rare medical condition. He said he has not been […]
A 58-year-old driver, Kasali Raji, on Tuesday urged an Agege Customary Court to dissolve his 24-year-marriage with Toyin, over alleged lack of love and unfaithfulness. Raji told the court that he was tired of his wife’s attitude to family matters. The petitioner said that he had to move out of his matrimonial home in 2017 […]
Alexander Okere, Benin Erstwhile mother of two, Ugomma Edobor, who was recently delivered of a set of triplets, has said that she has been living on the gifts she gets as she begs for alms. She said she resorted to begging for alms because her husband refused to return home when he learnt of the […]
Russian media on Tuesday shared the view that Western countries’ coordinated expulsions of Russian diplomats following the poisoning in Britain of a former spy have plunged Moscow’s relations with the West into a new “Cold War”. Twenty-four countries — including 17 member-states of the European Union — have expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats over […]
What appears to be an innocent advertisement by makers of Heineken beer has drawn opprobrium in a racially-sensitive America, forcing the advertisers to suspend the project. As posted by Twitter user, @LeftSentThis, the bartender (a white guy) spots what he regards as beauty from a distance, and uses a pair of binoculars to gain better […]