The Nigerian Navy (NN) has dismissed a serving officer (a Lieutenant), over charges of a “scandalous” sexual relationship with the wife of a colleague. The Lieutenant is also to serve three years’ imprisonment for the same offence. Sources confirmed that the dismissal from the Navy and punishment of three years imprisonment were awarded to the…
No fewer than 13 people drowned, with 22 still missing in Zamfara State when a boat overcrowded with residents fleeing from gunmen sank. Reuters reported that the assailants stormed two communities in Birnin Magaji ward on Friday afternoon, sending locals fleeing toward a nearby riverbank that had a single boat. “My eldest son and two…
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno is under criticism for allegedly deducting 15 per cent of the salaries of political appointees as a compulsory tithe. Governor Eno, founder of All Nations Christian Ministry International, is also accused of making misleading claims about the earnings of his Personal Assistants (PAs). At a Town Square Meeting with…
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), in collaboration with the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and other security outfits, have neutralised 12 Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists during a series of offensive operations in Borno State. Sources told Zagazola Makama that the long-range tactical operations were carried out between Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 in Tamsu Ngamdu,…
A 37-year-old man, Nicholas Giroux, has been sentenced to life imprisonment plus 20 years for the murder of Nigerian-American boxer, Isaiah Olugbemi, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. According to a press release by the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney’s Office which was cited by PUNCH Online on Saturday, Giroux was sentenced on Friday afternoon by…
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan was incapable of unseating the incumbent President Bola Tinubu in 2027 general polls. The party said political relevance of Jonathan to unseat President Tinubu remained in doubt. Jonathan, who lost his reelection bid in 2025 to the late President…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has disclosed that the emergency rule imposed in Rivers State will be lifted on September 18, 2025. Wike disclosed this shortly after casting his vote in the ongoing local government elections across the state, where he noted that the polls have remained largely peaceful. “I…
Two persons have been reported dead in an auto-crash involving the convoy of Abia Deputy Speaker. Austin Okezie Meregini. Our correspondent gathered the accident, which happened at the Obehie axis of the popular Enugu-Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway, left other occupants of the Deputy Speaker’s convoy badly injured as the driver risks paralysis, except urgent spinal surgery…
Pro-Igbo groups in diaspora including the American Veterans of Igbo Descent (AVID); Rising Sun Charities Organization; and Ambassadors for Self-Determination have petitioned President Donald Trump of the United States of America, seeking US sanctions against five Nigerian jurists and a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice in Mohammad’s Buhari administration, over…
A federal appeals court has ruled that most of United States President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs are unlawful, delivering a significant setback to his unilateral attempt to reshape U.S. trade policy. In a 7-4 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that Trump’s actions were “invalid as contrary to law,”…