Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, father of popular singer Davido, has donated N1bn to the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in honour of his late mother, Nnena Esther Adeleke. The donation was made during a thanksgiving service held at the church’s headquarters in Lagos on Sunday. Adeleke presented the donation to the Centenary Endowment Fund on behalf of…
Following social media backlash, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has made a u-turn over his controversial comment on the alleged collapse of the national grid. After a power outage in some parts of Lagos on Saturday, January 11, 2025, which many erroneously attributed to national grid…
The Oyo state All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth leader, Hon. John Aremu has called on Ibadan North residents to come out in masses to vote during the upcoming by-election. Speaking with my newsmen on Friday, Hon. Aremu told people especially the youths to shun violence during the election and focus on the goal of delivering…
Chairperson of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said that it is unfair to generalise and attribute a crime committed by a few Nigerians to the whole of the country. Abike, who was responding to questions on the ‘Nigeria must go’ protest going on in Ghana, called on the host nation to…
The family of a car dealer in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, Olashile Oduga, has demanded justice after he was allegedly tortured to death by officers at the Ikota Police Post. The deceased’s elder sister, Abisola Bakare, who spoke on behalf of the family in an interview with Sunday PUNCH, said they learned of Oduga’s…
The Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency has sealed a fast food restaurant owned by Pascal Chibuike Okechukwu, also known as Cubana Chiefpriest, Donald’s Fast Food, located on Adebayo Doherty Street, Lekki 1, due to persistent noise pollution and other environmental violations. This was made known by the Commissioner of Environment and Water Resources Tokunbo Wahab,…
Kudirat Gbemisola, the disc jockey better known as DJ Kulet, has announced her separation from Ohis Emmanuel, her husband, over alleged infidelity. DJ Kulet and Emmanuel tied the knot in a lavish ceremony earlier this year. But in a now-deleted post on Instagram, the disc jockey accused her husband of “cheating with multiple women” and…
The Akwa Ibom Police Command has arrested a man, Alexander Peter, for allegedly macheting his 71-year-old mother, Atiny Peter, to death in Ikot Inyang village in Oruk Anam Local Government Area. During a press briefing on Friday at the command headquarters in Ikot Akpan Abia, the state commissioner of police, Baba Azare, said Mr Peter…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali is bereaved, yet again. Nwabali had in November 2024 announced the passing of his father, and barely two months later, he has announced that his mother is also no more. A devastated Nwabali took to social media to announce the sad development writing, “A very…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an interim injunction restraining human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, and others from organising or participating in the planned October 20 protest calling for the release of the detained Indigenous People of Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The order followed an ex parte application filed by the Federal Government…
