An 18-year-old British teenager has been sentenced to one year in a Dubai jail for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. The teenager was on holiday with his family in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) when he met the girl — who is now 18 — at the same hotel. The teenagers who…
The Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday, December 11, declared the seat of Monday Okpebholo, who represented Edo Central Senatorial District, vacant. Okpebholo contested for the Edo State governorship seat on September 16, and won under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) The Senate President also called on the electoral body, the Independent…
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says the monthly stipends for corps members will be increased as soon as the federal government implements the new minimum wage. In July, the organised labour sector accepted N70,000 as minimum wage following negotiations with the federal government. The bill increasing Nigeria’s minimum wage from N30,000 was passed at…
Available information have revealed that no fewer than 13,171 Nigerians who applied for refugee protection from January 2013 to December 2024 were turned down by Canadian government. Sunday PUNCH reports that 811 Nigerians were rejected in 2024 alone. Official data from the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ranked Nigeria…
A 23-year-old man identified as Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun who defrauded his victims on the internet by posing as an American-based female spiritualist with powers to cause jilted women and estranged wives to regain the affection of their men has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for internet fraud. Oluwaseun was convicted and jailed by Justice…
The former Director General of ANIF has indeed been released from prison. The videos of his encounters with women were not distributed by him. Moreover, he did not force anyone to record the encounters. Additionally, the women were not raped. Baltasar Engonga was thus acquitted by the supreme court of his country. Despite the dissemination…
In a shocking revelation, former Rivers State Head of Service, Dr George Nwaeke, has publicly accused suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara of masterminding the burning of the Rivers State House of Assembly complex. Nwaeke, who resigned from his position last week after serving under Fubara’s administration, made the explosive claim during an exclusive interview on Channels…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that The Nigeria Police Force, Akwa Ibom command has detained a couple over suspected child trafficking. The suspects, Christiana Ibanga and her boyfriend, Inyene Akpan, were apprehended for allegedly selling their own child for N450,000. A police spokeswoman, Timfon John, said at a news conference in Uyo that the case was reported…
A tragic incident in Benin City on Wednesday evening led to the death of a two-year-old girl, who was crushed by a commercial driver following a clash with officers of the Edo State Public Safety Response (PSR) Team at Ring Road. Eyewitnesses reported that PSR operatives attempted to seize the steering wheel of the moving…
The Church of Christ Evangelical and Life Intercessory Ministry, Sabon Tasha, in the Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, distributed grains to over 1,000 underprivileged Muslims and Islamic schools as the 30-day Ramadan fasting commences on Saturday. Pastor Dr Yohanna Buru, General Overseer of the church, told newsmen after the distribution that the church…