President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to approve the dismissal of the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioners of Abia, Adamawa, and Sokoto states. The affected RECs are Ike Uzochukwu of Abia State, Hudu Yunusa-Ari of Adamawa, and Nura Ali of Sokoto, who were…

The suspended traditional ruler of Orile Ifo, Oba Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi, has been remanded at the Ilaro Correctional Centre in Ogun State after failing to meet his bail conditions. The spokesperson for the correctional facility, Yinka Odukoya, confirmed this to PUNCH Online on Wednesday,…

Tragedy struck in the Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State, as a fire outbreak at an Islamiya school claimed the lives of at least 17 Almajiri students. Eyewitnesses say the fire started late on Tuesday night and raged for about three hours,…

The Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has acquitted and discharged a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, of the charge of medical forgery levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe who freed the former…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned another set of foreigners comprising Chinese and Filipino nationals before the Federal High court in Lagos on charges of cybercrimes, cyber-terrorism, possession of documents containing false pretence, identity theft, among others. The foreigners were…

Following a verbal altercation between Kenya Airways staff at the transfer desk and a Nigerian passenger, identified as Omisore, the lady in question has arrived in Nigeria. Omisore has successfully arrived in Lagos after safely boarded a Kenyan Airways flight to the country,…

The wife of the president, Oluremi Tinubu, met on Tuesday with former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and the former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, at their uphill residences in Minna. Mrs. Tinubu arrived in a private aircraft at the Bola…