Bandits have reportedly launched another series of deadly attacks on several communities in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing and injuring residents, and abducting many more. Security analyst and crisis journalist Bakatsine announced the development on Tuesday via…
Nigeria’s data traffic in 2025 soared by 35 per cent to a projected full-year total surpassing 13.2 million terabytes (TB), driven by surging internet usage across mobile and broadband networks, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). This momentum has…
In an unusual and emotional twist of events, a survivor has been found alive after 11 days following the tragic balogun market fire outbreak which led to the collapse of a building on Lagos Island. Traders and locals were startled…
According to a list of immigrant welfare statistics released by US President Donald Trump, over 33.3% of Nigerian immigrant households in the US live off some kind of public assistance. On January 4, 2026, the graph was posted on Trump’s…
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is reportedly considering quitting his boxing career, according to information obtained by PUNCH from his uncle, Adedamola Joshua. Following last week’s tragedy, the 36-year-old boxer, who survived a fatal vehicle crash in Nigeria that…
In some areas of Cross River State’s Odukpani Local Government Area, there is growing concern of unrest due to purported irregularities in the compensation paid for land purchased for the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway project. A landlords’ organisation headed by Effiong…
Political tensions in Kano State rose on Monday when Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the head of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf clashed about anticipated defections, prompting a surge in security outside the Government House. There…
A fresh twist has hit the political crisis between FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, and Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, following the arrest of a Port Harcourt–based medical doctor and pastor over an alleged plot to assassinate the former Rivers governor.…
Senator Ajibola Basiru, the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has criticised Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike, calling on him to step down from his role and confront his “obsession with Rivers politics and the APC.”…
Popular Nigerian activist, Martins Vincent Otse, better known as VeryDarkMan, has broken the hearts of many ladies following his latest social media post. A few hours ago, activist VeryDarkMan posted loving pictures and videos of himself with his purported new…
President Donald Trump has strongly threatened that Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez, will pay a “very big price” if she doesn’t cooperate with the United States. Recall that in the early of Saturday morning, US forces launched an attack on…
Dr. Benibo Anabraba, the Rivers SSG, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) amid renewed crisis between the state governor and the FCT minister, Nyesom Wike. This was contained in a letter that was sent to the PDP Chairman…
A joint presidential ticket comprising former presidential candidates Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is reportedly being considered in advance of the 2027 general elections. The two are anticipated to run against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for the coalition-led…
Venezuela’s deposed president, Nicolas Maduro, is reportedly scheduled to appear before a federal judge in New York at noon Monday to be formally notified about the charges against him, the court said. During a predawn raid on Saturday in Caracas,…
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has stated that Beijing cannot accept any country acting as the “world’s judge” following the United States captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. “We have never believed that any country can act as the world’s police,…