Nigeria’s Flamingos defeated Black Maidens of Ghana 4-2 in their second game at the WAFU B U-17 Girls Cup on Friday night. Akeem Busari’s side scored twice in the first half through Oluwakemi Adegbuyi and captain Chidi Harmony. Nigeria were reduced to 10-player after Elizabeth Ad...
INTERPOL says an AI-powered counter-terrorism operation, in which Nigeria participated, has identified 126 suspected foreign terrorist fighters. Read More: https://punchng.com/ai-operation-uncovered-126-terror-suspects-interpol/...
Ikeja Electric Plc has started refunding customers who paid for meters under the Meter Asset Provider programme through credits on vending transactions. Read More: https://punchng.com/ikeja-electric-begins-meter-refunds-for-customers/...
A political analyst, Dickson Iroegbu, has accused Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo of witch-hunting the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, over the ongoing debt controversy. Iroegbu made the accusation on Friday while fielding questions dur...
The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has rejected Galatasaray’s request regarding striker, Victor Osimhen. Galatasaray had requested the NFF to prevent Osimhen from playing Nigeria’s matches against Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau later in the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, qualifi...
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has warned holders of non-performing oil licences that they risk losing their acreages if they fail to meet approved work commitments, as it moves to enforce the “Drill-or-Drop” provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act...
Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, ending a six-decade run at the helm of the $1 trillion conglomerate. The post Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman after 60 years appeared first on Nairametrics ....
Country Director of Amnesty International, Isa Sanusi, has stated that it is prejudicial to describe the 37 miners who died in the custody of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Niger State as illegal miners, especially when they are not alive to defend thems...
Kebbi State Government has called for stronger regulation of artisanal mining and enforcement of safety standards following the deaths of 37 miners, including alleged minors, in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Minna, Niger State. Governor Na...
The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Felix Morka, has faulted the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, over his call on President Bola Tinubu to reduce petrol prices and ease the economic burden on Nige...
The International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, arbitration tribunal has found that former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Leno Adesanya, promoter of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited, reached a corrupt deal over the Mambi...
The Nigerian opposition has spent four years talking about the need to unite. It has held meetings, explored coalitions, changed political platforms and produced new alignments. Yet, with the January 16, 2027 presidential election approaching, several of its most prominent figure...
By Juliet Umeh Artificial Intelligence, AI, is rapidly becoming part of everyday life in Nigeria. Students use chatbots for assignments, journalists and office workers deploy generative AI to draft and analyse information, businesses automate customer service, banks process data ...
In Ayn Rand’s mystery story, the Atlas Shrugged, there is something Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, can absorb: reason. Rand’s 1957 book remains valuable and useful outside the world of her fiction. She argues that reason is helpful for everyone. It is not only needed ...
An increasing number of Nigerian wives are sexually frustrated due to husbands’ erectile dysfunction or neglect. Experts and the author offer advice. Read More: https://punchng.com/many-wives-are-sexually-frustrated-are-husbands-aware/...
By Fred Iwenjora At the male surgical ward of Lagos state University Teaching Hospital Ikeja Lagos is Paschal Chinaecheta Duru, a 9-year- old boy who has become very popular for being the landlord or longest staying patient in the ward. Read Also: 37 Niger Miners Tragedy: Blood, ...
A youth group in Ogun State has called on Governor Dapo Abiodun to publish the report of the Judicial Panel on Police Brutality and its recommendations. Read More: https://punchng.com/ogun-youths-seek-release-of-endsars-report/...
Davis Cup: Nigeria Seek To Break 30-year-old Jinx In Rabat The Guardian Nigeria News
… as pressure mounts on INEC over partisan academics By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJA The bigger question may not be who Nigerians vote for, but who handles those votes after the ballots are cast. Between voting and the final declaration is a chain of officials whose neutrality can d...
Hitech Races For Deadline On Upgraded 800-km Coastal Highway The Guardian Nigeria News
DOTTi The Deity brings ‘Cocoa Hue’ to life at Cocoa XP Lagos Brew The Guardian Nigeria News
Groups Expand Education Programme To Nine Correctional Centres The Guardian Nigeria News
10 new Lagos dining spots The Guardian Nigeria News
Bovi to close 2026 world tour with Benin City, Lagos shows The Guardian Nigeria News
Adeyemi makes list of Nigeria’s 100 Under 40 leaders The Guardian Nigeria News
By Henry Umoru ABUJA — Chairman of the Board of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, Dr Musa Babayo, has described President Bola Tinubu’s willingness to confront structural economic problems previously deferred by successive administrations as one of his most consequenti...
Scotland-based lawyer and MSBM CEO, Tolulope Ariyibi-Oke, shares how her determination to defy poverty shaped her journey from hawking bread in Nigeria. Read More: https://punchng.com/poverty-shaped-my-journey-from-bread-seller-to-uk-business-leader-scotland-based-msbm-ceo-ariyib...
A Nigerian lecturer at the University of Fort Hare, Dr Ayodele Odularu, has been found dead at her residence in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Read More: https://punchng.com/nigerian-scholar-found-dead-in-safrica/...
A Nigerian teenager, Gift Ayoola, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for recording the sexual abuses of children and selling them to paedophiles in the United Kingdom. He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to making and distributin...
Ghanaians regard Robert Mensah as their best goalie, ahead of Edward Doodo Ankrah, John Naawu, Joseph Carr, John Baker and Richard Kingston. One man who found a way round the goalie was Christian Madu, a Nigerian born in Kumasi. Madu’s salad days in the Gold Coast were spent with...
Pistis Foundation’s UBOMI Returns to Ibadan, Lagos, Targeting 10,000 Beneficiaries THISDAYLIVE
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have called up three new players, George Ilenikhena, Isaac James, and Moses Usor, for the AFCON qualifiers against Madagascar and Gu Read More: https://punchng.com/meet-eagles-new-boys-for-madagascar-gbissau-afcon-qualifiers/...
By Sola Ogundipe It starts innocently. A name refuses to come. You walk into a room and forget why you’re there. Your phone is in your hand, yet you spend several minutes looking for it. An old friend’s face is familiar, but the name just won’t come. “It’s old age,” someone says....
The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has charged the Nigerian Armed Forces to embrace artificial intelligence to enhance operational effective Read More: https://punchng.com/cds-urges-military-to-embrace-ai/...
Nigerians are using personal savings, loans, and selling assets to buy shares in the Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s Initial Public Offering (IPO). Read More: https://punchng.com/dangote-refinery-nigerians-tap-savings-loans-to-buy-shares/...
Police in Lagos have arrested Muhammad Salifu, the Head of the Igala Community, for alleged child defilement following a report by Saturday PUNCH. Read More: https://punchng.com/defilement-police-arrest-kogi-chief-after-punch-report/...
President Bola Tinubu has described the late PDP national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, as an icon and peacebuilder whose death is a sad loss to Nigeria. Read More: https://punchng.com/bamanga-tukur-nigeria-lost-an-icon-peacebuilder-tinubu/...
The PDP and APC in Ogun State have traded words over a shooting incident involving the convoy of the PDP governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu. Read More: https://punchng.com/ogun-pdp-apc-trade-blames-over-shooting-at-campaign-convoy/...
Hit-and-run drivers are leaving a trail of deaths and life-changing injuries in Nigeria, with recent cases in Ogun State leaving families grieving. Read More: https://punchng.com/road-carnage-hit-and-run-drivers-leave-trail-of-deaths-grieving-families/...
Lagos International Theatre Festival returns with global lineup Punch Newspapers
The Social Democratic Party has promised to rebuild Nigeria’s economy and address its socio-economic and security challenges if elected in the 2027 polls. Read More: https://punchng.com/2027-sdp-pledges-to-rebuild-economy/...
Nigerian Afrobeats star Burna Boy will headline the halftime show for the NFL’s first regular-season game in France between the Saints and Steelers. Read More: https://punchng.com/burna-boy-to-headline-nfls-first-paris-game/...
President Bola Tinubu met with the chairman of Bolloré Group in Paris to seek increased investment in Nigeria’s film, entertainment, and digital sectors. Read More: https://punchng.com/tinubu-woos-french-business-group-for-more-investment-in-nigeria/...
Nigeria’s Canice Abua will face Morocco’s Karim Bennani in the opening singles match of the Davis Cup World Group II tie in Rabat on Saturday. Read More: https://punchng.com/davis-cup-abua-bennani-to-open-world-group-ii-tie/...
By Douglas Baye-Osagie dbayeosagie@yahoo.com This season, Nigeria was represented by four clubs on the continent. Rangers International and Rivers United in the CAF Champions League, and Shooting Stars and El-Kanemi Warriors in the CAF Confederation Cup. The story is already fami...
Ex NIMASA DG, Peterside to Assess Ports’ Role in Nigeria’s Trillion-Dollar Economy thisdaylive.com
By Ben Ngwakwe, Gombe GOMBE — Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, has pledged the state government’s support for the accelerated take-off of newly established Nigerian Army formations in the state. Yahaya gave the assurance when a delegation representing the General Off...
By Gift Chapi Odekina, Abuja Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has called on the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to deliver concrete outcomes on food security and investment facilitation, warning that prolonged delays could weaken confidence in the mul...
By Evelyn Usman For almost 30 years, the Okwuonu family found a home in the Congregation of Yahweh, Lagos. But today, that long relationship has turned into a bitter dispute, with four sisters and their mother recounting experiences they described as painful and traumatic, while ...
By Henry Umoru ABUJA — The Confederation of West African Youths has called for greater youth participation in governance, accountable leadership and policies capable of creating more economic opportunities for young Nigerians. The Regional President of the organisation, Ambassado...
By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS — The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday inaugurated its campaign council for the 2027 general elections, with party leaders setting ambitious targets for voter mobilisation in support of President Bola Tinubu and the p...
By Sola Ogundipe Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have uncovered a cellular mechanism that could deepen understanding of tissue regeneration while offering clues to why some cancers return after treatment. Published in Nature Communications, the study identifi...
By Henry Umoru ABUJA — National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Senator Seriake Dickson, has described the Court of Appeal’s decision upholding the party’s registration as a protection of Nigeria’s democratic space. The Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, had set a...
Nigerian Afrobeats star, Davido, has announced a three-night concert residency, ‘Oriadè: The Residency’, at the National Theatre in Lagos this December. Read More: https://punchng.com/davido-announces-three-night-concert-at-national-theatre/...
Lagos Finance Summit 2026: Africa's new meeting point for finance opens in October, as Nigeria proposes to license online trading Techpoint Africa
By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for the harmonisation of structures and salary scales across Nigeria’s federal and state civil services. Jonathan made the call in Yenagoa during the foundation-laying and fund-raising ceremony for the Bay...
MTN Next Afrobeats Star Season 2 Heads to Lagos for Final Auditions Nigeria Communications Week
Folarin Balogun made his first appearance of the season as Monaco continued their strong start in Ligue 1 with a 2-1 win over Lens on Friday. Read More: https://punchng.com/ligue-1-balogun-returns-as-monaco-beat-lens-2-1/...
Police said the incident occurred at about 1:30 p.m. on 17 September when a blue W23 speedboat christened “LET’S PRAY” sank while travelling on the waterway. The post Marine police rescue two from boat mishap in Akwa Ibom appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria ....
By Udeme Akpan, Energy Editor The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has threatened to revoke petroleum prospecting licences (PPLs) whose holders fail to meet their statutory work commitments, giving affected operators until October 31, 2026 to disclose cha...
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