A parent of one of the abducted Chibok girls has confirmed that his daughter, identified as Halima, has escaped from her captors. Chairman of the Abducted Chibok girls' group, Ali Nkeki, confirmed this to Channels Television on Friday. ...

A new report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) has revealed politicians in West Africa, mostly from Nigeria, contribute over £30 million annually to the United Kingdom's education sector. The report released...

Ibanga Isine An Abuja-based investigative journalist, Ibanga Isine, has been reportedly forced to go into hiding following death threats to his life over a series of his reports on conflicts in Southern Kaduna. Some of his friends on Friday t...

Indian police Two men, including a Nigerian national, have been detained in Rasayani in Maharashtra's Raigad district for allegedly possessing drugs worth over Rs one lakh, police said on Friday. The duo was nabbed on Thursday. Mephedrone and...

Bola Tinubu A former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has revealed how former President Olusegun Obasanjo truncated the ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to become the ru...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello. Emerge Women, a civil society organisation, has said the appointment of 21 female deputy chairpersons in Kogi State does not deserve commendation from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Em...

Introduction To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks or turning points. In Nigeria’s political history, for instance, lan...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 30 suspects for various internet-related offences in Enugu. The agency stated that the young men were arrested at Thinkers Corner Extension following a tip-off o...

Femi Falana (SAN) Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has warned the Nigeria Police Force not to arrest Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Falana, who gave this warning on Friday at a PUNCH Online intervie...

The Nigerian government on Friday said it is contemplating a targeted lockdown in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna and major cities in Nigeria as the number of COVID-19 cases soars in the West African nation. National Incident Manager, Presidential Task...