41-year-old Ifeanyi Elechukwu was based in Kano, selling batteries at Sabon Gari before he was shot to death by Boko Haram members on September 24. His associate, Oko Nelson, who witnessed the tragic moment, tells GODFREY GEORGE about it What was your relationship with Ifeanyi Elechukwu, the battery dealer that …

The Federal Government has threatened to sue the striking lecturers, who are members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities if they fail to resume as ruled by the National Industrial Court. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, who issued this threat on Friday during an interview …

The Kano state Police Command, on Friday, confirmed that it had arrested one Abubakar Mohammed Sadiq believed to be a suspected escapee from Kuje prison break in the state. In a statement made available to The PUNCH on Friday by the spokesman of the Police Command, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, said …

Nollywood actor and filmmaker Okpara Jasper Kanayo, aka King Don Jasper, talks about his love for football, his favourite team and players, equal pay for male and female footballers and more, in this interview with PETER AKINBO Did you pursue a career in sports? Yes, I did. I played football …

Mrs Olufolake Ajayi, who retired as a lead nurse at University College, London Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, in the United Kingdom, tells ALEXANDER OKERE about her career and what young Nigerians should do before embarking on a search for greener pastures Can you describe your childhood? I am a Lagos girl; I was …

FORMER Peoples Democratic Party’s National Chairman, Prince Vincent Ogbulafor, is dead. Ogbulafor according to an undisclosed source, died on Thursday night in Canada at the age of 73. A former National Secretary, Ogbulafor, became National Chairman of the PDP after Umaru Yar’ Adua won the 2007 Presidential election. An indigene …

THE prison sentence of beleaguered ex-South African President Jacob Zuma officially ended on Friday, with correctional services saying he had been released from their system having served only part of his term behind bars. The former Head of State was jailed for 15 months for contempt of court in July …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. has blamed the Rivers State House of Assembly for recognising Celestine Omehia as a former Governor of the state in 2015. He said the action of the State 32-member legislature was in violation of an extant Supreme Court judgement which ousted Omehia and said he …

Two corps members serving in Mikang Local Government Area of Plateau State were on Thursday kidnapped by gunmen. Sources said that the two corps members were on their way to buy some drugs in a nearby Pharmacy shop in Zomo community of the LGA when the gunmen accosted them and …

THE Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, has impounded 23 trailers including Dangote trucks allegedly loaded with the foreign rice, hidden within bags of cement. The Area Controller, Bamidele Makinde, disclosed this at a press briefing held in idi-Iroko, Ipokia Local Government, Ogun State, on the achievements of the …