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A 10-year boy was killed and five others were wounded Thursday when a mob attacked a police station in an attempt to lynch a Hindu man charged with blasphemy in southwest Pakistan, officials said. It was the third major vigilante attack linked to accusations of insulting Islam in less than …

Playing host to a select media last Friday at Sabo, Yaba, the Managing Director of Jumia Travel, Kushal Dutta, has disclosed that the foremost online travel agency records double digit growth on a monthly basis. Explaining the company’s achievement, Dutta adds that Jumia Travel has grown 4,000 times from where …

Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe Gentry, has finally broken the silence over her marital status with her husband Lanre Gentry. The news and pictures of the brutalised actress receiving treatment in the hospital that surfaced online suggest that all was not well with the Gentrys. However, there were no posts on …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said a major challenge with the anti-corruption drive of the Federal Government is the lack of successful prosecution of high-profile corruption cases involving ‘Politically-Exposed Persons’. Obasanjo added that despite the efforts of successive governments, corruption still posed a challenge to the progress and development of …

Policemen from the Ipakodo division have arrested a suspected killer of a family of three in Ibeshe Titun, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the suspect, whose identity had yet to be ascertained, was arrested on Tuesday in the community. A resident, who asked not …

Amnesty International has accused the Nigerian government of stifling freedom of expression in the country. The group, in a statement released to mark the World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, said the Federal Government has stepped up its attempt to crush press freedom. The group said, “An escalating spate of arrests …

The wife of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has raised an alarm over what she said would be the consequences of their son’s forthcoming wedding to the daughter of the owner of Premier Lotto, Kessington Adebutu. Taiwo Obasanjo, in a letter to The Methodist Church of Nigeria, said the dates chosen …

The Ondo Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps said it had arrested four suspected fraudsters and a cultist terrorising the people of the state. The NSCDC Commandant in Ondo said in a statement that the fraudsters were arrested after successfully duping a student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, …

Iga Idunganran, the palace of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, on Lagos Island, was at scene of confusion on Tuesday as fire gutted part of the monarch’s royal resident. PUNCH Metro learnt that the fire emanated from an air conditioner in the palace around 1.30pm with smoke billowing to …

President Buhari failed to attend the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting today as planned by members of his cabal who had orchestrated his brief and controlled appearance yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari’s handlers yesterday implemented a brief and carefully-controlled appearance for him in his “office” in the presidential villa as public …