The United Kingdom court’s sentencing of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, for their involvement in an organ-harvesting plot has elicited a poignant response from their daughter, Sonia Ekweremadu. In an interview with BBC, the 25-year-old expressed her disbelief and sorrow over the events that have unfolded, stating that her family…
The third batch of stranded Nigerians, numbering 132, are expected to arrive in the country today (Saturday), The PUNCH learnt. The first batch of 376 evacuees arrived Nigeria from Egypt on Wednesday night. The second batch of 130 evacuees arrived in the country from Port Sudan on Friday. According to the Spokesperson, Nigerians in Diaspora…
The President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has paid tributes to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in commemoration of his death 13 years ago. Describing the late President as a “brother and friend”, Tinubu said “As I prepare to take over the reins of leadership of this country on May 29, I am determined to follow the…
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe ordered the e early release of nearly 1,000 prisoners to mark the island’s main Buddhist holiday, the prisons chief said Saturday. The pardons on Vesak Day, which commemorates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death, applied only to those convicted of minor offences, said Commissioner-General Thushara Upuldeniya.”We released these inmates from…
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Friday warmly felicitated with the Ataoja of Osogbo, His Royal Majesty, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun Oyetunji, Laroye II, on the occasion of his birthday, joining family, friends and well-wishers across the globe to celebrate an exceptional traditional leader, who exemplifies service to humanity. Governor Adeleke in…
Kano State Police command has arrested one Ibrahim Musa, a 22 years old boy suspected to have allegedly stabbed his mother to death on Wednesday evening. The State Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO) SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa stated this in a statement issued and signed on behalf of the Kano Police Command that was made available…
The Chairman of Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Osun State, Wale Adebayo has said that the President-elect, Senator Bola Tinubu is what Nigeria requires to stabilise the polity, address the many discerning inequity, unfairness, intolerance, and injustices across the country and ultimately put Nigeria on the path of steady progress with every component that makes…
Egyptian authorities have sent over 500 students back to Sudan following the failure of two of them to provide either a passport or Emergency Travel Certificate. According to a voice note of a Nigerian official obtained by our correspondent on Friday morning, students without passports or ETC had been instructed to stay back. The official…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 is declining, following the spike in China after it country lifted restrictions. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, at the 15th meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on COVID-19 pandemic on Thursday, said it was very pleasing to see that the downward…
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lashed at the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) for linking the man bathing at the entrance of its secretariat to the party, noting that the APC should stop putting members of the PDP in the imaginary lense of its desperate and fetish members. The…
