Nigerian artistes Rema, Mercy Chinwo, D’banj and Ayra Starr were among the big winners at the 2025 Trace Awards. Rema secured two major awards, winning ‘Album of the Year’ for Heis and ‘Best Male Artist’. Ayra Starr was recognised as the ‘Best West African Artist’. Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo took home the ‘Best Gospel Artist’…
A 28-year-old man, Monisola Adebayo, has been arraigned before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, over alleged false publication against one Mrs Alice Oyinlola. Adebayo, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, defamation and publication of false news. He, however pleaded not guilty to the charges. The…
A member of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Ibadan, Oyo State, Rofiat Lawal, has been kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified abductors along the Benin-Ore Expressway. According to a Facebook post by a user, Agbakwara, on Wednesday, Lawal was returning from Benin, Edo State to report to her place of primary assignment on Tuesday when she…
The family of a 14-year-old boy, Mubarak Sanyaolu, who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet on November 4, 2021, at the Command bus stop in the Meiran area of Lagos State, has raised the alarm over the mysterious disappearance of the deceased’s corpse at the Lagos Mainland Hospital mortuary. Mubarak, an apprentice and secondary…
The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday arrested two suspects, Pastor Ijebor Simon (45 years) and Destiny Okojabhole (23 years), over the murder of seven-year-old Evans Okojabhole. According to a statement by the state command PPRO, Moses Yamu, the incident was reported by the deceased father, John Okhojibole, of the Jehovah Witness Road, off Elebesunu…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, has sentenced 21-year-old Adebanjo Segun to six months imprisonment for stealing a fowl. The Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dyke Ogbonnaya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Trouble was said to have begun on Wednesday,…
Memory is the ability to recall events and information. Everyone is born with a memory but through our lifestyles, it can become weak instead of it to be strengthened as we grow older. The choices you make not only have effects on your physical appearance but mentally as well. You need to be aware of…
NIGERIA’S bold economic reforms are beginning to yield positive results, according to Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Olayemi Cardoso. Speaking at the Inaugural Economic Policy Conference for Emerging Market Economies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Cardoso expressed confidence in the country’s economic trajectory despite the initial challenges associated with the reforms. He emphasized that the…
All security aides attached to Speaker Mojisola Meranda of the Lagos State House of Assembly have been withdrawn. The PUNCH can report that as of Thursday morning, security details attached to the speaker including police officers have been withdrawn. The PUNCH cannot immediately verify who authorised the withdrawal but a source close to the Speaker…
A Vietnamese court sentenced a leading independent journalist on Thursday to 30 months in prison over Facebook posts that criticised the government, state media said. Huy Duc worked for influential state-run newspapers before authoring one of Vietnam’s most popular blogs and Facebook accounts, where he criticised the country’s communist leaders on issues such as corruption,…
