On Saturday, more information about how security personnel freed the twenty kidnapped medical students and seven others in Benue State surfaced. According to information obtained by Sunday PUNCH, a member of the Department of State Services, members of the military, and law enforcement shot and killed one of the alleged kidnappers. There were two individuals

Adejuwon Soyinka, an investigative journalist and regional editor of The Conversation Africa, has been released. Soyinka was taken into custody by Department of State Services agents on Sunday at Lagos’s Muritala Muhammed International Airport. One of his acquaintances wrote a distress note to The PUNCH, saying that Soyinka was pulled up not long after landing

Adejuwon Soyinka, an investigative journalist, has been placed under arrest by agents of the Department of State Services. The Conversation Africa’s regional editor, Soyinka, was taken into custody on Sunday at Lagos’ Muritala Muhammed International Airport. One of his acquaintances wrote a distress note to The PUNCH, saying that Soyinka was pulled up not long

Kudirat Kekere-Ekun was inaugurated on Friday as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), pledging to spearhead reforms to restore public confidence in the Nigerian judiciary. She disclosed the highlights of her agenda while speaking to journalists after her inauguration by President Bola Tinubu at the State House. Among other promises, Ms Kekere-Ekun expressed commitment

On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma’s reelection in the governorship race scheduled for November 11, 2023. In a majority ruling written by Justice Mohammed Idris, a five-member panel of the court rejected the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) and Samuel Anyanwu’s appeal as being without merit. The PDP filed the appeal

According to a Saturday PUNCH investigation, while many Nigerians are standing watch at petrol stations to refuel their cars, drivers in the bordering countries of Niger and Benin Republic are taking advantage of fuel that has been smuggled from Nigeria. When our correspondents travelled to the two nations, they found that black marketers were selling

Employees in the public and commercial sectors who have false degree certificates from the Republics of Benin and Togo have been allowed to be fired by the federal government. The measures were authorised during a recent federal executive council meeting chaired by President Bola Tinubu, according to Education Minister Tahir Mamman, who made this announcement

The release of twenty medical students who had been kidnapped along the Otukpo/Otukpa/Enugu Road was announced by the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday. The students were abducted by bandits while heading to Enugu for the annual conference of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students. They are students from the Universities of Maiduguri and

Senator Duoye Diri’s reelection as Bayelsa State’s governor has been confirmed by the Supreme Court, which has dismissed an appeal brought by Timipre Sylva, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11, 2023, off-cycle election. Leading a five-person Supreme Court bench, Justice Lawal Garba upheld the July 15 ruling of the Court of

The family of 23-year-old Asher Christopher has demanded a detailed investigation into the events leading up to his demise on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, inside the Nigerian National Petroleum Company office building along Moscow Road, Port Harcourt. Dan Christopher, the deceased’s father, expressed his dismay at not having seen his son’s corpse until now. His