NAPTIP summons singer Speed Darlington over alleged minor defilement

Controversial musician, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, is scheduled to appear before the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons on Friday (today) over hi...

30th May 2025

Motorists lament as ECOWAS summit grounds traffic in Lagos

Motorists and passengers plying the Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Falomo and some other parts of Lagos Island were on Wednesday held to several hours of gridlock due to the Economic Community of West Africa...

29th May 2025

Industrial machine kills employee in Ogun factory

Barely two months after the Ogun State Government sealed a factory, Quantum Steel Industry, in the Ogijo area of the state following an explosion that left seven employees critically injured, another ...

28th May 2025

One killed, 10 rescued in Lagos building collapse

One of the 14 occupants trapped in the collapsed two-storey building along Obafemi Awolowo Road, Ota-Ona, in the Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos State has been confirmed dead. The building, whi...

28th May 2025

Residents decry deplorable ICT building in Ogun school

Residents of Ipokia in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State have decried the deplorable state of the ICT building located in the community secondary school. Speaking with PUNCH Metro on Sunday, ...

26th May 2025

Drunk driver injures Lagos couple, two others in auto crash

A couple, alongside two other passengers, suffered severe injuries when a drunk driver conveying them rammed into a pole in the Alausa area of Ikeja, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt from a statement b...

26th May 2025

Africa must redefine democracy to achieve greatness – US don

A United States-based Nigerian professor, Cyril Obi, has stressed that African nations can only achieve their potential if democracy is redefined within the context of African norms, values, and aspir...

25th May 2025

Address security, education, power challenges, bishop urges FG

The Bishop of the Lagos Mainland Diocese of the Anglican Communion, Rt. Revd. Akinpelu Johnson has urged the Federal Government to take urgent action to improve the security, education, and power sect...

23rd May 2025

Driver, passenger hospitalised as vehicles collide in Lagos

A minibus driver, alongside his passenger, was hospitalised after sustaining severe injuries in an accident that occurred along the Lekki-Ajah Expressway on Thursday. PUNCH Metro learnt from a stateme...

23rd May 2025

US court jails Nigerian for $1m scam

A United States District Court has sentenced a 37-year-old Nigerian, Henry Ezeonyido, to 27 months imprisonment for his role in a $1m insurance fraud. PUNCH Metro learnt in a statement by the US Depar...

23rd May 2025

Truck crash claims pedestrian’s life in Ogun

A fatal accident that occurred on Tuesday at the Lafenwa market located along the Abeokuta-Ayetoro Expressway in Ogun State claimed the life of a yet-to-be-identified female pedestrian after a truck c...

21st May 2025

Nigerian teenager’s corpse recovered from Ireland river

A search and rescue operation by emergency workers in Ireland has led to the recovery of the corpse of a 16-year-old Nigerian, Emmanuel Familola, who drowned while swimming in a river in the Buncrana ...

20th May 2025

Suspected Ogun ritualist nabbed for cutting baby’s head

The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested one Samuel Adewunmi also known as Ifa Science for allegedly cutting the body part of a two-month-old baby for ritual...

20th May 2025

120 suspected Lagos Internet fraudsters to face trial

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to prosecute the 120 suspected Internet fraudsters arrested on Monday in various parts of Lagos State. According to a statement by the EFCC on Mo...

20th May 2025

Two killed as car rams into motorcycles in Ogun

Two people lost their lives on Saturday when a private car rammed into two motorcycles at the Mile 2 section of the Aiyetoro-Abeokuta Expressway, Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State. PU...

19th May 2025

Ogun issues traffic advisory for National Sports Festival 2024

Ahead of the National Sports Festival 2024, scheduled to commence today (Friday), the Ogun State Traffic Management Agency has issued a traffic advisory for motorists across the state. The advisory wa...

16th May 2025

Three in police custody for possessing explosive materials in Borno

The Borno State Police Command said it arrested three suspects with 20 bags of a banned material used in the fabrication of Improvised Explosive Devices known as Urea. The command in a statement by it...

16th May 2025

UTME errors: NANS demands JAMB registrar's resignation

The National Association of Nigerian Students on Thursday called for the resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Ishaq Oloyede, following the admittance by the ex...

15th May 2025

Man jailed two months for defrauding American $50

A Federal High Court sitting in the Jabi area of Abuja has sentenced Danji-Fari Ubadallah to two months imprisonment for defrauding an American $50. PUNCH Metro learnt in a statement by the Economic a...

15th May 2025

Sanwo-Olu’s wife, foundation fund free paediatric surgeries

The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, in collaboration with the Orunsii Wellcare Foundation, has donated an undisclosed sum to the paediatric units of three general hospitals to...

14th May 2025