Sowore celebrates son on 17th birthday in US - Punch Newspapers
Sowore and his son, Olukomi...Photo Credit: X / sowore
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EPL: Carrick rejects Anderson’s ‘Kings of Manchester’ claim - Punch Newspapers
Manchester United boss Michael Carrick has dismissed Elliot Anderson’s jibe that City are “kings of Manchester” ahead of Sunday’s derby. Already trailing five points behind their bitter rivals, United will face Manchester City at Old Trafford with Anderson’s taunt ringing in thei...
10 Nollywood stars who battled cancer before deaths - Punch Newspapers
File: Veteran Nollywood actor, Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo.
Ex-SSS Director-General dies - Punch Newspapers
A former Director-General of the State Security Service and pioneer Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Albert Horsfall, has passed on. Horsfall’s death was announced in a statement released on Friday, signed by his son, Donald Horsfall, and obtained by our corr...
FG pays 2,700 ex-Nigeria Airways workers N18bn - Punch Newspapers
File photo: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele.
Cheap imports, smuggling threaten Nigerian jobs, textile workers warn - Punch Newspapers
The Textile, Garment and Tailoring Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has raised the alarm over the uncontrolled influx of cheap foreign textile products, warning that the development is weakening local manufacturing capacity and threatening jobs in the sector. The association a...
Police arrest 14 suspects, recover motorcycles, others in Jigawa - Punch Newspapers
File image: Nigeria Police Operatives on duty.
Dangote’s reputation will drive refinery N2.15tn IPO – NIPR - Punch Newspapers
NIPR President, Dr Ike Neliaku, presenting a membership certificate to one of the newly inducted members in Abuja on Friday... Photo Credit: Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
Nashville airport to be renamed after Dolly Parton - Punch Newspapers
Dolly Parton performing in 2023. Photo: AP
Relatives of 9/11 victims hit out at Saudi Arabia, US leaders - Punch Newspapers
Flowers are left at the memorial during the 25th anniversary commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on September 11, 2026. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
Abducted FUTO students released — Management - Punch Newspapers
The two female students who were abducted from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, during the gruesome killing of a branch bank manager, Mr Ossy, last Sunday, have regained their freedom. The University PRO, Orakwe Ezugwu, said the students had been released in a statem...
Iran president says pressure on country at critical, dangerous stage - Punch Newspapers
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek on September 1, 2026. Photo: AFP
Melaye threatens mass action if Atiku is arrested over corruption petition - Punch Newspapers
Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has warned the Federal Government against inviting, arresting or interrogating the African Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over a corruption petition before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Melaye sai...
Aiyedatiwa begins N3.9bn gratuity payment to 1,038 LG retirees
Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Photo: Ondo State Government House
Seadogs sets up reading club for Bayelsa secondary school
Officials of the National Association of Seadogs and students of Comprehensive Community Secondary School, Yenizue-Gene/Biogbolo, Yenagoa, during the launch of a reading club in Bayelsa State.
Obafemi Martins plans youth tournament for Tinubu’s campaign
Nigerian football player Obafemi Martins of Shanghai Greenland Shenhua celebrates after scoring a goal against Hebei China Fortune in their fourth round match during the 2018 Chinese Football Association Super League (CSL) in Shanghai, China, 31 March 2018. (Photo by Xia lei / Im...
One killed, two rescued in Lagos building collapse
One person was killed and two others rescued after a two-storey building undergoing manual demolition collapsed in the Aboru area of Lagos State. The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in a statement on Thur...
Police arrest two over killing of Kano political commentator
The Commissioner of Police in Kano State, Ibrahim Bakori.