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British singer and songwriter, Ed Sheeran, 32, has vowed to quit music if found guilty of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’. Ed Sheeran was accused of lifting a four-chord progression from the soul classic in his song ‘Thinking Out Loud’, by Townsend’s heirs, who claimed there are “striking similarities” between the tracks […]

Ahead of his inauguration on May 29, the White Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria has urged Nigerians to pray for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to have good health and long life. The group also urged Tinubu not to be afraid of the campaign of calumny against him. The spokesman of the group, Okhue Oboi

-Alao Abiodun. The buses were meant to take the students to the Egyptian border from where they were to be airlifted to Nigeria. However, on getting to the Aswan border in Egypt, they were refused entry. NIDCOM said the Egyptian authorities were insisting on visas, adding that the Nigerian mission in Egypt was working to

The Federal Government of Nigeria has hired luxurious buses to evacuate Nigerian students studying in Sudan. Foreign countries rushed to evacuate their nationals from Sudan as deadly fighting raged between forces loyal to two rival generals. The Federal Government will on Wednesday commence the evacuation of about 5,500 Nigerians, including students stranded in Khartoum and

Borno State Hisbah Command officials shaved the hairs of some young men for violating the state’s morals. The security outfit on its Facebook page on Monday, said the haircuts were done during the Eid celebration. According to the state deputy commandant, Mallam Abdurrahaman Musa, the Islamic police decided to shave their hair because the hairstyle

Police operatives in Enugu have arrested a 24-year-old man for murder. The man, Agbo Onuabuchi was said to have strangled to death and buried his 44-year-old friend in a shallow grave. The police command made this known in a statement signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe on their Twitter page

Barely 35 days to his inauguration on May 29, the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, arrived Nigeria on Monday after a one-month “rest” in France. Tinubu left the country for France on Tuesday, March 21 to rest and plan the transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29.

Joe Igbokwe, a Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, has reacted to the exclusion of Igbos from President-elect Bola Tinubu’s transition committee. He was astounded that Tinubu had excluded Igbos from his transition committee. Tinubu had sent a 13-man list to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, in addition to

The Federal Government has commenced the payment of the 40 per cent pay rise arrears for civil servants, Saturday PUNCH has reliably learnt. Our correspondent who spoke to some federal civil servants on Saturday learnt that workers started receiving bank alerts of the arrears on Saturday, April 22, 2023. A high-ranking civil servant who spoke

Former Governor of Enugu state, Senator Chimaroke Nnamani has asked the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr. Peter Obi to withdraw his petition against the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and join him in the task of making a new nation.