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The Bauchi State Police Command has urged for calm following the mob lynching of a man alleged to advocate a religious movement. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Auwal Musa, confirmed that the incident happened on Wednesday. He stated, “An individual named Usman was involved […]

A Swiss court handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family on Friday for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion. The Hindujas — who were not present in court — were acquitted of human trafficking, but convicted on other charges in a stunning verdict for the family whose fortune is estimated at

The Ogun State Police Command has said investigations are underway over the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was abducted on her way to the state hospital in Ijaiye in the Abeokuta area of the state. The woman, identified as Mrs Ogunbunmi, who was due for delivery was said to have left her home in

An officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps, whose name could not be immediately ascertained, was on Friday injured by a driver along Osogbo/Gbongan Road, near Osun Government Secretariat in Abere. The driver was said to be driving at top speed when FRSC officers at a roadblock near the Osun Sector Headquarters located along the

21st June 2024 Academic activities at Western Delta University, Oghara, in Delta State, were momentarily disrupted on Thursday following the invasion of suspected armed robbers into the university campus. PUNCH Metro gathered that the hoodlums gained entry through an unfenced perimeter at the rear of the campus, intending to rob students. Students, upon sensing danger,

21st June 2024 A man died on the sidelines of mass demonstrations against proposed tax hikes in the Kenyan capital, police said Friday, with the mounting protest a day earlier also leaving 200 people injured. A police watchdog said it was investigating allegations that the man was shot by police after Thursday’s demonstrations in Nairobi,

21st June 2024 Prices of tomatoes and pepper in the North have continued to soar despite the items being in their season, Arewa PUNCH reports. The development has reached an alarming level such that residents say their prices have stripped them to bare bones. Most of the residents further groan that the prices of pepper

More than 3 million aspirants took India’s top tests for medical and research schools. Their future is now uncertain amid paper leaks, arrests and growing demands for a re-examination. In this Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 photograph, students attend a class at a cram school in Kota, India. Every year, more than 450,000 students take the

Islamabad, Pakistan – A 36-year-old man has been killed and his body burned in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after he was accused of desecrating the Quran, the holy book of Muslims. The incident occurred on Thursday evening in Madyan, a town in the Swat district, a popular tourist spot located 280km (174 miles)