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The outcomes of some of the anti-corruption cases being handled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, according to observers, fall short of the anti-graft agency’s noise reverberating through the polity, writes JESUSEGUN ALAGBE As much as the Federal Government would want Nigerians to believe that there is no politics in President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption […]

Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt  Kerosene explosion in Port Harcourt on Thursday evening killed two persons and property worth millions of naira were also destroyed.  It was gathered that the explosion was caused by suspected adulterated kerosene used in a stove.  The incident was said to have caused a wild fire at a makeshift apartment on […]

 ’Nonye Ben-Nwankwo Omo Mushin crooner, Jamiu Bolarinwa better known as Doggext who is based in the United States of America has a new song which is currently enjoying massive airplay.  In a chat with Saturday Beats, the young man said his ex-girlfriend who he parted ways with bitterly inspired the song. Probably still hurt by […]

Eric Dumo A Federal High Court in Abuja has insisted that the trial of Colonel Nicholas Ashinze, a former aide to a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, and seven others over an alleged N1.5bn fraud should not continue until the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission retracts a statement credited to it that the […]

Eniola Akinkuotu, Friday Olokor, Chukwudi Akasike  and Olayele Aluko The controversy surrounding the ownership of the N13bn ($43.4m, N23m and £27,000) found by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, took a dramatic turn on Friday evening when Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and the National Intelligence Agency claimed […]

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has challenged Governor Nasir el-Rufai to tell Nigerians from which vote he paid herdsmen involved in the killings in Southern Kaduna. Sani said this in a telephone chat with Saturday PUNCH on Friday. The senator had referred to an interview granted by […]

Kunle Falayi An inmate of the Kuje Maximum Prison, Abuja, Ifeanyi Ezenwa, has been accused of coordinating series of frauds, which netted members of his syndicate millions of naira. According to the Inspector-General Police Special Intelligence Response Team, which burst the syndicate, the members of the gang specialised in defrauding their victims, especially businessmen through […]

A man whose identity has been shielded by a church in Makurdi, has shocked members with a tithe of N42 million. According to the News Agency of Nigeria the money was paid into the UBA account of the NKST Church High Level  Makurdi. Although the pastor of the church, Dr. Frederick Ikyaan, initially denied knowledge of […]

North Korea is prepared to respond to any nuclear attack by the United States in kind, the country’s number two official said Saturday. “We’re prepared to respond to an all-out war with an all-out war and we are ready to hit back with nuclear attacks of our own style against any nuclear attacks,” Choe Ryong-Hae […]Read More

Temilolu Okeowo  Sister Temilolu, God bless you richly for the educative and inspiring messages you are passing to the youth. Many pastors cannot preach what you preach weekly through Saturday Punch and that is why many youths are becoming children of Belial. God will reward you. He that hath an ear let them hear what […]