Month: February 2025

Zamfara—A fire outbreak has claimed the lives of 17 Almajiri in Malam Aliyu Na Malam Muhammadu Ghali Qur‘anic School in Kaura Namoda, Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Thi came as President Bola Tinubu has enjoined all public and private schools to prioritise the safety and security of…

Three young men have been arrested and paraded by the police in Ogii, Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State for having a human skull. The identity of the deceased person whose skull is involved has yet to be identified. The three suspects, Patrick Okoere (29), Ifeanyichukwu Anyaemeka (28), and…

Two people have been killed and scores injured in a wave of violence that has swept through the Ijegun Egba community in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the attacks, which occurred on Monday and Tuesday, were carried out by armed men who…

The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Prof. Saleh Usman, has announced an extension of the deadline for 2025 Hajj registration to February 10, 2025. The decision, according to a statement signed by NAHCON’s Assistant Director of Information and Publication, Fatima Usara, followed appeals on behalf of intending…

Tragedy struck in the Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State, as a fire outbreak at an Islamiya school claimed the lives of at least 17 Almajiri students. Eyewitnesses say the fire started late on Tuesday night and raged for about three hours, leaving 17 students dead and 16 others…

The Ondo State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the abduction of seven people along the Benin-Owo-Akure road at the Ifon area of Ose Local Government Area of the state. The police said the victims were travellers from Akwa Ibom State to the South-West before they were kidnapped by the bandits…

One yet-to-be-identified person has lost his life, while 15 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in an accident that occurred along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday. PUNCH Metro gathered from a traffic update report by the Commandant General of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Seni Ogunyemi, that…

The death toll in the invasion of Amagu and two other villages, in Nkalaha community in the Ishielu local Government Area of Ebonyi State by suspected Fulani herdsmen, has risen to 15 while many people are still missing in the area, PUNCH Metro learnt on Tuesday. Suspected armed herdsmen had,…