With less than two months to the Osun governorship election, a wave of political violence is spreading across the state, raising concerns about the ability of security agencies to guarantee a peaceful poll, reports Sunday PUNCH. The 17th-century poet, John Milton, in Paradise Regained, wrote: “The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the ...
•The cenotaph built in memory of the slain Yelewata residents How much has changed since that tragic night of June 13, 2025? Have the survivors of the massacre found healing and security, or are they still trapped by fear, poverty and painful memories? Our correspondent visited Yelewata on Saturday and reports on a community still […]
•Celine Lafoucriere with children Millions of Nigerian children are being denied safe education as schools increasingly become centres of fear amid abductions, worsening insecurity, overcrowded classrooms and poor learning conditions, UNICEF warned today, raising alarm over threats to their rights and development. Speaking at the 2026 Internat...
•Female doctors An acid attack against a woman doctor has sent shockwaves through Pakistan’s medical sector, sparking strikes and a protest today demanding safety and justice for the victim. A man threw acid at Mahnoor Nasir at her hospital in the southern city of Quetta on Saturday, causing burns to seven percent of her body, […]
•Prostate cancer Survivors of prostate cancer transformed a clinic’s anniversary into a national health warning, as The Prostate Clinic (TPC) marked its first year of operations in Lagos. Their testimonies, filled with re‑ lief and gratitude, underscored the urgent need for awareness and early detection among Nigerian men. The gathering, atten...
•Terrorists Residents of Minna, Niger state capital and environs are in fear over the influx of persons suspected to be terrorists/armed bandits into the state as strategies on how to end their control over some farming communities in Niger and some neighbouring states intensifies. The influx of suspected criminal elements into the state capit...
•Terrorists Attacks by suspected terrorists may not be abating anytime soon as the hoodlums have started circulating warning letters to several communities in Kwara State. It was gathered that in the last six days, they had sent letters to four different communities, threatening to strike at any time, reports Saturday PUNCH. Our correspondents...
•Youth Corps members Thousands of prospective corps members and their families are apprehensive as the 2026 Batch A (Stream 1) orientation exercise of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) commences across the country, particularly in states plagued by bandit attacks, kidnappings, and bomb scares. From Zamfara to Kaduna, Borno, Yobe, Plateau...
•Pastor Ben Eragbai The General Overseer of Divine Appointment Ministry International, Pastor Ben Eragbai, has said insecurity remains a pervasive and critical challenge across Nigeria, posing a direct and imminent danger to citizens. Eragbai, who spoke during this year’s Praise Service at the church’s headquarters in Ajah, Lagos, noted ...
•Terrorists In just two weeks, Nigeria has been gripped by a wave of coordinated kidnappings stretching from the Federal Capital Territory to the far edges of the North-West, an unsettling synchrony of attacks that has plunged communities into fear and pushed the government into an emergency stance not seen in years. It always begins quietly. ...
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