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The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised potential migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering fake employment letters to Nigerians seeking to work in the United Kingdom, UK. Urging them to seek out proper information before embarking on any migration, the IOM disclosed that over 260,000 […]
A yet-to-be identified husband allegedly murdered his wife in the Olota area of the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos over her failure to cook his meal last Thursday. PUNCH Metro learnt that trouble started when the husband, who was said to have returned from work, discovered that the wife only prepared noodles rather than his […]
Recent studies have revealed that one in every four tested men turned out not to be the biological father of their child(ren) and ranks Nigeria as the second highest in paternity fraud. GODFREY GEORGE writes that increased DNA testing will open a can of worms in many homes Mr Olanrewaju (surname withheld) rubbed both eyes […]
The leadership of the Kaduna State branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers says travellers in the state have reduced by over 50 per cent as the Yuletide approaches. The state NUTRW Secretary, Malam Bature Suleiman, disclosed this on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria. Suleiman said the development […]
Olasunkanmi Adeyemi, the father of a nine-year-old boy, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has lamented the sudden disappearance of his child in Lagos. Adeyemi, while speaking with PUNCH Metro on Tuesday, narrated that his child went missing while on an evangelical outreach in the Orile-Agege area of the state on November 19. He said the situation had plunged […]
• We are dying of hunger, citizens cry out • Minimum wage earners to spend 90% of income on rice• I pretend there’s no Christmas, says school teacher • Improve business environment to create jobs, FG urged Many households are not finding it easy as the ability to purchase daily and basic needs is becoming a […]
Lagos State is one of the places where street begging has flourished over time. In fact, the city has become so fertile that almost all pedestrian walkways, up and under the bridges within the metropolis have been overtaken by beggars who sit in long rows, even as early as 7am. Although the sight of some of […]
Many families risk celebrating the approaching Christmas and New Year in hardship due to the hike in the prices of goods and services, and are devising life-changing ways to cut costs, findings by Saturday PUNCH have revealed. Several families told our correspondents that life had become tougher for them as a result of the economic hardship in […]
A woman, Mrs Bisi Raji, was on Tuesday crushed to death when police officers clashed with commercial motorcyclists in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that Mrs Raji was returning from the hospital after an appointment with her doctor around the area. A resident who spoke to PUNCH Metro said, “The tipper ran over […]
Dandy Eze is the Chief Executive Officer of a Lagos based non-governmental organization, Parts of Peace Initiative, PPE. He is also a freelance journalist. He was in Enugu, recently, to see his children who have been living with his former wife, five years after their divorce. Luckily, after he was able to locate where they […]
