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With food inflation now at 33.98 per cent, food prices have escalated in recent months as most food items have soared between 70 percent and N80 percent in the last six months, LEADERSHIP learnt.This increase, coupled with low disposable income of the people, findings show, have pushed some food items out of the reach of […]
Nigerians hoping to escape the increasing hardship in the country by seeking visas or irregular means to migrate to European countries will have a herculean task surviving in those countries because life is challenging in Europe now. In recent years, especially in the last seven months, the deplorable conditions, occasioned a deteriorating economy has forced […]
There was heavy traffic gridlock in some parts of Lagos on Monday as motorists formed long queues outside the forecourts of filling stations on what appeared may herald a fresh scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit. One of our correspondents observed along the Ikorodu Road axis how motorists endured an unusually heavy gridlock due to a […]
Olanike, the wife of a car dealer, Ayodeji Soetan, has been hospitalised after their landlady, Juliet Akano, allegedly vandalised and broke into his apartment at Tijani Bello in the Ojodu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened at about 11 am on Wednesday, January 24. Speaking with our correspondent on Sunday, Soetan […]
Agatha Tuotamuno was not born deaf. One Saturday in 1986, two days after her sixth birthday, she felt a tingling sensation in her ear that made her uncomfortable. According to her, it was as though there were tiny stones in her ears and she shook her head tirelessly in an attempt to get it out. […]
The rush by Nigerians to leave the country for greener pasture reached its crescendo in the new year as 32,462 persons have so far applied for international passports and uploaded their documents from the Nigeria Immigration Service site between January 8 and 21,2024. Of these applications, 15,113 have reportedly been approved for biometric capture and […]
In a bizarre twist on asylum applications, a Nigerian man seeking refuge abroad has caused a stir by requesting the police to declare him wanted. The incident, narrated on Saturday by Lagos State Police Command spokesperson SP Benjamin Hundeyin on X, bring to the fore the desperation of some to flee their home country. According […]
The family of a three-month-old pregnant mother of six, Deborah Fawolere, who died at the Gbagada General Hospital in the early hours of Tuesday, has accused the husband of having a hand in the death of his wife. PUNCH Metro learnt from the sister of the late wife, Toluwalase Adedoyin, that the husband, Idowu Fawolere, did […]
A Lagos-based graphic designer and digital marketer, Kingsley Ukanwoke, speaks to ABDULLATEEF FOWEWE about his missing brother and the steps he has taken to locate him What is your relationship with the missing man? I’m Kingsley Ukanwoke, I hail from Umuahia South in Abia State, but I am based in Lagos State. I am a […]
A pastor, Emmanuel Akinola, whose wife went missing after a bus accident, speaks with VICTORIA EDEME about the circumstances that led to the disappearance of his wife How did you get the news of the accident? My name is Emmanuel Oluwafemi Akinola. I am 48 years old. My wife’s name is Beatrice Omoyeni Akinola. She […]
