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Protesters planning to demonstrate along the route of Lady Thatcher’s funeral procession have been given the go-ahead by police to turn their backs on the former prime minister’s coffin as it makes its way through […]

LIKE a heavyweight boxer who has gone too many rounds, Nigeria sometimes seems punch-drunk. One minute it acts like a champion by virtue of the size of its girth and the smile on its face, […]

My husband has a friend who believes strongly in flogging or whipping his children and of course using the corporal punishment. He says they are turning out to be the best behaved students in their […]

ONLY a handful of peace-time politicians can claim to have changed the world. Margaret Thatcher, who died this morning, was one. She transformed not just her own Conservative Party, but the whole of British politics. […]

President Jonathan’s first Easter Sunday service and celebration in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city was marred by an embarrassing power outage at the Our Savour’s Church Marina, where the President worshipped.

The decade after the Second World War saw Communism spread to the Far East, eventually dividing Korea. The Korean War lasted three years and peace was only achieved when the use of the atomic bomb […]

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is under pressure to dump the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamangar Tukur, as a precondition for peace in the party which is currently riddled with internal crisis, The PUNCHhas learnt. […]

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday identified with former Lagos governor and Action Congress of Nigeria (AC N) National leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who turns 61 today.

Thank you very much for that introduction, and congratulations to everyone who’s battled through the snow and ice to be here today. And it’s great to be here in Ipswich at the University Campus Suffolk. […]

External site: Home Office: immigration policy Prime Minister David Cameron has today outlined plans for a cross-Government immigration system that seeks to favour those who work hard to get on in life. The Prime Minister will said that immigration continues to […]

Afenifere, the pan Yoruba nation group, has warned the Boko Haram sect not to strike in Lagos or any place in Yoruba land, as their ancestors will crush the sect. The group was reacting yesterday […]

ABUJA—The days of six judges, considered to have fallen short of the standard required of them in the temple of justice, appear to be numbered as the National Judicial Council, NJC, has concluded investigations into […]

There seems to be sense in the allegation by critics of former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, that he has not been straight on the events of the 1967 – 1970 Civil War. Gowon, […]

The criminal charge instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, will not go on as scheduled this week, Daily Independent has confirmed. Ikuforiji […]

FOUR Britons charged with paying bribes to agents of the Rivers and Lagos states boards of inland revenues while working in Nigeria between 2008 and 2009 have had their trial set for June 7, 2013. […]

Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state holds the irritating record of being Nigeria’s most openly profligate governor. He is a father christmas — throwing outlandish cash gifts at politicians, activists, musicians, journalists and whoever captures […]