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Photo 1 Olaleye Aluko and Afeez Hanafi No fewer than seven persons were killed and 12 others injured when a 40-foot container fell off a truck in the Alakija area on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway on Wednesday. PUNCH Metro learnt that at about 7.3...

Oil is at times called “black gold” because, like the metal, it is precious. Its discovery spurs avaricious rushes and crowns a nouveau-riche class in garish ostentation. Numerous books, films, and artworks have documented the familiar, shimmery promise...

It was a bloody Christmas celebration in Lagos and Cross River states as no fewer than nine persons were killed in auto accidents on Tuesday night and on Wednesday morning. Five people comprising a baby, her mother, two brothers and a driver died on...

This New Yorker story about a fatal police shooting could have seemed like “same old, same old.” After all, I’ve consumed (and sometimes written) countless death-by-cop sagas during my 50 years as a journalist. But Rachel Aviv’s narrative stands out...

News that made headlines on various newswires around the world MONDAY President Jacob Zuma broke his silence on the Nkandla report on Sunday, two weeks after it had been released by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela. Zuma told a crowd in Gugulethu...