The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles boasts one of the highest standards of living in Africa, driven in part by high-end tourism and fishing, but the island nation is also plagued by drug use and trafficking.   It will hold presidential and legislative elections on September 25-27. ...

  Brighton & Hove Albion Football club has stated that it stopped over £100,000 black market ticket sales in one match day.   According to BBC Sports on Tuesday, the club said it is taking a firm stand against ticket touting, using cutting-edge technology and a newly appointed investigations officer ...

  The National Youth Service Corps has announced that the 2025 Batch ‘B’ Stream II Orientation Course will commence nationwide on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, across all orientation camps.   According to a a statement issued via its official Facebook page on Monday, the scheme said registration will run until ...

  A speech by U.S. President Donald Trump will mark the opening of the 80th session of the annual General Debate of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.   Other speakers on the agenda for the first day are Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Turkish ...

    The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has expressed concern over the rising cases of attacks and killings of security personnel across the country.   Obi, in a post via his official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Tuesday, described the spate of violence ...

    The Irigwe community of Kamaru Ward in Chawai Chiefdom, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has expressed deep appreciation to Governor Uba Sani for promptly settling the medical bills of victims of the recent Angwan Rimi attack.   In an open letter signed and released on Tuesday ...

    Nigerians filed over 7,646 asylum applications in Sweden between 2000 and 2024, according to official figures from the Swedish Migration Agency, Migrationsverket.   Data obtained by Saturday PUNCH from the agency’s portal, covering the period, showed a consistent stream of Nigerian asylum seekers in the Nordic country.   ...

    The Olofin of Isheri, Oba Sulaiman Bamgbade, Ayodele III, has handed over a newly built Isheri High Court to the Ogun State Government, in what he described as a contribution to strengthening the state’s justice delivery system.   The monarch said the gesture was driven by a desire ...

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that two recent suspected cases of viral hemorrhagic fever in Abuja have tested negative for both Ebola Virus Disease and Marburg Virus.   The NCDC, in a public health advisory issued on Friday and signed by its Director ...

  The presidential candidate of the defunct Nigeria for Democracy in the 2019 election, Asuquo Archibong, has said that the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State and subsequently suspended is not about Governor Siminalayi Fubara.   This is as he commended President Bola Tinubu for ending the six-month emergency rule ...