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Ekiti, Bauchi, Kano deploy 1,500 teams to administer COVID-19 vaccine Our Correspondents Kindly share this story: Our Correspondents Published 14 March 2021 About 1,500 teams of health workers will be deployed by Ekiti, Bauchi and Kano state governments in different parts of the states to administer doses of COVID-19 vaccine jabs, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondents gathered that 78 teams would be moblised in Ekiti, 872 in Bauchi while a team of health workers would be deployed acros...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tofarati Ige Published 14 March 2021 Actress, Maryam Charles, has said that fans should not feel entitled to giveaways from celebrities. In an interview with Sunday Scoop, she said, “It is the fact that some of these fans demand for giveaways that irks me. We are all human beings. Like I mentioned recently on Facebook, some people’s full-time work is to harass celebrities for just N2,000. It makes no sense to me. People should understand that celebrities also hav...

Japanese midfielder Daichi Kamada\s second-half equaliser dealt a blow to RB Leipzig\s Bundesliga title hopes on Sunday as the main pretenders to B...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have uncovered the decomposing bodies of two siblings found inside an abandoned car parked near the residence of the vehicle’s owner. The acting Police Public Relations Officer for the command, DSP Edafe Bright, in a statement on Saturday, identified the two corpses as one Kelvin Izakpa, 10, and Fega Izakpa, seven, both children of the late Meshach Izakpa. They reportedly lived with their mother bef...

Punch Newspapers Sections ALEXANDER OKERE and TOBI AWORINDE Published 14 March 2021 Published 14 March 2021 The immediate past Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti and international relations expert, Prof Kayode Soremekun, speaks to ALEXANDER OKERE and TOBI AWORINDE about Nigeria’s foreign policy and the change of leadership in the United States, among other sundry issues Y ou have just ended an eventful tenure as the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Can you sha...

Popular actress and filmmaker, Iyabo Ojo, has described how she was raped as a married woman by an armed robber who stormed their house together wi...

Punch Newspapers Sections PUNCH EDITORIAL PUNCH EDITORIAL Published 14 March 2021 AFTER a deceptively-long intermission, a new era seems to be unfolding in Nigeria’s fight against drug trafficking and abuse. Noted for his élan, Buba Marwa, the new Chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, is sweeping the recesses of Nigeria’s hard drugs corridors with a vigorous broom. To underline this, there have been major seizures of hard drugs at various points nationwide since he as...

While some actresses find it easy to kiss in movies, Opeyemi Adetunji has averred that she hardly does that. In an interview with Sunday Scoop, th...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 The Peoples Democratic Party has described the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as “a parlour of corruption for fraudsters.” The assertion by the opposition party followed the reported revelation by the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, that $1bn arms funds went missing under the watch of the immediate-past service chiefs. This was as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, and Transparenc...

Punch Newspapers Sections To commemorate the International Women’s Day, Trophy, a product of International Breweries Plc, rolled out the green carpet in celebration of two female Nollywood veterans—Idowu Philips, aka Iya Rainbow, and Lanre Hassan, popularly known as Iya Awero. The event which took place in Lagos saw a band of poets, drummers, dancers, and praise singers storm the residences of the two actresses to give them the ‘Waa Gbayi’ experience as epitomes of culture and in ackno...