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Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba and Godwin Isenyo Published 13 March 2021 Adelani Adepegba and Godwin Isenyo Published 13 March 2021 Parents of the kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, on Friday, lamented the abduction of their children, even as the state government confirmed that the number of pupils unaccounted for was 39. The state government had earlier confirmed that bandits on Thursday n...

Punch Newspapers Sections OLADIMEJI RAMON Published 13 March 2021 After a lecturing career spanning 40 years, Prof. Chioma Agomo, who is the first female Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, bowed out on March 1 as she clocked 70 years. She speaks to OLADIMEJI RAMON about her childhood, career journey and related issues Your profile says you were born on March 1, 1951 at Nkpa, Abia State. Can you describe the kind of setting you grew up in and what growing up was like for you at th...

The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria has said telcos will disconnect Financial Service Providers from Unstructured S...

Punch Newspapers Sections Afeez Hanafi and Bola Bamigbola Published 13 March 2021 Published 13 March 2021 A resident of Erin-Osun in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State, Teslim Ibitoye, has narrated how some policemen allegedly shot his brother dead in 2017 and refused to release his corpse since then. Teslim, who spoke on Friday before the Osun Judicial Panel of Inquiry on police brutality, human rights violations and extrajudicial killings, said the cops also inflicted an injury...

Punch Newspapers Sections Afeez Hanafi Published 13 March 2021 The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a suspected cult member and kidnapper, Moses Adelaja, for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and killing of one Chinese national in February 2020. While Adelaja’s accomplices were said to have been arrested by men of Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team, Adelaja had been on the run until last Saturday when he was nabbed around 2am in the Emuren area of Ogun Stat...

Punch Newspapers Sections Oladimeji Ramon Published 13 March 2021 The Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing allegations of human rights abuses against the disbanded police Special Anti-Robbery Squad on Saturday gave a cheque of N7.5m to a 40-year-old man, Marc Nwadi, unduly incarcerated for six years in at the Kirikiri prison without trial. Nwadi had during his appearance before the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel recounted how his inability to pay a bribe of N10,000 to policem...

Appoint LASU VC on merit, dons tell Sanwo-Olu Published 13 March 2021 Some members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, have appealed to the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to pick the best candidate among the three nominees submitted to him for the position of a substantive Vice-Chancellor of the institution. The academics, who referred to themselves as ‘the liberators,’ made the request at a press conference in LASU, ahead of ...

Navy begins court-martial of 13 officers over civil offences Joseph Olaoluwa Published 13 March 2021  Thirteen persons consisting of officers of the Nigerian Navy on Friday appeared before a court-martial panel over offences bordering on economic sabotage. The naval personnel included a captain, commanders, lieutenant commanders and a sub-lieutenant. The others were ratings, including a female alleged to have connived with others to commit the offence. Saturday PUNCH however gathered that the...

Punch Newspapers Sections John Alechenu, Abuja There are strong indications that a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Oladimeji Bankole, is set to defect from the Action Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. This followed a meeting between Bankole, the Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni; and his Jigawa State counterpart, Abubakar Badaru, in Abuja, on Friday. It was gathered that ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 13 March 2021 Nigeria Women’s Football League leaders, Bayelsa Queens, have been fined N600,000 by the Nigeria Football Federation following the club’s breach of the NWFL rules, Saturday PUNCH reports. Fans of Bayelsa Queens side encroached the field in the 79th minute during their game against Edo Queens on February 17, 2021. On Friday, the disciplinary committee of the NFF found Bayelsa Queens guilty of infringement on the field of play by their fans w...