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The Nigeria Football Federation said on Friday that the country stands to benefit from the election of its President, Amaju Pinnick, into the FIFA ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja Published 12 March 2021 An Abuja-based activist, Sesugh Akume, has filed a suit before a Federal High Court in the nation’s capital, asking it to compel states that outlawed the sale of alcohol to refund the sums received through Value Added Tax imposed on alcoholic beverages. About 12 states practise Sharia law in Nigeria. They are Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Borno, Yobe, Jigawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Zamfara and ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti FORMER Ekiti State Governor, Chief Segun Oni, on Wednesday, welcomed the decision of former Governor Ayodele Fayose and Senator Biodun Olujimi and their loyalists to sheath their swords   and allow peace to reign in the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party. He said the reconciliation between the two factional leaders of the party would strengthen the party to face the challenges ahead. Oni, who is one of PDP’s hopefuls in the 2022 ...

NIDO writes Buhari, seeks justice for murdered US-based Nigerian Published 11 March 2021 The Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas has written to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), seeking justice for one of its members recently murdered by kidnappers back home. The victim, Prince Dennis Abuda, was abducted on the Auchi-Benin road in Edo on Jan. 30, while returning to the US after visiting his home town of Fugar. Four days later, the police found his decomposing body w...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ajayi has been returned elected as the Chairman of the Ondo State Football Association. Ajayi, in an election that took place at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure, defeated his closest rival, Akin Akinbobola. He won after polling 14 votes, with Akinbobola scoring seven votes, while one vote was voided out of a total of 22 votes. Henry Akingboju failed to earn a vote, in spite of being a contestant with a voting right. Ajayi later said the election would usher...

Punch Newspapers Sections John Alechenu, Abuja THE Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, on Wednesday, led a high-powered delegation of women, to the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, to demand for a 50 per cent representation of women in leadership positions. Tallen, who led the delegation to submit a memorandum to the APC Constitution Review Committee, noted that it was time the Nigerian the female gender was given its pride of place in the scheme of things both with...

New York governor Andrew Cuomo, already under investigation for sexual harassment, is facing a new, more serious allegation of groping a female emp...

Joseph OlaoluwaThe management of Air Peace has disagreed with the Accident Investigation Bureau\s assessment of the serious incident involving ...

Police Before Nigeria’s independence, our security problems were focused on internal security. The main thrust was to suppress the Nigerian people. This focus of national security has continued to characterize the Nigerian security architecture even long after independence. This approach to security is premised not on the causes but on the effects hence security has always been viewed from the criminalityof the people and not what turns them into criminals. Instead of building confidence in o...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan Oyo State Government has announced the suspension of the monthly environmental sanitation and the restriction of movement which normally characterise the exercise The Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, Dr. Idowu Oyeleke, said this in a statement on Wednesday. The state government urged residents of the state to ensure daily cleaning of their environments because sanitation exercise had now become an everyday activity. He started...