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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 11 March 2021 ESCALATING attacks on schools and mass abductions of schoolchildren by bandits and jihadists is compounding the crisis of education in Northern Nigeria. Once the signature atrocity of the Boko Haram terrorist group in the North-East, bandits, their ranks swollen by hordes of cross-border desperados, have recently invaded schools and kidnapped children and staff for ransom in the North-West and North-Central regions. Beyond the disruption of farm...

Using Ibori loot for Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kano rail line unjust – Sagay Eniola Akinkuotu and Leke Baiyewu The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to use the loot to fund projects in Delta State. Sagay said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday. The PACAC chairman said using the latest £4.2m (N2.2bn) tranche of the Ibori loot to fund the Lagos-Ibadan E...

Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Senate Committee on Finance on Wednesday summoned the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, to appear bef...

Punch Newspapers Sections ’Tosin Oluwalowo President of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, Ishaku Tikon, has hailed Africa’s top player, Quadri Aruna, for his performance, after he crashed out of the 2021 World Table Tennis Star Contender in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday. Aruna lost 3-0 (11-4, 13-11, 11-7) to Japan’s Harimoto Tamakazu, the world No.5 in the third round of the tournament. Tikon, who hailed Aruna for flying the continent’s flag well, said he hoped he would replicate the perf...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A suspected ritualist, Razaq Ifamaye, ‘m’, has confessed to being a member of the kidnapping syndicate that abducted one Joy Osameze, ‘f’ aged 39yrs, on 05/02/2021 on her way back from farm at Abraka Farm reserve Obiaruku. Razaq Ifamaye and other accomplices are currently in police net as investigation continues in the matter. Operatives of the Delta State Police Command had since arrested no fewer than eight suspects in connection with the...

Sunday Aborisade, Abuja THE Senate on Wednesday asked the Federal Government to direct relevant government agencies to bring back the people of Y...

Punch Newspapers Sections Joseph Olaoluwa The National Identity Management Commission has asked citizens to report any form of extortion and unwholesome practices among its staff through official platforms or by lodging complaints via its website. The NIMC in a statement titled ‘NIMC kicks against extortion and other vices’, signed by its Head, Corporate Communications, Kayode Adegoke, reiterated its zero-tolerance to corruption, fraudulent activities, and extortion in the process of enrolm...

Punch Newspapers Sections Nike Popoola Two out of every five people working in Nigerian banks are contract staff, analysis of data provided by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown. According to the NBS, as of the end of September 2020, 23 banks operating in employed a total of 95,888 workers. Out of this number, 40,382 of them were contract on contract. This means that 42.11 per cent of the workers are on contract. Institutions covered in the employment statistics include commercial bank...

Enterprises still closed by COVID-19 17% in Dec – NBS Nike Popoola About 17 per cent of non-farm enterprises remained shut due to the adverse impact of COVID-19 as of December, the National Bureau of Statistics revealed on Wednesday. The NBS disclosed this in its ‘COVID-19 impact monitoring report’ for November/December 2020. Part of the report read on non-farm enterprise read, “Even with respondents back at work, however, evidence of churning in the non-farm enterprise sector suggests ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Johnny Edward Genk striker Paul Onuachu has opted to keep mum over his standby role for this month’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho, The PUNCH reports. The Super Eagles travel to Port Novo to face the Squirrels at the Stade Charles de Gaulle on March 27, before hosting the Crocodiles at the Teslim Balogun Stadium three days later in their final group fixture. Many had expected Onuachu to be included in the squad for the game...