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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 March 2021 Members of the Senate Public Account Committee and the officials of the office of the Auditor-General for the Federation engaged in a heated debate on Tuesday with officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation over the agency’s alleged unremitted N4.06tn into the Federation Account. The Senate panel currently probing the allegation as contained in the 2016 report of the AuGF rejected the explanation offered by the NNPC and directed ...

The criminality emanating from bloody grazing, ranging from rape, murder, and kidnapping to destruction of crops all perpetrated by some Fulani hea...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan An elderly woman, Mrs Halira Aminu, whose son, Nuru Aminu, was allegedly arrested by men of Operation Burst following the raid by the Odua People’s Congress on the residence of the Fulani warlord in Kajola, Isikilu Wakili, has cried out for the release of her son. The woman, who spoke with our correspondent in Ibadan on Tuesday, said her 25-year-old son was arrested on Sunday. She said there was confusion in Kajola, in the Ibarapa North Local ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 March 2021 The childish attempt by a conglomerate of Northern Nigerian elements to blockade the transport of foodstuffs and cattle to the South-Western region of Nigeria especially is inappropriate and in bad taste. What seems to have stemmed a retaliatory step to blockade the movement of petroleum products from the South to the North was the unsolicited intervention of Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello and former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode. Both...

Manufactured goods valued at N577.61bn were unsold last year as the COVID-19 hit patronage, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria said on Tuesda...

Punch Newspapers Sections Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja Under no circumstances should a customer be placed on estimated billing on account of the failure of a power distribution company to install a replacement meter, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. According to NERC, Discos must desist from such acts henceforth, as a lot of customers had raised complaints about this. This directive was contained in a document by the commission on Structured Replacement of Faulty/Obsolete End...

Ex-Dangote GM, two others jailed for $32,000 insurance fraud Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe Justice S. S. Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced a former General Manager of the Dangote Industries Limited, Mojisola Aladejobi, to seven years’ imprisonment over a $32,000 insurance fraud. Aladejobi was sentenced alongside two others, Raymond Akanolu and Balogun Alaba. The convicts were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on two counts of conspiracy and attempt...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Abuja Herdsmen have continued to move cattle on roads in the Federal Capital Territory in contravention of the ban on open grazing by the Federal Capital Territory Administration. Some of the pastoralists were seen grazing their animals at the Idu Industrial Estate, Jabi bypass and the Gwarimpa Expressway in defiance of the prohibition of open grazing of animals by the FCTA. The Director, Abuja Environmental Protection Agency, Dr Hassan Abubakar, had...

Katsina police in gun duel with bandits, kill one, recover AK-47 Olaide Oyelude, Katsina Men of the Katsina State Police Command on Tuesday in the Safana Local Government Area of the state engaged bandits in a gun duel and killed one the criminals, while one AK 47 rifle was also recovered. It was gathered that the incident occurred along the Runka-Baure axis of the local government area just before Illela village. It was also learnt that the police team attached to Safana police division, while...

John Alechenu, Abuja LEADERS of the National Consultative Front, on Tuesday, inaugurated a 22-member Political Merger Committee under the leadersh...