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Headless body of 34-year-old plantain seller found in Delta Matthew Ochei, Asaba the headless body of a 34-year-old woman, Queen Clever, has been discovered in Ozoro, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident, which occurred on Monday, had created panic in the community. A source close to the family told our correspondent that the victim, who hailed from Urude community in Ozoro, was a popular seller of roasted plantain and yam at the busy Owhelogb...

Temiloluwa O’Peters The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digi...

Ada Wodu, Calabar The Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, has warned his aides, staff and managers of the newly inaugurated Ayadecare ...

Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that each player of the Under-20 football team, the Black Satellites, will receive a gi...

Dayo Ojerinde A professor of virology at the University of Ibadan, Prof. David Olaleye, has said the vaccination protocol of the country is in ord...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 March 2021 The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday awarded more than N234million in research grants to five beneficiaries of its Healthcare Sector Research and Development Intervention Scheme. The recipients of the grants were Professor of Epidemiology, Olufemi Babalola, who got a grant of N50million; Professor of Microbiology, Ikechukwu Okoli, from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, who also got N50 million grant. Others are: Dr Garba Bubah from Jigawa State Polyt...

Punch Newspapers Sections Umar Muhammed, Lafia AS part of the programme to commemorate his 64th birthday, the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday inaugurated bore holes in four communities under Lafia emirate council area of the Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State to commemorate his 64th birthday in the state. Osinbajo also doled out N5m to fifty vulnerable men and women to cushion the effect of COVID-19 second wave. Those four benefitting communities are Manu Ankuza, Kanze...

Parliamentary workers issue six-day ultimatum on financial autonomy Sunday Aborisade, Abuja  The Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria has issued a six-day ultimatum to the National Assembly and the 36 state assemblies to implement a two-year-old Executive Order 10 or face total shutdown of the legislative arm of government across all tiers of governments. Members of the association from the 36 states of the federation issued the ultimatum when they gathered at the National Assembly compl...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 March 2021 THE bizarre and lawless trend of irate mobs and criminals burning down police stations at will is turning into a national pastime. In the latest assault, a mob attacked and razed the Divisional Police Headquarters in Ihitte/Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State to protest the alleged police killing of a youth. Two police officers sustained injuries in the attack. Such awful acts, which are irritatingly advertising the country’s shambolic st...

Friday Olokor, Abuja The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed Saturday, April 10, 2021 for the conduct of bye-election into the vac...