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Punch Newspapers Sections our correspondents States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the  Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses,  Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti,  52,960 and Ondo,  75,570. Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH  in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State. Recall that the Federal Government  on Tuesday last week r...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 March 2021 A stalwart of the All Progressive Congress in Zamfara State and former member of the National Assembly, Abdulmalik Bungudu, shares his thoughts on the no-flying-zone order and other issues in this interview with MAIHARAJI ALTINE The Federal Government has imposed a no flying zone order on Zamfara State. What is your comment on this? Thank you very much for this question. First of all, I want to bring to the notice of everybody that based on co...

Punch Newspapers Sections Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja It is high time the Federal Government stopped the illicit movement of cattle on various roads across the country, retired General Evangelist, Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide, Samuel Abiara, has said. He also charged the government to emulate other developed and emerging economies of the world on how to manage cattle for the betterment of citizens. Abiara, who spoke to journalists in Abuja during a prayer session for the nation, observed that ...

Police beef up security around COVID-19 vaccines store in Lagos Deji Lambo The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, has deployed policemen to beef up security around the cold store where the COVID-19 vaccines are kept in the Ikeja area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Wednesday that Odumosu, after inspecting the cold store, cautioned members of staff at the cold store to prevent unauthorised access to people who are n...

Dayo Ojerinde The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has said it is too early to interpret the reduced COVID-19 cases being recorded in the countr...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba and Sunday Aborisade, Abuja Hundreds of members of the Nigeria Labour Congress have commenced a protest march to the National Assembly complex in Abuja. The union and its affiliates are demanding the withdrawal of a bill that would remove the National Minimum Wage from the exclusive to the concurrent legislative list. The House of Representatives had about two weeks ago introduced the bill which according to the sponsor, Garba Mohammed (APC Kano), woul...

Punch Newspapers Sections Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki The Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State has said the party would take over the reins of government in the state come 2023. This is as the party alleged that it was ready to eschew negative tendencies that almost ruined it before the defection of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to the All Progressives Congress, adding that the governor’s sudden departure remained insignificant. Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party in the state, E...

Lanre BalogunA ceramic figurine of the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, is currently on sale on Chinese online shopping pla...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 March 2021 Investors on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday lost N317bn in a trading session amid sell pressure on bellwethers, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. Specifically, the market capitalisation which opened at N20.612tn shed N371bn or 1.80 per cent to close at N20.241tn. Also, the All-Share Index dipped 709.72 points or 1.80 per cent to close at 38,686.85 from 39,396.57 achieved on Monday. Accordingly, the month-to-date and year-to-date losse...

Punch Newspapers Sections Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta OGUN State House of Assembly on Tuesday elected a member representing Ogun Waterside State Constituency, Balogun Akeem, as the new Deputy Speaker. Balogun’s emergence followed the removal of the former deputy speaker, Oludare Kadiri, who represents Ijebu-North II State Constituency, for gross misconduct. Balogun became the new Deputy Speaker sequel to his nomination by a member representing Remo North State Constituency, Solomon Osho. The moti...