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Punch Newspapers Sections Sodiq Oyeleke The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 56 suspected cultists and armed robbers in the Ikorodu and Ibeju Lekki areas of the state. Among those arrested are two wives of cultists and a man who was alleged of killing over 22 people in the state. The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement titled, ‘Lagos will be hot for cultists, criminals – CP’, on Sunday. The statement quoted the Commissioner of Po...

Punch Newspapers Sections Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe A firm, B4G Consulting Limited, has urged the Lagos State High Court to restrain the banks operated by the Systems Applications Products Nigeria Limited from releasing the total sum of $3,371,945.27 and N5m to SAP and other instruments belonging to it pending the hearing and determination of an alleged contract breach suit. The firm, in a suit marked LD/ADR/519/2016, and reassigned to Justice Ezekiel Ashade, sought an order of the court directing ...

Friday Olokor, Abuja THREE years after her abduction by Boko Haram insurgents, the parents of Leah Sharibu have asked the President, Major Genera...

Punch Newspapers Sections  Temiloluwa O’Peters Nigeria’s fixed broadband services price was at 22.08 per cent of Gross National Income per capita in 2020, 10 times above the standard pricing for developing countries. According to the UN Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development’s Target two for 2025, entry-level broadband service in developing countries should not cost more than two per cent of monthly GNI per capita, but Nigeria’s fixed broadband pricing surpassed this by 20.8 p...

Punch Newspapers Sections All African Music Awards has advocated better pay for women in the culture industry. AFRIMA, according to a statement on Sunday, said the advocacy was in solidarity with the United Nations International Women’s Day 2021, with the theme, ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 World.’ “All African Music Awards on Monday, March 8, is joining the rest of the world to honour the strength of women, celebrate their diverse social, economic, cult...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, during a visit to the family of one of the farmers killed by suspected herdsmen in Isaba Ekiti, Ekiti State… on Sunday. Photo: Ekiti State Government House Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti Following the killing by suspected Fulani herdsmen of two farmers; Mr Toyin Akeju, also known locally as Jisoro, and Mr Yusuf Onuche, the Peoples Democratic Party has called on Governor Kayode Fayemi to compel leaders of herde...

Dele Ogunyemi, WarriDelta State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a 52-year-old man, Prince Muvi Unagha, by gunmen suspected to be ag...

Olalekan Adetayo, AbujaThe President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday, mourned a judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylveste...

Punch Newspapers Sections Patrick Odey, Uyo Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Command have reportedly killed four suspected sea pirates at Iwukpom/Opolum water channel in the Ibeno Local Government Area of the state. A statement on Sunday by the Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, said the pirates were killed in a gun battle with the police, adding that three members of the gang escaped with bullet wounds. The statement said, “On March 4, 2021, at about 2.30pm, a team of 29 PMF per...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 8 March 2021 WATER AID has brought together 9 beautiful women from a spectrum of fields in Nigeria to commemorate International Women’s Day 2021 with a charity photoshoot session. The 2030 agenda pledge to leave-no-one-behind is manifest in this unit of women who represent every woman across Africa and beyond. It is our priority to renegotiate our stake in this new and unfolding world post-COVID, and to amplify how unity in leadership allows us break more g...