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I was overwhelmed by job emails from US, UK after I carried placard –Job-seeking Delta graduate Published 6 March 2021 Ofejiro Atakele, a 29-year-old university graduate from Delta State, recently caused a stir in the social media after she carried a placard appealing for a job offer. She tells ALEXANDER OKERE What is your full name? My name is Ofejiro Atakele. How old are you and where are you from? I’m 29 and I’m from the Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. You said you h...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin The Christian Association of Nigeria in Kwara State has insisted that it will not allow its pupils to wear hijab, despite the Kwara State Government’s directive that Muslim female pupils in Christian mission schools should wear hijab. The state government, last week, said it had approved wearing of hijab by Muslim female pupils in Christian mission grant-aided schools in the state. It also said the 10 Christian mission schools closed down in the...

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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 6 March 2021 Wilfred Ndidi has called on Leicester City to demonstrate their self-belief when they face Brighton at Amex Stadium on Saturday (today). The Foxes are third in the Premier League and have so far amassed 50 points in 2020/21 with 11 games to go between now and the end of the season in late May. Although a victory at Burnley on Wednesday was the aim, Ndidi says a point was a positive result for City as Brendan Rodgers’ men had to deal with a host...

Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada,  Akure An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced one Kolawole Apoti to life imprisonment for raping four teenagers. One of the victims was identified as the convict’s niece, a secondary school pupil,  said to have invited other teenage girls to his house where he forcefully had sex with them and gave each of them N100. The convict had reportedly been having sex with his niece for a long time before she started introduci...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt No fewer than six operatives of the disbanded Eagle Crack team of the Rivers State Police have been arrested for allegedly extorting an undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt of the sum of N150,000. The policemen are currently undergoing interrogation at the State Criminal and Investigation Department of the State Police Command. The victim, a final year student identified as Victor who saw one of the police officer’s mobile phone...

Punch Newspapers Sections Mobola Sadiq One of Africa’s biggest artistes, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has stated that he loves to prove himself when people underestimate him. He revealed this during an Instagram Live session with the Tony Elumelu Foundation during the week. He said, “Some of the tough lessons that have shaped me to be the entrepreneur I am today is never to take (no) for an answer. When I started, I was probably the youngest person making music in Nigeria. An...

Ademola Olonilua and Dennis Naku A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on February 18, 2021, ordered popular broadcaster, Ifedayo O...

A young lady’s alleged social media post that made the rounds recently is a pointer to the kind of social pressure that we put others through in th...

...as Buhari gives new service chiefs few weeks to perform Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Frid...