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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 6 March 2021 Karim Benzema will be fit to play some part in Sunday’s derby between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, Zinedine Zidane said on Friday. Benzema had missed Real Madrid’s last three games with a groin injury but Zidane said the Frenchman will return at the Wanda Metropolitano, although would not say if he will start. “We are happy to see him again with us. He will be with us and we’ll see how it goes tomorrow,” said Zidane in a press confe...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: Two undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, allegedly died of fume from a generator in their hostel on Thursday, March 4,2021 Chidiebube Okeoma, Owerri Two undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, have allegedly died as a result of inhaled carbon monoxide from a generator in their hostel. The students, Udeagbala Kenchukwu,21, and Stephen Anele, 21, were found dead after police operatives forced the...

Olalekan Adetayo, AbujaVice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday, again called for the establishment of state police as one of the ways of addr...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kayode Oyero A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has said the ship of Lagos has been going in the wrong direction since All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, took over control of the state. George spoke in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Saturday in reaction to comments by Tinubu that the ship of Lagos was heading in a wrong direction within 2017 and 2018 before incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Ol...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday said Nigeria would continue to look up to former President Olusegun Obasanjo for wisdom and statesmanship. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement, said the President made the remark in his birthday message to Obasanjo. The statement was titled “President Buhari felicitates with former President Obasanjo at 84.”

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the authority for most of the world\s Shiite Muslims, told Pope Francis in a historic meeting in the Iraqi city of Naj...

ICYMI: Ambode left Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge at 20% completion, says Sanwo-Olu Kayode Oyero Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, said the Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge was at 20% completion when he took over the wheel of governance from his predecessor, Akinwumi Ambode, in May 2019. The PUNCH had earlier reported that Ambode, who started the 1.4 kilometre-long bridge in 2017, was conspicuously absent when Sanwo-Olu; All Progressives Congress stalwart, Bola Tinubu; and other prominent po...

Kayode OyeroFormer Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, on Saturday, described the incumbent governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki, as his ...

RB Leipzig climbed top of the Bundesliga on Saturday with a 3-0 romp at Freiburg to replace previous leaders Bayern Munich, who later host Dortmund...

Adelani AdepegbaTroops of 6 Division, Nigerian Army on Saturday, rescued 10 expatriate workers and four Nigerians kidnapped by sea pirates off ...