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Farmer-herder crisis: Six states reject FG’s livestock scheme OYETUNJI ABIOYE and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE Published 14 March 2021 OYETUNJI ABIOYE and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE Published 14 March 2021 • FCT, Ekiti, Ondo, Ebonyi, 17 northern states sign up for NLTP Six state governments, namely Delta, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, and Edo have said they will not donate any land to be used as grazing reserves for herdsmen under the National Livestock Transformation Programme. However, 17 northern ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tofarati Ige Published 14 March 2021 The pair of Mbuotidem Johnson and Ukpeme Uwakwe has been selected as the winner of the renowned Annecy International Film Festival, which holds in France. Egbelughe Philip and Stanlee Ohikhuare, OyikanOdunlami and Temidayo Odunlami, Brian Wilson and Eseme Joseph, Oluwayomi Samson and Omotunde Akiode, were also among the top five finalists with the best creative animation projects to pitch their works as part of the Nigerian focus d...

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor and Okechukwu Nnodim Published 14 March 2021 Published 14 March 2021 …Expect rise in petrol price soon – Oil marketers Nigerians may pay an increased sum of about N12.61bn every month for the purchase of petrol should the Federal Government implement the N212.61/litre price published by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency on Thursday night. Going by this, users of petrol across the country may need to pay as high as N37.83bn quarterly fo...

Punch Newspapers Sections ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS Published 14 March 2021 For most parents of children born with a hole in the heart (atrial septal defect), the greatest frustration is raising the required funds for corrective surgery to save the children. Some of the parents share their emotional stories of struggling to raise millions of naira to save their children. ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS reports When a civil servant with the Lagos State government, Wahab Abidemi Alao, received a d...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 The senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ogun East in the 2019 general elections, Adeola Sosanwo, has defected to the All Progressives Congress. Sosanwo said he joined the APC to collaborate with the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun. He said, “I have always been an APC person but was hijacked by the PDP due to the fact that I wasn’t getting due recognition under the previous government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. “I ...

Boxing legend Marvin Hagler, the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987, died on Saturday at age 66, his wife said.In a posting on ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 Some few weeks ago, the management of the University of Ibadan announced the sad news of the death of Mr. Nigel Henry, the longest serving member of the Classics Department, and indeed of the entire Faculty of the Humanities. Henry spent over four decades, tutoring students in the fine art of classical studies. Classics is concerned with the critical investigation of the cultural and civilisational antiquity of the Greek culture and its massive ...

Punch Newspapers Sections DENNIS NAKU Published 14 March 2021 Elder Canaan Lucky, 66, is one of the shop owners at Bishop Okoye Street market, in the Mile 3 area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, which went up in flames on Friday, February 19. In this interview with DENNIS NAKU Tell us your name and what you are into? I am Elder Canaan Lucky and I deal majorly in rice; I sell bags of rice. I also sell beans, salt, oil and other items. You are one of the victims of the recent fire outbreak at ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki Published 14 March 2021 Two aides of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, have resigned their appointments with the state government. The duo, Mr Amaechi Oken, a Senior Technical Assistant to the Governor and Apostle Benjamin Obaji, a Technical Assistant, resigned their appointments this month (March). In their resignation letters dated March 1 and March 8, 2021, respectively, the Governor’s aides cited non-payment o...

Magnificent 400-guest floating hotel whets appetite for space tourism Tobi Aworinde • Nigerian travel firms see opportunities, physicists disagree The sky’s the limit no more. Indeed, the marvel that comes with gazing out of an aeroplane window as clouds slowly roll by might soon fade into obscurity – eclipsed by the novelty of space travel. Space tourism is becoming an increasingly hot topic, and there are several companies trying to make it happen – from Richard Branson’s Virgin Ga...