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Punch Newspapers Sections Tony Okafor The Federal Government has stopped giving grants to youths, instead, they will be giving revolving loans. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, stated this in Awka, the Anambra State capital at the end of a two-day workshop organised by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan in conjunction with the National Root Crops Research Institute Umudike/International Fund for Agricultural Development. The workshop was titled...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 11 March 2021 The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, says over N41.06bn UBEC matching grants is lying unaccessed despite the poor state of many primary schools across the country. Bobboyi disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday while presenting the 2020 Capital Budget Performance to the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education. Giving a breakdown of matching grant implementation by states since 2017, he said whi...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sodiq Oyeleke The University of Ibadan, Lagos State University, and the University of Lagos have ranked among the top 800 universities in the world. This was contained in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Ranking obtained on Wednesday. THE ranked UI, LASU, and UNILAG as first, second, and third respectively in Nigeria. Privately-owned Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, was ranked fourth ahead of the Federal Government-owned University of Nigeria, Nsuk...

Abiodun Nejo, Ado EkitiFarmers and cattle rearers in Ekiti State on Thursday agreed that the establishment of cattle ranches would help resolve...

Okechukwu Nnodim, AbujaThe Federal Government on Thursday commenced the selection process for 500,000 Batch C beneficiaries of the N-Power prog...

Punch Newspapers Sections Segun Adewole The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has received in audience the National Council of Traditional Rulers at the State House in Abuja on Thursday. This was disclosed by presidential aide, Buhari Sallau, who also shared photos from the meeting. “President @MBuhari receives in audience National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria in State House on 11th Mar 2021,” Sallau captioned the photos on Twitter. Present at the meeting is th...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 11 March 2021 The Swiss Federal Criminal Court has ruled that extraordinary Federal Prosecutor Stefan Keller acted illegally by extending his investigation beyond its remit. A statement obtained on FIFA’s website noted that Mr Keller was appointed to look into certain meetings that the former Swiss Attorney General, Michael Lauber, had with the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino “However, instead of doing this, Mr Keller, who has yet to even interview the F...

AK-47: Presidency releases video of Buhari’s shoot-on-sight order Kayode Oyero The Presidency, on Thursday, released a video showing the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), ordering security agents to shoot on sight, any civilian seen with AK-47 rifle. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said on March 3, 2021 that his principal gave specific orders to military commanders to shoot any civilian bearing AK...

Sodiq OyelekeThe Peoples Democratic Party has expressed readiness to take over power from the All Progressives Congress and the President, Majo...

Olufemi Olaniyi, IbadanThe Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Leo Irhabor, has led other military chiefs to hold a meeting with the Oyo State Governo...