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Dennis Naku, Port HarcourtGovernors of the South-South States have demanded an upward review of the provision of 2.5 percent as host community ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Temiloluwa O’Peters Xerox Nigeria (XHS Nigeria Limited) has emphasised the importance of Electronic Document Management System in accessing and processing official documents without geographical limitations. In a statement issued on Monday titled ‘The new world of work: A case for electronic document management system’, the company noted that more people have had to work from remote locations and offered EDMS as a solution to working from home. According to the f...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Nigerian Army has cautioned  Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, against making divisive and disparaging  utterances against the military institutions. It stated that the army did not deploy its troops along ethnic or religious lines as stated by the cleric during his interaction with bandits. The army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Yerima, mentioned this in a statement in reaction to a video in which Gumi accused non-Muslim soldiers of a...

Punch Newspapers Sections Kindly share this story: Michael Aromolaran Olajide Sanyaolu, tweeting from @JaySanya on Monday, announced his graduation from Afe Babalola University with first-class honours, and thanked Nigerian pop star, Davido, for helping him with money. In Sanyaolu’s words: – mentor sets up a gofundme for uni – @davido dropped funds to support my fundraiser (thanks to Twitter folk) – Resumed abuad and survived Nigerian education – first class EEE Davido acknowledged Sa...

Punch Newspapers Sections Our Reporters Women in the Federal Capital Territory,  Abuja on Monday,  staged a protest  against hunger, hardship and insecurity in the country to mark on this year’s International Women’s Day. They also called for the immediate resignation of the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for incompetence. Addressing journalists on behalf of the women, Mrs Stell Ajadi, lamented the lack of basic amenities in their community. Ajadi rebuked the Presiden...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 9 March 2021 As the US President Joe Biden seeks a review of the Taiwan policy, he is being advised by a top American think tank to ensure that in case of China deciding to use force to unify Taiwan with the mainland, America should “continue to stand by Taiwan to support a fellow democracy and to maintain US credibility and influence in the Indo-Pacific”. The advice is contained in the February 2021 report of the Rand Corporation, titled, “US Allied an...

 Nike Popoola Nigeria recorded N7.37tn foreign trade deficit in 2020, latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday. The...

Punch Newspapers Sections • Katsina last LG poll held 2014 • Directors of personnel running Kwara LGs By our correspondents No fewer than 10 states have not conducted elections  into local governments despite the absence of elected  officers in the councils. Investigations on Monday showed that  some of the local governments were  being administered by caretaker committees constituted by state governors. This  contradicts  a 2016 judgment of the Supreme Court, which voided laws enacte...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt A former Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Victor Giadom, on Monday, threatened to sue the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission if it includes the APC logo on the ballot for the Local Government Council elections, scheduled for April 17. He issued the threat after revalidating his APC membership, in his ward 16, in Bera community, Gokana Local Government Area. Giadom said, “Let me reaffirm and say it ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin Vice Chancellor of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof. Noah Yusuf, has said private institutions now have more transfer of students from public universities as a result of incessant strike by workers of public schools.  Yusuf while speaking with journalists in Ilorin shortly after the matriculation of 1,005 students admitted into Al-Hikmah University for the 2020/2021 academic session said the institution, since its establishment had...