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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 Former President Goodluck Jonathan, on Saturday, said he consulted with Niger Delta leaders, including the late oil mogul and philanthropist, High Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs, after his nomination as the running mate to the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in the 2007 presidential race. Jonathan, who spoke in the Lulu-kiri, Abonnema Local Government Area of Rivers State, during Lulu-Briggs’s funeral, described the deceased as a father, urging ...

It is rather unfortunate that most of the foods needed in Nigeria are produced by peasant farmers who lack capital and modern skills to produce the...

Not many people have the privilege of discovering and utilising their talents at a young age. But, for talented British-Nigerian singer, Mehitabel ...

Punch Newspapers Sections JESUSEGUN ALAGBE JESUSEGUN ALAGBE JESUSEGUN ALAGBE his views on calls for either the resignation or impeachment of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), due to the lingering security challenges across the country To say that Nigeria is battling with widespread insecurity is to state the obvious. In your years of military experience, has it ever been this bad? You see, I do not believe that Nigeria is in a state of insecurity because nobody is invad...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 Calotropis procera belongs to the family Asclepiadaceae. It is a shrub or a small tree with glaucous leaves. The flowers are green with blue or violet markings. Follicles are bladder-like used by children as handballs in local communities. The seeds have a mass of silky fibers that surround them and are used especially as a filling for mattresses, pillows, life preservers, sleeping bags and as insulation. It is common in semi- arid locations. I ...

Manchester City showed their strength in depth as a much-changed side by Pep Guardiola won 3-0 at Fulham on Saturday to stretch their lead at the t...

Punch Newspapers Sections Nike Popoola Nike Popoola Published 14 March 2021 A total of 1,877 organisations got the National Pension Commission’s clearance for getting appropriate pension and insurance covers for their employees in the fourth quarter of 2020. This qualifies them to do business with the Federal Government. This commission disclosed this in its report titled ‘Issuance of pension clearance certificates’ for the fourth quarter report obtained by our correspondent on Friday. ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Chidiebube Okeoma Published 14 March 2021 A former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has asked Governor Hope Uzodinma to stop inaugurating the projects he already when he was governor. Okorocha, in a statement by his spokesperson, Sam Onwuemeodo, on Saturday, said it was embarrassing and worrisome for Uzodinma to be claiming and inaugurating his projects, urging the governor to build his own projects. The statement read, “We appeal to His Excellency, Governor ...

Elisha Olukanni is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eduease, a pan-African e-education platform. He shares his entrepreneurial journey wi...

Punch Newspapers Sections LARA ADEJORO Published 14 March 2021 A new study has revealed that the Ebola virus can be found in the semen of survivors, six months after infection. The researchers also found that longer persistence of the virus was significantly associated with severe acute EVD and older age. The study, published in an open-access peer-reviewed journal, PLOS Medicine, was titled ‘Persistence of Ebola virus in semen among Ebola virus disease survivors in Sierra Leone: A cohort st...