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Punch Newspapers Sections  [ I dedicate this article to Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).  We celebrate you, despite the grief of your motherland.  May you be an inspiration for every African girl!] Mercifully, the abducted 300 students of the Government Girls Science Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, have returned home unharmed. Despite their jitters as a people, Nigerians had expected that outcome because they now understand th...

Kelvin EkereteNigerians have backed Israel Adesanya to bounce back from his unanimous decision loss to Jan Blachowicz in the light heavyweight ...

Bola Bamigbola, OsogboThe driver of a commercial bus and a passenger were Saturday evening abducted by gunmen near Wasinmi Village, along Ife-I...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 7 March 2021 Joe Aribo and Leon Balogun’s club, Rangers, have waited 10 years to get back to the top of Scottish football and Steven Gerrard his whole career for a league title, but the time has finally come for the blue side of Glasgow divide. Celtic’s latest stumble at Dundee United on Sunday sealed what has been known for many months, that runaway leaders Rangers were not going to be caught as they stopped the Hoops from setting a new record of 10 cons...

Nigerians seek help for UI medical school dropout-turned porter AFEEZ HANAFI The moving story of Terhemen Anongo, a former medical student who became a porter after depression forced him out of the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, at 500 level, has attracted reactions from different quarters. While many showed empathy for the 43-year-old man, some blamed his father for forcing the course on him. Others however chided him for failing to rise above the hurdles to complete his study. Scores of peo...

Punch Newspapers Sections Jesusegun Alagbe A former Chairman of Transparency International Nigeria and ex-Chief of Army Operations, Training and Plans, Major General Ishola Williams (retd.), said the job of the military was not to go after bandits. Rather, he said fight against bandits was the duty of the Mobile Police – the paramilitary arm of the Nigeria Police Force designated to take over operations of major crisis where conventional police units cannot cope. “It’s not the job of the ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Segun Adewole On Air Personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as Daddy Freeze, has said he will appeal a Rivers State High Court ruling that demands he pays the sum of N5 million for adultery. The court gave the ruling against him for having sex with Benedicta Elechi who was still legally married at the time it happened. Reacting to the ruling, Daddy Freeze, in a YouTube video, said it was issued in his absence as he was never served by the court. The OAP said he will...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olufemi Olaniyi Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday, re-echoed the call for restructuring the country as a means of tackling some of the major problems confronting it. Soyinka stated that there was a consensus among Nigerians that the country must be restructured urgently, saying anybody still asking what restructuring means despite the numerous explanations already provided should be ignored because such persons had chosen to be ignorant deliberately. The ...

Kayode OyeroThe residents of Igangan town in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State have called on the Oyo State Police Command to immediately release t...

It’s suicidal for new artistes to do music full-time – Blessed Boy Tofarati Ige A budding singer, Joseph Abojei, aka Blessed Boy, has stated that for an artiste to make good music, they must have access to funds. The United States of America-based artiste said, “Good music requires good money. Up-and-coming artistes need to have another source of income to fund their music careers. As far as I’m concerned, it is suicidal for any up-and-coming artiste to do music full-time. Beyond talen...