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Punch Newspapers Sections Peter Dada, Akure The Ondo State House of Assembly has said its Speaker, Mr Bamidele Oloyeloogun, was not invited by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission over an alleged financial fraud. It was gathered that the Speaker, Oloyeloogun; the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr Bode Adeyelu; the Deputy Clerk, Mr Amos Olowogorioye; and the Chairman, House Committee on Tertiary Education, Mr Felemugudu Bankole; and some civil servants were invited by the anti-graft agency. A sou...

Punch Newspapers Sections The annual ritual of the United Nations International Women’s Day took place on March 8 with a muted fanfare due to the COVID-19 restrictions. It was meant to highlight (and indeed, celebrate) the achievements of women in society, and their contributions to human development throughout the ages. A well-deserved 15 minutes of fame for women, you might say. It is also an occasion for bystanders to ask probing questions. One of such questions is the long-running riddle ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The House of Representatives on Monday held a public hearing on five bills, one of which was seeking establishment of a Federal University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Niger State. Two of the bills are to establish two Federal Medical Centres, one of which is to be located in Wase Federal Constituency, Plateau State, where the Deputy Speaker Ahmed Wase, has been representing since 2007. The legislations are titled, ‘A Bill for An Act to Enha...

Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has downplayed the crisis rocking the South West chapter ...

Continued from Monday One can reasonably guess that that was the end of Western education for those innocent children whose crime was just the acc...

Punch Newspapers Sections Deji Lambo The remains of a man, identified simply as John, and his girlfriend, Darasimi, have been recovered from a hotel in the Fagaba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the lovers might have been poisoned. John and Darasimi were said to have lodged in the hotel, but their motionless bodies were found in the hotel room. Chronicling what transpired after the corpses were discovered in a post on Instablog9ja, a source was quoted to have said that Darasimi�...

Tunde Oyekola, Ilorin The Kwara State Government has announced the extension of closure of the 10 mission secondary schools in Ilorin, the state c...

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Nigerian Army has cautioned  Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, against making divisive and disparaging  utterances ...

Temiloluwa O’Peters Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Jack Dorsey, is auctioning his first ever tweet on a website that sells tweets as non-fungibl...

Punch Newspapers Sections Olalekan Adetayo and Leke Baiyewu WIFE of the President, Aisha Buhari, broke her long silence as she sent goodwill message to Nigerian women on the International Women’s Day. Outspoken Mrs Buhari had gone off the radar around September 2020 shortly after the wedding of her daughter, Hanan. An online newspaper, SaharaReporters, had reported that she relocated to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, citing security issues. But shortly after, one of her aides, Kabiru Dodo, said...