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Punch Newspapers Sections JESUSEGUN ALAGBE and OLUFEMI OLANIYI Published 14 March 2021 Published 14 March 2021 • YCE, Adebanjo disagree National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Saturday spoke on the farmer-herder crisis, urging state governments to convert unoccupied public lands to ranches for herdsmen. He also enjoined the Federal Government to convene a meeting of all state governors, security officials, traditional and religious leaders, including represe...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 A non-Governmental organization, Living Home Ventures, has launched an online family forum called Familylifers.com, aimed at empowering young people and families. Speaking at the launch, the founders, Bisi and Yomi Adewale explained that Family lifers was a multifaceted platform that provided an opportunity for empowerment, employment, acquisition of skills, advertisement of businesses for SMEs/entrepreneurs, among others. They said it was creat...

In the past 20 years, there has been no significant improvement in the number of firms that are quoted on the Nigerian capital market, the Securiti...

Punch Newspapers Sections TOBI AWORINDE TOBI AWORINDE how her passion for branding, skincare and hair care came together in the creation of her beauty company Can you share a bit about your educational and professional background? I went to the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. After university, I pursued a career in communications. So, my educational background is primarily in the areas of public relations and digital marketing. I worked as a public relations/communications co...

Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday as he visited an area devastate...

Farmer-herder crisis: Six states reject FG’s livestock scheme OYETUNJI ABIOYE and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE Published 14 March 2021 OYETUNJI ABIOYE and JESUSEGUN ALAGBE Published 14 March 2021 • FCT, Ekiti, Ondo, Ebonyi, 17 northern states sign up for NLTP Six state governments, namely Delta, Cross River, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Oyo, and Edo have said they will not donate any land to be used as grazing reserves for herdsmen under the National Livestock Transformation Programme. However, 17 northern ...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tofarati Ige Published 14 March 2021 The pair of Mbuotidem Johnson and Ukpeme Uwakwe has been selected as the winner of the renowned Annecy International Film Festival, which holds in France. Egbelughe Philip and Stanlee Ohikhuare, OyikanOdunlami and Temidayo Odunlami, Brian Wilson and Eseme Joseph, Oluwayomi Samson and Omotunde Akiode, were also among the top five finalists with the best creative animation projects to pitch their works as part of the Nigerian focus d...

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor and Okechukwu Nnodim Published 14 March 2021 Published 14 March 2021 …Expect rise in petrol price soon – Oil marketers Nigerians may pay an increased sum of about N12.61bn every month for the purchase of petrol should the Federal Government implement the N212.61/litre price published by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency on Thursday night. Going by this, users of petrol across the country may need to pay as high as N37.83bn quarterly fo...

Punch Newspapers Sections ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS Published 14 March 2021 For most parents of children born with a hole in the heart (atrial septal defect), the greatest frustration is raising the required funds for corrective surgery to save the children. Some of the parents share their emotional stories of struggling to raise millions of naira to save their children. ADEBAYO FOLORUNHSO-FRANCIS reports When a civil servant with the Lagos State government, Wahab Abidemi Alao, received a d...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 The senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Ogun East in the 2019 general elections, Adeola Sosanwo, has defected to the All Progressives Congress. Sosanwo said he joined the APC to collaborate with the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun. He said, “I have always been an APC person but was hijacked by the PDP due to the fact that I wasn’t getting due recognition under the previous government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. “I ...