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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...

Ekiti, Bauchi, Kano deploy 1,500 teams to administer COVID-19 vaccine Our Correspondents Kindly share this story: Our Correspondents Published 14 March 2021 About 1,500 teams of health workers will be deployed by Ekiti, Bauchi and Kano state governments in different parts of the states to administer doses of COVID-19 vaccine jabs, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondents gathered that 78 teams would be moblised in Ekiti, 872 in Bauchi while a team of health workers would be deployed acros...

Punch Newspapers Sections Tofarati Ige Published 14 March 2021 Actress, Maryam Charles, has said that fans should not feel entitled to giveaways from celebrities. In an interview with Sunday Scoop, she said, “It is the fact that some of these fans demand for giveaways that irks me. We are all human beings. Like I mentioned recently on Facebook, some people’s full-time work is to harass celebrities for just N2,000. It makes no sense to me. People should understand that celebrities also hav...

Japanese midfielder Daichi Kamada\s second-half equaliser dealt a blow to RB Leipzig\s Bundesliga title hopes on Sunday as the main pretenders to B...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have uncovered the decomposing bodies of two siblings found inside an abandoned car parked near the residence of the vehicle’s owner. The acting Police Public Relations Officer for the command, DSP Edafe Bright, in a statement on Saturday, identified the two corpses as one Kelvin Izakpa, 10, and Fega Izakpa, seven, both children of the late Meshach Izakpa. They reportedly lived with their mother bef...

Punch Newspapers Sections ALEXANDER OKERE and TOBI AWORINDE Published 14 March 2021 Published 14 March 2021 The immediate past Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti and international relations expert, Prof Kayode Soremekun, speaks to ALEXANDER OKERE and TOBI AWORINDE about Nigeria’s foreign policy and the change of leadership in the United States, among other sundry issues Y ou have just ended an eventful tenure as the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti. Can you sha...

Popular actress and filmmaker, Iyabo Ojo, has described how she was raped as a married woman by an armed robber who stormed their house together wi...