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Presidency officials allege Zamfara attempted to subvert no-fly-zone order Eniola Akinkuotu and Maiharaji Altine Published 12 March 2021 Eniola Akinkuotu and Maiharaji Altine Published 12 March 2021 Some Presidency officials have accused Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State and his aides of attempting to subvert the Federal Government’s  ‘No fly’ restriction placed over the state’s airspace. Multiple officials, who spoke to The PUNCH, said Matawalle and the state House of Assembly had openly opposed the no fly order and the ban placed on mining activities despite rising insecu...

Punch Newspapers Sections • Minister insists on borrowing to finance budget deficit The increasing debt service of Nigeria is an economic threat to the country, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared on Thursday. But this might not stop the Federal Government from borrowing to fund the 2021 budget, as the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, insisted that government had to borrow. In January, The PUNCH reported that Nigeria spent almost N2tn on debt servicing payments from January to September 2020, based on data obtained from the Debt Management Office....

The Niger State House of Assembly has invited the Commissioner for Finance and his counterparts in Works and Infrastructure Planning, Justice and S...

Punch Newspapers Sections Agency Status Published 12 March 2021 Quadri Aruna is confident of nicking one of the four available qualifications slots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the World Singles Qualification Tournament at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Doha, Qatar. The four-day tournament holds from March 14 to 17. Aruna, listed among the top seeds for the tournament, will compete alongside 72 men in the men’s singles for one of the four available slots for the Olympic. Kenya, Congo Brazzaville and Algeria are among the African countries competing in the qualifying tournament...

INEC promises Nigerians technology-driven elections Gbenga Odogun, Lokoja THE Independent National Electoral Commission has said that technology will drive Nigeria’s electoral process. INEC’s National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and voters Education, Festus Okoye, said this at a workshop for staff of the Commission’s Voters Education and Publicity Department, with support from the International Foundation for Electoral System, held in Lokoja. Okoye said, “The commission plans to robustly ramp up its use of technology in the electoral process. This will include the introdu...