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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...

Punch Newspapers Sections Grace Edema Published 12 March 2021 The Special Advisers on Education to the Lagos State Governor, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, has said education is now about Information Communication Technology and ability of teachers to impact the required knowledge. Wahab said this at the unveiling of the Eko Digital Skills Initiative. He also said the past 12 months had shown that education did not rely only on the four walls of a structure, “Education is now about ICT and how we can impact the required knowledge,” he said. Wahab explained that the Eko Digital Skills program was stra...

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor, Abuja Friday Olokor, Abuja Published 12 March 2021 The 36 states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory have not accessed N41.06 billion matching grant in the coffers of the Universal Basic Education Commission as of March 2021, its Executive Secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said. According to him, about N143 billion matching grant is accessed by states and FCT from 2017 to 2020, out of the N184.8 billion that was made available by the commission. Bobboyi stated these during an oversight visit by the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Edu...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 12 March 2021 Bubba Malam hails from Katsina State. It is the home state of Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Malam calls himself Hausa-Fulani because his father is Hausa, and his mother is Fulani. Recently, Malam shared with his friends on social media his thoughts about Nigeria’s President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, and his style of governance. It was a mouthful expression of personal opinion: “When we told them Buhari’s ineptness will destroy and balkanise this country, they said this day would never co...