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Benin Republic detains, prosecute Ogun activist for challenging land encroachment The Punch Published 2 July 2021 Fear has gripped residents of Igbokofi, in the Yewa-North Local Government Area of Ogun State following the invasion of their village and arrest of an activist, Kunle Garb . The foreign police reportedly whisked Garb away last week Thursday, following his resistance against the alleged encroachment of some parcels of land in Ogun State, Nigeria, by authorities of the Benin Republic . Nigeria and Benin Republic share boundary in some parts of Ogun West. The PUNCH ha...

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Punch Newspapers Sections our correspondents States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the  Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses,  Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti,  52,960 and Ondo,  75,570. Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH  in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State. Recall that the Federal Government  on Tuesday last week received  3.94 million doses of the  vaccine from  COVAX facility, an initiative co-led by the Vac...

Punch Newspapers Sections • Katsina last LG poll held 2014 • Directors of personnel running Kwara LGs By our correspondents No fewer than 10 states have not conducted elections  into local governments despite the absence of elected  officers in the councils. Investigations on Monday showed that  some of the local governments were  being administered by caretaker committees constituted by state governors. This  contradicts  a 2016 judgment of the Supreme Court, which voided laws enacted by state Houses of Assembly that empowered governors to sack elected local government chairmen and...

OGUN: Gov Abiodun, Osoba, commissioners receive COVID-19 vaccines On By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, his deputy, Engr Noimot Salako-Oyedele, and other members of the State Executive Council have received the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. They took the first jabs of the vaccine on Monday at a brief ceremony, a couple of hours after taking delivery of 50,000 units of the vaccine donated by the World Health Organisation and the federal government. A statement issued on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Kunle Somorin, also disclosed ...