The face of Esther Abiona, a 19-year-old physically challengeded admission seeker, shone brightly when Sunday Punch visited her Magboro, Ogun State home on Saturday. One week after she lamented to this newspaper how her disability might have stood in her way of being registered for the 2023 United Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the Joint Admission and […]
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A former Minister of National Planning and Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, the academic arm of the National Assembly, Prof Abubakar Suleiman, in this interview with Leke Baiyewu speaks about the cost of running the National Assembly and governors’ influence in the polity, among other issues around the legislature. The […]
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Children and family members of several prominent and influential Nigerians, will be members of the 10th National Assembly due for inauguration in June, 2023. On February 25, 2023, Nigerians cast their ballots in the first batch of the 2023 general elections. Winners have since emerged from the presidential, senatorial and House of Representatives elections. Meanwhile, […]
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Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai The death toll from last night’s attack on Ungwan Wakili community in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State has risen to 17. The Punch correspondent who visited the scene of the attack counted 14 corpses recovered this morning, aside from the one person killed yesterday and the […]
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Women ought to be celebrated everyday because they are strong, powerful, beautiful and can be anything they want to be. They are mothers, sisters, caretakers, lovers, home makers, achievers that should always be celebrated. The International Women’s day( IWD) is always celebrated on the 8th of March every year. IWD became a day for brands […]
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Ekiti State Government has warned citizens of their states not to reject the old naira notes as means of transaction in line with the Supreme Court judgement otherwise they would be arrested and face prosecution. Abia State Government also threatened to sanction anyone found rejecting the old notes. Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, gave the […]
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In a year the air transport sector recorded a landmark 13 per cent growth rate and pooled over $1.5 billion in ticket sales, foreign airlines dealt Nigerian air travellers a bad hand over the FX repatriation crisis. The hues and cries of consumers and travel agencies notwithstanding, stakeholders are unanimous that a strategic intervention by […]
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Customers queue to withdraw newly-designed Nigerian naira banknotes at a Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Ltd. branch in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Photographer: Benson Ibeabuchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Abiodun Olusoga Fanoro It was Lord Acton, a Professor of History in Cambridge in a letter he sent to his bishop on April 5, […]
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu (third left) commiserating with relatives of a deceased involved in the train accident, during his condolence visit to the family home in Lagos, last Friday, With him is Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola (second right) Since Thursday when the train accident that claimed six lives occurred, empathy has […]
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Health authorities in the country, including the Minister of Health and all health commissioners should bury their heads in shame for the appallingly poor manner with which they address cancer, which is no doubt, a major health challenge. Recent statistics show that cancer kills no fewer than 78,000 Nigerians and infects 125,000 new persons yearly, […]
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