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Punch Newspaper Headline For 08/09/2021

Punch Newspaper Headline For 08/09/2021

Punch Newspaper Headline For 08/09/2021

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VAT collection row: No going back on bill, Lagos insists, Adamawa backs Wike

The Akwa Ibom and Adamawa state governments, on Tuesday, aligned themselves with the move by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to stop the Federal Government from collecting Value Added Tax.

The Director-General, Media and Communications, Adamawa State Government, Solomon Kumangar, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Yola, the state capital, said the collection of VAT by the states was the only way of…

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Kyari attributes rising cooking gas price to undersupply

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, has assured Nigerians that the corporation is working with relevant agencies to ensure that the price of gas is affordable by increasing the volume supplied to the domestic market.

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Kyari gave the assurance while answering questions from journalists during his courtesy visit to the Department of Petroleum Resources headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said, “Today, this country is undersupplied

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Punch Newspaper Headline For 08/09/2021

‘Child Rights Act not domesticated in 10 northern states’

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has lamented the non-domestication of Child Rights Act in 10 northern states.

He spoke on Tuesday in Abuha at a two-day Northern traditional and religious leaders summit on ending Gender-Based Violence and harmful practices, organised by the Sultan Foundation for Peace and Development in Abuja in collaboration with

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Keep South-West safe, Oyetola tells Amotekun corps

Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has told the Osun Security Network Agency codename, ‘Amotekun Corps,’ to collaborate with counterpart security groups in the South-West states to keep the region safe.

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Oyetola spoke on Tuesday in Ejigbo at the passing-out-parade ceremony for the 360 newly-recruited officers into the Amotekun corps.

Oyetola charged the corps officials to be professional

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JAMB replies El-Rufai, says institutions determine cut-off marks

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it does not award “preferential cut-off marks” to students who sit the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination from the northern part of the country.

The board also said the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was wrong in saying that UTME candidates of northern extraction enjoyed special privileges or lower cut-off marks not benefited by candidates in other parts of the country.

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JAMB’s Head of Information and Media,

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Group suspects foul play in Osun murder suspects’ killing

A civil rights group, Osun Police Watch, has asked the state Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, to investigate the alleged killing of three murder suspects in the state.

PUNCH Metro had reported that some hoodlums exchanged gunfire with the police in Osunjela, a community around Osogbo-Ilesha Road, while conveying the suspects, Tope Gbenga, Olaide Okiki and

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National Assembly berates INEC as commission insists on electronic results

THE Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said it did not need the approval of the Nigerian Communications Commission to transmit election results electronically.

This was as the National Assembly told the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, to seek proper

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