Mustapha Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 (PTF) has confessed that national response to the pandemic is passing through a challenging phase due to the seriousness of the second wave of infections in Nigeria. It lamented that Week 52 of the National response had so far given the highest number of infections in a single week to […]
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Chairman of the maiden National Theatre Festival of Unity, Prof. Duro Oni (fourth from left); GM/CEO, National Theatre, Prof. Sunday E. Ododo and his wife; art and culture activist, Ben Tomoloju; and Festival Director, Biodun Abe, flagged by other executives at the closing ceremony The National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, which was in doldrums for lack […]
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‘My problem is with President’s leadership style’ CATHOLIC Bishop of Sokoto Diocese Matthew Hassan Kukah on Tuesday said he did not call for a coup. He said he had no problem with President Muhammadu Buhari, but with his leadership style. The Bishop’s scathing attack on the President sparked a huge row. Some groups accused the […]
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January employment, business growth outlook positive In what could be interpreted as an admission of its shortcomings and self-indictment, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has admitted that Nigerians are displeased with the management of the country’s inflation. Experts had balked at efforts taken by the monetary authority to stem the inflationary pressure. Many have […]
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Muslim coalition, others condemn attacks on Bishop Muslim professionals say cleric’s sermon timely call for good leadership ‘The bishop simply spoke the truth to Buhari’ ‘Nigeria will be great if it has three persons like Kukah’ Muslim group flays marginalisation of the Igbo SOKAPU chides Arewa youths for seeking Kukah’s arrest Bishop Matthew Kukah of […]
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The Igo Aguma-led All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has rejected the Court of Appeal’s judgment which set aside the High Court decision which declared Aguma chairman of the caretaker committee. The Appeal Court in Abuja set aside the June 2020 judgment of Justice George Omereji of the State High Court, Port Harcourt, that […]
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In this file photo taken on March 16, 2018 Wind turbines stand in the Irish Sea at the Gwynty Mor Offshore Wind Farm, off the coast of Colwyn Bay, north Wales, on March 16, 2016. – Britain generated more than 50% of its energy from wind power for the first time on December 26 in […]
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Operatives of the Ekiti State Security Network Agency code-named Amotekun Corps has rescued a businessman, Happiness Ajayi, who was kidnapped on Christmas day in Ekiti State. Ajayi was kidnapped on the Isan-Iludun-Ekiti road in Oye Local Government alongside his cousin, Oluwaseun Fatile. He was reportedly rescued in a forest at Isapa community, Kwara State, about 3pm […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that his administration will keep a keen eye on food inflation in the New Year. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement, said his boss gave the assurance at the fifth regular meeting with the Presidential Economic Advisory Council held on […]
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A Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) officer gestures to a group of believers that, according to stage 3 lockdown national regulation, they are not allowed to gather for ceremony in the West Park Cemetery, in Montgomery Park, Johannesburg, on December 29, 2020. (Photo by Luca Sola / AFP) South Africa banned alcohol sales and made […]
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