By Abdu Rafiu A crowded bank after the COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos There is nothing like freedom. Last Monday proved to everyone how irrepressible the longing for freedom is. The longing was breathless, the desire to walk the street was pressing—to breathe in fresh air from outside, away from the stuffy room into which you […]
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The Federal Government says it has initiated the process of decontaminating and disinfecting schools across the country before reopening them for academic activities. Minister of the Environment, Muhammad Mahmood, who disclosed this said his ministry would liaise with the Federal Ministry of Education to get required data to conduct the exercise. He spoke while responding […]
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The Federal Government has decried the continued violation of the new guidelines set up as part of measures to check the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country. Mr Adeniyi Adebayo, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, on Wednesday in Abuja, frowned at the deliberate violation of the guidelines. The minister warned against the […]
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Wants decentralised police force, community policing Senate President, Ahmed Lawan The Senate has asked the Federal Government to suspend the planned deployment of the fifth-generation (5G) network in Nigeria pending the resolution of all issues thrown up by the new technology. Adopting a motion sponsored by Senator Uche Ekwenife (PDP, Anambra Central) at plenary yesterday […]
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Nigeria’s Envoy to the Republic of Togo, Ambassador Olusola Iji, has expressed his determination to beat the incumbent Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, at the coming party primaries to clinch the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as the party’s candidate in the forthcoming governorship election in the state. He was sure that the […]
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The following interview was conducted with the departed mother of Nigeria’s former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Oluseyi Olusegun Babatunde Petinrin, Mama Rachael Adenike Petinrin, to mark the occasion of her 80th Birthday on Saturday, September 17, 2011. She passed on at 3.45 pm on Friday, April 24, 2020.The interview was published in The […]
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Nigerian Government on Tuesday granted a waiver on import duty for medical supplies coming into the country as it battles coronavirus. Presidential aide Tolu Ogunlesi in a tweet said President Muhammadu Buhari approved that import duty is waived for medical equipment and supplies to strengthen health infrastructure in response to the #COVID19 pandemic. Ogunlesi disclosed […]
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By Yinka Fabowale Cities and towns across Nigeria roused from about a month-long coma early this morning of May 4 in the Year of our Lord 2020 with a pulse rate able to burst the veins, albeit also spotting an unusual face! Everywhere you turn, multitudes of eager Nigerians, many of who had stayed indoors […]
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The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, says more than 82.9 million Nigerians are poor by national standards. It made this known in its report on Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria 2019, released on Monday. It explained that the figure showed that 40.1 per cent of the total population was classified as poor, adding that in […]
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By Banji Ayoola A governorship aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, Hon Duerimini Isaac Kekemeke, has described the palliatives being distributed among the people to cushion the effects of the rampaging Coronavirus, as partially treating only symptoms, a mere waste, an opportunity to enrich few contractors and […]
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