Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed The Federal Government has apologised for openly begging American billionaire businessman, Elon Musk, for ventilators. The President Muhammadu Buhari administration came under fire for the undignified manner it went about requesting between 100 and 500 ventilators from the United States citizen. Reacting, the Federal Ministry of Finance and National Planning […]
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Urges protection of critical infrastructure, strengthening of the economy locally President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to ensure prompt salaries of workers henceforth to cushion hardship in the wake of the ongoing lockdowns to check the spread of the novel coronavirus nationwide. He also ordered the ministry to ensure […]
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MOMAN insists on oil sector restructuring Why petrol should not sell above N90, by PDP Abuja marketers still await the order to sell at N123.50 DPR warns against hoarding of product The current dwindling of the nation’s fortunes in the oil and gas sector following the outbreak of the coronavirus has again brought to the […]
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Crisis in Delta as soldier kills resident for not stopping at a roadblock Govt courting uncontrollable regime of rebellion, ASUU, others warn Governors beg FG to suspend states’ deductions Buhari meets panel assessing the impact of the virus on the economy 11 more patients discharged in Lagos Pains of the lockdown across parts of the […]
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Nigeria’s tally of COVID-19 infections, on Thursday evening, increased to 184 as 10 new cases were announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According to the new data released by NCDC, seven of the cases were reported in Lagos and three in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The total number of states which […]
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Nigerian Government has said the post requesting for free ventilators from Elon Musk, a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman, was unauthorised. Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, Finance Minister spokesman, said “fact of the post is regrettable because of which it is brought down.” “We have made sure our internal processes are strengthened that such doesn’t happen […]
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By Olanrewaju Akinfenwa Permit me to take a peep into your environment, our environment. What do we see? There is nothing but failure of mankind all over the place. Earthly power has failed, science is failing. Religion has failed, cynicism has failed, bold face has failed, human knowledge has failed, and money will eventually fail. […]
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By Marcel Okeke One of the likely ‘gains’ of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has been ravaging the world since the dawn of 2020 is the expectation that the plague might drive a country like Nigeria into effective diversification of its economy. This expectation is essentially hinged on the fact that the emergence of the disease […]
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Coronavirus remains untamed and uncurbed while rendering no good to humanity – it continues to kill the young, old, rich, poor and many ‘living legends(s)’ across different nations of the world. With no cure discovered yet, the disease, declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is unrelenting in its spread across […]
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Waka music star, Queen Salawa Abeni, has been forced to release her nude pictures on the social media to escape being blackmailed by an unknown man. She said the scammer, who is threatening to tarnish her image and destroy her career of over 45 years, identifies himself as Jason and lives in Osun State. Salawa took […]
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