The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) yesterday said its members would not comply with the new N123.50k per litre price of petrol until they exhausted their old stock. The Federal Government had, through the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), announced a further reduction of the pump price of petrol from N125 to N123.50k per […]
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Operations would continue at all the nation’s seaports unhindered, despite movement restrictions in some states as part of the measures to check the rampaging COVID-19. In fact, the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, announced that it has no intention of shutting the seaports, assuring that necessary arrangements are in place to ease operations. It said in […]
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In this file photo taken on February 26, 2020, medical staff shows at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseille, packets of a Nivaquine, tablets containing chloroquine and Plaqueril, tablets containing hydroxychloroquine, drugs that has shown signs of effectiveness against coronavirus. – Hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug dubbed a “gift from God” by US President Donald […]
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Fumigation of Langtang North Local Government Area of Plateau State by the Chairman, Mr. Laven Ubandoma to prevent COVID-19 in the council…yesterday. PHOTO: NAN The presidency yesterday released a “chronicle of some of the reactions by the agencies and trained experts under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari” as the coronavirus continues to spread in […]
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By IkeChukwu Unegbe Let me say upfront that there is a correlation between security and peace, in the context as we shall explore in this essay. In other words, how to attain security on earth could equally read ‘how to attain peace on earth.’ Security does not simply mean absence of wars, diseases, violence, thieves, […]
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By Abdu Rafiu The talk about Coronavirus which has hit the world below the belt is what fills airwaves by the minute, by the hour and every day, whether here in our country or overseas. Newspapers are in the forefront. There is updating of reports by digital publications on the ravaging ruthless pathogen by the […]
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Nigeria’s challenge with the expanding footprints of the coronavirus pandemic is getting a badly needed signal to help from Cuba, the Caribbean nation whose biomedical industry is currently attracting global acclaim for the impressive results its “wonder drug,” the interferon Alpha 2B, had in the control and management of the disease in Wuhan, China. Cuban […]
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Ondo state on Wednesday shut land and sea routes with its neighbouring states of Ekiti, Osun, Kogi, Edo and Ogun states to shield the state away from the rampaging coronavirus. Also, the state government declared a three-day period of fasting and prayers commencing from Thursday, 2nd to Saturday, 4th to seek the face of God […]
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Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force PTF on the containment of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Wednesday issued an implementation guide and protocol for the enforcement of the lockdown policy. They were read out by the Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Aliyu Sani, at a press briefing by the task force, after its Chairman and Secretary […]
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World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is pictured during a press conference in Diriyah in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming “Clash on the Dunes” on Saturday. Photo: AFP World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua said on Wednesday he has “lost close ones” due to the coronavirus. His title defence against IBF mandatory […]
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