The biotech company Pfizer said Wednesday that a completed study of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine showed it is 95 percent effective. It said the vaccine had no serious side effects and that the company will apply for emergency use authorisation from US regulators “within days.” The announcement came as coronavirus cases surge in the US […]
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The Presidency on Wednesday said it regretted the absence of its representatives at a meeting of South-South stakeholders fixed for last Tuesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State While attributing the development to an emergency meeting of the National Security Council held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on the same day, it said a new date […]
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Ebonyi State People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Caucus in the National Assembly has disowned Governor David Umahi for defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Umahi had on Tuesday formally announced his defection from the PDP to the APC over alleged injustice suffered by the South East in the hands of PDP, which consistently has allegedly […]
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says he’s asset to Nigeria North East Professionals Network, (NEPN), a political pressure group, has welcomed the defection of Ebonyi State Governor, Mr. Dave Umahi from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). The group noted that Umahi’s move from PDP to APC was unprecedented and an attribute of […]
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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has proposed a plan that will see private sector players commit one per cent of all their profits to bridge gaping funding gaps in Nigeria’s beleaguered healthcare sector. The new tax, with national assembly approval, would be separate from the corporate tax already being paid to the government and would […]
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Nigerian music superstar, singer songwriter and record producer, Davido’s recently released album ‘A Better Time’ has surpassed a cumulative 100 million streams across all digital music platforms. This feat has been reached barely three days since the album was released, making it the fastest project by an Afrobeat singer to hit such a mark. The […]
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Olori Moronke Naomi Silekunola, the olori of Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja the Second, has given birth to a baby boy. The Prince was born today, November 18, 2020. Kabiesi, Ooni Adimula, the foremost royal father in Yorubaland and custodian of the stool of Oduduwa, the ancestral father of the Yoruba race […]
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A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed Douye Diri as the duly elected governor of Bayelsa State. In a unanimous judgement by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, the apex court dismissed the six appeals filed against the governor and his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. Justice Ngwuta, in his judgement, predicated the dismissal of the appeals […]
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Popstar, Davido, known to flaunt his wealth and jewellery on social media has stated that material things are becoming useless to him. The Fem singer who was featured on Apple Music Radio’s Africa Now with DJ Cuppy said that what matters to him the most is the air he breathes. The multiple award-winning artiste revealed […]
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Party dissolves state, zonal excos Ebonyi governor left us for personal reasons – Wike There was disquiet in the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday, following the defection of Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The governor has explained that he dumped the party over alleged injustice the party meted […]
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