Victims Support Fund Committee (VSFC), led by General T.Y Danjuma has said it was committed to ensuring support for every household in Igboland to enable the people to overcome the challenges of the lockdown created by the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking in Enugu while delivering palliative materials worth N120 million to the state government and non-governmental […]
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By Muhammadu Buhari Across the world, as countries and economies slowly reopen, Africa lags behind. We were last to experience the coronavirus- and we expect to be the final continent to flatten the curve. Some may say it is too early, that the crisis still too deep and the recovery too distant to dwell upon the […]
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US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was severing ties with the World Health Organization, signalling the end of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the UN agency as the deadly coronavirus pandemic rages on. As Europe speeded along the path to reopening after months of crippling lockdowns, Trump’s move is likely […]
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Says administration pulled Nigeria back by 60 years The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday described the five years of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a waste. The opposition party said its verdict on the APC-led federal government was that it had taken Nigeria 60 years backward. PDP maintained […]
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Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina, President of the African Development Bank Group, attends a meeting of the 2020 African Economic Outlook report in Abidjan, Ivory Coast January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago At least 15 African leaders Friday said they were “concerned” by the allegations against the president of African Development Bank Akinwunmi Adesina and insisted that no […]
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By Ben Ezeohagwu Become an intuillectual, is no gainsaying, but a wise advice, such a mind, a priceless treasure, inspiring, transforming dreams into realities, no longer remain an intellectual, a mind, Soundingly tinct brass, stunted, without warmth, lifeless, archaic. Become an intuillectual, is no gainsaying, but a wise advice, such a mind, a living legend, […]
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As part of preparations for the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it will recruit and deploy 38,887 officials for the two elections. The commission noted that the ad hoc staff would respectively serve as Returning Officers, Local Government Area Collation Officers, Registration Area Collation Officers, […]
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Is Nigeria better off than it was five years ago? As President Muhammadu Buhari marks the end of his first year of the second term and fifth year in office today, Nigerians who have invested their hopes in him are eminently qualified to assess his administration, evaluate performances in all areas and pass their overall […]
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The president of African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has pledged to continue working as he fought back against allegations of corruption and favouritism leveled against him. Anonymous whistleblowers had accused him of embezzlement, preferential treatment of Nigerians in senior appointments and promoting people accused or found guilty of fraud and corruption. Adesina issued a […]
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By Abdu Rafiu Concern about the influx of Chinese into Africa, and into Nigeria, in particular, is mounting. It is getting louder by the day. The worry is shifting from the large-scale engagement in extractive industries— mining of gold in Zamfara State, and exploratory mining in Osun State, again in gold, for example—to acquisition of […]
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