A drink made from a bright-green fern-like plant is being promoted in African countries as the go-to cure for COVID-19. But detractors, with undisguised scorn, dismiss claims for the concoction as at best useless — and at worst dangerous. Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina is the promoter-in-chief of the substance, marketed as COVID-Organics and sold in […]
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This file photo taken on April 29, 2020 shows an engineer holding a plastic model of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the Quality Control Laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. – Sinovac Biotech is conducting one of the five clinical trials of potential vaccines that have been authorised in China. China would make any […]
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Youths of Enugwu -Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of Anambra State have gone on rampage following the death of one of their colleagues on Wednesday night. They burnt fires at the old Onitsha -Enugu road, alleging Policemen killed their colleague while trying to enforce the curfew order. The protest forced commuters to avoid the […]
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Madagascan President, Andry Rajoelina, on Wednesday, held a virtual meeting with the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, over COVID Organics. Rajoelina, who made this known via Twitter, said the United Nations specialised agency on global health expressed its support for the clinical observation of the ‘tonic’ touted as cure for coronavirus. He said, […]
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Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) officials at the scene of the accident on Otedola Bridge, Lagos on Thursday A tanker loaded with petrol on Thursday rammed into a bus and a car on the Otedola Bridge, in Lagos resulting in loss of a life. The Director -General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr […]
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Operatives in the office of the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Osogbo are grilling no fewer than eight top pastors of the Christ Apostolic Church(CAC) over a leadership battle tearing a faction of the Supreme Council apart. They are being interrogated over allegations of conspiracy, stealing, impersonation and swearing to a false oath, among others. Their […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the termination of appointment of Prof Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). His directive was conveyed in a letter, dated May 11 and signed by the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, on behalf of the Minister of […]
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Rat!!! How I hate them. I don’t know about you, but I detest every bit of those pesky little chucks of frustration and annoyance. I have once seen a rat bite through a bottle of oil. What manner of sorcery is that? Laugh all you want but I am going on a rat extermination mission. […]
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By Abdu Rafiu As I was saying…The appointment of Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari has put paid to all manner of speculations on who becomes the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari in succession to Malam Abba Kyari snatched away by the vicious Mr. COVID-19, alias Coronavirus of no known or fixed address. Baba Gana Kingibe […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) says all governorship aspirants in Edo and Ondo State will pay N22.5 million as part of the requirements for contesting in the states’ governorship elections on Sept. 19 and Oct. 10. In a timetable released in Abuja on Wednesday, APC National Organising Secretary Emma Ibediro said that the party would […]
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