Lagos residents lament hunger during lockdown, await COVID-19 relief

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu On Day Three of the lockdown in Lagos State yesterday, it was various levels of frustration for residents as much lamented starvations resulting from the stay at the home directive of the president. Many of the residents, who are majorly artisans and traders lamented that they have been deprived of […]

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FG apologises for begging American billionaire for ventilators

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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Buhari orders prompt payment of salaries

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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‘Nigeria did not authorise begging for free ventilators’

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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COVID-19: Trigger for Nigeria’s economic diversification?

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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Alfa Saadu: Nigerian doctor who died of coronavirus after leaving retirement to save lives

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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