US coronavirus cases pass 500 as California readies for cruise ship arrival

US coronavirus cases pass 500 as California readies for cruise ship arrival

The number of US coronavirus cases soared past 500 Sunday, including two further deaths, as California braced for the arrival of infected cruise ship passengers and saw a major tennis event canceled. The surge came as President Donald Trump defended his administration’s “perfectly coordinated” response to the epidemic, after heavy criticism over health cuts and […]
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Eyinnaya Abaribe: No Nigerian should kneel for anybody

Eyinnaya Abaribe: No Nigerian should kneel for anybody

By Owei Lakemfa IN a land sycophancy struts. A clime truth is forced to walk on its head. Terrestrial men and women say yes to power. In a climate of distrust where fake and false news are in unholy matrimony. A place the Rubber Stamp Assembly, RSA, proclaims itself the patron saint of accountable governance. […]

Confronting the Social Media Bill

Confronting the Social Media Bill

IT should be clear to anyone who cares to know that the media, human rights and social advocacy groups will never lie low over any legislative or executive threat to the democratic and constitutional rights of Nigerians to lawful free speech. We as a newspaper are firmly on this page. We, therefore, call on all […]

Health experts promote travel medicine as panacea to infectious disease

Health experts promote travel medicine as panacea to infectious disease

By Chioma Obinna Amidst the Coronavirus outbreak in China and other parts of the world, Nigerian health professionals in travel medicine are strategising and to protect Nigerians against the outbreak of contagious deadly diseases. This is coming on the heels of the formal launch of the Nigerian Society of Travel Medicine, NSTM, in Lagos comprising […]

US military and Nigerian military

US military and Nigerian military

By Patrick Dele Cole THE USA and Nigeria each had a civil war. One was to keep the USA united and to end slavery. The USA through the civil war developed a healthy respect for the military. That also set in place the values which had promised the USA to be a nation of the […]

Stop releasing of toxic waste into sea, rivers, host communities tell SPDC

Stop releasing of toxic waste into sea, rivers, host communities tell SPDC

A group of oil producing communities and host to Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, SPDC, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State has written to the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer, National Environment Standards and Regulation Enforcement Agency, NESREA, to come to their aid by compelling SPDC to discontinue the deliberate releasing of toxic waste into the sea, waters, rivers and creeks in the area as it poses a threat to human lives and killing of aquatic animals.