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COVID-19: Nigeria is institutionally weak to tackle major emergencies

By Olu Fasan A FEW years ago, some foreign security experts visited Nigeria to study its crisis management system with a view to offering advice and support. What they found shocked them. Nigeria’s standards, they said, were below what they had feared. The country’s technical ability to handle crisis was very low. There was little day-to-day […]

Should China pay?

WE do not expect the Muhammadu Buhari administration to be proactive or direct in joining the growing number of countries and interest groups worldwide calling for some recompense from the People’s Republic of China, PRC, over the losses incurred as the Coronavirus pandemic rages. The reason is this: Buhari’s government has borrowed a lot of […]

ALGON Donation of Palliatives to Geo-Political Zones: A Mixed-Perspective

By Lamidi Kazeem Oyedele What makes this subject matter a mixed-perspective is, on the one hand, the savoury need of palliatives across the cultures in the Nigerian state; because it serves as instruments of economic resilience for human sustainability and livelihood in the midst of this pandemic. While federal and state governments have been championing the […]

Creeping tyranny in the land of promise

By Emmanuel Umohinyang We view this wicked act as not just man’s inhumanity to fellow man, but a very serious threat to our noble profession and womanhood – Nigeria Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Akwa Ibom State Council, condemning the arrest and detention of Mary Ekere, a female journalist with The Post by the state […]

ACT Foundation reels out strategies for business continuity amid pandemic

By Josephine Agbonkhese Accept that there is a pandemic, adapt to changes, keep moving in the face of adversaries, improvise solutions and seize opportunities, Aspire Coronation Trust, ACT, Foundation has advised. Those were part of strategies given to business owners, particularly non-profits, at a recent webinar organised by the Foundation, a grant-making organisation, on the […]

Osimhen’s better than Abraham – Pinnick

President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick has added his voice to the growing debate on who is the better striker between Chelsea forward, Tammy Abraham and Nigeria striker, Victor Osimhen, who plies his trade in France. Pinnick had tried to lure Abraham to play for Nigeria without success despite his closeness to […]

Premier League faces legal action if three teams are not promoted

EFL chairman Rick Parry has warned the Premier League that they face a ‘very messy’ legal situation if three Championship clubs aren’t promoted this season. Speaking via videolink to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Tuesday, Parry confirmed that discussions with top-flight officials have led him to believe that promotion and relegation will […]

Premier League matches could be less than 90 mins

Premier League games could last less than 90 minutes when football returns, according to PFA chief Gordon Taylor. The remainder of the English top-flight looks likely to be played behind closed doors and in neutral stadiums across the country. Premier League officials are prepared to go to extreme lengths to continue the campaign as planned […]

Pfizer, BioNTech dose first participants in COVID-19 vaccine trial

  By Chioma Obinna PFIZER Incorporation and BioNTech have dosed first participants in the United State, US, in the Phase  1/2 clinical trial for the BNT162 vaccine programme to prevent COVID-19. The trial is part of a global development programme and the dosing of the first cohort in Germany was completed last week. The Phase […]

Coronavirus spreads among Indian Police enforcing lockdown

Hundreds of Indian Police have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days, raising alarm among an over-stretched force as it attempts to enforce the world’s largest lockdown to contain the pandemic. Some three million police are trying to ensure that the vast majority of India’s 1.3 billion people stay home. TV footage early in […]

Ramadan: Senator Goje donates trucks of rice to constituents

By Nnamdi Ojiego As part of his annual Ramadan programme as well as to cushion the effect of the current lockdown in the state due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Senator representing Gombe central senatorial district, Danjuma Goje, has donated two trucks of rice to his constituents. The beneficiaries of the donation are orphans, underprivileged, widows, […]

Lockdown: Kano mobile courts convict 717 violators

Kano State Judiciary said no fewer than 717 violators of the Presidential lockdown were arrested and convicted from Sunday to Wednesday in Kano. Mr Baba Jibo, Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Kano, said some Imams were also arrested and punished for leading Juma’at prayer at […]

Nigerian woman delivers baby aboard Emirates airline

By Victoria Ojeme A Nigerian lady Mrs. Kafayat Amusan. one of the stranded Nigerians travellers. returning from Dubai has been delivered of a baby. She delivered complications onboard, which resulted in the plane returning back to Dubai after take off . She is currently been admitted at a Hospital, in Dubai. According to the statement […]

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