Black Wall Street unleashes two programs to redefine African commerce from colonial past
By Charles N Lambert The Black Wall Street has unleashed two programs to redefine African commerce from the colonial past. This is to further the Economic War to set Africa free from European invaders who structured African trade to suit their selfish interests. Colonialism had a huge impact on the lives of Africans. Economic policies […]
Unfair protests on the appointment of new judges
By Ifeanyi Opara The media space has recently been suffused with disingenuous blackmail by a coterie of lawyers over the list of recently-appointed judges by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The main grouse of these protesters is the inclusion of some children or relations of some serving or retired judges in the list of new […]
Africa’s Public-Private Partnerships in health Campaign: Improving accountability and transparency
By Wofai Ibiang, African leaders have consistently neglected their country’s health sector despite several pledges to improve it. A Brookings Institute report highlighted that as of 2015, Africa accounted for one per cent of the global health spending, even though the continent bore 23 per cent of the world’s disease burden. In 2001 the […]
Edo 2020: APC, group differ over governorship primaries’ modalities
BENIN CITY – THE crisis rocking Edo state All Progressives Congress (APC) continued on Friday as a group Concerned Edo Citizens Forum, (CECF) has cautioned political parties against the adoption of direct primary to select its candidate for the September governorship election citing the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of our laws are obsolete, dead – Senate Spokesperson
Majority of our laws are dead, said, Ajibola Basiru, spokesman of the senate. Ajibola who spoke on a live social media programme ‘Politics Everywhere With SOK’, said Nigeria needs to declare a state of emergency on its laws which are no longer useful to the people.
Insecurity: Okowa inaugurates committees on Community Policing
Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday, inaugurated two committees on community policing, saying it was in response to yearnings of citizens for local policing apparatus to check rising security challenges in the state.
Breaking: Buhari appoints Prof. Obioma as new NECO Registrar
EBONYI State Resident Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Gods will Obioma, has been named the new Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examinations Council, NECO.
Ekiti Obaship tussle : Armed security men, govt officials invade palace
…as community vows to resist imposition of monarch By Rotimi Ojomoyela There was tension on Friday, in the Orin-Ekiti community in Ido/Osi local government area of Ekiti State, as armed security men allegedly aided by politicians broke into the palace and began the selection process for the installation of a new Olorin. It was gathered […]
Facebook, Amazon chiefs see wealth balloon amid COVID-19 pandemic ―Report
The fortunes of US billionaires rose 15 percent in the two months since the coronavirus pandemic hit, a study found, with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg seeing massive gains. The more than 600 billionaires in the United States became even richer as tech stocks rose during virus lockdowns, an analysis of […]
Contact Tracing: Ekiti to partner Kwara on dead COVID -19 patient
Ado Ekiti—The Ekiti State government on Friday said it will contact the government of Kwara state to exchange ideas on the medical history of the patient who died of the underlining complication of COVID -19 in Ekiti, on Wednesday.
COVID-19: Accept failure – PDP mocks Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has upbraided the Buhari Presidency for seeking to transfer the brunt of its failures to articulate and coordinate an effective national response on COVID-19 pandemic on state governors, describing such as unpardonable manifestation of leadership failure.
Guinean singer, Mory Kante, part of 1980s African wave, dies at 70
Guinean singer, Mory Kante, who helped introduce African music to a world audience in the 1980s, died on Friday in the capital Conakry, his son Balla Kante told AFP. Kante is best known for his dance song “Yeke Yeke,” which was a huge hit in Africa before becoming a No. 1 in several European countries […]
If we can’t do something very well, we don’t do it— Prof Elegido, PAU’s VC
Professor Juan Elegido, the Vice-Chancellor of Pan-Atlantic University, PAU, Lekki, Lagos, had a chat with Vanguard’s Agbonkhese Oboh. He spoke on education in Nigeria, the impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning, post-pandemic academia and the culture of quality at PAU. The Professor of Business Ethics has been in Nigeria since the 1970s, and is […]
Go on strike, lose your jobs – El-Rufai threatens Doctors
Irked by their threat that they would go on strike pending when the state government would adjust their salaries and other requests, the Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Friday warned resident doctors in the state to desist from such idea, noting that anyone who goes on strike would lose his/her job.
High Chief (Dr) O.B Lulu-Briggs,OON,DCF,DSSRS, at 90 and the Engravement of a Mission of Humanism and Idealism
By: Godknows Boladei Igali If not for man’s ineluctable duel with mortality, the Old GRA, Port-Harcourt residence of Opu Alabo (High Chief) Olu Benson Lulu-Brigg simply known as “OB” by peers or “Opuda” (patriarch) by family and younger associates would have been the epicenter of diverse religious, cultural, political, social and familial happenings, during this […]
Rwanda genocide suspect Bizimana found dead ―UN tribunal
A former defence minister in Rwanda, Augustin Bizimana, one of the top suspects wanted over the country’s 1994 genocide, has died, the UN tribunal said Friday. He is believed to have died around August 2000, “based on the conclusive identification of Bizimana’s remains in a grave site in Pointe Noire, the Republic of the Congo,” […]
