Kano stateThe Federal Government says there are no conclusions yet with regard to strange deaths in Kano State. The Minister for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19. He said that investigations were still ongoing in the matter. It has […]

Whatever public reaction Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari expected of his appointment as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Of Staff (COS), he probably didn’t imagine the bile from some individuals he had dealings with in the course of his past public life.

FBNQuest Merchant Bank, the investment banking and asset management subsidiary of FBN Holdings Plc, has announced the listing of the FBNQ MB Funding SPV PLC Series 1 Bond out of the ₦50 billion Bond Issuance programme.

By Ekanpou Enewaridideke IT appears some persons have begun to labour to distort and disfigure my position on Chief Boro Opudu. For such persons, they always produce contradictory data to counter my interrogative stand: Boro, did you work? For them Boro Opudu is a god on earth who can never be faulted even where the […]

THE appetite of our government officials for all things foreign has continued even in the face of our gloomy economic prospects arising from the new coronavirus pandemic. We have repeatedly called on the authorities to seize this moment and start looking inwards for solutions to most of our problems, but apparently our calls have met […]

By Azu Ishiekwene IN a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump, especially since the outbreak of the global health crisis, COVID-19. According to the journalist, not only has Trump become the butt of jokes in video games, the US President’s serial faux pas […]

By Owei Lakemfa SUDAN on Tuesday refused to sign agreements that will enable Ethiopia start filling the waters of its $4.6 billion Renaissance Dam from July. But Ethiopia had made it known over the years that such objection will not stop its completion of the dam which began in 2011. Egypt had threatened military action […]

By Willie Etim INSINUATIONS of corrupt practices in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, are not entirely new to stakeholders and various other interest groups in the region. These allegations have never been waived aside as successive administrations had attempted to sanitise the commission. The pronouncement of a forensic audit for the commission by President Muhammadu […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has announced several intervention measures geared towards ensuring that Nigerians are not hit hard by the effect of the Coronavirus disease on the economy. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina said in a statement on Thursday, said that the country is not […]

….As govt mulls soft-landing for practitioners By Olaunkanmni Akoni The Federation of Tourism Association, Lagos State Chapter has concluded plans to make hotel accommodations available to Lagos State Government as isolation centres for COVID-19 patients in the state. This came as State Government has assured practitioners in the tourism sector of palliatives that would help […]

By David Royal The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has now exceeded 5,000 on Thursday night. Announcing the new development, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country on Thursday, recorded 193 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 5,162. The NCDC also said that […]

A US government meat inspector died this week from coronavirus, the fourth fatality of a food safety official in the outbreak that has shuttered some slaughterhouses, union officials said Thursday. The US Department of Agriculture food safety inspector was from Dodge City, Kansas, said a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees. The other […]

The United States on Thursday renewed calls on China to free the Tibetan identified 25 years earlier as the Panchen Lama and warned Beijing not to see the episode as a model for handling the Dalai Lama’s succession. On May 14, 1995, the exiled Dalai Lama, a Nobel laureate with a wide global following, recognized […]

Global satellite operator Intelsat filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, citing disruption from to its business from the virus pandemic, in a move aimed at restructuring its operations. The filing in the United States (US) bankruptcy court in Virginia listed more than $16 billion in debt. The company said in a statement it was “managing […]

By Ola Ajayi – Ibadan Oyo State Commissioner for Environment, Rt Hon Kehinde is dead. He died at the age of 55. The deceased commissioner was a former Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly between 1999 and 2003 during the tenure of Alhaji Lamidi Adesina. Vanguard gathered that he suffered a yet to be disclosed […]