BENIN CITY – AS the beat for this year’s governorship election in Edo state gets louder, a group Edo Reformers yesterday said Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu remains the best option for the All Progressives Congress Congress candidate for the September 16, 2020, governorship election.

THE Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, SMBLF, said yesterday that Nigeria would not have found itself in the current state of the coronavirus pandemic if Nigeria was restructured.

UMUAHIA—Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State  has granted pardon to 32  inmates at the three correctional facilities in the state.

THE controversy trailing President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Rev. Uche Ibeabuchi as the commissioner to represent Anambra State in the Federal Character Commission, FCC, has taken a new dimension, with the leadership of Ibeabuchi’s community, Oba in Idemili North Local Government Area, threatening to drag to court those who allegedly impersonated them in a petition against the FCC nominee.

This is a timeline of how foreign nationals are being evacuated from Nigeria since the COVID-19 pandemic re-arranged global realities and human priorities. On Friday, February 28, the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, told us an Italian had brought coronavirus, the virus responsible for COVID-19, to Nigeria. Since that day, our lack of basic […]

By Sunny Ikhioya THEORIES are statements arrived at after consistent verifiable proofs, subjected to scientific analysis and found to be true and correct. We can, therefore, say that they are facts. When you add conspiracy to theories, it becomes something else; shadowy, sinister, with a hidden motive. You concoct a conspiracy theory when you deduce […]

By Okoh Aihe WE expected a storm. Nobody knew the storm would grow into a hurricane in a flash. The coming of COVID-19 was anticipated as it had troubled other parts of the world. Some feeble efforts at preparation were even made. But nobody ever anticipated that COVID-19 would make landfall with such ferocity as […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the opening of five COVID-19 Donor Accounts which form part of the existing Treasury Single Account (TSA) arrangement in five commercial banks. Mr Henshaw Ogubike, Director Information and Press, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Ogubike disclosed that […]

As part of efforts to end covid-19 pandemic, telemedicine organisation has launched smart eClinic and ICU solutions.

By Juliet Umeh Search engine, Google, recently announced its video-conferencing solution, Google Meet, would be free for everyone, everywhere this month. According to Google, anyone with an email address can sign up for Meet and enjoy many of the same features available to G Suite’s business and education users. These include features like scheduling and […]

By Prince Osuagwu – Hi-Tech Editor WITH the gruelling horror the Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed to the world, people’s work and home lives have come to collision. Practices thought to be unethical and impracticable are now the new normal. Work from home or remote working methods which many employers earlier rejected are now forced […]

A top scientist who advised British leaders on coronavirus lockdown measures said on Tuesday he had resigned from a key government panel after admitting to breaking the country’s rules on social distancing. Professor Neil Ferguson, an epidemiologist on the advisory team helping the UK coordinate its pandemic response, stepped down following media reports that he […]

Dayo Johnson – Akure THE National Deputy Chairman, South of Action Democratic Party (ADP) Mr Martin Kunle Olateru-Olagbegi, has called on both states and Federal governments to domesticate solution to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than waiting for solution from the western world. Olateru-Olagbegi, a governorship aspirants of ADP also called for accountability of all the […]

Oil prices on Wednesday built on the previous day’s surge, boosted by signs of easing in the coronavirus that is allowing some countries to begin opening their economies, though traders are keeping an eye on brewing China-US tensions. International benchmark Brent gained 0.45 percent to $31.11 a barrel, reversing early losses, having surged 14 percent […]

Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan filed back to class on Wednesday, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners. Senior school students in 121 institutions were back in front of chalkboards and digital displays for the first time since their city — the ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic […]