France will receive around 1.16 million Covid-19 vaccine doses by year end, Prime Minister Jean Castex said Wednesday, adding another 2.3 million will arrive in the next two months. The delivery of some 3.5 million doses will innoculate around 1.7 million people, with priority given to the elderly, the vulnerable and carers. Covid vaccines are […]

Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) a non-profit organization with a mission to develop the next generation of women for leadership have once again championed the advocacy for a better future for all with their just concluded and first ever Virtual Annual Leadership and Mentoring Conference themed “The Future We Want.” The conference which had an […]

The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Delta Safe have dismantled several illegal refineries and impounded large quantities of stolen products in Rivers and Delta within two weeks. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operation, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, announced this while giving update on the military operations across the country on Wednesday in Abuja. Enenche said that […]

A new lockdown that started in Germany on Wednesday, under which all but essential shops have been forced to close and schoolchildren are to return to remote learning, is backed by 73 per cent of the public, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by dpa. The sweeping closures and restrictions come on top of a […]

Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo on Wednesday presented a N346.16 billion budget for the 2021 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly. The budget titled “Budget of Wealth Creation” is made up of N74.66 billion recurrent expenditure and N271.52 capital expenditure. Further breakdown of the estimate shows that the Consolidated Revenue Fund Charges (CRFC) […]

By Chioma Obinna As the world mark this year’s Universal Health Coverage Day, UHC, the Federal Government has pledged to reposition the country’s healthcare sector with a view to ensuring Nigerians have access to quality healthcare need without falling into poverty. In his message to mark the day with the theme: “‘Health for all: Protect […]

Amid the unending crisis in the Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria (CRFFN), the President of African Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistics of Nigeria (APFFLON), Mr. Frank Ogunojemite has joined calls for the sack of the CRFFN Registrar, Barr. Samuel Nwakohu.

By Olu Fasan THERE is an intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the opposition to rotational presidency in Nigeria. The advocates of “meritocracy” conveniently forget that Nigeria is, politically, not a meritocratic country, and that zoning is a political imperative that speaks to this country’s deeply flawed political structure that creates recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts over […]

The Federal Government has commenced moves to attain the top 70 in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business ranking by 2023 with the adoption of National Action Plan 6.0 (NAP 6.0), as well as reduce malnutrition in Nigeria by 50 percent in the next five years.

By Udeme Akpan Total E&P Nigeria Limited, an International Oil Company, IOC, has selected 13 children for training and capacity building, under its Total Access to Disability Mobility Initiative, ADIU. The company said the Total ADI is a diversity and corporate social responsibility, CSR, initiative of Total E&P Nigeria Limited, designed with the goal of […]

By Paul Olayemi, Sapele Tension is currently brewing in Ugborhen community, Sapele Local Government Area, Delta State, following the election and swearing-in of new executives to pilot the affairs of the oil-rich community. Reacting to the emergence of the new executive headed by Dr Nelson Ukoko, also known as Jenepo, an aspirant for the position […]

Tomorrow, Thursday, December 17, 2020, night-life in Lagos will be experiencing a disruption, as the December edition of ‘The Xpression with CDO’ will take place at one of the city’s most exotic night clubs – Cubana, Victoria Island.

Federal legislator representing Idanre/Ifedore federal constituency and Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Army, Hon. Tajudeen Adefisoye has officially dumped the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The world economy as it stands has been shaken by COVID-19, a pandemic which has become as well known as cryptocurrency. A digital currency secured by cryptography and almost impossible to the fate that comes with counterfeit, this form of financial exchange has, unlike other global businesses and financial institutions, seen a positive impact in the midst of a doom-and-gloom pandemic and worsening world economy.

The Libyan Red Crescent said the bodies of four children aged between five and 10 had washed ashore west of the capital Tripoli on Wednesday after a migrant boat sank. “We were informed (Wednesday) of a boat that was sinking on the high sea with 30 people on board” in the Zawiya area, the Red […]