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By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri Confusion has trailed the story of a caretaker of Eziwanne lodge, Daniel Okufuwa, in Federal Polytechnic, Nekede in Owerri, Imo State, who allegedly beat his tenant into a coma and later died in the hospital, a first-year student of building technology, Anthony Chinweotito Emmanuel, as the relatives to Okufuwa,
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THE year 2020 is gone, unsung! The year 2021 is here. But what will it bring? I mean, what will the new year mean for Nigeria? For the entire world, we already know, sadly, that COVID-19 is mutating and still ravaging.
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By Hakeem Baba-Ahmed ECONOMY: The economy, already in deep depression, will perform very poorly. Public spending will reduce owing to restrictions in revenue bases, reductions in foreign direct investment and poor management. Cost of living will rise along with unemployment. Informal sector of the economy will suffer from effects of the restrictions imposed by the
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By Obadiah Mailafia PREDICTIONS are a rather perilous enterprise. They are predicated on some important assumptions; some of them realistic and a good number rather unreliable. They also depend on several critical variables, some of them predictable while others are not quite. In making those forecasts as I do today, I am assuming that there
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By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Bauchi State, like other parts of the world, has, in several ways, been impacted by the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic. As of December 15, 2020, available official figures suggest that Bauchi has recorded at least 860 confirmed cases and 14 Covid-19 related deaths. Although Bauchi recorded only one case of Covid-19
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While mankind grapples with the continued assault and ravages of diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and lately COVID-19, among others, the fear of the impact of genetically-modified organism, GMO, on human health and survival has been growing at an alarming rate.
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By Rasheed Sobowale “Find your way to Agboyi Road at Alapere, Ketu, Lagos State. Follow the road down. Take a boat to Agboyi 2”, reads the direction given to locate this Lagos community. Anybody scared of water might not like here. While those interested in a sea tour might find it interesting at first, they
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Let our humanity help restore hope for Kebbi people ― Gov Bagudu Now, I have nothing to call my farm anymore; everything has been taken up by the floods-Kalango Argungu fishing ground is buried-Argungu LGA chairman We lost 50,000 farms to the flood-Kebbi Rice Farmers Secretary We’ve never seen this type of disaster in our time-
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On the likely causes, United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, says: “Adolescent pregnancy is generally not the result of a deliberate choice – these girls often have little say over decisions affecting their lives. Rather, early pregnancy is a consequence of little or no access to school, information or health care.”
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By Agbonkhese Oboh As litres of clean palm oil come off the boiling drum, allowed to cool and then sealed up in 25-litre jerry cans, the immediate crude past is hard to imagine. That past was women threading out oil, barefoot, in palm nuts-filled Eku (pit). But for the members of Agbeloba Multipurpose Women Farmers
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