Tag: COVID-19 Pandemic
Why I’m alive to celebrate New Year – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said God spared his life to witness the New Year despite the turbulence and challenges posed by the COVID-19...
World’s billionaires get even richer during COVID-19 pandemic ― Study
The coronavirus pandemic has made the super-rich around the globe even richer, according to a study by consulting firm PwC and the major Swiss...
Famine looms in Nigeria, 3 other countries – UN
The United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres has warned of a risk of famine and widespread food insecurity in Nigeria and three other African...
Political notes: Pondering Buhari’s legacy
Emmanuel Aziken
Given the simplicity of his 2015 campaign agenda, it was so difficult to pin the 2015 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,...
ICAO produces new guidance on COVID-19 aviation safety risks
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has developed a new publication aimed at helping countries to address the aviation safety risks arising due to...
FG to disinfect, decontaminate schools nationwide before reopening
As the government eases the lockdown order occasioned by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, plans are underway to disinfect and decontaminate schools across the...
Anatomy of foolish spending
Okey Ikechukwu
Our banks did not pay anything into the accounts of their
customers, as evidence of goodwill to enable them cope with the lockdown and
hardships...
Lagos enforces compulsory use of face masks
The governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced compulsory use of face mask by residents beginning today, Monday, April 27.
In a life...
Sino-Africa relations, lest we forget
Issa Aremu
Late Professor Claude Ake of University of Port Harcourt
(Uniport) was a great African political economist who died in that singular
tragic ADC airline disaster...
Buhari directs CJN to speed up trial of cases, decongest prisons
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the written to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Muhammad urging him to take expedite trial of...