NIGERIA has been told she needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine next month if the nation wants to combat the growing second wave of the pandemic currently sweeping across the globe.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Eagles - Kwara
(2) Leopards - Osun
(3) Giraffes - Katsina
(4) Gorillas - Cross River
(5) Hippopotamus - Rivers
(6) Lions - Taraba
(7) Hyenas - Adamawa
(8) Zebras - Borno
(9) Elephants - Yobe
(10) Camels - Sokoto

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that the recent abduction of 344 pupils from Government Science Secondary School in Karanka in Katsina State was designed to embarrass him and his administration.

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has banned all forms of parties and carnivals across Lagos State over the Christmas festive period as part of a major preventative measure to combat the resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic.

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[1] Okada riders
[2] Fabric retailers
[3] Cocoa farmers
[4] Automobile spare parts traders
[5] Luxurious bus companies
[6] Fishermen who use trawlers
[7] Generator distributors
[8] Livestock herdsmen who use animal feed
[9] Major microphone users like churches and mosques
[10] Food crop farmers who use fertilisers

Why is this compulsory?

NIGERIA intends to host the World Summit for a Single Market in Africa in March next year as part of a renewed drive towards consolidating the continent's disparate economies and forging a stronger entity that can compete on the global market.

NIGERIA'S federal government will not introduce a fresh coronavirus lockdown despite the outbreak of a second wave of the virus unless it is totally necessary and unavoidable with no other option available.

NIGERIAN domestic airline Air Peace has commenced international operations to South Africa with the company's inaugural flight between Lagos and Johannesburg taking place yesterday morning.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to meet with the just-released Government Science Secondary School Kankara schoolboys at the presidential villa in Kastina today to show his solidarity with them.

ARMED gunmen have kidnapped a first class traditional ruler in Kogi State whisking away Alhaji Shaibu Usman the acting Ejeh Of Ankpa while he was about to enter a mosque for his Friday Jumat prayers.