Ebere to feature against Arsenal tonight despite being disciplined for breaching protocols

NIGERIAN-born midfielder Ebere Eze is poised to feature for Crystal Palace tonight when his club faces Arsenal in an English Premier League match despite facing disciplinary action for ignoring Covid-19 protocols over the weekend when he attended an FA Cup game.

 

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Nigeria needs to hold an emergency Covid-19 economic summit to address these 10 embarrassing realities

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(1) We have a 2021 budget of $33bn but are planning to borrow at least $14bn to fund it

(2) We are poised to spend $7.8bn importing used cars and motorcycles in 2021

(3) We have no plans whatsoever to join the rest of the human race in looking for a remedy to this virus. Has it occurred to us that if Nigeria developed a vaccine it would earn us at least five times more than crude oil does

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Trump becomes first ever US president to be impeached twice as 10 Republicans vote against him

DONALD Trump has become the first ever US president  to be impeached twice after the House of Representatives voted to remove him from office today in a historic development that saw 10 members of his Republican Party break ranks and vote with the Democrats.

 

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Finance minister reveals that Nigeria still has no budgetary provision for Covid-19 vaccine

NIGERIA has still not made any budgetary provision for the purchase of a Covid-19 vaccine despite plans to purchase about 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine in a bid to combat the second wave of the virus.

 

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OPC accuses Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria of trying to infiltrate Amotekun

REGIONAL body the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) has warned that the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (Macban) is planning to slip its members into the southwestern regional security output Amotekun with a view to undermining it.

 

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Lagos State government opens new cylinder plant at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yaba

LAGOS State government has opened a 300-cylinder-a-day oxygen plant at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Yaba as part of its ongoing battle against the coronavirus pandemic as the numbers of infected people continues to rise.

 

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Nigeria set to spend a whopping $7.8bn importing used cars and motorcycles in 2021

NIGERIA'S balance of trade deficit looks set to get significantly worse this year as the country is poised to import used cars and motorcycles valued at a total of N3trn ($7.83bn) in 2021 which is certain to create serious foreign exchange problems.

 

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Nigeria to borrow $14bn to fund the 2021 budget as collapse in oil demand depletes state revenue

 

NIGERIA's federal government is planning to borrow an extra N5.6trn ($14.6bn) during the course of this year to help fund the 2021 budget as the economic meltdown precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic has made it impossible to raise the N13.59 ($35.4bn) budgeted.

 

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Buhari should levy a one-off windfall tax on every Nigerian billionaire and invest that money in infrastructure

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(1) I for one am dead scared about Nigeria’s economic prospects in 2021. We are simply not going to sell the quantities of crude oil required at the needed prices for the government to afford any new capital projects

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Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria loses battle in British high court over Lagos airport hotel

NIGERIAN construction firm AIC has won a legal battle against the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (Faan) in a British high court enabling it to pursue compensation over a $48m hotel dispute at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.

 

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