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NIGERIA has received a lifeline in her quest to resolve the nagging problem of epileptic electricity supply after the World Bank approved a $750m International Development Association (IDA) credit for the country's Power Sector Recovery Operation (PSRO).

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki has won a big reprieve in his bid to become the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in September's governorship polls after all the other candidates agreed to withdraw a suit against him and settle the matter out of court.

POLICING authorities in the UK have decided to act on the lopsided nature of their recruitment with a plan to establish some sort of equilibrium leading to the West Midlands Police announcing that it will recruit 1,000 ethnic minority officers.

HEALTH officials in Delta State have been thrown into a state of panic after about 20 of its ad-hoc staff recruited to serve on the Covid-19 taskforce suddenly died over the last few weeks after contracting illnesses.

NIGERIAN military authorities have arrested one its soldiers Lance Corporal Martins who recently went viral in a Youtube video criticising the chief of army staff Lt General Tukur Buratai and other security chiefs for failing to safeguard the lives of troops.

RICHARD Branson's Virgin Atlantic has announced plans to resume operations on its lucrative Lagos-London-Lagos route on August 24 hoping that by then the Nigerian government would have opened all the country's airports.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Any traditional monarch who confers a chieftaincy title on a person who has misappropriated public funds will be deposed. Their communities will be barred from replacing such a monarch for a 10 year period

(2) Any church or mosque that receives the proceeds of corruption will have its premises sealed and its operating licence revoked

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's wife Aisha has had her security detail returned to her with the controversial aide-de-camp Usman Shugaba restored to his position following a recent altercation with other State House officials.

SAUDI Arabian authorities are all set to carry out the death sentence on an atheist named as Ahmad Al-Shamri for making disparaging remarks about the prophet Mohammad after his appeal against the judgement was rejected.

NIGERIAN health officials have expressed alarm that as much as 60% of the population in the southeast geo-political zone do not believe in the existence of coronavirus and regard the whole virus matter as a hoax to mislead them.