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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ayo Akinfe

(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

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.

NIGERIA Immigration Service (NIS) officials have been accused of seizing a passengers passport at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos simply because she asked them to wear facemasks before interacting with her.

EMIRATE Airlines has been ordered to pay compensation of $1.63m to Nigerian businessman Orji Ikem by a Lagos federal high court after it was found guilty of losing his luggage which contained the amount during a trip to China in 2007.