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NIGERIA'S Dantata Foods has signed an agreement with UK agricultural technology firm RegenFARM and the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office of the British government to pioneer a regenerative agricultural project in Nigeria.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) I have studied the recent report just published by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics and from everything I can see, the economy looks set to shrink by between 9% and 10% during the course of 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic

Ayo Akinfe

[1] The massive loss of jobs as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown. Some experts say Nigeria's economy will contract by as much as -9.91% this year

[2] The inability of state governments to pay salaries as a result of reduced incomes. With less federal allocation, our parasitic states, who have no revenue-raising capacity will simply not have the cash to pay their civil servants

NIGERIAN senate president Senator Ahmad Lawan has told members of the public to stop questioning the jumbo pay packers members of the National Assembly pay themselves because it represents value for money.

NIGERIA has entered into her worst recession in four decades as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic looks set to decimate the economy in a devastating manner last witnessed in the 1980s when oil prices collapsed.

AFROBEAT king Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has been honoured with a commemorative plaque by the Faculty of Music at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich in southeast London as part of a Black Plaque Project.

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump have a working relationship of some sort. I think now is the time for Trump to call on Buhari to reciprocate all the goodwill shown to him

(2) On January 20, President Trump will need a new home. I for one do not see how he can remain in the US after publicly saying he will leave the country if Joe Biden beats him

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) officials have warned that the anti-viral drug Remdesivir should not be used for hospitalized Covid-19 patients because trials have failed to prove that the medicine is effective.

HON Femi Gbajabiamila the speaker of Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives has identified his security aide who was responsible for the recent murder of a newspaper vendor in Abuja as a certain Abdullahi Hassan.

MEMBERS of the Rivers State judicial panel of inquiry set up to investigate abuses by the Special Anti Robbery Squad (Sars) police unit have been told how a man from Khana Local Government Area has remained in detention for a year for failing to pay a bribe.