Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 16:23
WORLD Bank officials have warned that between 15m and 20m Nigerians will be sucked into extreme poverty by 2022 as a result of the global economic slowdown precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 15:43
YORUBA rights activist Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho has criticised the Ooni of Ife Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi for not presenting a robust enough case about the Fulani cattle herdsmen menace during his recent meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 15:11
BAUCHI State's religious police known as the Hisbah has confiscated 260 crates of alcoholic drinks from hotels and night clubs as part of a crackdown on practices it deems un-Islamic under its hardline Sharia laws.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 14:11
NIGERIA'S main seaport at Apapa in Lagos State has been offered respite from the terrible gridlock that has characterised its operations for the last 20 or so years after the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) revealed it has connected it by rail.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 13:26
PRESIDENT Joe Biden has appointed another Nigerian to a prominent position in his administration naming Enoh Ebong as the new acting director of the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Wed, 02/03/2021 - 07:42
Ayo Akinfe
(1) For starters, the United Nations average policemen to citizens is 300 police officers per 100,000 inhabitants. In Nigeria, the figure is a dismal 300 policemen to 350,000 citizens, so massive recruitment is needed
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 15:12
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's official spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu has dismissed suggestions that the next inspector-general of police must come from the southeast geo-political zone as a matter of course in line with Nigeria's zoning principle.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 14:37
FORMER Abia State governor Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has had its hearing for defrauding the government reset for June 7 after an Abuja high court rejected his motion that the matter be adjourned indefinitely when he appeared today.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 13:26
NIGERIAN health officials have identified six more cases of the dreaded UK variant of the Covid-19 virus in the country known as B117 after scientists collected fresh samples from Osun and Kwara states.
Submitted by AkinfeAyo on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 10:43
NIGERIA'S federal government has threatened to suspend flight operations from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Netherlands as part of plans to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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