Nigerian health authorities announce ambitious plans to vaccinate 100m people by March

 

NIGERIAN health officials have announced plans to vaccinate at least 100m people against the Covid-19 virus by March under an ambitious programme to insulate the country from the dreaded global pandemic.

 

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Wolverhampton Wanderers eye Super Eagles centreback Chigozie Awaziem in transfer window

ENGLISH Premier League side Wolverhampton Wanderers are among several high profile European clubs looking to sign Super Eagles centreback Chigozie Awaziem during the January transfer window.

 

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10 things I would love to hear in President Buhari’s Christmas Day address tomorrow

Ayo Akinfe

Fellow Nigerians,

(1) We shall be opening one mechanised division of the Nigerian Army in each of the 19 states of northern Nigeria to combat insecurity, terrorism, kidnapping, banditry and the murderous Fulani herdsmen

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Academic Staff Union of Universities call off nine month strike as an act of good faith

MEMBERS of Nigeria's Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have called off their nine-month strike after federal government ministers and its officials reached an agreement on how to address the plethora of outstanding issues.

 

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Kwankwaso says Ganduje removed Emir Sanusi because he has an inferiority complex

FORMER Kano State governor Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has accused his successor Abdullahi Ganduje of removing the Emir of Kano Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi from office because he felt threatened by his intellectual clout.

 

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Anthony Joshua donates to British gyms to save them from closure as Covid-19 bites

WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has made a substantial donation to boxing gyms in the UK in the wake of his recent defence of his four belts as his contribution to prevent them going out of business as a result of the coronavirus lockdown.

 

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Buhari appears to finally concede that something needs about armed Fulani herdsmen

 

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's administration appears to be finally coming round to the realisation that it needs to do something to curtail the activities of murderous Fulani herdsmen after presidential spokesman Mallam Garba Shehu admitted conceded that their movement needs to be checked.

 

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Inaugural Air Peace 11-hour non-stop flight to Jamaica leaves Lagos enroute to Montego Bay

NIGERIAN leading airline Air Peace has stepped up its expansion into the international market with the launch of an 11-hour non-stop flight between Lagos and the Jamaican city of Montego Bay this week.

 

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Buhari should have initiated a series of investment agreements between Ecowas and other regional bodies as part of a desperate attempt to attract FDI in this post-Covid era before opening Nigeria’s borders


Ayo Akinfe

Nigeria needs to attract at least $50bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2021 to avoid total economic collapse. Where on earth we are going to get it from I do not know and I am surprised that nobody is even talking about it at the moment.

Waiting for investors to just come to Nigeria is utopian thinking. We should be the ones aggressively pursuing them, using our control of the Ecowas market as a unique selling point.

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