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Hunger Games – The Socioeconomic Divide and the Response to Disease Outbreaks

  By Dr Adaeze Oreh   The global count of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has since passed the six million mark, close to...

Looking beyond COVID-19: Developing Nigeria’s healthcare system

  By Daniel Obaseki The current COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm and shaken the health systems worldwide. Nations that apparently...

Information Minister inaugurates committee on audience measurement in advertising, wants robust system 

  The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday charged the newly inaugurated committee on advertising to develop a framework...

Alleged impropriety: Buhari meets Adesina, AfDB President

        President Muhammadu Buhari today met with the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, at the Presidential...

FG incensed by gang-rape, death of varsity student, serial sexual abuse of minor by 14 men

  Outraged by the gang-rape and murder of a female student of the University of Benin, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, the Federal Government has ordered...

Nigerian music legend, Majek Fashek, a.k.a Rainmaker, dies at 57

  Famed 57-year-old Reggae star, Majekodunmi Fasheke, a.k.a Majek Fashek is dead. He passed on about 11.45 pm on June 1 in New...

Coronavirus cases rise in Nigeria as lockdown eases

  Part of Nigeria’s success in blunting the spread of a coronavirus outbreak had been a fierce lockdown — the largest in Africa,...

FG reduces petrol pump price to N121.50

  The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency has announced a new pump price band of N121.50 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit, also...

U.S says foreign enemies taking advantage of divide over race,

  U.S National security adviser Robert O’Brien has said that foreign powers were trying to exploit the fraught state of U.S. race relations...

Fresh $5.5bn loan: SERAP to Buhari: Stop the borrowing spree, demands spending details

    In relentless pursuit of transparent and accountable governance, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the President Muhammadu Buhari...

At last, 286 stranded Nigerians in China Arrive in Abuja, quarantined

    After several weeks of sending a “Save-Our-Souls’’ to the Federal Government, the 286 Nigerians stranded in China as a result of...

Brendan Rogers says he had coronavirus

  Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers says he “had no strength” after contracting the coronavirus in March. “I could hardly walk and it...

Trump threatens protesters with ‘vicious dogs’ and ‘ominous weapons’

  Instead of quelling some of the outrage expressed by demonstrators near the White House who were protesting the killing of George Floyd,...

Grief: NNPC announces death of ex-GMD, Baru, at 60

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the passing on of Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, its immediate past Group Managing Director. Aged...

Tambuwal says met Buhari to protect ‘Sokoto State’

  Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State said Friday his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari was driven by his responsibility to protect the state. Tambuwal...