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Non-academic Staff of Universities Embark On Nationwide Strike
By Ngozi Onyeakusi----- The non-academic staff of universities have resolved to embark on a nationwide strike on February 5. This was in a bid to draw the Government’s…
COVID-19: NCDC records 1,483 new cases, five deaths
By Ngozi Onyeakusi----- The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Friday night, announced 1,483 new cases of COVID-19 infections in the country. The health agency disclosed that…
Why Republicans Want Biden to Take Actions Against China
By NgoziOnyeakusi ------" I strongly urge the Biden administration to quickly condemn these baseless, impotent sanctions and make good its early commitments to prioritise strategic competition with the…
Two feared dead as herdsmen, Sunday Igboho’s supporters clash in Oyo
Violence erupted in Igangan in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Friday when a popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday…
AFRICA FINTECH FOUNDRY TO BOOST INNOVATION, ‘TECHPRENEURS’ WITH 2021 ‘ACCELERATOR’ PROGRAMME
Africa’s foremost innovation hub, the Africa Fintech Foundry (AFF), has opened up its registration portal for the 2021 Accelerator program. The initiative, which is being executed in…
Biden sworn in as 46th US President
Joe Biden was today sworn in as the 46th president of the United States America. With a vow for a “new day” for the United States, Biden,…
US will not lift travel bans, despite Trump statement ― Biden team
US President-elect Joe Biden’s spokeswoman quickly dismissed Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that a Covid-19 ban on travellers arriving from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted, underlining the fractious…
GTB Employee Bags 7 Years Jail Term Over N50m Fraud
A former Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) employee, Onyekachi Nwosu has been convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Enugu over N50 million fraud. Presiding…
COVID-19: Public Schools Don’t Have Capacity To Observe Laid Down Protocols
A Member of the House Committee On Basic Education, Hon Awaji-Inombek Abiante has said that public schools don’t have the capacity to observe the COVID-19 protocols laid down by the…
300,000 MT of Maize for Release February—CBN
By Ngozi Onyeakusi---About 300,000 metric tonnes of maize are soon to be released into the Nigerian market from strategic anchors under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) of the Central Bank…