Concerns expressed the other day by various stakeholders on the seeming failure of the government’s social investment programme are already in the public domain. This newspaper, in fact, commented on the failure the other day. Interestingly, these allegations of failure of the programme are coming from key players within the ruling party. The concerns from the …
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CRUDE prices are hugging rock bottom as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the world, threatening oil-dependent economies. Output and prices are not expected to return to pre-virus levels for years, crude oil market watchers say. For Nigeria especially, disaster and the proverbial lean years are a stark possibility for which the country and its leadership appear …
ACCUSTOMED to crude display of power, President Donald Trump has frozen the United States’ funding of the World Health Organisation amid the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the entire world. His grouse with the agency is that it easily accepted China’s narrative of the health crisis; and by so doing, mismanaged its information, which invariably endangered the …
NIGERIANS and other Africans living in China have been subjected to brutal racial assaults by the authorities of their host country, following the recent uptick in the COVID-19 pandemic. They were accused of being the purveyors of the virus even when some of them had no recent travel history. Among the victims are businessmen, travellers …
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Professor Yemi Osinbajo was then a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the Federation. That was the year Oba Yesufu Oloyede Asanike, Olubadan of Ibadan made history. Olubadan installed Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola as the Bashorun of Ibadan. It was a prestigious title befitting of a distinguished personality in the mould of MKO Abiola. …
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