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By Atiku Abubakar On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss. Their loss was in the region of $4.4 billion dollars. Bear in mind that this was a conglomerate that posted a $2.6 billion profit in
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Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhuo Pingjian, on Friday, donated medical equipment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in support of the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria. Pingjian, while delivering the medical items at the ministry in Abuja, said the outbreak of COVID-19 has posed threats to people’s health and security
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By Matthew Hassan Kukah Pressure from the VC made me hurriedly come up with a title as strange as this! However, it is a title that gives rise to many thoughts, particularly so as we look at our world, and more specifically, our nation, today. The notion of time is philosophy or sociology. Time naturally means
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beIIII It was like a nightmare that became a reality for Nigeria as the first case of coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa has been confirmed in Africa’s most populous nation. The patient is an Italian citizen who works in the country. Specifically in Ogun State and flew into the commercial city of Lagos
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The United States has announced an additional 40-million-dollar (N14 billion) aid to Nigeria to address the humanitarian crisis arising from decades of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Secretary of State, Mr Mike Pompeo, who made the announcement in Washington DC on Tuesday, said this was in addition to nearly 350 million
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By Orkula Shaagee, Abuja Nigeria, with the help of World Health Organisation (WHO), has acquired in-country capacity to test for coronavirus. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this in a statement issued by Mrs Enefaa Bob-Manuel, the Head of Media and Public Relations in the ministry yesterday in Abuja. Ehanire,
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As apprehension rises globally about the coronavirus outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the new virus a global emergency as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. According to the WHO, this became necessary not only because of what is happening in China but what is happening in other
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Nigerians and other foreign nationals resident in South Africa’s Keimoes and Upington areas of Northern Cape Province were on Thursday morning given 12 hours to vacate by the indigenes. The President of Nigeria Union in South Africa, Mr Adetola Olubajo, made the disclosure in a statement made available to the
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Samuel Kalu on Wednesday, shot Nigeria to the top of Group L of the 2021 African Cup of Nations(AFCON) qualifier against Benin Republic at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the visitors had taken a surprise lead as early as the
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Nigeria enjoyed robust relationship with the former Soviet Union especially with the part of the division that remains today as Russia from the 1970s to 1990s.The history of Nigeria’s civil war, which was fought from 1967-1970 will not be complete without the military support the Russians provided the government of Gen. Yakubu Gowon to successfully
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