No less than 1 in 5 individuals in Lagos, Enugu, and the Nasarawa States have ever been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus), even as more Nigerians are still at risk, according to findings of COVID-19 Household Seroprevalence Surveys in Four States of Nigeria. The surveys were conducted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC,...
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Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, has expressed delight over the appointment of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO. The regional group in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Ken Robinson, said: “It gives us great pleasure to extend our warmest congratulations to Dr Okonjo-Iweala...
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Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, says it is uncharitable for Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State to label his Bauchi State counterpart, Bala Mohammed, as a ‘terrorist governor’. Fani-Kayode made this known in a string of tweets on Monday night hours after Ortom called Mohammed a Fulani terror member for saying herdsmen bear...
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has extended until June its contracts with private companies to swap crude oil for fuels, Reuters quoted a company spokesman, as saying yesterday. The latest extension is the second extension of the one-year contracts to exchange more than 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil with 15...
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—————- NCC-regulated telecoms sector, others responsible for Nigeria’s exit from recession – Commission Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said that the telecommunications industry under its watch is one of the sectors whose performance lifted the country out of recession in the fourth quarter of 2020. According to NCC, the sector contributed 12.45 percent to the...
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———— “Growing Africa’s digital infrastructure is a key foundation stone in recovering the continent from the global economic devastation of Covid,” says EAIF Investment Director The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) (www.PIDG.org) company, has committed to buy up to US$50,000,000 of a bond issue by Liquid Telecommunications, that is...
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Mass testing for secondary pupils as all schools and colleges fully reopen from 8 March Schools and colleges to reopen to all pupils from 8 March with asymptomatic COVID-19 testing in place University students on practical courses to return from 8 March Protective measures across education strengthened, with students in year 7 and above to wear face coverings indoors, including...
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Legendary American singer, Stevie Wonder, has hinted at relocating to Ghana permanently to escape racism. He disclosed this during his recent appearance on the Oprah Winfrey series ‘The Oprah Conversation’. According to the hitmaker, he is tired of racial injustice in America and he can’t watch his great-grandchildren beg for respect and value. “I want...
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Justice Muslim Sule Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has set aside an ex-parte order freezing the bank accounts of a member of the Board of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Clement Omeiza Baiye and two others companies, Verity Communications Limited and Verity Associates Limited. The suit was formerly before Justice...
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The tranquility that characterises Nassau Village in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was on Sunday disturbed when a jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash landed in the area. Noise from aircraft is not strange to residents of the village, being one of the settlements that bordered the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport. ...
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