TODAY.NG The Federal Government has ordered the contractors handling the construction of the East-West road sections 1 to 4 to return to site within the next one week for the speedy completion of the project. The Minister of Niger Delta…
THE NATION THE Senate has invited three key government officials at the helm of the nation’s economic affairs – the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva and the…
Nigerian doctors are going on strike amid the coronavirus outbreak to protest against overdue salaries and unsafe working conditions, reported the BBC. The doctors, from Nigeria’s capital Abuja, said their salaries were delayed by two months since Abuja authorities introduced…
TODAY.NG Veteran actress Hilda Dokubo says Senator Elisha Abbo is “not fit to be one of the patrons of the Actors Guild of Nigeria”. Dokubo, who took to her Instagram page: @hildadokubo, stated that Abbo was not fit for such…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa GLOBAL writer, poet and humanist, Odia Ofeimun is from a lineage with close affinity with leopards. There was an unwritten rule between the humans of Iruekpen-Ekum, Edo State and that feline family that neither will attack…
VANGUARD Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Tuesday disclosed that the third reported coronavirus case in the state, came through the British Airways. Abayomi who gives regular updates on coronavirus and other health related issues, said via…
VANGUARD President, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Francis Faduyile, has called on the federal government to close border against countries with high cases of coronavirus. Speaking in Lagos, Faduyile said that the time has come for the country to close…
RIPPLES NIGERIA The global oil market may be right at its darkest hour as oil prices plunged below $30 per barrel on Monday. Governments around the world are on their toes contriving reforms and fiscal buffers aimed at curbing the…
DAILY TRUST The World Health Organization (WHO) says there are now over 300 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Africa. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, stated that 27 countries have been affected. The UN health agency relayed the…
VANGUARD NEWSPAPER The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government has suspended its $22.7 billion external borrowing plans due to current realities in the global economic landscape driven by the fall-outs of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)…