May Day! May Day! By Dele Farotimi

[ad_1] “Happy Workers Day? How happy is the worker whose lot is no different from the slave’s?” In my youth, everyone went to the same public schools. The governor’s son, the ambassadors’ children. We rarely asked who your dad was, and you earned no privileges for coming from a wealthy home, everybody were treated pretty much the More...

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COVID-19: Nigeria Maintains Slow Progress In Testing As Clinical Trial Of Potential Cure Stalls

[ad_1] COVID-19 testing Nigeria is witnessing slow progress in testing for Coronavirus. Clinical trials for local solutions to the disease have also stalled. SaharaReporters analyses some recent efforts More...

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Police Arrest 70-year-old Man, Two Others For Insulting Buhari, Katsina Governor On Social Media

[ad_1] The Katsina State Police Command has arrested three persons including a 70-year-old man for allegedly insulting President Muhammadu Buhari and Aminu Masari, governor of the state, on social media. The More...

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COVID-19: Panic As Ghana Records 60 Per Cent Increase In Cases After Lifting Lockdown

[ad_1] Eleven days after lifting the lockdown and restriction of movement in the country, Ghana has recorded a 60 per cent increase in the number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus. President Nana Akufo-Addo More...

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Edo Government Attacks Oshiomhole, Says APC Chairman Has No Regards For Buhari, Lacks Empathy For Nigerians

[ad_1] Adams Oshiomhole The Edo State Government has accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, of heating up the polity in the state amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Secretary More...

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FCT Administration Admits Sharing ‘Dirty’ Rice To Residents, Asks For Its Return

[ad_1] Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has asked beneficiaries of the food items distributed recently to return the ones they feel were defective and unfit for More...

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BREAKING: Nigeria's Ex-Vice President, Atiku, Sacks 46 Staff On May Day

[ad_1]   Forty-six staff of Gotel Communications, a media outfit owned by Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have been sacked by the organisation.  Gotel Communication is a  More...

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Enemy Of The State By Femi Adesina

[ad_1] Femi Adesina You have possibly watched the 1998 action-thriller film with the above title, starring Will Smith. It was the box office hit story about a group of people plotting to kill an American More...

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Summarising The Main Issues (Immediate And Medium Term) In COVID-19 Pandemic And Response By Jaye Gaskia

[ad_1] The author, Jaye Gaskia Setting the context: It seems like a long time ago now when the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus began in Wuhan, China. Yet it has been less than six months, and in that time, More...

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Femi Gbajabiamila: Speaker Of Federal House Of Repression Or Of Representatives? By Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi

[ad_1] The author, Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi Femi Gbajabiamila is not new to law making, nor legislative bill drafting, presentation and passage. He’s almost as old as the third republic in the business More...