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Nigeria needs to hold an emergency Covid-19 economic summit to address these 10 embarrassing realities
Ayo Akinfe (1) We have a 2021 budget of $33bn but are planning to borrow at least $14bn to fund it (2) We are poised to spend $7.8bn importing used cars and motorcycles in 2021 (3) We have no plans whatsoever to join the rest of the human...
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Trump becomes first ever US president to be impeached twice as 10 Republicans vote against him
DONALD Trump has become the first ever US president to be impeached twice after the House of Representatives voted to remove him from office today in a historic development that saw 10 members of his Republican Party break ranks and vote with the...
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Lagos State government opens new cylinder plant at Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yaba
LAGOS State government has opened a 300-cylinder-a-day oxygen plant at the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) in Yaba as part of its ongoing battle against the coronavirus pandemic as the numbers of infected people continues to...
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Nigerian plans to vaccinate 72m of its citizens against Covid-19 at a cost of $8 per shot
NIGERIAN government officials have announced details of their proposed Covid-19 vaccination plan with proposals to spend a total of $576m administering the vaccine to about 72m people at a cost of $8 a shot. Like most other nations,...
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I expect Buhari to attend Biden’s inauguration and present this Nigeria-US aviation pact to him there
Ayo Akinfe (1) US investigators will drop all charges against Air Peace chairman Allen Onyeama (2) Air Peace will gravitate towards being Nigeria’s national carrier so will be offered landing rights in New York...
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Pelosi writes to military top brass raising fears that Trump may launch nuclear strike
US House of Representatives speaker Hon Nancy Pelosi has written to members of Congress telling them that she has asked the chairman of the joint chief of staff to strip President Donald Trump of access to nuclear codes as he might launch strikes...
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President Trump’s refusal to despatch the National Guard to protect the Capitol Hill building is identical to President Buhari’s unwillingness to unleash the Nigerian Army on armed Fulani herdsmen
Ayo Akinfe (1) We are all still reeling from the high drama of yesterday when Trump supporters tried to stage a coup by taking over the US Congress. I actually like the fact that I am alive to witness these once-in-a-lifetime events which we will...
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Boris Johnson breaks ranks with Trump and condemns attack on US Congress as disgraceful
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson has broken ranks with his key ally President Donald Trump and condemned the invasion of the US Congress by his supporters describing the action as a disgraceful attack on democracy. This afternoon at...
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