MEMBERS of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) have agreed to repeal some of the production cuts they introduced in a bid to rally prices after indications that global demand looks set to pick up later this year.
Following the collapse in global crude oil consumption in the wake of the coronavirus...
NIGERIA has been excluded from the list of 28 countries granted debt pardon by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) which offers an amnesty to very poor countries.
As a result of the economic fallout of coronavirus pandemic, many poor countries have been unable to...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Today is February 5 and for me it is significant in that it was on this day in 1945 that America’s General Douglas MacArthur returned to Manila after the US recaptured the Philippines from Japan. By February 1945, it was clear that the Allies were going to win the war both in Europe and Asia. Thinking ahead, they...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Top marks to President Biden for hitting the ground running with his economic stimulus plan on day one. It is very impressive and shows he was ready for office long before he was sworn-in
(2) I fully expect the US Congress to pass his economic stimulus bill. Reading through the proposals, it is clear that if you...
GOVERNOR Babagana Zulum of Borno State has lashed out at Arab nations for not doing enough to help his people or provided them with enough humanitarian assistance as they grapple with the Boko Haram insurgency.
Borno State has been the epicentre of the insurgency that has been raging since 2009 as Boko Haram seek to...
NIGERIA'S Super Eagles will now play African champions Algeria in a friendly on October 9 after their original opponents Ivory Coast pulled out citing logistical challenges as the Elephants already have two games lined up during the window.
With there being a Fifa international window next month, the Eagles had been billed...
NIGERIA'S federal government has directed all schools reopening on Monday next week across the country to conduct a weekly Covid-19 risk assessment tests on its pupils and staff to help prevent the spread of the virus.
Like most other nations, Nigeria shut down all her schools when the coronavirus pandemic broke out but with...
EGYPT and China have announced plans to sign a cooperation agreement on the production of a Covid-19 vaccine that would guarantee that the Arab giant will become the African manufacturing hub of any cure developed by the Chinese.
Across the industrialised world, there is a frantic race on to produce a coronavirus vaccine,...
Ayo Akinfe
This is a picture of the chairmen on the three major US automobile companies and their directors outside the White House, taken in December 1941 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. They had been summoned by President Franklin Roosevelt
Totally unprepared for war, lacking military equipment and not having any...
NIGERIA'S health minister Dr Osagie Ehanire has revealed that the country will benefit from a proposed allocation of 2bn doses of any new Covid-19 vaccine meant for poorer countries when it becomes available.
With more than 22m confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, out of which more than 700,000 deaths have been recorded,...
