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The government of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday announced grant all doctors and infectious disease experts living in the country a 10-year Golden Residency visa.   The Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, disclosed this in a tweet, which listed other categories of beneficiaries of the UAE Golden Residency visa to include specialists […]

The Auditor General of the Federation has queried the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and the Central Bank of Nigeria for not remitting about N3.235 trillion from the sale of domestic crude oil to the Federations Account in 2014.   The Auditor General said in one of the numerous audit queries pending against the NNPC before […]

Access Bank Plc has sympathized with #EndSARS protesters for freezing their accounts, following an online campaign for customers to boycott it for the role it played in the saga.   Access Bank froze the accounts of at least eight persons involved in the #EndSARS campaign based on the orders of the Central Bank of Nigeria. […]

..plan comes after Lagos said it’s ending the practice Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, has said he will initiate measure to repeal the law that awards pension to all former governors and their deputies who have served in the state.   Abdulrazaq disclosed this in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, […]

Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, who has just been reinstated as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, has debunked rumours going rounds that he had compiled a list of workers to sack or punish.   Ogundipe received a rousing welcome from the university community as he resumed work following his  reinstatement on the orders of President Muhammadu […]

China on Friday broke its silence on the American 2020 presidential election, as it congratulated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory at the polls.   “We have been following the reaction on this US presidential election from both within the United States and from the international community,” Bloomberg quoted a Chinese Foreign Ministry […]

There are indications that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may have pushed Nigerian households further below the poverty line, due to the increase in unemployment rate resulting from the impact of the pandemic, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.   “Individuals from across the consumption distribution have been affected by the crisis but the reduction […]

The Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has increased the ex-depot price of petrol to N155.17 per litre from N147.67 per litre.   The PPMC disclosed this in an internal memo with reference number PPMC/C/MK/003, dated November 11, 2020, and signed by Tijjani Ali.   The memo was addressed […]

Jerry John Rawlings, Ghana’s former President, has died of complications from the Covid-19. He was aged 73.    Rawlings had been hospitalized at Korle Bu, the Teaching Hospital of the University of Ghana, Legon, for a week, after he was infected with the Covid-19 virus, before his death on Thursday   He was born in […]

  Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, were on Thursday sworn in for a second term in office.   The Oath of Office was administered around 12 noon by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Esther Edigin.   In attendance at the inauguration which took place on Thursday at the […]

Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State, has said that said  that  there sis no Nigerian law that permits Zamfara State to control and manage  gold deposits in the state.   The governor said that  governors of South-South region would soon take up the matter with the Federal Government.    Okowa, who spoke at his 2020 […]

With his defeat in the US presidential election, Donald Trump finds himself fighting against being tagged with a label he frequently applies to rivals but which runs completely counter to his own brand: “loser.”   The Republican is pursuing legal action in several battleground states, though his lawyers have so far failed to substantiate claims […]