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The African Development Bank on Thursday launched an independent inquiry into allegations of embezzlement and preferential treatment against its embattled president Akinwumi Adesina, who is seeking re-election in August, its board of governors said.   The investigation into Adesina, a former Nigerian minister for agriculture, follows calls for a probe by Washington, and must wrap […]

Former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, was has been released from the Kuje Correctional Centre yesterday and he returned to his residence in Abuja.   Kalu who was jailed for 12 years for corruption was released after a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted a motion seeking his release from […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday ruled out electronic transmission of results in the forthcoming Edo and Ondo states governorship elections, insisting that there would not be collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for the polls and by-elections. National Commissioner and Chairman, Electoral Operations & Logistic Committee, Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu, disclosed this at the […]

Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, has described the death of international reggae star, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly called Majek Fashek, as a huge loss to the entertainment industry, especially coming at a time the industry has taken a hit from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.    In a statement in Abuja yesterday, the minister […]

  Medical experts, including the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, have provided reasons why Nigeria could record more cases of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19). They argue that although the nation was not yet testing as much samples as the laboratories could carry, the NCDC is, nevertheless, examining and […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the Federal Government’s slashing of the 2020 budgetary allocations for basic health care from N44.4 billion to N25.5billion, and for Universal Basic Education (UBE) from N111.7 billion to N51.1 billion. The opposition party described the dramatic cuts as the height of insensitivity to the plights of […]Read More

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has asked the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to take a safe distance in the party’s primaries of June 22, 2020 to avoid problems. Fielding questions from reporters after submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms, the governor maintained that the call was aimed […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has resumed clinical trial on hydrochloroquine after it halted research on the drug for the treatment of COVID-19 last week. Announcing this during a media briefing Wednesday, the Director General, WHO, Dr. Terdos Ghebreyesus, said new information has suggested that there was no reason to modify the trial protocol hence […]

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread like wildfire around the world, leaders of several nations instituted emergency efforts to repatriate their citizens from foreign shores. For Nigerians in foreign lands, accustomed to the usual incompetence of their officials, there was a sliver of optimism that the Nigerian government would finally change its ways and respond to […]