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A coronavirus vaccine may come in a matter of months just as about mkmnnn persons have died of the virus globally. According to a British media report on Saturday, AstraZeneca and Oxford University jointly-developed COVID-19 vaccine may be rolled out in six months. The vaccine, which is currently under the last...
The remains of former lawmaker, Senator Buruji Kashamu, had arrived Ijebu-Igbo in Ogun State. The lawmaker, who represented Ogun East Senatorial district between 2015 and 2019, would be buried today according to Islamic rites by 12pm, his spokesman, Austin Oniyokor, has confirmed. Oniyokor disclosed that Kashamu died in a private hospital...
Three women have been feared dead, as a result of stampede while several others suffered suffocation during a looting spree that occurred at a huge warehouse located in the Gwagwalada area of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) Abuja. Reports had it that some who were suffocating were helped out of the...
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC), chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved a number of projects including the change of scope for the construction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway from N155b to N797.2b and a N10.4b for the procurement of fire fighting vehicles and equipment for the Federal Fire...
President Buhari celebrates Eid-el Kabir with family in State House on 31st July, 2020  
The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) says full deregulation will enhance national economic growth, while it also urged the Federal Government to take a further step towards full deregulation of the downstream sector. The Chairman of DAPPMAN, Winifred Akpani, who comended government for its consistency in...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked reports that its operatives are involved in "stop and search" operations in the Lekki axis of Lagos State. The anti graft agency on Wednesday night in a statement by its Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale avowed that none of...
A Nigerian billionaire, founder and Chairman of Akande International Corporation (AIC), Harry Akande is dead. Akande, who was 77 and until his death a Chief conferred on the title of Agba Oye of Ibadanland passed away on Saturday. According to the family of the business mogul, Akande died due to complications...
The US Export-Import Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to the growth of the US-African cooperation by constituting Sub-Saharan Advisory Committee for 2020 and 2021. The committee is composed of pro-investment and pro-business advisors who understand Africa and would be instrumental in growing the US-African cooperation and flows of goods, services...
The embattled Governor of Edo State has withdrawn his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party on whose back he won the governorship seat in 2016 that has now turned its back on him and even determined to stop him from returning to the number one office...