The Nation Newspaper Today Headline Monday 6th April 2020
The Nation Newspaper Today Headline and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 06/04/20
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Coronavirus vaccine: Bill Gates calls for global solution
Life can only fully return to normal once a vaccine to combat the new coronavirus is available globally, according to Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. A vaccine against the virus is not expected to be available before next year. Work needed to be done quickly on the development of a new vaccine to enable
Civil servants to resume duty on Monday
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has directed workers in the state’s civil service to resume work on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government had earlier directed workers to stay at home as part of measures to prevent possible spread of COVID-19 in the state. The state’s Head of Service,
AJ demands respect from media
Anthony Joshua has claimed that British boxers are not given enough respect overseas despite their recent success. Joshua is the reigning WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion, while compatriot Tyson Fury recently defeated Deontay Wilder to win the WBC equivalent, with a mega-fight between the pair in the pipeline somewhere along the way. Joshua’s comments
Ugbade slams faulty use of Iheanacho
Our Reporter KELECHI Iheanacho’s struggles for dependability at Leicester City are down to the Premier League outfit playing him out of position, stated Nigerian football icon Nduka Ugbade. The Foxes were labelled to have pulled off quite a coup when winning the race for the Nigerian from Manchester City. Ugbade – who worked with
COVID-19 and food security
Godswill Aguiyi Sir: Even though the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa and Nigeria is still relatively low and way below the number of cases in some developed economies, anxiety over the disease is currently shaking the country. Since the outbreak of the virus on December 31, 2019, many activities around the world have
Gunmen kidnap Nasarawa governor’s adviser
Linus Oota, Lafia NASARAWA State Governor Abdullahi Sule’s Special Adviser on Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development John Waje Mamman has been abducted by gunmen. The assailants stormed Mamman’s Dari country home in Kokona Local Government Area of the state about 8pm on Saturday and whisked him away. A source told our correspondent
Lockdown: To obey is better than to sacrifice
Hardball IT took a personal but altogether avoidable tragedy for the Biblical King Saul to get it: to obey is better than to sacrifice! Jehovah told him to war and utterly destroy. But King Saul would rather preserve war spoils in defiant sacrifice. It cost him his throne — and later his life. But
And the president spoke
Emeka OMEIHE Penultimate Sunday’s national broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari seemed to have put to rest raging controversy over his silence while the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the country. Though somewhat belated, it is nonetheless good a thing the president eventually spoke to the nation. Before then and while responding to criticisms, Information Minister Lai Mohammed
Tinubu at 68 : Interrogating his politics and ideas
Former Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Relations and Chairman of National Action Group (NAG) Dr Olusanya Awosan extoles the virtues of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who recently turned 68 Politics is defined by many scholars as the struggle for the acquisition, control and utilization of state power. Experience has shown that
Pains, gains of total lockdown
It’s day seven of a 14-day restriction on movement in Lagos and Abuja. ROBERT EGBE looks at how residents have been coping in both states and elsewhere. How many grains of rice fill a Derica tin? Broadcast journalist Kingsley Momoh gave an answer last Tuesday: 98,900 grains for home grown rice and 98,000 grains
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