Nigeria news today headlines : Thursday 18th June 2020
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Trump Advisor Nominated To Lead Inter-American Bank
The United States said it will nominate President Donald Trump’s top adviser for Latin America to lead the Inter-American Development Bank, which has never been run by an American in its 60-year history. Mauricio Claver-Carone, who is of Cuban descent and currently head of Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, is known for …
The World As Hostage To Coronavirus
The world is currently under a siege. A virus is holding the peace of human race by the jugular. There is palpable panic even across regions where Coronavirus infection is yet not pervasive. Nobody seems to be certain when the siege will finally be over. Talk about the virus being a biological weapon appears to …
June 12 Is Not A Date
JAMES In Nigeria, June 12 is not a date, it is a consciousness. It has assumed a spirit form and any time it is mentioned it evokes emotions; it triggers some form of nostalgia. It bears a reminder that something happened, something that deprived a people of some convictions and almost threw an entity into …
Deepening Nigeria’s Democracy
JEROME-MARIO UTOMI Among many other benefits, the recently celebrated Democracy Day on Friday 12th June, 2020, offered Nigerians the opening to again listen to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s national broadcast, gave some the opportunity to romanticize with recent developments in the country, and connects those interested in sharing their ideas/opinions of the past one year …
Land Grabbing: Another Endemic Pandemic?
Over the years, land grabbing has increasingly become serious menace defying lasting solution. In spite of years of concerted efforts to tackle the seemingly age-long pandemic and deal decisively with the devilish perpetrators and their highly connected unscrupulous sponsors, the money-spinning vice has steadily assumed hydra-headed dimension that appears too enormous to curb. This is …
Housing Opportunities For Benue People Amidst COVID-19
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Benue State has embarked on aggressive opening of layouts in the state capital, spanning a sixteen-kilometre radius, coupled with the upgrading of twenty-five towns into urban centres. TOR VANDE-ACKA writes that the intention of the government in this regard is to ensure that more low-income earners own houses of their own …
Thoughts On Travails Of Adesina
ADEMILUYI On March 6, 1957 the then Goldcoast now known as Ghana became the first West African nation to attain political independence from the United Kingdom. Its leader Dr. Osaygefo Kwame Nkrumah who was American trained said in his independence speech that political independence was meaningless without economic independence. Nkrumah was visionary in that speech …
I Pity President Buhari
Men make history; but not just as they please.” Karl Marx, 1818-1883. This article could easily have been titled, ANOTHER ADVENTURE IN PROPHECY. But, deep in my heart, I feel more pity for President Muhammadu Buhari than triumph in my own predictions regarding the murderous operations of the bandits in the North East and the …
BREAKING: Nigeria Has 17,735 COVID-19 Infections As 587 New Cases Reported
Nigeria has reported 587 new cases of COVID-19 infections across the country, taking the country’s total to 17,735. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced the new numbers on Wednesday night in its daily update via its Twitter handle, @NCDCgov, giving the breakdown as follows; Lagos-155 Edo-75 FCT-67 Rivers-65 Oyo-56 Delta-50 Bayelsa-25 Plateau-18 Kaduna-18 …
NUJ Lagos Council Mourns Demise Of Foster, Udom
Dr. Qasim Akinreti, the chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Lagos State Council, has on behalf of himself and the Council, commiserated with the media,especially the broadcast industry on the death of Nkeiruka Udom of Daar Communications and ace broadcaster Dan Forster, whose death news hit the airwaves and has since been trending. “Indeed, it has …
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