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Umar Duhu: Love For The Poor Or Love For Lucre? By Babayola M. Toungo

Someone just send to my inbox a letter addressed to the Chairman of the National Assembly and the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Covid 19 on the purported distribution of the palliatives given to Adamawa State by the Federal Government for delivery to the vulnerable groups (the poor of the poor) in our society.  The writer, one Umar… Read More
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COVID-19: Unravelling The Inaccuracies In NCDC Data By Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye

Yesterday April 11, at exactly 9:30pm, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control announced a total of 318 cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria through its website and verified social media accounts.  Analyses: 70 discharged, 10 deaths and 238 active cases.  However, a further look at the data released by the NCDC shows that the number of discharged patients are under-reported which,… Read More
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Revolution “The Last Boat Of Salvation For Nigerians” By E.d Adegoke

  “The Man dies in all who keeps silent in the face of tyranny” Said Professor Wole soyinka. Many Nigerians do not understand the term “Revolution” as many perceive the word to mean threat just has as being portrayed by their government. Haven’t said of how so many Youths see their fellow Youths in the Revolutionary line as gangs of young people with no dreams going… Read More

African Development Bank Group approves $10 million equity in Razorite Healthcare Fund for Africa

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $10-million equity investment in Razorite Healthcare Africa Fund 1 (RHAF1) to help improve healthcare infrastructure delivery across the continent. The 10-year deal, approved on 26 February, will resource the Fund to address growing demands for affordable and quality healthcare services in several countries of Sub-Saharan Africa faced with… Read More
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Humiliation And Serious Manhandling In The Hands Of Nigeria Police And Allied Group At Moore Police Station Ile Ife, Osun State By Dr Abiodun Olabanjo

My wife and l are Medical  Doctors practising in Ile Ife Osun state. While my wife works with OSHMB. I have a private hospital in Ile Ife. l had to drive my wife to her place of work this morning with the private hospital ambulance (Name of the hospital well written on the ambulance with Doctors stickers on the windscreen).We… Read More
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Corona, Kongi And ‘Garbage’ By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

The world is currently faced with a deadly pandemic known as Coronavirus or Covid-19. It is about the worst global health crisis of our generation. Politically, socially and economically, we are all exposed to the tragic consequences of the plague. Social, economic and political lives of nations and communities have changed for good. From Lagos to Rome, New York to… Read More
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The African Development Bank and its partners want your ideas for beating the COVID-19 pandemic

The African Development Bank and partners are set to host an online #AfricaVsVirus Challenge from 16 to 19 April 2020. The 72-hour competition is a global hackathon – or “ideathon” – to develop effective solutions to the coronavirus pandemic.  The Challenge is open to entrepreneurs, companies, civil society organizations and governments with bankable solutions or ventures to address the pandemic.… Read More
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Farewell, Othello’s Countryman (Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925-2020) By Niyi Osundare

     I met Eldred Jones personally for the first time in 1982 undera circumstance I have found delightfully unforgettable. From his base in Sierra Leone he had been invited to the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) for a professional engagement. But before leaving home, he never forgot to tuck in his travelling bag a file containing the manuscript by a rookie academic, submitted and accepted for publication… Read More
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