The Nigerian economy slipped into another recession in 2020, reversing three years of recovery that followed the 2016 recession. The 2020 recession was necessitated largely by the containment measures put in place against COVID-19, which affected aviation, tourism, hospitality, restaurants, manufacturing, and trade, thus disrupting the global economy. The economy contracted in the third quarter of the year by 3.6 …
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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has invited three players to replace Napoli star, Victor Osimhen, Cyprus –based Abdullahi Shehu and Watford attacker, Emmanuel Dennis in the Super Eagles squad to the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations, which begins in Cameroon next weekend. Lively Osimhen’s positive test to the coronavirus pandemic a couple of days ago, and injury to the versatile …
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A ban on the use of plastic to package a range of fruit and vegetables came into force in France on Saturday, to the dismay of the sector’s packaging industry. Environmentalists have long campaigned against single-use plastics as pollution worsens globally while President Emmanuel Macron has backed the move defending a “pragmatic” approach. The October decree covers for example the …
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The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to envisage a positive 2022 “with hope and with the unyielding determination that our hope and collective toil will succeed in bringing forth a more prosperous and just nation. Hope that things will be better.” Asiwaju Tinubu stated this in his New Year message, …
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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has pledged to sustain reforms in the state’s healthcare and education system, civil service, security architecture, agricultural sector, as well as other infrastructural projects, among others. Obaseki, who made this known in his new year’s message of felicitation with Edo people, said it was aimed at improving the lives of the people and achieving …
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Edo State Government has reiterated its commitment to digitization of its processing and building the capacity of civil and public servants to better deliver services to Edo people in 2022. The Edo State Head of Service, Anthony Okungbowa Esq., who disclosed this in his New Year message to workers, thanked the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, for not only …
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God will not forgive the Peoples Democratic Party if it fails to heed the yearnings of Nigerians to return to power, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said. According to PUNCH, Wike stated this while answering questions from journalists during a day visit to Bauchi State on Saturday, lamenting that Nigeria is in serious crisis at the moment, with insecurity …
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The Nigeria Football Federation has settled for 61-year-old Portuguese manager Jose Peseiro as the new head coach for the Super Eagles. Though the appointment of Peseiro is coming just as the Super Eagles camp for the Africa Cup of Nations officially opens in Abuja, the NFF clarified that interim manager Augustine Eguavoen will still lead the Eagles to Cameroon. Definitely, many fans …
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that his principal, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), made “tremendous progress” in the fight against banditry and insurgency in 2021. He stated this in Lagos on Thursday at a press conference to showcase the “achievements” of the Buhari regime during the outgoing year 2021. The PUNCH had earlier reported that no …
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Malawi’s land minister on Thursday was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes from a businessman to influence a land dispute in his favour, the country’s anti-corruption bureau said. The development is a blow for President Lazarus Chakwera, who made fighting corruption in the poor southern African country a central pillar of his election campaign in 2020. Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau said …
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