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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans are pushing to underwrite private school tuition as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic against opposition from teachers’ unions, civil rights groups, and other who warn of diverting money from public schools Discover the extraordinary impact of ordinary people stepping up to make their neighborhoods safer for everyone. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), the …

The national coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, has explained how the third phase of the gradual easing of lockdown will be implemented. Mr Aliyu, while speaking at the bi-weekly briefing of the task force, on Thursday, said the new guidelines will be effective from Friday, September 4. Nigeria imposed its first round of lockdown in …

A Northern group under the aegis of Arewa Professional Forum, APF, has expressed concern over what it called the worsening state of insecurity in the country, saying it was time for President Muhammadu Buhari to allow the service chiefs quit the centre stage of the nation’s security management. The APF said the service chiefs have exhausted energies, ideas and capacities …

Resident doctors in the country will begin nationwide industrial action on Monday, their umbrella body under the aegis of National Association of Resident Doctors,NARD,has declared. The organisation in a communique it released Friday, in Abuja,said it has resolved to commerce an indefinite strike with effect from Monday September 7 2020. To forestall the development,it demanded immediate payment of the medical …

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has received samples of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine from Russia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin. In a statement on Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine by the Ministry’s Director of Information, Media, and Public Relations, Olujimi Oyetomi, the Russian envoy made the delivery during a visit to the ministry in Abuja. Recall that the World Health Organisation, WHO, …

CNN Coronavirus cases in Europe are “almost back” to the levels seen in March when infection rates first peaked, scientists have warned as concerns grow over a potential second wave. Countries across the continent have been easing lockdowns and reopening restaurants, retail stores and offices in an effort to kick-start their economies. But the relaxation of restrictions has seen a surge in infections …

ACROSS AMERICA — As coronavirus cases continue to spike dramatically on college campuses across the country, administrators are taking a zero-tolerance approach to partying students. One day after it drew acclaim for its twice-weekly testing of students and staff with a saliva-based test it developed, the University of Illinois has ordered students to limit in-person activities for two weeks, the New York Times reports. The move …

African Democratic Congress, ADC’s guber candidate and the only woman in the race for the Edo 2020 race for Osadebeh House, Mabel Oboh, has received a major boost on the trail of her political campaign as she got the blessings of one of Nigeria’s foremost royal father’s the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, when she led a delegation of …

The Federal Government says the National Youth Service Corps should start making preparations to reopen its orientation camps nationwide. Orientation camps across the country had been shut in March as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. But speaking on Thursday, the National Coordinator of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, during a briefing …

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had in a recent report, noted that five million of the eight million electricity users are billed arbitrarily by distribution companies (DisCos). This development underscores the failure that has greeted the power sector in Nigeria, especially since it was privatised about seven years ago. At take-over, a part of the key performance indicators for the …