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A Chinese doctor at the Wuhan hospital, who first warned his colleagues of a “strange respiratory illness”, which turned out to be the dreaded Coronavirus, is dead. Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, died due to complications from the coronavirus late Thursday evening (Friday morning in China). His death has sparked anger and grief from Chinese citizens on Chinese social media who believed …

Nigeria is the most populous African nation with about 180million people. With this figure comes a huge amount of crime, because people are from different social, religious and financial backgrounds. A huge population makes tracking criminals more difficult and therefore the whole concept of creating a criminal database is essential to aid the criminal justice system. A criminal database keeps …

“Almost all agreements, MoU etc signed by the government of our country are not implemented,” he said. Mr Ajala told this newspaper that 10 per cent of the national budget or more can be allocated to the agriculture sector if there is a willingness on the part of the government. “However, you know everything is politicised here, such allocation would …

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who had prayed for an order unfreezing some bank accounts of the late dictator and other members of the family held in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechenstein and Luxembourg. The PUNCH reports that the accounts were frozen in the countries …

Commend INEC on de-registeration of 74 political parties Contrary to the presidential submission that Boko Haram has been decimated, two prominent Nigerians have rather stated that insurgency was on the rise. It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari while commissioning two Nigeria Air Force Agusta 109 Power Helicopters and MI-17 E Helicopters at the Eagle Square, Abuja on Thursday …

Alleges Northern Elders Behind the Security outfit Dogara, Sultan, others meet over Security Barely 24 hours after a coalition of Northern Groups launches the Arewa version of Amotekun code-named Shege Ka Fasa, Umbrella body of Arewa youth groups, the joint action committee of northern youth associations, has distanced itself from the proposed security outfit. It also linked the conveners of …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo States for September 19 and October 10, 2020, respectively. INEC also announced that it has deregistered 74 political parties on Thursday. With the new decision, Nigeria now has 18 political parties, according to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The successful parties are Accord Party, Action …

The Independent National electoral Commission INEC has deregistered 74 political parties out of Nigeria’s 92 parties. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the declaration at a news conference Thursday in Abuja. He said the decision of the commission was in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended). VANGUARD

The US Senate Wednesday acquitted President Donald Trump of abuse of power, the first of two impeachment charges, following a historic two-week trial. The Republican-majority Senate voted 52-48 to acquit Trump of charges that he withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure Kiev to investigate political rival Joe Biden and help his re-election effort. “Is the respondent, Donald John Trump, …