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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

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Headline Stories

UPDATED: 279 kidnapped Jangebe schoolgirls freed (PHOTOS)

byAbubakar Ahmadu Maishanu

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Covid-19 Laboratory test [PHOTO CREDIT: The Scientist Magazine]

Again, Nigeria records ‘low’ daily infections with 360 new cases

Ebonyi State Map

Gunmen attack another police station in Ebonyi

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Gunmen attack police station in Akwa Ibom

Female students in Hijab used to illustrate the story.

Kwara’s hijab controversy continues despite govt’s directive

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Top News

Okonjo-Iweala assumes office as WTO director-general. [PHOTO CREDIT: WTO Twitter handle]

First Day: New WTO chief, Okonjo-Iweala pushes for fisheries deal

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo

COVID-19: Buhari, Osinbajo to pick dates to be vaccinated publicly- Official

French former President, Nicolas Sarkozy

Former French president jailed for corruption

Dapo Akande, a Nigerian-born professor of international law

UK nominates Nigerian-born lawyer as representative at UN commission

MTN biggest Nigerian company by revenue as pandemic drives data sales

EFCC arraigns former Nigerian senator for N419 million scam

EFCC (PHOTO CREDIT: @twitter.com/officialEFCC)

EFCC arraigns ex-BPE boss, Dikki, for N1billion bribe

Nestlé Nigeria Plc

Nestlé shareholders fund falls 36% as firm plans to pay dividend from retained earnings

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NBC jams Radio Biafra signals in Lagos – Official

Governor Muhammed Inuwa Yahaya

Gombe governor reshuffles cabinet, sacks three commissioners

Zero Discrimination Day: Group calls for more awareness on gender discrimination

Ibom Air hits the sky

Ibom Air lifts 500,000 passengers in 21 months – Official

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state and former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Yahaya Bello meets Obasanjo over insecurity- Official

President Donald Trump

Trump attacks Biden, hints at 2024 run for White House

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Special Reports

Final burial rites for Umar Musa

Headline Stories

Blood On Uniforms (1): Inside extra-judicial killings by police officers enforcing COVID-19 lockdown

Sign post of deserted General Hospital Kagara

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: How bandits terrorised Kagara for years before students abduction

February 26, 2021

Nigerian Army fighting Boko Haram

Headline Stories

EXCLUSIVE: Untold story of how Nigerian troops crushed Boko Haram to retake Borno town

February 25, 2021

Sunday Igboho

Headline Stories

ANALYSIS: How Nigerian govt’s bad precedent emboldened Sunday Igboho, others

February 23, 2021

A back view of Samuel Akinbodewa, the 77-year-old father of the detained woman and his two grandchildren.

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: Lagos govt’s inefficiency keeps woman in jail, without trial, for six years

February 21, 2021

Another burnt vehicle during Sasha crisis

Headline Stories

SPECIAL REPORT: How Yoruba shielded Hausa and Hausa protected Yoruba during Sasha violence

February 19, 2021

Promoted Content

Adama J Adama’s Farm4Me named West African Best World Class Digital Agricultural Investment Platform Brand of the Year 2021

Jaiz Bank [Photo Credit: NAIRAMETRICS]

NIFAN elects JAIZ Bank MD, Hassan Usman, pioneer president

Professor Andrew Chambers-World's First Professor of Internal Audit, Author of the Chambers Handbook of Governance and Former Dean of Cass Business School and Advisor to the House of Lords shares insights into how to succeed in turbulent times and why executives should attend TEXEM, UK's forthcoming programme slated to hold between March 10-11 in this interview.

Strategic Leadership and effective risk management the panacea to Superlative Performance during Turbulent Times – Chambers

Peace Mass Transit drivers attending a training session by the FRSC in Enugu.

FRSC retrains Peace Mass Transit drivers

February 27, 2021

Oando-PLC [Photo Credit: www.oandoplc.com]

Oando share price appreciates after court ruling

February 24, 2021

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Features and Interviews

Basirat Rufai, 22, aced a 6.9 CGPA of 7

Features And Interviews

INTERVIEW: How ‘low score’ propelled me to graduate as best student – UI Valedictorian

byYusuf Akinpelu

February 28, 2021

Osun State Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, Iyiola Omisore with Rauf Aregbesola

Features And Interviews

ANALYSIS: Omisore’s defection widens Aregbesola, Oyetola’s rift in Osun

byAdejumo Kabir

February 28, 2021

Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) [PHOTO: @NCDCgov]

Coronavirus

ANALYSIS: One year after, five gaps in Nigeria’s management of COVID-19

February 28, 2021

TRIBUTE: Junaidu Mohammed: Ode to a stormy petrel, By Matthew Hassan Kukah

Features And Interviews

TRIBUTE: Junaidu Mohammed: Ode to a stormy petrel, By Matthew Hassan Kukah

byMathew Hassan Kukah

February 21, 2021

From Left: The Chairman, Board of the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF), Saidu Uba Malami, Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite and the Executive Secretary of the FUND, Umar Fati Shinkafi when the chairman and executive secretary presented the management structure designed by Mckinsey to the minister, in Abuja, recently.

Features And Interviews

INTERVIEW: We are giving SMDF world-class management structure — Board Chair, Uba Malami

byPremium Times

February 21, 2021

Late Rafiu Fawale in a photo with his DPO, FolashadeOdoro

Features And Interviews

One month after SSS operatives allegedly killed police officer, agencies yet to act

byAdejumo Kabir

February 20, 2021

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Business

News Reports

MTN biggest Nigerian company by revenue as pandemic drives data sales

Nestlé Nigeria Plc

Nestlé shareholders fund falls 36% as firm plans to pay dividend from retained earnings

NNPC filling station

NNPC says no increase in fuel price in March

Stocks: MTN NIGERIA, NASCON, ZENITH BANK and CUSTODIAN INVESTMENT PLC

Custodian Investment, NASCON, Zenith top stocks to watch this week

Dangote refinery

Dangote Refinery to sell refined crude in naira – Emefiele

February 28, 2021

Financial Inclusion

Merchants on PaywithSpecta platform are enjoying increased sales – Atilola

February 22, 2021

Cryptocurrency Bitcoins

CBN’s concern with cryptocurrency in order — IMF

February 18, 2021

Bitcoin used to illustrate the story.

Nearly 50% of consumers not okay with buying with Bitcoin — Survey

February 17, 2021

Cryptocurrency Bitcoins

SEC backs CBN, suspends approval of cryptocurrency-related products

February 12, 2021

Why we banned cryptocurrency transactions – CBN

February 7, 2021

Analysis & Data

Share Buyback: What Dangote Cement is up to, and prospects for Nigerian firms

February 22, 2021

Food stuff used to illustrate the story

Nigeria’s food inflation at crisis point, reaches 11-year high

February 17, 2021

Nigerian Economy

Nigerian stocks hit four-week high as company reports raise hope

January 30, 2021

Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed [PHOTO CREDIT: @ZShamsuna]

How Nigeria’s debt repayment is taking huge toll on yearly budgets

January 17, 2021

The Chairman, Agboyi-Ketu LCDA, Dele Oshinowo presenting a cheque of N165,000 to one of the victims of October #EndSARS protest in Ketu on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020)

#EndSARS Relief Fund: Lagos council disburses N10m to 103 victims

December 4, 2020

Regional

South West

Ondo govt orders NURTW, RTEAN to vacate motor parks

Cubana Night Club used to illustrate the story.

Again, police shut Cubana Club, arrest 172 COVID-19 violators

Polaris Bank Managing Director, Adetokunbo Abiru

Court dismisses PDP’s case in Lagos East by-election

South South

Ibom Air hits the sky

Ibom Air lifts 500,000 passengers in 21 months – Official

FILE: Drones conveying healthcare equipment used to illustrate the story [PHOTO: Drones in Healthcare]

Cross River to deploy drones to supply healthcare materials – Official

Cross River state

Four police officers killed in Calabar – Official

February 28, 2021

South East

Nigeria Police officers

Three suspected cultists arrested in Anambra — Official

Ebonyi State Map

Gunmen attack another police station in Ebonyi

Enugu State governor Ugwanyi [Photo Credit: Catholic Diocese of Nnsukka

NUJ decries lack of potable water in Enugu

North West

Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe

Jangebe schoolgirls not yet released, negotiations ongoing – Zamfara Govt.

February 28, 2021

Kano Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje

Ganduje sacks aide arrested by SSS for criticising Buhari, APC

February 27, 2021

SSS arrests Ganduje’s aide after asking Buhari to resign over insecurity

February 27, 2021

North East

Governor Muhammed Inuwa Yahaya

Gombe governor sacks three commissioners, reshuffles cabinet

Governor Muhammed Inuwa Yahaya

Gombe governor reshuffles cabinet, sacks three commissioners

APC: Mai Mala Buni, Yobe State Governor [PHOTO: Media Office, Yobe State Government House, Damaturu]

Boko Haram: Yobe government shuts all boarding schools

February 28, 2021

North Central

Female students in Hijab used to illustrate the story.

Kwara’s hijab controversy continues despite govt’s directive

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state and former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Yahaya Bello meets Obasanjo over insecurity- Official

Nigerian governor, former senator clash over Kagara abduction

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VIDEO: How bandits terrorised Kagara for years before students abduction

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International

French former President, Nicolas Sarkozy

Former French president jailed for corruption

Donald Trump [Photo: BBC]

Trump says he predicts ‘energy disaster’ for America

Cock kills owner during cockfight in India

South Korea on Map (PHOTO CREDIT: Operation World)

South Korean births of male newborns decline in 2020 – Preliminary data

Sports

Romelo Lukaku

Serie A Roundup: Milan teams pull away as Juventus draw away at Verona

Olajide Omotayo (PHOTO CREDIT: Remy Gros)

Omotayo knocked out of World Table Tennis tournament

Josep Bartomeu [PHOTO: TW @brfootball]

Former Barcelona President, Bartomeu, arrested

Chelsea and Manchester United [PHOTO CREDIT: @ChelseaFC]

EPL Round-Up: Chelsea, Man United tie ends in stalemate

February 28, 2021

Arts and Entertainment

Zero Discrimination Day: Group calls for more awareness on gender discrimination

Cock kills owner during cockfight in India

Photo credit: Dr Frabz official Instagram page

Nigerian music producer, Dr Frabz, is dead

February 28, 2021

L-R : CEO EbonyLife Media, Mo Abudu; Honorable Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Uzamat Akinbile-Yusuf and Founder of Del-York Creative Academy, Dr. Linus Idahosa at the official launch of the Lagos State Creative Industries Initiative (LACI)

Free skills training for 1500 filmmakers, creatives, launches in Lagos

February 27, 2021

NCPC has denied appointing Tonto Dikeh as its Ambassador of Peace

Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission denies appointing Tonto Dikeh as Peace Ambassador

February 27, 2021

Blossom Chukwujekwu and Elozonam in Sanidation Day movie

Movie Review: ‘Sanitation Day’ is chaotic, with disjointed themes, complicated storyline

February 27, 2021

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'Tayo Irantiola on backward integration in Nigeria

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Backward Integration On Commodities: Who Are the Real Beneficiaries?, By ‘Tayo Irantiola

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A backward integration policy should not create more unwieldy monopolistic enterprises that would end up holding Nigerians by the jugular.

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Tope Fasua writes on cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies: 10 Reasons the Osinbajos Are Wrong, By ‘Tope Fasua

Dakuku Peterside on insecurity in Nigeria

Insecurity: The Social Contract and Discordant Voices, By Dakuku Peterside

Babajide-Sanwo-olu on the Lagos of his dream

The Lagos of My Dream, By Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Ifeanyi Uddin on whether the Nigerian state has failed

Has the Nigerian State Failed?, By Uddin Ifeanyi

Between Labour and the Opposition to Deregulation, By Tayo Olu

Between Labour and the Opposition to Deregulation, By Tayo Olu

February 28, 2021

Editorial

TIMELINE: Nigeria's Corovnavirus cases last week

EDITORIAL: The Urgency of Tackling Nigeria’s Second Wave of COVID-19

January 28, 2021

The Nigerian Economic Summit Group

EDITORIAL: Unearthing the Cogent Lessons In the NESG-CBN Economic Policy Imbroglio

September 16, 2020

COVID-19: Coronavirus

EDITORIAL: COVID-19: Calling On Nigeria’s Billionaires and Religious Leaders To Step Up

EDITORIAL: Bichi Must Go; Buhari Must Halt Slide Into Despotism

December 13, 2019

Godwin Emefiele, Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

EDITORIAL: The flaws in Governor Emefiele’s five-year plan for Central Bank of Nigeria

October 16, 2019

Health

News Reports

Covid-19 Laboratory test [PHOTO CREDIT: The Scientist Magazine]

Again, Nigeria records ‘low’ daily infections with 360 new cases

COVID-19 vaccination [PHOTO CREDIT: WHO]

Nigeria launches strategy for effective COVID-19 vaccination

How WHO is supporting Nigeria’s COVID-19 response – Official

COVID-19: UK vaccination hits 20 million mark in Europe’s fastest jab rollout

Investigations

PHOTO CREDIT: THE GATE NOTES

The year global health went local

January 28, 2021

Yellow vaccines

INVESTIGATION: Superstition, ill-equipped PHCs threaten Yellow fever vaccination in Enugu, Delta (1)

January 20, 2021

INVESTIGATION: Agency diverts boreholes to ex-head of state’s residence, lawmaker’s farm, while community drinks from stream

INVESTIGATION: Agency diverts boreholes to ex-head of state’s residence, lawmaker’s farm, while community drinks from stream

October 14, 2020

Clinix Healthcare

INVESTIGATION: How medical referral kickback scheme makes healthcare expensive, ineffective

September 15, 2020

Health Specials

COVID-19 vaccine vials [PHOTO CREDIT: BioWorld]

Which is best COVID-19 vaccine?

February 27, 2021

Pfizer vaccines used to illustrate the story.

What are the risks if everyone is not vaccinated against COVID-19?

February 18, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine. [CREDIT: Duetsche Welle]

EXPLAINER: What COVID-19 vaccines will Africa get, when and at what cost?

February 15, 2021

More layers provide more protection, but it’s difficult to sew masks with more than three layers. Wearing two multi-layer masks together gets around this problem. (Pixabay)

Are two cloth masks better than one for preventing spread of COVID-19?

February 12, 2021

Features

Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) [PHOTO: @NCDCgov]

ANALYSIS: One year after, five gaps in Nigeria’s management of COVID-19

February 28, 2021

Nigerian journalists in an interview session[Photo: The Standard]

Why media should support human capital development advocacy in Nigeria – Experts

February 24, 2021

The ward in Dakwa PHC

PHCs in Abuja, Niger lack regular water supply – Survey

February 23, 2021

COVID-19 testing report

COVID-19: Data reveals low testing figures in Kogi, Cross River, others

February 22, 2021

Data & Infographics

A man is being tested for COVID-19 in Nigeria [PHOTO: TW: @NCDCgov]

COVID-19 Weekly Review: Despite testing fewer people, Nigeria records more new cases, deaths

January 24, 2021

Isolation centre at Landmark, Oniru, Lagos State [PHOTO CREDIT: @jidesanwoolu]

As COVID-19 spreads further, Nigeria’s weekly deaths increase

January 17, 2021

Nigeria ends 2020 with highest weekly infections ever

COVID-19 Review: Nigeria ends 2020 with highest weekly infections ever

December 27, 2020

Infograph of COVID-19 as at 19th December

COVID-19 Review: As Christmas draws near, Nigeria records highest weekly infections ever

December 20, 2020

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