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Gang close to Bangladesh PM extracts bribes for state contracts

Investigation reveals how a criminal gang is colluding with Bangladesh’s security forces and profiting from links to PM Sheikh Hasina. A criminal gang is colluding with Bangladesh’s security forces to extract bribes for state contracts and job positions, all the while maintaining powerful links with the country’s Prime Minister Sheikh …

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WDU First Class graduates get automatic jobs

Western Delta University (WDU), Oghara, Delta State has offered jobs to nine of its fresh graduates who made  First Class during the 2017/2018 and 2019/2020 academic sessions. Speaking at the combined Eighth and 10th convocation at the institution’s permanent site, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Otefe Okobiah, said the varsity would …

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COVID-19: NAFDAC approves Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines

As Nigeria slipped into the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Thursday announced the approval of Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines even as it granted conditional approval for Sputnik V vaccine. In a press statement signed by the Director-General …

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More states must turn in #EndSARS panels report – Osinbajo

Ahead of next week’s Sallah festivities, the National Economic Council, NEC, has urged for strict adherence to the COVID-19 response guidelines across the country, after receiving a regular state performance report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According to the report, the Coronavirus positivity rate has gone up …

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Lauretta Onochie as metaphor

The same controversy trailed Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala during President Goodluck Jonathan’s era, when she was nominated as Finance Minister, before she was eventually confirmed. In both cases, it took the combined and persistent efforts of all persons of goodwill to extricate the nominees from the web of needless controversy. Onochie’s case …

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