WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy suffered its biggest labor market shock on record last month, as government figures released Friday showed the COVID-19 pandemic erased 20.5 million jobs and sent the nation’s unemployment rate to 14.7%, the highest since at…
FORMER Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has taken a swipe at the Senators over the probe into the alleged Financial Recklessness to the tune of N40 billion by the Interim Management Committee, IMC of the Niger Delta Development Commission,…
Lionel Messi and his Barcelona team-mates have returned to training for the first time since the Coronavirus lockdown was enforced. The Argentine superstar was pictured at the Joan Gamper training base on Friday morning dribbling through posts as he prepares…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that about 190,000 people in Africa could die of Coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic, if containment of the disease fails. In a new study carried out by the agency’s regional…
Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min was named one of the top five recruits in his unit as he finished three weeks of compulsory military training in South Korea on Friday. South Korea’s marine corps posted pictures of Son wielding an…
THE Commissioner for Health in Lagos State, Prof Akin Abayomi, yesterday (Wednesday), stated that 10 persons associated with the Lagos State House in Marina have tested positive to COVID-19. This came as Governor Babjide Sanwo-Olu and his wife, Dr. Ibijioke,…
The battering of the Nigerian economy by the COVID-19 pandemic has offered the country another golden opportunity to seriously consider the revisiting of the seemingly vexatious subject of political and economic restructuring, to guarantee the immediate and future viability of…
The Protection Against Infectious Diseases Bill which passed through first reading at the Senate last Tuesday and seeks to empower the National Assembly with the right to annul the President’s Quarantine Order will go for second reading next Tuesday. The…
Many people were feared dead, while no fewer than 300 farmers sustained various degrees of injuries and property worth millions of naira destroyed following a clash between the people of Umumbo and their Omor neighbours in Ayamelum Local Government Area…
Jigawa State Government yesterday said no fewer than 16 almajiris (Islamic school pupils) recently sent to the state from Kano State, have tested positive for the coronavirus, COVID-19. This came as Benue State Action Committee on coronavirus,COVID-19, Wednesday night intercepted…