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In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 17, 2020 189 0

“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading

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Zenith Bank ranked number one bank in Nigeria by tier-1 capital

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 1, 2020 196 0

Zenith Bank Plc has again emerged the Number One Bank in Nigeria by Tier-1 Capital in the 2020 Top 1000 World Banks Ranking published by The Banker Magazine. Climbing a whopping 29 spots from 415 in 2019 to 386 in the 2020 global ranking of banks, Zenith Bank retained its position as the number one […]Continue Reading

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Family Planning: FG fails to complete 2019 counterpart fund

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 195 0

The Federal Government has failed to complete the payment of its counterpart fund for Family Planning activities in the 2019 health budget, investigations have revealed. Family planning is a component of health strategies to encourage child spacing, promote the health of women of child-bearing age, and to reduce financial pressures on households in Nigeria. Since […]Continue Reading

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Africans in Diaspora condemn Trump’s interference in AfDB’s leadership

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 175 0

The African Diaspora Congress (ADC) has condemned, in strong terms, the meddling of the United States of America in the leadership of the African Development Bank under President Akinwumi Adesina. In a statement signed by the Secretary General of ADC, Prof Apollos O Nwauwa, and the Public Relations Officer, Dr Isabelle Kemajou-Brown, the association said […]Continue Reading

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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 161 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in. Only in hindsight would the country piece together the story of an Italian man who arrived by air in Lagos on March 24, infected with SARS-CoV-2. By four weeks later, 1,337 people […]Continue Reading

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Follow the money: Can Nigeria deal with covid-19?

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 708 47

By Adie Vanessa Offiong As the 2019 fiscal year drew to an end, Nigeria was writing up a budget for 2020—and it was unaware how that would change. A pandemic of coronavirus disease was waiting in the wings to change all that. The pandemic started in China, shutting down production factories that run on oil […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 8, 2020 179 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari, on April 27, 2020 ordered the ease of lockdown in three major high-infection states in the country. The three states, Lagos, FCT, and Ogun, had been on lockdown since March 30. This decision was as a result of the impact the lockdown had on the economy. In his […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: “The media is on the frontlines”, by Eugenia Abu 

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 25, 2020 141 0

For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine Sunday morning. The […]Continue Reading

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COVID-19: “Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?” by Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 24, 2020 164 0

This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) views some weeks ago […]Continue Reading

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Malam Abba Kyari: a brother, friend and patriot, by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 22, 2020 187 0

I have been in shock, since news broke, of the passing of Malam Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, late on Friday night, the 17th of April, that it has been difficult for me, to concentrate on literally any other thought, except the incredible life that Mal Abba lived, and the gravity of […]Continue Reading

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Re-introducing “The Lugano Report” by Edwin Madunagu

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 22, 2020 158 0

Sometime in 1999, as both the 20th century and the second millennium were drawing to a close, the Pluto Press, London, released a book with the title: “The Lugano Report” and subtitle, “On preserving capitalism in the 21st century”. The author, Susan George, who shares this name with another well-known but much younger woman, was born in […]Continue Reading

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The present and the past flu by Eric Teniola

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 10, 2020 154 0

The Coronavirus is a negative scientific invention. Until proved otherwise, the virus called SARS-COV-2 was made by scientists and escaped in a laboratory. It is a laboratory construct and a manipulated virus. It is not the product of natural evolution. The sudden and forceful spread of the virus, especially from China to Europe and then […]Continue Reading