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News of vaccine availability and Saudi oil tanker explosion combine to rally crude prices over $50

NIGERIA has been given a brief economic lifeline after crude oil prices recently rallied to over $50 a barrel due to a combination of news that a coronavirus vaccine will be soon be available and a tanker explosion in Saudi Arabia which created supply worries.

 

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Lagos State government announces ambitious plans to expand seafood and fish production

 

GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has announced plans to establish the Lagos Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (Lace) as part of an ambitious plan to expand fish production in the state and create thousands of jobs.

 

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Up to 20 states back federal government's social housing scheme to build 300,000 affordable homes

 

AS many as 20 of Nigeria's 36 states have expressed a willingness to participate in the federal government's Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) housing scheme that will involve the construction of 300,000 houses and selling them to buyers for N2m each.

 

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Oyedepo to build over 9,000 churches across rural Nigeria as part of an ambitious expansion plan

WINNERS Chapel founder Bishop David Oyedepo has announced plans to spend N200bn ($500m) building 9,250 churches across rural Nigeria next year as part of an ambitious expansion programme aimed at boosting membership.

 

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Ipob establishes regional security body Eastern Security Network across southeast and south-south

 

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (Ipob) has launched a regional vigilante group known as the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to combat the growing insecurity across the southeast and south-south geo-political zones.

 

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Kogi community alleges General Irefin may have been murdered as he showed no Covid-19 symptoms

 

MEMBERS of the Aiyetoro-Gbede community in Kogi State have rejected the claim that their kinsman Major General John Olu Irefin died from Covid-19 pointing out that he was a healthy man and was most likely murdered by unknown persons.

 

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Joshua set for £200m unification fight with Tyson Fury next year after last night's victory

 

WORLD heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Olufemi Oluwaseni Joshua is now planning to take on World Boxing Council (WBC) holder Tyson Fury next year in a staggering £200m clash after his successful defence of his four belts last night.

 

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10 wasteful habits Nigerians need to abandon in 2021 and invest the money from them in stocks, bonds, shares, cooperative schemes, etc if we are serious about a post-Covid-19 economic revival

Ayo Akinfe

(1) Paying 10% of their earnings as tithes and zakat. All you are senselessly doing is breeding a clique of millionaire clergymen

(2) Spraying money at owambes. It is actually very inflationary

(3) Bankrolling the tourist industries of Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican by going on needless religious pilgrimages

(4) Owning more than two cars per household

(5) Having a traditional monarch in virtually every town and village

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