NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has announced that it leveraging technology to trace vaccines in the hope that it will be able to assist local companies to start manufacturing when the Covid-19 vaccine arrives.

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(1) Regional security operations like Amotekun and the Eastern Security Network

(2) Mini power distribution plants in each local government area

(3) Local health centres to offer basic primary care

(4) Funding of local producer cooperatives to enable them process farm goods into semi finished products

(5) Urban tram networks in our state capitals and large metropolitan cities

(6) Adult literacy classes to elevate the non-literate in our midst

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has lashed out at the five governors of the southeast geo-political zone for opposing its plans to create the regional vigilante group the Eastern Security Network (ESN).

AS many as 70 corpses of persons killed in Lagos during the #EndSARS protests are yet to be claimed by their families according to the interim chairman of the Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond (Ascarb) Femi Falana.

NIGERIAN lawmakers are to add N500bn ($1.3bn) to next year's budget to help cover unanticipated costs before passing the 2021 Appropriation Bill in the National Assembly today.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari's wife Aisha has debunked claims that she fled to Dubai amid concerns for her security in Aso Rock pointing out that she only travelled to the United Arab Emirates to get medical treatment.

ENGLISH Premier league side Sheffield United are lining up a bid of between €6m and €7m for Nigerian striker Josh Maja with a view towards prising him away from French side Bordeaux during the forthcoming January transfer window.

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[1] Nigeria currently has about 21.7m unemployed people, 10.5m out-of-school children, about 3m internal refugees and 90m people living below the UN acknowledged poverty of surviving on less than $2 a day. With the economic shutdown precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic, things can only get worse during the course of 2021

NIGERIA has been told she needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine next month if the nation wants to combat the growing second wave of the pandemic currently sweeping across the globe.

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(1) Eagles - Kwara
(2) Leopards - Osun
(3) Giraffes - Katsina
(4) Gorillas - Cross River
(5) Hippopotamus - Rivers
(6) Lions - Taraba
(7) Hyenas - Adamawa
(8) Zebras - Borno
(9) Elephants - Yobe
(10) Camels - Sokoto