10 things the Nigerian president could do to enhance the status of the negro globally

Ayo Akinfe

(1) First of all he should insist that a memorial be erected on the Burma/India border to honour the men of the West African Frontier Force and the East African Frontier Force who died there during World War Two. It was African troops who prevented the Japanese from invading India at great personal cost. Nobody ever acknowledges this

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Covid-19 emergency workers in Abuja protest the non-payment of their allowances

HEALTH workers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja have protested the fact that they have not been paid their allowances for the last three months despite putting their lives on the line to combat the pandemic.

 

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Luth management reveals that 40 members of its staff have been infected with the coronavirus

LAGOS University Teaching Hospital (Luth) officials have revealed that about 40 members of staff have been infected with the Covid-19 virus over the last three months contracting the virus bit from their local communities and in the discharging their duties.

 

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Ecowas heads of state unanimously back Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's WTO director-general candidacy

HEADS of governments of the 15 nations that make up the  Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) have unanimously backed Nigeria's former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's bid to become the World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general.

 

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Akwa Ibom officials close Christ Embassy Church in Uyo for attacking Covid-19 monitoring team

HEALTH officials in Akwa Ibom State have sealed off the Uyo headquarters of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's Christ Embassy Church after its members attacked a Covid-19 monitoring team sent to ensure it was observing social distancing guidelines.

 

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Blind Texan man files for divorce after 32 years of marriage upon discovering that his wife is black

TEXAN blind man John Paul Davis has filed for divorce against his wife of 32 years after just discovering that she was black claiming that she dishonestly and fraudulently made him believe that she was Caucasian.

 

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If Nigeria was serious about diversifying her economy the first thing she would do post-coronavirus would be to set up a scrap metal directorate

Ayo Akinfe

(1) We can complain, criticise and argue until we are blue in the face but the fact remains that Nigeria’s economy will not get any better until we industrialise. Until we start producing steel in significant quantities, all this talk about economic diversification is just hot air

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Evangelical clergyman Bishop Macedo says it is against God's will for women to get educated

UNIVERSAL Church of the Kingdom of God clergyman Bishop Edir Macedo has courted controversy by declaring that daughters should not be allowed to seek higher education because if they do they will be smarter than their husbands.

 

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Evangelical clergyman Bishop Macedo says it is against God's will for women to get educated

UNIVERSAL Church of the Kingdom of God clergyman Bishop Edir Macedo has courted controversy by declaring that daughters should not be allowed to seek higher education because if they do they will be smarter than their husbands.

 

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With the return of football and every team now wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, Nigerian tailoring firms should be the global suppliers of such tops

Ayo Akinfe

(1) First of all, it is a delight to see football return. Nothing cures boredom like the beautiful game with its creativity. Football was actually the only thing the Taliban could not ban in Afghanistan. I do not know of one thing that unites humanity like football

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