Oil Continues Slide On Dismal Global Demand Outlook   Oil prices are seeing further downward momentum as gloomy demand outlooks continue amid economic pain caused by the coronavirus pandemic. United States West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell as much as 13 per cent to $17.31 per barrel at...

Free Electricity, Mere Propaganda - TCN   The recent announcement of plan to give Nigerians two months of free electricity as part of palliatives for COVID-19 is nothing more than propaganda that cannot work, the Transmission Company of Nigeria has said. The TCN faulted the announcement by...

COVID-19: Young Inventors, Local Ventilators to Nigeria’s Rescue     Although several cash donations and medical supplies have been received, the advent of locally-fabricated ventilators by some young inventors may be the game changer in Nigeria’s fight against Coronavirus. Abdulsalam Mahmud writes. *Introduction* Talk about money, medical facilities and...

Dangote-led Flood Committee Donates N1.5bn to fight COVID 19 Pandemic     Bothered with the increasing trend and spread of Covid 19 pandemic, the Presidential Flood Relief and Rehabilitation Committee, set up in 2012 by the Federal Government and led by the President of Dangote group, Aliko...

Still on Nigeria's Health and Economic Response to Covid-19 By Auwal Ibrahim Musa (Rafsanjani)   In Abuja, the 16th of April, 2020: The public health and economic emergency caused by the COVID 19 pandemic presents Nigeria and the world with an enormous challenge unparalleled to any other...

COVID-19: When the Open University Remains Open   Once again, the Nigeria educational landscape, a bakery where knowledge is being transmitted to individuals for onward running of the country and sustenance of mankind has been rendered comatose. Schools are closed; from crèche to tertiary education, none...