Day: June 25, 2020

Analyst underscores danger ahead good governance in Nigeria

Damola Oyede

The cause of bad governance in Nigeria has become multifaceted but mostly traced to corruption and poor leadership, a Nigeria-based current affairs analyst, Azeem Salako, has said. Salako, who, according to a statement, said this during an interactive session in Ota, Ogun state, admonished political elites in the country against being instrumental to bringing some ill-prepared people into politics. Refering to the ill-prepared politicians as “impromptu politicians,” Salako concluded exposing them to leadership without prior training and experience could be destructive. “Speaking as a guest lecturer in the interactive session…

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How COVID-19 rocked Nigeria’s Offshore, Remote Oil Facilities, created panic for government

Tim Bauer

  Blow-by-blow accounts of the how and the why questions agitating minds of millions on virus outbreaks in oil facilities located as far as over 1000 km offshore Nigeria   More facts have emerged on reasons the offshore and remote oil facilities in the Africa’s biggest crude exporter is rocked by the novel COVID-19. Some of the affected oil platforms where some personnel have been confirmed to have tested positive for the dreaded virus, according to checks by Platforms Africa, are located as far as over 1000 kilometers offshore Nigeria…

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Scores of Africans Vaccinated as COVID-19 vaccine’s Clinical Trial began in continent

Damola Oyede

  Scores of participants in South Africa’s first clinical trial for a vaccine against COVID-19 have been vaccinated. The first clinical trial in South Africa and on the continent for a COVID-19 vaccine was announced on 23 June, at a virtual press conference hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). Wits University is collaborating with the University of Oxford and the Oxford Vaccine Group on the South African trial. The South African Ox1Cov-19 Vaccine VIDA-Trial aims to find a vaccine that will prevent infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus…

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