Day: November 15, 2020

Lagos Varsity names Alawode first Professor of Broadcast Journalism

Adeola Yusuf

  Sunday Olayinka Alawode has been named the first ever Professor of Broadcast Journalism in the 37-year history of Lagos State University (LASU). Alawode, an erudite scholar of communication, has before his confirmation by the Governing Council of the institution, been an Associate Professor at the School of Communication. He was the head, Department of Broadcasting with a lot of research works on the field to his credit. This includes “Nigerian Nollywood Films and National Interest, a content analysis; Video films and Sex/Sexuality Innovation among Undergraduates in Lagos,” among others.…

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How US election was rigged, Trump declares in latest Tweet

Wonuola Olujobi

  The United States President Donald Trump has said that the election was rigged as “no vote watchers or Observers allowed” for the poll won by his opponent, Joe Biden. “The vote was tabulated by a Radical Left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation and bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!),” he added in his latest tweet on Sunday, in which he, as usual, accused “the Fake & Silent Media, and more!” His opponent in the 2020 presidential election, Joe…

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Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has safety, longevity hurdles to clear – Experts

Aoko Benjamin

  Covid-19 vaccine results from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE fueled optimism that the world will soon have a potential way out of the pandemic, yet experts cautioned that the shot still has many hurdles to clear, Times of India reported. Questions about production, distribution and, most importantly, the performance and capability of the shot itself still need to be answered, even if the numbers look highly promising, according to vaccine specialists. The vaccine needs to be refregerated below -80 degree and no facility in all the developing countries like Nigeria…

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Naira falls to month’s lowest, now 470 per dollar ‌

Dawood Rabiu

  The Nigeria’s unit of exchange, Naira, weakened to 470 against the United States dollar in the parallel market at the weekend despite the interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the official window. The nation’s currency had traded at N465, N466 and N468 against the greenback on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively. But it fell on Friday to its weakest level in more than a month. According to Bloomberg, the naira closed at 382.10 per dollar on the spot market, where the CBN sells limited amounts of the…

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