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If you have been vaccinated, could you still spread coronavirus? Here is what an expert says: As COVID-19 immunisation continues across the world, many people are still unclear as to what vaccines mean for the transmission of the disease. A microbiologist at the School of Medicine, University of Washington, USA, Professor Deborah Fuller answers three questions about transmission, post-vaccine and whether new variants could affect the vaccinated. Professor Fuller says vaccination doesn’t 100 percent prevent you from getting infected. But vaccination reduces the chance of catching the virus or falling seriously ill from it. If a vaccinated person catches Covid19,…

Permit me to step aside this week from contextual reporting of the terrorism of the bandits and the hypocrisy of the crisis entrepreneurs in the land. Reason for the cross-over: It is expedient for us to study the essentials of the Africa Economic Outlook 2021 the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched virtually the other day.  It appears that there are so many features in the report for the governments and people of Africa to study and learn from at this moment. The deliverables from report and colloquium on the launch are quite didactic. The 2021 AEO highlights one of the most fundamental questions…

• PDP Demands Investigation Into Gov’s Attack • ACF Condemns Onslaught A barrage of condemnation, yesterday, trailed the attempted assassination of the Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, by gunmen suspected to be Fulani militias, along Tyo-Mu-Abetse-Gboko Road, in Makurdi Local Council of the state. While Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State wants the Federal Government to be held responsible if Ortom is assassinated, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the police to investigate the attack on the governor’s convoy. The incident, which happened between 10 and 11 am yesterday, as the governor was returning from a…

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State narrowly escaped  death Saturday as gunmen suspected to be herdsmen ambushed his convoy at Tyomu community, a distance of less than 20 kilometers from Makurdi, the Benue State capital, while returning from Gboko Road. According to the Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Terver Akase, the gunmen opened fire on the governor’s convoy while traveling on the road. He added that the governor escaped narrowly. [ThisDay]

Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo insisted Saturday he was happy to continue next season with Cristiano Ronaldo whose contract expires in 2022. The Portuguese forward’s future has been under scrutiny after Juventus crashed out of the Champions League in the last 16 for the second consecutive season. “For now we have not thought about it, Cristiano still has a year left on his contract with us and we are happy about that,” Pirlo said ahead of Sunday’s league game against Benevento. “We’re extremely focused on this end of the season. He has already scored a lot of goals and is beyond…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended Saturday’s Ekiti East 1 State Constituency by-election indefinitely over cases of violence. The commission announced the indefinite suspension in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Saturday. Okoye said that the Commission received a report from the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Ekiti State that the by-election was disrupted by violent attacks on voters, election officials and security personnel. He noted that INEC made adequate arrangements for the election, adding that personnel and materials arrived on time in all the…

Ekiti State government has given farmers and herders another two-week window to register with the state government or be ready to leave the state. The two-week grace begins on Sunday, March 22. In February, the state conducted a two-week registration of farmers and herders, but not all those involved seized the opportunity. Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr Olabode Adetoyi, said in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday that the exercise was expedient to ensure that all farmers and herders could be accounted for. He added that the registration was also aimed at ensuring peace between the two…

Overseas fans will be banned from this summer’s pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, organisers said Saturday, in a bid to reduce virus risks and convince a sceptical Japanese public the Games will be safe. The unprecedented decision will make the Tokyo Games the first ever held without overseas spectators, as organisers scale back their ambitions for the pandemic event. When the decision to postpone the Games was taken last year, officials said the delay would allow them to hold the event as “proof of humanity’s triumph over the virus.” But instead, the Games are shaping up to be a largely television event…

PENDULUM BY DELE MOMODU Fellow Nigerians, I’m sure, just like me, you’ve been wondering what could be driving the Federal Government of Nigeria towards pushing the country into perdition and collapse. I’m very convinced that President Muhammadu Buhari has no plans of succeeding in the governance of the country as a whole, or indeed of his beloved Northern part of the country, otherwise how can any serious leader not see the dangers and peril ahead. Practically every section of the country is in one turmoil or the other. And the lamentations are getting louder by the day. At the end…

•Wants judiciary freed from political manipulations Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, yesterday bemoaned his removal, saying claims that he met with former vice president, Atiku Abubakar in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, preparatory to the 2019 general elections, was one of the major ploys used by his adversaries to remove him. Onnoghen, who bared his mind freely in Abuja at the unveiling of a book titled ‘Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 2009, Practice, Procedure, Forms and Precedents’, authored by a legal luminary, Chief Ogwu James Onoja (SAN), said prior to his removal, he was accused by the Executive meeting…