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If there has been any incident during this COVID-19 pandemic that illustrates the shifty nature of this government, it is the saga of the so-called ‘Chinese doctors’. So sadly episodic has the event been that the term ‘Chinese doctors’ may well be a metaphor for the nonchalance and utter disregard for sincerity, which this administration has had for the people. The tale around the ‘Chinese doctors’ succinctly telegraphs the predicament of a nation so weakened by its servants’ lack of integrity. It is so unconscionable. Nothing illustrates this incredible faux pas as the response of the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, when…

• Nigeria has no reason to fail to win AFCON, qualify for World Cup Youth and Sports Development Minister, Sunday Dare, has reminded Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr that Nigerians expect much from him following the new contract he got recently from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). The minister, who said he was not averse to the contract extension, insisted that Nigerians must get results if the German coach must stay as the country’s head football coach. Speaking at the weekend, Dare said: “The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is statutorily in charge of the growth and development of football in Nigeria;…

Minabere Ibelema The road from a pig farm in Iowa to the offices of economic development in Abuja is a long one. So, you need to saddle up for the ride. Even as US grocery stores struggled to remain stocked with meat, pig farmers were killing the livestock in the thousands and struggling to dispose them. It was another anomaly of the coronavirus economy. The outbreak did not disrupt the breeding of livestock, but it interrupted their delivery to consumers. The livestock business, like most others, has various components. There are the farmers who do the breeding, the plants that…

Obadiah Mailafia The culture of lynching and genocide is deeply embedded in the gestalt of American race relations. And this, despite the Civil Rights Act 1964. As late as the 1960s in the Jim Crow South, it was the norm for the Ku Klux Kan (KKK) to fish out a young African-American for allegedly staring at a white woman and to hang him on a tree. These days, the lynching is done mostly through the police and the criminal justice system. This is how it comes about that there are more black men in prison than in college in the…

Premier League giants, Manchester United are “nearing” a loan deal extension for Nigerian forward, Odion Ighalo. Ighalo’s six-month loan deal from Shanghai Shenhua is supposed to end on Sunday (today) with the Chinese Super League club earlier saying they wanted the player back. The player’s agent, Atta Aneke, has, however, revealed that Ighalo is close to extending his stay with the Old Trafford side he joined on the January 2020 transfer deadline day. According to Atta, negotiations between Shangai and United are ongoing and an agreement is expected to be reached on Sunday. “We are nearing an agreement with Manchester…

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Sunday he will seek parliament’s approval to extend Spain’s state of emergency one final time, which would keep the coronavirus lockdown in place until June 21. The current emergency is set to expire on June 7, and the Socialist premier told a press conference that one last two-week extension was required, while welcoming that his hard-hit nation is “on the verge of arriving safely” out of confinement. The sixth extension since March will need to be ratified on Wednesday by the 350-seat parliament, where Sanchez’s coalition is in a minority. But he can count on…

Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez had three luxury watches worth more than £300,000 ($370,000) stolen when thieves raided his penthouse apartment, according to British media reports on Sunday. More than £50,000 in cash along with Cartier bracelets and rare football shirts worth up to £150,000 were also taken from the Algeria international. The watches were reported to be a £230,000 Richard Mille timepiece, a £40,000 Rolex Daytona and a £35,000 Rolex Day-Date. Mahrez, 29, was said to not have been at home when the offenders used a key fob to access his apartment and three others in the Manchester city…

In recent times, several natural cures have shown promise in the prevention, treatment and management of not just the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but other arguably, more deadly viral infections like Ebola and smallpox. But despite these breakthroughs, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), and other relevant agencies are still paying lip service towards the development and integration of traditional medicine practices, especially herbal medicine into the conventional health system. Also, despite several studies that have demonstrated…

Kylian Mbappe is not a good fit for Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, according to Jason McAteer.The Reds have been linked with a move for the Paris Saint-Germain star, who has been prolific in French football since breaking through at Monaco. Mbappe has also shone in the Champions League and was part of France’s World Cup-winning squad in Russia two years ago. Signing Mbappe would be regarded by many as a statement of intent from runaway Premier League leaders Liverpool, but former Anfield favourite McAteer is not so sure – with RB Leipzig’s Timo Werner and Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho higher on…

Reno Omokri God created diversity. It is satan that created racism. How do I know? The first time racism occurred in Scripture (“Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married”-Numbers 12:1), God punished the racists. Many people have asked why I am yet to comment on the George Floyd case, and the truth is that I am not as concerned about Blue on Black killings as I am about Black on Black killings. For every Black man killed by a White cop, there are over 20 Black people murdered by their fellow Blacks.…