Tag: 2021
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WAEC releases 2021 WASSCE results
West African Examinations Council has released the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates, 2021 – First Series. Head of Nigerian National office, WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan in a chat with newsmen said the examination was primarily designed to help candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions to reduce the waiting time for results…
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AFCON qualifiers: Results of Day 5 matches played on Thursday
Here are results of Day 5 matches played on Thursday in the qualifiers for the 2021 African Nations Cup (AFCON). Group C South Africa 1-1 Ghana Group D Gabon 3-0 DR Congo Gambia 1-0 Angola Group G Kenya 1-1 Egypt Comoros 0-0 Togo Group H Botswana 0-1 Zimbabwe Zambia 3-3 Algeria Group J Equatorial Guinea…
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Police IG vows to ensure improved security for Nigerians in 2021
The Inspector-General of Police, Adamu Mohammed, has assured Nigerians of improved security in the year 2021. Mohammed assured Nigerians that the Nigeria Police Force will be unrelenting in fighting all forms of crimes especially kidnapping, armed robbery, banditry, cultism, cybercrime, sexual and gender-based violence in the new year. He said aggressive, proactive, intelligence-driven and community-based…
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2021 is a year of rejoicing, good news – Adeboye
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has predicted good tidings for Nigerians and residents of Lagos State in particular in the year 2021. Adeboye made the declaration on Sunday at the 2021 Hybrid Edition of the Lagos State Annual Thanksgiving Service, held at Lagos House Ground, Ikeja.…
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Agenda 2021 – Chido Nwakanma
By Chido Nwakanma Considerable excitement has attended the entry of the New Year 2021. Much of it comes from relief at the end of the horrible 2020. Eternal hope in the human heart is the other impulse as people wish and pray for a better year. Caution is a dominant theme. Even the rambunctious seers…
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Dissent and the Failing State Debate – Chidi Amuta
By Chidi Amuta Nigeria enters the new year draped in curious contradiction. A protracted sixtieth anniversary celebration has recently been interrupted by an untidy debate about the nation’s very survival as a viable state. The question is simple: Is the Nigerian state failing? Among most enlightened Nigerians, there is now an inconvenient consensus that the…
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Hope for 2021, By Abdu Rafiu
We human beings cannot wait to bid the Year 2020 good riddance. The year is leaving behind unpleasant souvenirs, as it is dissolving to yield place to 2021 to mount the saddle. New words, new phrases, new adjectives and new phrasal verbs entered our lexicon in 2020 and within the twinkle of an eyelid gained…
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Prophecy: Osinbajo will be Nigeria’s president – Ghanaian pastor
Founder of Ghana-based Prophetic Hill Chapel Prophet Nigel Gaisie says Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will be president. The preacher stated this in his prophecy for the New Year during the watch night service on Thursday. “Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will become president,” he said. The cleric also predicted trouble in the Ashanti Kingdom.…
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Welcome, 2021 – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido I wholeheartedly welcome 2021 as I have welcomed every New Year since 1979, when I consciously started welcoming a new year. But I am not one of those who are relieved to see the back of 2020. Why should I? What is new and peculiar to 2020? Is it because of bereavements?…
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TNG analysis: 2020 is gone, but here is why we think Nigerians may carry over additional problems in 2021
With the hope of escaping many problems of the year 2020, today, Nigerians join citizens of other countries in the world to celebrate the beginning of the new year, 2021, but it appears so many of the burdens of the previous year may become a carryover for the country and its people. Covid-19, its…