President Muhammadu Buhari has enjoined governors of the thirty-six states of the federation to work closely with the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19 to ensure a United front in the battle against the spread of coronavirus in the country. The president said this during a virtual meeting with members of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum(NGF) […]
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Breaking Free (4) – You never really know how lonely life can be until you become the most hated person in an area. Well, hated by half the community and loved by the other half. The raging debate after the boys had returned from jail was split. On half of the community supported the boys, […]
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Breaking Free Part 3 – Money answereth all things. It was a new truth that Belema was learning and it was bitter, too bitter. Chike was no longer the scared boy who had hung in the corners after the first beating and wept all night. Now, he was cocky, humming to himself and tapping his […]
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Breaking Free (2) – The bile was rising in Somachi’s throat, her skin was crawling with hives and yet, they said she had to do it. Her father’s fingers were drumming on his thighs as he sat beside her, while the heavy-set lady from the agency Uncle Somto ran, was leafing through a pamphlet. When […]
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The problem with having nothing to do is that you have too much time on your hands to contemplate nonsense. Or that you find yourself in a sticky, stupid, and harmful situation, like the one Belema was currently in. If he had stayed home, he would be safe. Safe and away from this place. But […]
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Enter COVID-19! The first reports about an unknown virus reached the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the last day of 2019. The virus was responsible for some lung inflammatory illnesses in Wuhan, China, a town of over 11 million people. On February 11, 2020, WHO designated the virus, COVID-19 – an amalgam of its status as […]
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