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When the administration of late President Umaru Yar’Adua toyed with the idea of Vision 2020, a dream intended to birth Nigeria into the group of the best global 20 economies by year 2020, many Nigerians looked forward to the year with great anticipation.
As with human limitations, not the best of seers could foretell the disasters and destructions that were to follow. Perhaps, looking back, Nigerians ought to have peeped into year 2020 with loads of trepidation.
The real manifestations of year 2020, however, had not been one that inspired the hopes and the optimism Nigerians had longed for as it became one of the most deadly in the history of humanity considering the high number of deaths recorded on account of the COVID-19 pandemic that shook the entire world to its very foundation.
COVID-19, End SARS, other political events that shook Nigeria, the globe in 2020
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By Seun Opejobi, John Nwachukwu, Wale Odunsi
As the year 2020 winds up in a few hours time, DAILY POST takes a trip down memory lane at some of the events that shook the world, ranging from COVID-19 on the side of health, to politics and other issues.
COVID-19
Coronavirus also known as COVID-19 is a deadly virus which first broke out in Wuhan, China in 2019 and has since spread around the world, causing major changes in world operations and also bringing about tears, pains and sorrow.
Looking at 2020, the virus turned the world upside down and altered the way people interact, travel, communicate with each order.
2020: Sorrow, Tears, Blood and Death, By Toyin Falola 15 min read
…it is clear there is little to nothing to celebrate about Nigeria in 2020. How can that even be when Independence Day was celebrated amidst protest and a month of bloodshed? 2020 for Nigerians could not have been any worse owing to the inactions, inadequacy and inefficiency of the disastrous government in Aso Rock.
December, 2019: Abuja, Nigeria. I penned down my plan for 2020. I was jubilant in the last week of that month, announcing my plans, building a support base for a new initiative I was putting together to forge an alliance between African private and public universities. Everyone I met was happy both with me and my plans. When I bade farewell on December 23, it was with firm assurances and a fixed date for my return journey to this elegant city. So confident, so excited, we were to link Abuja with Nairobi and to take the same mission to Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. Yet it was not to be. An
Ex-gov Dickson, Abiru, two others officially become senators Ex-gov Dickson, Abiru, two others officially become senators
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The Senate, on Tuesday, swore in four new senators from Bayelsa, Plateau and Lagos states to fill in the vacant seats created in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
The new Senators are; Seriake Dickson, Bayelsa West; Cleopas Moses, Bayelsa Central; Nora Ladi, Plateau South and Mikail Adetokunbo Abiru for Lagos East senatorial districts.
Seriake Dickson from Bayelsa is replacing Senator Diri Duoye who is currently the governor of Bayelsa State while Senator Cleopas Moses replaced Senator Lawrence Erudjakpor, who is the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa state.