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North Korea pulls out of Tokyo Olympics over COVID-19 fears North Korea has withdrawn from the postponed Tokyo Olympics due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic.Advertisement In a statement on Monday, the sports ministry said the country’s Olympic committee decided.
Finally, Kogi receives 16,900 doses of AstraZeneca COVID vaccine Kogi state has received 16,900 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.Advertisement Abubakar Yakubu, executive director of Kogi state primary health care development agency (NPHCDA), received the vaccine at the state.
Lagos federal high court staff ejected as judiciary workers begin strike Staff of the federal high court in Lagos have been ejected from the court premises in an enforcement of the nationwide strike by members of the Judiciary Staff Union of.
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A High Court in Abuja has waded into the crisis which has been rocking the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) for many months.
The judge, Peter Affen, in a ruling on January 12, details of which was obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday, ruled against one of the factional presidents of the association, Ahmed Maiwada, who is seeking the upturn of the processes which brought in his rival, Camillus Ukah on March 28, 2020.
The registered trustees of ANA had been listed by Mr Maiwada (also the claimant’s counsel), as claimant/respondent while Jerry Agada, Odia Ofeimun, Olufemi Obafemi, Wale Okediran, Remi Raji, Akachi Ezigbo and May Nwoye, had been listed as defendants/applicants in the suit.
Nigerian professor narrates bitter experience with COVID-19
Unlike some professors who have succumbed to the virus, Mr Raji is alive to narrate the ordeal he went through in the hands of COVID-19 4 min read
A professor of English Language at the University of Ibadan (UI) has narrated how he battled with the deadly coronavirus.
The professor, Remi Raji, a poet and former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), explained that he noticed the symptoms of the virus on December 10, 2020 and had a 14-day experience “as a patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the well-manicured facility called IDC, Olodo”.
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The creative sector continues to lose some of its best to the cold clutches of death.
IT’S not been a good week in art house with the Grim Reaper continuing from where it left off in December. A former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors and Minister of State for Education, Professor Jerry Agada and prolific movie director, Chico Ejiro, were some of the high-profile departures from the creative sector in the last month of 2020.
But despite prayers for a halt to the deaths, two other eminent art personalities passed days apart during the week. Veteran journalist and former Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Otunba Eddie Aderinokun passed on Sunday, January 3 at 80.
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