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President Bola Tinubu this evening addressed the nation, announcing some palliatives to cushion the effect of high cost of living experienced in the country.  Some of the palliatives the President rolled out include loans for businesses, students and review of minimum wage.  My fellow citizens  I want to talk to …

On a Saturday in September 2020, with Covid-19 killing more than 600 Americans daily and hundreds of thousands of deaths still to come, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, heard her cellphone ring. It was Dr. Scott Rivkees, the Florida surgeon general. He …

Former presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad has shared a new Facebook post written in Hausa hours after the NNPC increased the pump price of fuel to N617.    In the post he shared, Bashir stated that rather than focus on cost of daily items, Nigerians should pray to God to guide …

Diogo Jota and Luis Diaz are good friends in the Liverpool dressing room – previously, they were landlord and tenant in Porto. Diaz joined Liverpool in January 2022 from Porto, where he’d been renting Jota’s house – the Portuguese forward hails from the area, and represented the club himself during …

After nearly 100 years of providing “simple accommodation for all”, the Youth Hostel Association is selling 20 of its 150 hostels in England and Wales. In a statement, the YHA said the decision had been taken after a difficult few years for the charity. “Pandemic shutdowns, the cost of living …

Businesswoman and makeup artiste, Banke Meshida-Lawal, has lamented the high cost of doing business in Nigeria now.   In a post shared on her Instagram page on Tuesday morning June 27, Banke said everything has increased and asked fellow employers what needs to be done to ease the situation.   …

Rishi Sunak’s pledge to ease the cost of living crisis is in tatters after the Bank of England was forced to raise interest rates to 5% in an inflation-busting move that risks driving the economy into recession. With the prime minister under fire over the soaring cost of borrowing, the …

The 2023 Belmont Stakes will take place on Saturday, June 10. There isn’t quite as much drama this time around with no horse going for the Triple Crown; Mage won the Kentucky Derby but National Treasure won the Preakness Stakes. The interest therefore lies in whether one can capture two …

The Monaco Grand Prix is Formula 1’s signature event and the 2023 edition takes place at the Circuit de Monaco this weekend. If you’re thinking of attending the event in Monte Carlo, tickets will be extremely expensive. Nothing comes cheap in the Principality of Monaco and admission to the microstate’s …

He is a leading Nollywood music producer with songs in over 1000 movies. Stanley Okorie has revealed his first paycheck for a movie soundtrack.