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Kim Kardashian West, the world famous businesswoman and TV personality, has garnered a huge following of 65 million on Twitter. West is the fourth most influential woman on Twitter, while she also counts Ariana Grande, Sofia Vergara, and Serena Williams as followers. “OMG 65 million followers on Twitter. Thank you so much. I love you,” she tweeted on Saturday. Kim Kardashian from Los Angeles, California, U.S. Kimberly Kardashian West (née Kimberly Noel Kardashian was born October 21, 1980. As of July 2018, Kardashian is worth US$350 million. Combined with husband Kanye West’s net worth of $160 million, their total household…

As the presidential election slated for November 2020 hots up, US President Donald Trump has taunted the presumptive presidential nominee for Democratic Party, “Sleepy Joe Cannot Bring Us To Greatness.” This is as Joe Biden, the presidential nominee backtracked on remarks “”If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” he made on a popular black radio programme on Friday during an interview with Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God. Trump added “He is the reason I am here.” Biden’s campaign later said the remarks, called “racist” by the Trump campaign, were…

Confirmed cases of coronavirus have increased to 7,526 in Nigeria. This is after 265 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the country on Saturday. Announcing this in its Twitter,  Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said data from the centre showed that an additional 167 patients recovered from the virus in the country. No COVID-19 death was reported in the country in the past 24 hours, according to the released data. NCDC said, “On the 23rd of May 2020, 265 new confirmed cases were recorded in Nigeria. “No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. “Till date,…

The Federal Government has announced that it had concluded payment of April 2020 stipends to N-Power beneficiaries in the country. Announcing the payment in a statement issued by the ministry on Saturday, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, said, “last week I promised that the stipends would be paid this week. “We encountered some delays on the GIFMIS platform but I can now announce that all N-Power beneficiaries from Batch A and B have been paid their April stipends.” She added, “We are working hard to streamline the programme for greater efficiency and to…

By Akanimo Sampson Prospects of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic returning to business, as usual, are currently not appearing very positive. Concerned strategic thinkers are already pushing for the advancement of a sustainable development agenda. According to them, a structural transformation of the transport sector will be needed if environmentally sustainable, green economies are to become a reality. It is being argued that the structural transformation could lead to the creation of millions of new jobs. So say the authors of a new study, Jobs in green and healthy transport: Making the green shift. The report examines the employment implications of…

By Akanimo Sampson Senior Technical Specialist, Gender Equality, Diversity and ILOAIDS, Afsar Syed Mohammad, says people living with HIV are not just being left behind they are being pushed further back. “The disruption to antiretroviral treatment (ART), the loss of jobs, the lack of access to unemployment benefits and health insurance are very real fears for those living with HIV during this pandemic,’’ says the ILO chief. Writing on Work in Progress, Mohammad says “what I have heard from those I spoke to in Africa and Asia is alarming,’’ adding that the main global objective currently remains the fight against…

Twenty-two Nigerian states have recorded 245 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 7,261 in the country. Of the number, Akwa Ibom has notched three new coronavirus cases, bringing the total in the state to 21. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control which stated this on Friday said 10 more patients died of coronavirus-related complications in the country. NCDC said, “On the 22nd of May 2020, 245 new confirmed cases and 10 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. “No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. “Till date, 7261 cases have been confirmed,…

In a desperate attempt to find a cure to coronavirus, the United States government has pumped in more than $2 billion to develop a vaccine for the pandemic. In his Twitter handle on Friday, Bernie Sanders, the defeated US Democratic Party presidential aspirant, said the government sent $1.2 billion to AstraZeneca, $483 million to Moderna, $500 million to Johnson & Johnson and $30 million to Sanofi. “This is what our government is paying to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Once a vaccine is approved by the FDA, it must be available to all for free. No profiteering,” Sanders hoped. AstraZeneca has…

The Coronavirus caused economic recession in the US might cause Donald Trump’s “historic defeat” in November this year, a new national election model has predicted. The economy has been Trump’s biggest talking point since he assumed office and many election analysts saw it as the major tool for Trump in his re-election bid. But with the ravaging effect of Coronavirus on the US economy, an unprecedented unemployment rate, vanishing consumer spending and a collapsing GDP, the election model released by Oxford Economics favours Joe Biden as the winner of the forthcoming US Presidential elections. The model, which uses unemployment, disposable income…

The inflation leapt by 0.08 per cent points higher than 12.26 per cent rate recorded in March 2020, National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, indicated in a monthly data report released on Thursday. On a month-on-month basis, the Headline index increased by 1.02 percent in April 2020. This is a 0.18 percent rate higher than the rate recorded in March 2020 (0.84 percent). The increases, according to the report, were recorded in all COICOP divisions that yielded the Headline index. The corresponding 12th-month year-on-year average percentage change for the urban index is 12.26 percent in April 2020. This is higher than…