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HILLARY ESSIEN

Hillary Essien is a reporter with Peoples Gazette focusing on special reports and critical national news. She is a lawyer with 2 years of writing and reporting. Prior to working with The Gazette, Hillary served as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organisation focused on food security for children of low income households.She is on Twitter @Hillary_essien
December 7, 2021

FG rejects proposed bill to prohibit open defecation, urination

“Creating an agency for a fragment of one component of sanitation would mean creating more than 15 agencies for sanitation issues alone.”

Open defecation
December 7, 2021

MainOne acquired by Equinix for N131.8 billion

The announcement came on Tuesday, and the acquisition is expected to close in Q1 of 2022, subject to the “satisfaction of customary closing conditions…”

MAINONE, EQUINIX
December 7, 2021

Electoral reform not important for elections to be fair under Buhari: Femi Adesina

Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media to President Muhammadu Buhari, says electoral reform is not important for elections to be fair under Mr Buhari’s regime.

President Muhammadu Buhari/Electorates at Polling unit
December 6, 2021

Hong Kong accuses Wall Street Journal of ‘incitement’ over an election editorial

In the piece, the Journal described Hong Kong’s upcoming poll as a “sham,” and asked Hong Kongers to “boycott” the elections.

December 6, 2021

Better.com sacks 900 workers via zoom call

CEO Vishal Garg accused the sacked employees of “stealing” from their colleagues and customers by being unproductive.

Vishal Garg
December 6, 2021

Imposing ban on African countries unfair, discriminatory: Akinwumi Adesina

“Now that Omicron has been found in many non-African and developed countries, why are travels from those countries not banned? Why single out African countries?”

Akinwunmi Adesina
December 5, 2021

UK stops issuance of visa to Nigerians

The decision was announced in a statement issued on Sunday by the British High Commission.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
December 5, 2021

RED LIST: Nigerians banned from visiting UK, travellers to book N1.7 million accommodation

Adult travellers will be required to pay £2,285 (about N1.7 million at BDC rates) for 1 room for 10 days (11 nights), and an extra rate for 1 adult or child over the age of 11 is £1,430.

Omicron
December 5, 2021

CNN fires Chris Cuomo for helping his brother fight sexual misconduct allegations

Chris Cuomo is accused of using his influence to press for information on his brother’s accusers, then sending same to the former governor’s staff.

Chris Cuomo
December 4, 2021

UK adds Nigeria to COVID-19 red list countries

The UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid says Nigeria “is second only to South Africa for cases linked to Omicron”.

Omicron