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INTRO: The screening test for the 72nd Regular Course of Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) earlier scheduled to hold on 30th May, 2020 has been postponed indefinitely. The Registrar of the Academy, Brigadier General A A Aboaba while advising applicants to keep tabs on the development of a new date gave the reasons for the postponement as follows: #1.       Covid-19 Pandemic: The NDA screening test was reported to be postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the world. The disease thrives by human to human contacts which the screening test is bound to engender through pooling together of the participants in the test. Hence, in the interest of safety, the screening test was postponed indefinitely. #2.       In Obedience to the Ban on Inter-State Movements by the Federal Government: This is another reason given by the Brigadier General for the postponement of NDA screening test. Applicants to the screening test are spread across the states of the federation, and th

INTRO: In a resolution following the adoption of the motion on Power Sector Recovery Plan and Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic which was sponsored by Senator Gabriel Suswam of Benue North, the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan called on the Federal Government to cancel the Privatization of the Power Sector due to following reasons: #1.       Persistent Power Failure: The privatization of the power sector was geared to addressing the problem of epileptic power supply in Nigeria. The current structure were put in place under Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, but it has shown no significant improvement in the power supply in Nigeria. Electricity still remained a luxury to a vast majority of Nigerians. This was made more obvious during the Coronavirus pandemic stay at home in Nigeria. #2.       Lack of Prospects for Improvement: One could argue that the privatization of the power sector done by Goodluck Jonathan administration is still very unripe for assessment since it came into b