Covid 19 coronavirus: Covid? What Covid? Taiwan thrives as a bubble of normality
14 Mar, 2021 09:32 PM
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Masks, temperature checks and hand sanitising are common in Taipei and the rest of Taiwan. Otherwise, life has been startlingly normal. Photo / Ashley Pon, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Amy Qin and Amy Chang Chien
The island has used its pandemic success to sell something scarce: life without fear of the coronavirus. Citizens have flocked home from abroad, helping to fuel an economic boom. As the coronavirus has upended lives and economies around the world, Taiwan has been an oasis.
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Dauda Lawal
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission must return the N9 billion it seized from a former executive director of the First Bank, Dauda Lawal.
A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Muhammad Lawal Garba, on Friday, in a unanimous decision, dismissed the appeal filed by the EFCC against the judgment of the Court of Appeal which had set aside an earlier ruling by the Federal High Court delivered on February 16, 2007 for the final forfeiture of the sum of N9,080,000,000.00 (Nine Billion and Eighty Million Naira) to the Federal Government of Nigeria.