Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, has appointed Alhaji Muhammad Kabir Inuwa as the New Emir of the Rano Emirate. The appointment of Inuwa was announced on Tuesday by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji. According to him, Emir Kabiru was selected out of three candidates submitted. Meanwhile, Ganduje has urged the […]
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Tottenham’s shot-stopper, Hugo Lloris believes that ending the English Premier League season without declaring Liverpool champions would be “cruel”. The goalkeeper is following the English social isolation rules at home with his family in London, helping his two oldest daughters with their homework while trying to stay fit in case the reason restarts. “We’re in […]
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state, in a tweet on Tuesday, announced the discharge another 60 COVID-19 patients. Of the 60, 31 were discharged from the Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 19 from the Ibeju-Lekki Isolation Centre and 10 from Eti-Osa Isolation centre. The latest discharges raise the total number of cases successfully managed in […]
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The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to suspend the planned deployment of the Fifth Generation Network (5G) in Nigeria. The upper legislative chamber stated this after the deliberation on a motion by Senator Uche Ekwunife, drawing the attention of the senators to the status of the 5G network in the country. Ekwunife […]
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BY REUBEN ABATI This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since the Federal Government placed Lagos and Ogun states, and the Federal Capital Territory on a lockdown […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has approved waiver import duty for medical equipment and supplies in order to “strengthen health infrastructure” in response to the #COVID19 pandemic. The waiver was announced in a tweet on Tuesday by Tolu Ogunlesi, special assistant to the president on digital and new media. This joins the list of fiscal […]
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Gunmen have killed seven persons in four separate attacks in Plateau State. It was gathered that while four young men were shot dead in an ambush by gunmen in Adu village and one killed in Miango town, all in the Bassa Local Government Area, two other persons were shot dead by gunmen in the Jos […]
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The United States Treasury has announced that its borrowing will reach a record 3 trillion dollars in the current quarter, as the coronavirus battered the economy and government spending increased, including through massive stimulus programmes. Treasury also noted a change in tax revenue, in part because it is offering deferrals. Last year, the department borrowed […]
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Ace Nigerian music video director, Clarence Peters, has narrated how two hospitals refused to admit Love Divine, a video vixen, popularly known as Kodak, who died of electrocution. It was reported that the dancer got electrocuted while operating her mobile phone she was charging in Peters’ apartment. It was also alleged that police in Lagos […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday, May 4 confirmed 245 new cases of COVID-19 in the country. In an update via its Twitter handle, the NCDC said the new cases have pivoted the total number of the infections in the country to 2802. On the distribution of the new cases, the NCDC […]
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