Real Madrid football club of Spain, on Wednesday, announced that its players and coaches have agreed to take pay cut for the rest of the season. The club issued a statement confirming that: “Players and coaches from both the football and basketball teams, led by their captains, together with the club’s main executives, have agreed […]
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Written by Ekene Onyeama Nigeria is in desperate need for funding presently. The COVID-19 pandemic is seemingly relentless in its quest for the destruction of economies and the extermination of lives without recourse or regard to nationality nor continent. This has triggered a pure case of all hands on deck, as even individuals are tasked […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday pleaded for global unity in fighting the coronavirus, following US President Donald Trump’s stinging attack on its handling of the pandemic. As the WHO prepares to mark 100 days on Thursday since it was first notified of the outbreak in China, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hit back at […]
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday night announced 22 new COVID-19 cases. The agency broke the news in a tweet, stating that 15 were confirmed in Lagos, four in the federal capital territory (FCT), two in Bauchi and one in Edo. A total of 276 cases have so far been confirmed across […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has slashed the 2020 budget from N10.594 trillion to N10.276 trillion in view of global economic decline as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The amended budget has been sent to the National Assembly for consideration. In the budget the oil benchmark was also reduced from 57 dollars per barrel […]
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The Nigerian component of MNJTF together with other members from the Lake Chad Basin Commission has been involved in clearance operation around the Lake Chad Basin. This is the fall out of the recent past aggressive and offensive action of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in the North East specifically, Operation LAFIYA DOLE Theatre. The […]
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Lagos State’s Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has another the death of another COVID-19 patient in Nigeria. While making the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday, Professor Abayomi stated that the victim is a 66-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom. According to Prof Abayomi, the victim travelled from India via Dubai and entered Lagos on […]
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, on Tuesday declared that he is willing to set aside his immunity to testify against persons who violate the state’s border closure regulations aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus. Speaking at the office of the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, following […]
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Today there is an eerie silence across the globe. Bustling cities have gone quiet and highways that were once jammed with bumper to bumper traffic, are empty. In homes, thousands of families are anxiously awaiting a phone call from a hospital about their loved ones. Many have already received the devastating news that their mother, […]
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Lagos State Government, on Tuesday took delivery of three ambulances donated to the state by the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a tweet on Tuesday, the United Nations health agency explained that this was to support the government’s effort in curbing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. WHO added that the donation of […]
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