The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that about 190,000 people in Africa could die of Coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic, if containment of the disease fails. In a new study carried out by the agency’s regional…
Month: May 2020
Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min earns military accolade
Tottenham Hotspur striker Son Heung-min was named one of the top five recruits in his unit as he finished three weeks of compulsory military training in South Korea on Friday. South Korea’s marine corps posted pictures of Son wielding an…
10 staff of Lagos State House test positive for COVID-19
THE Commissioner for Health in Lagos State, Prof Akin Abayomi, yesterday (Wednesday), stated that 10 persons associated with the Lagos State House in Marina have tested positive to COVID-19. This came as Governor Babjide Sanwo-Olu and his wife, Dr. Ibijioke,…
Behold, economic restructuring opportunity knocks
The battering of the Nigerian economy by the COVID-19 pandemic has offered the country another golden opportunity to seriously consider the revisiting of the seemingly vexatious subject of political and economic restructuring, to guarantee the immediate and future viability of…
Bill on Quarantine Order for Second Reading at Senate on Tuesday
The Protection Against Infectious Diseases Bill which passed through first reading at the Senate last Tuesday and seeks to empower the National Assembly with the right to annul the President’s Quarantine Order will go for second reading next Tuesday. The…
50 Persons Missing, 300 Injured in Anambra Communal Clash
Many people were feared dead, while no fewer than 300 farmers sustained various degrees of injuries and property worth millions of naira destroyed following a clash between the people of Umumbo and their Omor neighbours in Ayamelum Local Government Area…
COVID-19: 16 almajiris from Kano test positive in Jigawa
Jigawa State Government yesterday said no fewer than 16 almajiris (Islamic school pupils) recently sent to the state from Kano State, have tested positive for the coronavirus, COVID-19. This came as Benue State Action Committee on coronavirus,COVID-19, Wednesday night intercepted…
COVID-19: Wike auctions vehicles seized for violating lockdown regulations
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said vehicles impounded for violating the COVID-19 lockdown regulations would be auctioned. He said on Thursday: “The defaulters will be tried by the Mobile Courts and I have told the Attorney-General that all…
Bundesliga schedule to resume May 16 after German government approves return
Germany’s top two professional soccer divisions will resume play May 16, becoming the world’s first major team-sports leagues to return amid the novel coronavirus. The Bundesliga and its second division received the go-ahead Wednesday, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced…
COVID-19: 33 million Americans rendered jobless by virus
US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during an event about protecting seniors, in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Washington.Trump 3.2 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus…