French Prime Minister Jean Castex is to receive a complaint via the special Law Court of the Republic (CJR) from the “Victimes Coronavirus COVID-19 France” association for the poor management of the health crisis, lawyer Fabrice Di Vizzio representing the organization, said on Thursday.The Law Court of the Republic is designed to try the cases of …
By Omolola Afolabi Six shops at Ogudu Police Barracks in Ogudu axis of Lagos have been razed in a pre dawn fire incident,the Lagos State Emergency Management LASEMA has announced. It said six from the 17 shops were razed in the incident while 11 were salvaged and the fire totally extinguished by combined efforts of the Agency’s Response Team and …
Muhammadu Sanusi II has partnered with a Canada-based social enterprise, 1 Million Teachers (1MT) to provide equitable and high impact projects that enhance learning opportunities for the less privileged in the society. HH Muhammadu Sanusi who is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of 1M Teachers in Nigeria and the member of the parent company in …
China’s central bank on Thursday continued to pump cash into the banking system via reverse repos to maintain liquidity. The People’s Bank of China injected 110 billion yuan (about 16.25 billion U.S. dollars) into the market through seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 2.2 per cent, according to a statement on the website of …
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Wednesday there would be enough doses of the coronavirus vaccine available by the middle of 2021. CDC director Robert Redfield told the Senate committee investigating the response to COVID-19 that the availability of the vaccines would allow the U.S. to get back to normality, only …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that 3,442 patients have been successfully treated and recovered from Coronavirus (COVID-19) within the last 24 hours, as it recorded 126 new infections in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Wednesday. According to it, the figure takes the number of successfully treated cases …
Vice-President of the CNSP (National Committee for the Salvation of the People) Colonel Malick Diaw (C) takes a seat with other military leaders during the opening of two days of talks aimed at validating the terms of reference for a transitional government in Mali, on September 5, 2020, in Bamako. – Mali’s military junta began talks …
Indian Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday that India would have a vaccine against the coronavirus disease by early next year.“We are expecting that our country will have COVID vaccine by the early next year,” Vardhan said in a statement to the Parliament. The health official added that India was developing its …
IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said it would disburse 1 billion dollars to Angola to address the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The IMF executive board made the decision after completing a third review of Angola’s three-year economic programme under its Extended Fund Facility approved at the end of 2018, bringing the total …
Nigerian Flag The federal government has projected that Nigeria’s economy will recover from the effect of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the first quarter of 2021. This aligns with the projection of several analysts who are of the view that the recovery may have even started projecting that the huge drop in the nation’s Gross Domestic …
…Insist Ita Enang morally deficient to speak on 13% derivation By Harris Emanuel Akwa Ibom elders and leaders have called on the Federal Government to review the oil derivation fund to the states to 50 percent. The elders and leaders made the call against the backdrop of the fact that the current 13 per cent being …
Ugborodo community protest A subcommittee of Ugborodo Community interim caretaker committee on Inter Governmental Affairs has called on Chevron to implement the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed with Chevron. In a statement on behalf of Ugborodo women signed by its chairman and secretary respectively, Mr. Julius Atete and Joseph Uwawah, outlined the demands of the women. …
Jegede and Akeredolu …Scores injured, campaign vehicles burnt …Mobile policemen deployed to curtail crisis By Dayo Johnson LESS than 23 days to the governorship election in Ondo State, political thugs, yesterday, attacked the convoys of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate, and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, counterpart, Eyitayo Jegede in Oba Akoko …
By Victor Ahiuma-Young Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, yesterday, ordered immediate stoppage of distribution of petroleum products from Lagos to the northern part of the country till further notice. PTD, in a statement by its National Chairman, Otunba Salimon Oladiti, explained that the action became necessary, following shut out of heavy trucks, including tankers, from all the …
Professor Yemi Osinbajo …Urges them to remain patient, law-abiding By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has assured Nigerian traders in Ghana of justice in their running battle with the Ghanaian government. Recall that Nigerian traders in Ghana had their shops locked for months, following their inability to pay the $1million requirement imposed by the …
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina, has said Nigeria has always been divided and that it did not start under Buhari. According to him, right from amalgamation, Nigeria has been a divided country. Speaking during a Channels TV programme , yesterday Adesina said the division in the country …
The Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), AVM Muhammad Mohammed (rtd) on Wednesday, said over 900 houses were destroyed by flood in 13 out of the 14 Local Government Areas of Zamfara. Mohammed also said a 7-year-old boy died as a result of flooding in Gummi Local Government Area of the state. The Director-General disclosed …
By Sebastine Obasi The long wait for the rehabilitation of Nigeria’s ailing refineries may soon end, if the promise of the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr. Mele Kyari, is anything to go by. Kyari had stated that the nation’s four refineries, with a combined capacity of 445,000 barrels per day, are …
By Emmanuel Elebeke A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), the Act for Positive Transformation Initiative, has again raised alarm over alleged illegally expenditures in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The CSO raised the alarm in a letter signed by the Head, Directorate of Research, Planning, and Programmes, addressed to the Minister, Federal Ministry of Niger …
Herdsmen Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Alani Akinrinade, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to read the riot act to Fulani herdsmen to stop killing and kidnapping of innocent Nigerians. He made the call at the commissioning of projects at Kuta and Asamu in Osun State by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur …
