The death has been announced of Alhaji Muhammadu Goni, the first civilian governor of old Borno state (comprising of present Borno and Yobe states). He died on Wednesday after a brief illness in Maiduguri aged 78. According to Wikipedia, Muhammadu Goni was born in 1942 in Kareto, Mobbar Local...
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Royal Dutch Shell RDSa cuts its dividend for the first time in 80 years and suspended the next tranche of its share buyback programme following the collapse in global oil demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said this in a statement issued on Thursday...
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has directed the 17 Local Government chairmen, neighbourhood watch groups and traditional rulers to man their council borders to contain the spread of coronavirus in the state. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof Simon Ortuanya in Enugu on Thursday...
The European Central Bank (ECB) could take its first steps on Thursday towards beefing up its monetary stimulus action plan, as a recession unleashed by the coronavirus crisis engulfs the eurozone. Analysts expect the Frankfurt-based ECB to announce it will maintain interest rates at historic lows, leaving the bank’s...
The death toll from COVID-19 reached nearly 60,200 in the U.S. on Wednesday, and confirmed cases surpassed 1 million, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some models had suggested the U.S. would not reach this milestone until late summer. The shuttering businesses nationwide – restaurants, gyms, retail – has led the U.S. economy to shrink 4.8 per...
In an effort to quell stress during the coronavirus outbreak, an estimated 58 million Americans have been spending more money than usual, a figure that still represents a minority of the 329 million U.S. population, according to a survey released Tuesday. The survey from the personal finance website Wallethub also showed...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Wednesday confirmed 196 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 1,728. The NCDC also said that the virus claimed the lives of 11 patients, bringing the total number of...
The Benue Government says it has concluded plans to return to their respective states, 40 Quranic education pupils, popularly known as “Almajiri”, who sneaked into Makurdi after violating the inter-state travel ban. Deputy Governor Benson Abounu, who is also the chairman of the COVID-19 Response Team in the state,...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos As the Federal Government looks towards lessening any adverse effect arising from COVID-19 pandemic on the nation’s economy, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that providing support to small businesses in the informal sector should be a priority for all economies aiming at lessening any...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the people of Kano State that his-led administration will do all it can to assist over the sudden deaths in the state. In the statement issued by his media aide, Garba Shehu, on Wednesday, Buhari stated that he will not let...
Jill Gascoine, the British actor best known for her roles in The Gentle Touch and The Onedine Line, has died aged 83, Independent UK reports. As Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in ITV‘s 1980 series The Gentle Touch, Gascoine broke new ground as the first woman to take a leading role in a British police drama....
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancée, Symonds, has given birth to a baby boy at a London hospital on Wednesday, slightly earlier than had been expected. “The Prime Minister and Ms Symonds are thrilled to announce the birth of a healthy baby boy at a London hospital earlier this morning,”...
By JACOB KUBEKA, Abuja – Five police officers attached to the Obudu Divisional Police Office in Cross River State, have been accused of extra-judicial killing and unlawful shooting of Superintendent Amawu Gabriel Anang on March 10, 2020. Ironically, the deceased, prior to his gruesome murder, was a Superintendent of...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Federal Road Safety Corps said it has released five basic life support ambulances together with teams of medical personnel of the Corps and 30 active Close User Group lines, to the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 as part of its commitment towards facilitating prompt evacuation...
By Jerome-Mario Utomi Similar to the Soviet Union /US time-honoured race for preeminence in the world’s political sphere, the heightened exchanges in recent months between the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), and the United States of America (USA), over the real/imagined cause, and origin of the dreaded Coronavirus (Covid-19), pandemic has, instead of...
A leading anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has expressed deep concern that the palliatives being distributed by Federal and State Governments in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak may not be reaching the poor. In a statement on Tuesday, the group’s Chairman, Mr Olanrewaju Suraju said...
Paper Presented to One Africa Initiative (OAI), Friday April 24, 2020 “I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve (1712). First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing...