Bode, Author at National Accord Newspaper

COVID-19: SERAP asks governors to redirect security votes, life pension to fund healthcare

Bode April 26, 2020

OLA MODUPE, Lagos Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the 36 state governors urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for...

Okonjo-Iweala: Ignored at home, celebrated abroad By DONS EZE

Bode April 26, 2020

The aphorism that a prophet is not recognized, or is with honour save in his own land, and in his own country, is clearly manifested in the case of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, who has since been ignored by the present administration in the country....

Group commiserates with Gov. Makinde over mother’s demise

Covid-19: 120,000 households to benefit from palliatives — Makinde

Bode April 25, 2020

…As govt reopens secretariat to workers on GL 13 and above on Monday …commends FG on fight against pandemic Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Saturday disclosed that no fewer than 120,000 households and groups will benefit from the palliatives being planned by the state. Governor Makinde, while addressing...

Tinubu mourns death of ‘most trusted security aide’

Bode April 25, 2020

EHIME ALEX, Lagos National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has expressed a deep shock over the passing on of his “most trusted security aide”, Lateef Raheem, who died Friday morning. A release by Tunde Rahman and signed by the former Lagos state governor has stated....

FirstBank confirms death of staff, says it remain committed to fight against COVID-19

Bode April 25, 2020

EHIME ALEX, Lagos First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced the passing on of one of its staff, Abdullahi Lawal, who until his death worked at the Kano Main Branch of the bank. The bank’s Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications, Folake Ani-Mumuney disclosed this in a statement on...

Borno records 3rd death from COVID-19, with 15 confirmed cases

Bode April 25, 2020

From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State recorded another death as a result of complications from Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the number of deaths to three. The state Commissioner of Health, Dr Aliyu Salihu Kwaya Bura, disclosed this in Maiduguri on Saturday while giving journalists an update situation on the...

Nigeria adds 2 molecular laboratories to test for COVID-19, bringing total to 15- NCDC DG says

Bode April 25, 2020

Nigeria Nigeria has added two new molecular laboratory network to test for Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), on Saturday in Abuja. He said the two laboratories are the Usman Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto and...

Igede media association decries murder of Benue girl by Lagos couple, petitions IGP

Bode April 25, 2020

EHIME ALEX, Lagos Journalists and allied media professionals of Igede origin from Benue State have criticized in strong terms the gruesome murder of a 19-year-old girl, Miss Joy Okom Adole, by a Lagos couple that hired her as a housemaid. The group, under the auspices of Association of Igede...

Osun records 12 fresh COVID-19 cases

Osun records 12 fresh COVID-19 cases

Bode April 25, 2020

The Osun government, on Saturday, said that the state had recorded 12 fresh cases of Coronavirus disease. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, disclosed this in a statement issued in Osogbo. Isamotu said that the tests conducted on 167 persons confirmed 12 as positive. He said that...

Open letter to President Muhamadu Buhari

COVID-19: Nigerian governors urge Buhari to relax lockdown

Bode April 25, 2020

Nigerian governors have advised President Muhammadu Buhari to relax the lockdown that has been in place in parts of the country in the last month in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus. They advised the president to impose interstate restriction but allow intra state movement. They also...

Orkar Coup: Thirty years after, By EMMANUEL YAWE

Bode April 25, 2020

I first heard that there was a coup in Nigeria on 22 April 1990 from veteran broadcaster Nyaka Mindapa. He was the founder of a popular political programme – “Democracy in Action” on FRCN Kaduna during the second republic. Now back home in Yola, he was running a department...

Chinese music video on virus cooperation lambasted in Philippines

Bode April 25, 2020

A music video aimed at celebrating a “new era of partnership” between the Philippines and China amid the coronavirus outbreak was lambasted on Saturday by outraged Filipinos. The music video of the song entitled “Iisang Dagat” (One Sea) was released by the Chinese Embassy in Manila on social media...

COVID-19: Ogun to enforce compulsory wearing of face mask from May 1

Bode April 25, 2020

…violators to spend 14 days in Isolation Centre EHIME ALEX, Lagos As governments continue to think out measures to halt spread of the coronavirus infection in the country, the Ogun State Government has said it will commence enforcement for compulsory wearing of face mask in the public from May...

Man who put Nigerian worker up ‘for sale’ arrested by Lebanese security forces

Bode April 25, 2020

Lebanese security forces have arrested a man suspected of putting a Nigerian domestic worker up “for sale” on a popular Facebook page used to trade everyday items such as furniture, food and shoes. “Domestic worker of African citizenship (Nigerian) for sale with a new residency and full legal papers,”...

COVID-19: NCDC records 114 new cases, with 855 active, as infections recorded reach 1,095

Bode April 25, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it has recorded 114 new cases of the coronavirus, a development which has taken the number of active cases of the virus to 855, and the total number of infections recorded so far to 1,095 as of late Friday. The centre, which...

Trump says U.S. states will be cutting oil production

Bode April 25, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump says Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota are going to cut their oil production, without giving specifics on numbers, amid a glut in energy supplies and shortages of storage that led to massive drops in prices on the market. “They gotta cut,” Trump said, speaking to...

Prisoners rebel in prison in Buenos Aires over coronavirus fears

Bode April 25, 2020

For fear of being infected with the novel coronavirus, prisoners in a detention centre in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires on Friday protested against the hygienic conditions at the facility. Prisoners in a federal prison in the Villa Devoto district set fire to mattresses and threw stones, chairs, and...

North America trade agreement coming into force in July, U.S. says

Bode April 25, 2020

The United States–Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will come into force on July 1, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Friday in a notification to the U.S. Congress. The revised USMCA replaces the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which President Donald Trump has claimed took advantage of U.S. businesses. “The USMCA’s...

Tunisia reports 4 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 922 in total

Bode April 25, 2020

The Tunisian Ministry of Health reported on Friday night 4 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of the infected to 922 in the country. “Following a total of 438 lab tests, 34 cases tested positive, of which four were new cases and 30 were previously confirmed...

Fight against COVID-19 key to stability in Africa’s Great Lakes region – UN envoy

Bode April 25, 2020

The international community should rally behind efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and other external shocks that could threaten long-term stability in Africa’s Great Lakes region, a UN envoy said on Friday. Xia Huang, the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region, said the...