By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Solicitor-General of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Yusuf Wodi has said that the mobile courts constituted to prosecute violators of the COVID-19 directives in the Territory are legally and duly constituted by the FCT Administration. Wodi said the mobile courts were established through...
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EHIME ALEX, Lagos Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari has passed on, the Presidency announced Saturday. The official announcement was contained in a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity. Adesina stated that Kyari died on Friday, and that funeral...
Sudan on Friday reported one new COVID-19 case and one more death from the novel coronavirus, bringing the total confirmed cases to 33, including seven deaths. “One new coronavirus infection has been recorded together with one death case,” Sudan’s Health Minister Akram Ali Al-Tom said in a statement. He...
President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Amb. Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has warned against coronavirus-response measures that can deny citizens access to sufficient food and nutrition. He gave the warning in his remarks at an extraordinary virtual meeting of the Group of Friends on Global Food Security and Nutrition...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday reported 51 news cases of coronavirus, the highest daily record the country has witnessed since the COVID-19 pandemic. By this report, total confirmed cases have now escalated to 493. Of the 51 new cases, Lagos recorded 32, Kano...
More than 300,000 people in Africa could lose their lives due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) said in a report on Friday. “The pandemic could slow down the continent’s economic growth from 3.2 per cent to 1.8 per cent in a best-case...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has directed the Sector Commanders of Federal Capital Territory and Lagos State to work with their respective state authorities to ensure effective Mobile Court operations for violators of the Presidential Order. According to a statement on Friday...
It is on public domain that the Northern States Governors’ Forum, in a meeting recently conducted via teleconference and chaired by the forum’s Chairman, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, discussed the impact of coronavirus in the region as well as measures adopted by individual states to deal with...
“You can’t be silent and create silence in being silent.So you have to create silence or rather the effect of silence through words”–Peter Handke The virtues of silence practically cease to apply the moment one starts to hold a public office.There is always a need to set the facts...
The Kano State Police Command has urged residents in the state to adhere strictly to the lockdown order to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr Habu Sani, the state Commissioner of Police, made the call in a statement by the Command’s Spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, on Friday...
Summary Wuhan, where the virus emerged, revises its death toll up by 1,290 to 3,869 – an increase of 50% China’s economy shrinks for first time in decades due to virus impact GDP figures for the first quarter of 2020 show its economy contracted by 6.8% Singapore reports 728...
Novel Coronavirus active cases in Nigeria are now 277, with the majority in stable conditions, as the total number of cases rises to 442. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) gave the figure on Thursday night through its verified Twitter account. It said that by 10:20p.m. on April 16, there were...
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has received 14 AK47 rifles and 10,000 live ammunition recovered from bandits by troops of Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD). Brig.-Gen. Aminu Bande, Commander of the OPHD handed the firearms to the governor at the Operation’s headquarters in Gusau. Bande, who is also the Commanding...
Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa has said traditional leaders would assist the government in surveillance of state boundaries with Bauchi, Kano and Katsina that had confirmed cases of the Coronavirus. Badaru made this known after a meeting with traditional leaders and Members of the Council of Ulama (Islamic Clerics),...
U.S. President Donald Trump has said border control and travel restrictions would be top priority as the country prepares to reopen its economy after a costly coronavirus shutdown. Trump said during his daily news briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on Thursday where he announced a three-phased plan...
The Spanish Football Association (RFEF) has taken a decision on what to do if the La Liga season is cut short or abandoned due to the coronavirus pandemic, an official says. RFEF general secretary Andreu Camps disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He said the four clubs on...
A group of Colombian football fans stuck in Argentina after South American borders were closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak have appealed to their government to help them get home. Some 15 fans of Medellin club Independent arrived in Buenos Aires by bus in early March and watched their...
Nigeria’s leading financial inclusion services provider, FirstBank, has unveiled enhanced palliative measures to help its customers and Nigerians through these times of the extended COVID 19 lockdown in some states. Amongst these measures are; the introduction of special waivers on repayment fees on the Bank’s credit cards as well...