Month: April 2020
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BREAKING: Buhari to address Nigerians today by 8pm
President Muhammadu Buhari will address the nation at 8.00 p.m. today. This was confirmed in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity). It would be the way third time he would be doing so since the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The…
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BREAKING: Kwankwaso writes Buhari over mysterious deaths in Kano
Former Kano state governor Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso has written to President Muhammadu Buhari on the rising incidences of mysterious deaths in Kano state. In the letter with the heading on Monday, ‘ COVID-19 and the rising incidences of mysterious deaths in Kano state: a call on the federal government for urgent action to save…
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BREAKING: Heavy Fire outbreak in NNPC filling station in Ogba, Lagos State
There is an ongoing fire outbreak at Yaya Abatan area of Ogba, Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the fire had affected a filling station and nearby houses along College Road. As of the time of filing this report, the cause of the fire outbreak is unknown. “Yes, there is fire,” a resident in the…
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Borno recovers COVID-19 patient who fled isolation centre
The Borno State Commissioner of health, Salisu Kwaya Bura, has confirmed that Abbas Kaka Hassan, a 24 year-old male, who tested positive for Covid-19 has been traced around 2am in Maiduguri. The patient who was tested at UMTH’s COVID-19 laboratory was declared at large yesterday, after his phones and that of his mother were off.…
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COVID-19: FG has abandoned Kano, says Ganduje
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has accused the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 of neglecting the state in its current efforts against the coronavirus pandemic. Ganduje expressed his displeasures in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service on Monday. He said, “We are in a serious problem. I can tell you the situation is really…
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Falana to Ehanire: Make available full report on deaths in Kano
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has been asked to make available the certified true copy of the report of the joint investigation conducted by the Federal Government and Kano State Ministries of Health into the strange deaths and mass burials taking place in Kano State. The request came from Femi Falana who is the…
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Identiyy of a stranded girl on Lagos streets Established
* now with NAPTIP Raymond Gukas,Jos A teenage girl who was found straying alone in the streets of Lagos for about four days has now been identified. She is Evelyn Mallo, a native of Ron Kulere in Bokkos LGA of Plateau state. The video of the stranded girl went viral on the social media as…
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COVID-19: Bayelsa records index case
Akpoku who confirmed the development in a telephone interview on Monday said that there was no cause for worry. He said that the state had prepared well to handle the situation. He said that that the affected woman had been quarantined at one of the isolation centres in Bayelsa. The chairman said that the…
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KAM Holding distributes palliatives to 10,000 households in Kwara
By Steve Oni, Ilorin No fewer than 10,000 households in Kwara state are to benefit from a palliative measure put in place to cushion the effect of the lockdown occasioned by coronavirus pandemic by an industrialist cum philanthropist, Dr. Kamoru Yusuf. Dr Yusuf is the Group Managing Director/CEO of KAM Holding, a leading manufacturer of…
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Relax lockdown order now, OPCI President urges Buhari
By Steve Oni, Ilorin After about a month that President Muhammadu Buhari had announced the total lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory and many governors had followed suit in their respective states due to the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, the National President of Oodua Progressives Care Initiative (OPCI), Dr.…