Breaking News this Afternoon in Nigeria Monday 27th April 2020
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Covid 19: Kano records 2 new deaths of Covid 19 cases
The Kano State Ministry of Health has disclosed that two additional deaths of the COVID-19 have been recorded making a total of three confirmed deaths in the state. The ministry made this known on its official Twitter handle @KNSMOH, that at 12:15 p.m. of April 27, 2020, two additional deaths of COVID-19 were confirmed. NAN reports …
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FIFA proposes up to 5 substitutions per match on a temporary basis
FIFA has proposed that teams should be allowed to make up to five substitutions per match, instead of the usual three, as a temporary measure to help cope with potential fixture congestion in the aftermath of the novel Coronavirus outbreak. Football has been at a standstill since mid-March but many leagues and federations are still …
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Fire razes Lagos NNPC filling station
Adewale Sanyaolu, Lagos There was pandemonium at the Yaya Abatan/College Road area of Lagos Monday morning as an NNPC filling station was engulfed by fire. The fire which started at around 11 am was reportedly caused by a spark from a bucket while a 33,000-litre truck laden with petrol was discharging. When Daily Sun visited …
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Gov. Sule mourns Prof. Enna, describes him as `a theatre icon’
Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has condoled with Eggon nation and family of Enna Akama over death of Prof. Dauda Musa Enna of the Department of Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Lafia. Sule in a tribute to the late professor on Monday in Lafia, said that the state has lost a theatre icon …
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Convid-19: NMA threatens to withdraw services over alleged police harrassment
The Kaduna State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has demanded for appropriate disciplinary action against a police Inspector who allegedly assaulted a medical doctor in Kaduna on April 23. A statement by the association’s Chairman, Dr Stephen Kache, issued in Kaduna on Monday, said the medical doctor was on legitimate duty and had …
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Think globally but act locally now, Agbakoba advices FG on COVID-19 crisis
Lukman Olabiyi, Lagos A former President of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr Olisa Agbakoba, has counselled the Federal Government to think globally but act locally if it is determined to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. He adviced that for Nigeria to successfully handle COVID-19 crisis, given a weak public health …
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Port Harcourt correctional centre most populated in Nigeria – Comptroller
Tony John, Port Harcourt The Port Harcourt Correctional Centre has been described as the most populated prison in the country with about 4,600 inmates. The Comptroller of Port Harcourt Correctional Centre in Rivers State, Olumide Tuloye, disclosed this while speaking on the recent goal delivery by the State Chief Judge, Justice Adama Iyaye-Laminkara. Tuloye noted …
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Police arrest two Chinese illegal miners in Zamfara
Mohammed Munirat Nasir, Gusau The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested two Chinese nationals involved in illegal gold mining in the state. A statement by the Command’s spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu, said the arrest of the two Chinese illegal miners, Mr Wang and Mr Chun, at Kwali village in Bukkuyum local government area on Sunday, …
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CLO praises police inspector-general’s action against officers abusing Nigerians
Jude Chinedu, Enugu The Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) has hailed the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Muhammad Adamu, for taking decisive action against police officers caught in various forms of human right abuses while enforcing the COVID-19 lockdown in various parts of the country. CLO Executive Director Mr Ibuchukwu Ezike, who gave the commendation in a …
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COVID-19: Abia monarch urges FG, states to provide journalists with palliatives
Okey Sampson, Umuahia A first-class traditional ruler in Abia State, HRM Eze Isaac Ikonne, has called on federal and state governments to provide journalists on the frontlines covering the COVID-19 pandemic with palliatives. Eze Ikonne said that journalists, as professionals working round the clock under hazardous conditions in the coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, deserve …
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Covid-19: None of us has tested positive, says A’Ibom commissioner
Tony Anichebe, Uyo The Commissioner for Works, Akwa Ibom State, Mr Ephraim Inyangeyen has insisted that the news making the arounds on social media that nine commissioners in the state are Covid-19 positive, is false. He has therefore challenged the originators or sponsors behind the report to name the members of the state Exco suspected or comfirmed to have been down with Covid-19 and the location where they are taking treatment. In a statement made available to our correspondent in Uyo on Monday morning, Inyangeyen stated categorically that all…
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JUST IN: NNPC station on fire in Ogba
Reports reaching New Telegraph are indicating that the NNPC petrol station along College Road, Ogba is on fire. Images and videos posted on various social media platforms are showing thick black plums of smoke billowing from the burning station.
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Rice: Nigeria to save N418.9bn as Malaysia, Vietnam halt exports
CROSSROADS Largest supplier of foreign rice to Nigeria has suspend export T here are indications that export disruptions caused by COVID-19 crisis in Asia will enable Nigeria to save N418.9billion ($1.16billion) in 2020. The country depends on Thailand and Vietnam to meet consumption. Nigeria still needs about 2.11million tonnes of the grain to meet local consumption, which has reached 6.5 million tonnes. Findings revealed that the two Asian countries had suspended export of the grain to West African countries to enable the countries meet…
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Airlines face bankruptcy as cash reserves run out
T here are indications that Nigerian carriers are at the brink of bankruptcy following COVID-19 outbreak as the cash reserves are fast drying up. By the end of May 2020, most airlines in the world, particularly Nigerian airlines, will be bankrupt. Coordinated government and industry action is needed if catastrophe is to be avoided. As the impact of the coronavirus and multiple government travel reactions sweep through the world, many airlines have probably already been driven into technical bankruptcy, or are at least substantially in breach…
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Eterna Plc: Operational costs hurt earnings
Volatility in the overall economic and business climate is taking a negative toll on the earnings of Eterna Plc. Chris Ugwu reports O il and gas sector of the Nigerian economy like other sectors has remained very challenging with enormous economic and securities issues. The consequence of rapid devaluation of naira has wiped out billions of naira in market capitalisation for Nigeria’s fledgling oil and gas companies. Challenges of insecurity and other high costs of operations attributable to poor infrastructure have also continued to make the…
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Premium adjustment amid COVID-19 lockdown
Underwriters are resorting to giving back some percentage of their premium following the lockdown that has affected some policies, especially motor insurance, Sunday Ojeme reports T he outbreak of Coronavirus across the world has continued to alter the projections of book makers and also effecting changes on pre-pandemic agreements. While most businesses have practically shut down, a few others have introduced various tools such as virtual operations to keep them going. Mutual interest For the insurance sector, the debt to policyholders based on utmost good faith…
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Rout: Indigenous oil producers slash 49% off Capex
●IPPG allays fears of oil price shock HOPEFUL The Federal Government is hopeful that 9.7m barrels cut in OPEC+ production will stabilise crude market T wenty six major indigenous oil producers in Nigeria have slashed capital expenditure (Capex) in their 2020 spending plans by as much as 49 per cent as the price rout rocking the global oil market bites harder. Rising under the auspices of Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG), the exploration and production companies, however, allayed fears that the oil price rout might…
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Lockdown: Ending era of impunity by security agents
Lawyers push for erring security officers’ prosecution Tens of Nigerians have been gruesomely murdered through extra-judicial process by security operatives since inception of COVID-19 lockdown across the states in the country while enforcing government’s directive. How best should security operatives enforce directive on lockdown without breaching the law? AKEEM NAFIU and TUNDE OYESINA seek lawyers’ view N otwithstanding threats being posed by the dreaded coronavirus, the activities of security agents manning the streets to enforce the lockdown put in place by the Federal and the state…
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Abba Habib Kyari: A worthy ambassador
In 1953, the Church Missionary Society in Nigeria, which would years later evolve into the Anglican Church of Nigeria, started a post primary institution at the rustic outskirts of Zaria called Wusasa. Although proselytising was a major concern of the religious body, this was not the driving force in establishing a place to provide secondary school education. From inception admission was not restricted to children of the church members, because the focus was on developing the students mentally, socially, morally, physically and spiritually. There were other…
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COVID-19: Isn’t chloroquine stop-gap ‘saviour’?
S ince China first identified the novel coronavirus on its shores in December 2019, the world has been living on hope for a drug or vaccine for the treatment and prevention of the pandemic. But that hope has been unrealised due to several factors, chiefly the relatively unknown nature of the virus caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the fact that drugs and vaccines cannot be produced overnight. Producing drugs and vaccines takes time because they have to undergo clinical trials, which, in…
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