Nigeria news today headlines : Monday 4th May 2020
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Virgin Media, O2 In Talks Over Tie-up
Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica is in talks with Liberty Global about a merger of its mobile business O2 with Liberty’s Virgin Media cable company. A combination of O2 and Virgin Media would reshape the UK’s telecoms industry, leaving Three and Vodafone stranded without their own fixed-line consumer networks. Telefonica has been examining options for the …
Coronavirus Restrictions Curb Smuggling In Lebanon
Smuggling to Syria from the most active border points in the northern Bekaa region in Lebanon dropped over 90 percent due to restrictions imposed by Lebanese authorities to contain the coronavirus. The government had declared a state of health emergency in March and infections have been dropping in recent weeks. Four cases were confirmed on …
UNICEF Promotes Vaccination Campaigns In Middle East
The UN children’s agency on Sunday urged several Middle East countries to greenlight special polio and measles vaccination campaigns put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. UNICEF said the polio campaigns are on hold in Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq, while measles vaccinations are suspended in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Djibouti. UNICEF said nearly …
Police Kill 18 Extremists In Sinai Raid
Egyptian police forces killed 18 extremist militants in a raid on the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The ministry said security forces exchanged fire with militants as they stormed a hideout in the small Sinai town of Bir al-Abed. No casualties were reported among the police. The ministry, …
5 Sudanese Arrested Along Israel Border
The Lebanese army announced Sunday the arrest of Sudanese citizens near the border with Israel and was questioning them. The announcement came hours after the Israeli military said it detained the five on suspicion they were trying to infiltrate the heavily-guarded border. Israeli media said the five were job seekers who were returned to Lebanon …
Ivory Coast’s Gon Coulibaly Flies To France For Medical Checks
Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the ruling party’s candidate in October’s presidential election, has flown to France for medical checks, the presidency said on Sunday. The brief statement said Gon Coulibaly left on Saturday but gave no details about his state of health. A source close to Gon Coulibaly, who had heart surgery …
Gunfire Exchanged Across DMZ
North and South Korean troops exchanged fire across the Demilitarized Zone on Sunday. The South Korea military suffered no casualties, and officials said it’s unlikely that North Korea had any casualties, according to AP. Why it matters: It’s the first violent confrontation between the two countries on the border since 2017, and comes after weeks of conflicting …
Mosques, Schools To Reopen In Iran
Iran plans to reopen mosques and schools in areas that have been consistently free of the coronavirus as President Hassan Rouhani’s government starts to ease restrictions that were aimed at containing the outbreak, reports Reuters. With mosques closed and religious gatherings banned since mid-March as the outbreak spread in the Middle East’s worst-hit country, ordinary Iranians …
Plague Upon Plague Hits Yemen
Ten Covid-19 cases have now been confirmed in war-torn Yemen where health services face an increasingly desperate situation. Aside from coronavirus, they are already struggling with at least two other plagues – dengue fever and chikungunya. The seat of the Covid-19 outbreak is the southern city of Aden where 25 people in various parts of …
Coronavirus Vaccine Must Be Shared Worldwide- Pope Francis
Pope Francis called on Sunday for international scientific cooperation to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus and said any successful vaccine should be made available around the world. Francis, who has been delivering his Sunday address from the papal library instead of St. Peter’s Square because of the lockdown in Italy, thanked all those around …
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