Nigeria news today headlines : Friday 15th May 2020
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BREAKING COVID-19: Nigeria’s Total Now 5,162 As NCDC Reports 193 New Cases
The total number of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria has reached 5,162 after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced 193 new cases in its latest daily update. The NCDC, via its Twitter handle @NCDCgov, gave a breakdown of the new cases across the country with Lagos recording 58 new cases, Kano 46, Jigawa 35 …
Mismanaging COVID-19 Pandemic In Style!
Even though by 2015, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had performed below the high expectations of many Nigerians and had rightly earned their rejection, I highly dreaded the disastrous possibility of Nigerians falling for the massive, overwhelming but vacuous propaganda of the All Progressives Congress (APC), backed by a formidable coalition of tragically naïve …
Defending The Indefensible
I was having a conversation with a group of male and female middle-aged professionals recently. One of the men in the group said that feminists like me are always quick to jump to the defence of women, even when they are in the wrong. He said that while he is against any kind of sexual …
Interrogating Nigerians’ Deadly Desires For Their Leaders
ONYEMA OMENUWA The death of Abba Kyari, President Buhari’s former Chief of Staff (CoS), on April 17, 2020, throws to the fore, again, the peculiar way Nigerians respond to such deaths. Whenever a Nigerian public official, particularly a political officeholder, suffers any kind of misfortune, many a Nigerian responds with jubilation. As intriguing as this …
Senate, MDAs And Public Accountability
The recent threat by Senate Committee on Public Account to demand for the sack of heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for failing to appear before it to defend several audit queries on them or if indicted, must be of interest to all lovers of accountability in governance. This is because these MDAs are …
COVID-19: Our Testing Strategy Yielding Results – PTF
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said its testing strategy was yielding results as it could now give care to those that needed it. Mr Boss Mustapha, the Chairman of PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), said this at the PTF on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday in Abuja. Mustapha stated …
WTO D-G Resigns Amid Appeals Dispute With U.S.
World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Roberto Azevedo said on Thursday that he would step down from his position effective Aug. 31 after seven years at the helm of the global trade body. Azevedo, a 62-year-old Brazilian career diplomat, stepped down more than a year before his second term as WTO head was due to end. …
Lawmaker Condemns Killing Of Jos Undergraduate, Calls For Probe
Mr Yusuf Gagdi, a member representing Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam Federal Constituency of Plateau in the House of Representatives, has condemned the killing of a student, Rinji Bala by a member of the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) in the state.Gagdi, who made this condemnation in a statement on Thursday in Jos, also …
COVID-19: Oko Poly Manufactures Solar-Powered Hand Washing Machine
The Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra, has manufactured a hand washing machine to help to check the spread of coronavirus disease.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fully-automated machine is solar-powered, with liquid soap, water dispensing, hand drying and two hand sanitising sections.NAN also reports that the machine was manufactured by a team of …
Post COVID-19: Presidency Lists Measures To Make Life Better For Nigerians
The Presidency on Thursday in Abuja listed measures put in place by President Muhammadu Buhari to make life better for Nigerians in post COVID-19 era. A statement by the President’s spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, said the measures are being taken in view of the global anxiety on what the future holds for humanity post-COVID-19, particularly …
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