Latest News in Nigeria Today Thursday 16th April 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Thursday 16th April 2020 .
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WSCIJ begins ‘COVID-19 reality check project’
By Ebunoluwa Sessou As part of efforts to ensure the Coronavirus pandemic and its impact gets well-reported, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, has started the ‘COVID-19 Reality Check project. The Executive Director WSCIJ, Motunrayo Alaka disclosed that the ‘COVID-19 Reality Check project’ was initiated to examine government interventions and promises in relationRead More
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NGO expresses concern over children with special needs amidst COVID-19
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja A non-governmental Organization, NGO, The Engraced One’s Prayer Support and Advocacy Initiative, EOPSAI, has expressed concern over the plight of children living with special needs in the midst of raging coronavirus, COVID-19, as it continues to ravage countries of the world, which Nigeria is also having its fair share. ThisRead More
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Chad to try 58 suspected Boko Haram militants
Fifty-eight suspected Islamists who were rounded up in a Chadian operation against Boko Haram will be heard by a criminal court from Thursday, Justice Minister Djimet Arabi told AFP. Chad’s President, Idriss Deby Itno, asserted that Boko Haram militants were chased out of the country in the operation carried out between March 31 and AprilRead More
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COVID 19: Ondo regent evokes gods
The regent of Ayeka kingdom, an Ondo community, has advised her subjects to take seriously the coronavirus disease on the prowl all over the world while appealing to people to constantly wash their hands and use hand sanitizer regularly. She gave this advice while speaking with newsmen in her palace at Ayeka in the OkitipupaRead More
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6 Years on: COVID-19 not an excuse to forget Chibok Girls
WO caught up with Helon Habila, Professor of Literature at George Mason University, USA, Caine Prize winner and former Vanguard editor whose book, The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria published in 2016, continues to make waves around the world. It has been six years since the infamous heist ofRead More
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Gunmen kill nine people in Plateau attack
Gunmen on Wednesday killed nine civilians in an attack on a village in Plateau, said police, in what one politician describe as the latest outburst of intercommunal violence. A police spokesman for Plateau state said the unidentified assailants shot dead residents and burnt 22 houses in the assault on the village of Hura. The bloodshedRead More
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Security agents killed more Nigerians within 14 days than coronavirus — NHRC
ABUJA—The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, said yesterday it was worried that within the initial lockdown period of two weeks, security agents across the country extra-judicially killed more Nigerians than the dreaded coronavirus.
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I’m still COVID-19 positive -El-Rufai
Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, said he was still under isolation for testing positive to COVID-19 and is yet to be cleared of the disease.
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Doctor dies of coronavirus after treating infected patient in Lagos
A doctor in private practice yesterday morning died of coronavirus-related complications after treating an infected patient in his hospital.
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Five security personnel killed by jihadists in Borno
Jihadists killed five Nigerian security personnel in a gunfight outside Maiduguri, the main city in Borno State, security sources said Wednesday. The state is the restive northeast of the country. A joint military and police patrol came under fire Tuesday from fighters aligned to the so-called Islamic State group near Buta village, 20 kilometres (12Read More
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