Amazon To Hire 75,000 Employees Amid Coronavirus
E-commerce company, Amazon is set to hire 75,000 employees to cope with the increase in demand of household goods due to the continued lockdown in the US over coronavirus pandemic. Amazon has already hired over 100,000 new employees in the past four weeks as a result of the uptick in demand it’s seeing due to the global […]
Coronavirus Strikes Sosoliso Airline Chairman Dead In UK
Chief Victor Ikwuemesi, Chairman, defunct Sosoliso Airline, has reported died of Coronavirus in London, United Kingdom. According to family sources and associates, Ikwuemesi died on Monday days after he was struck with the virus. According to The Nation, he later tested positive for COVID-19 in the result that was released on Tuesday. Ikwuemesi was said […]
IMF Grants Countries $500m Debt Relief, Excludes Nigeria
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced the approval of debt service relief to 25 countries. Kristalina Georgieva, IMF Managing Director, in a statement put the figure at $500million. She said the Executive Board gave the approval under the IMF’s revamped Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) as part of the Fund’s response to help […]
Buhari’s Lockdown Extension Will Result To Protests
The Executive Director of the Centre for the Vulnerable and Underprivileged, CENTREP, Mr Oghenejabor Ikimi, Esq, on Tuesday said the extension of the lockdown in Ogun and Lagos States as well as Abuja for another fourteen days without the provision of palliatives by President Muhammadu Buhari will be hectic on the citizens. The legal practitioner […]
Buhari’s Speech Is Very Disappointing – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Monday’s COVID-19 Pandemic speech by President Muhammadu Buhari as very disappointing. PDP said the speech, just like the pre-recorded broadcast of March 29, 2020, failed to address salient issues of urgent concerns to Nigerians in their daily struggle against the spread of the plague in the country. President Buhari, in […]
116 Discharged Coronavirus Patients Test Positive Again
About 116 former coronavirus patients have tested positive for the second time. They tested negative when discharged from hospitals, according to the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). They then tested positive days later. The strange development is now under investigation by the KCDC and the World Health Organisation. Read Also: Coronavirus Death […]
Nigerian Internal Conflicts Due To Poor Handling – MOSOP
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has blamed the current internal conflicts ravaging the Nigerian society on the poor handling of the Ogoni situation. In his Easter message delivered yesterday in Bori, traditional headquarters of the Ogoni people, President of MOSOP, Fegalo Nsuke said Nigeria’s compromises to appease violent agitators in […]
Spain Coronavirus Hits 172,541 Cases, 18,056 Deaths
Spain’s daily death toll is slowly decreasing from its peak in late March and early April when the daily death toll was at around 900 people. The total number of confirmed cases in Spain reached 172,541 on Tuesday compared to 169,496 on Monday, the Spanish Health Ministry’s daily update said. According to the Health Ministry, […]
The Criminality Of Nigerian Politicians
It is a well known fact that apart from the political leaders of 1966 whose thievery led to the 1966 revolution, the present crop of Nigerian politicians are the most irresponsible and corrupt. These present-day Nigerian political leaders are nothing but criminals who derive pleasure in looting the public treasury with impunity. They all claim […]
Coronavirus: The Weeks That Rocked Sport
As the coronavirus pandemic has put much of the globe in lockdown, sports has not been immune, indeed the deadly fall out from a Champions League game in Milan and the speed with which the disease spread through the UAE Tour peloton raise worrying issues for the future. AFP Sport picks 10 dates during the […]
‘Medibot’ To Do Rounds On Malaysian Virus Wards
Malaysian scientists have created a barrel-shaped robot on wheels that they hope will make the rounds on hospital wards to check on coronavirus patients, reducing health workers’ risk of infection. “Medibot” is a 1.5 metre tall (five foot) white robot, equipped with a camera and screen via which patients can communicate remotely with medics. The […]
Trump Says OPEC+ Planning To Cut Production 20m BPD
Top global oil producers are considering slashing output by 20 million barrels a day under the terms of a deal to boost prices, US President Donald Trump said on Monday. Trump’s remarks came after OPEC producers and their allies agreed on Sunday to cut production by 9.7 million bpd, which some analysts feared would be […]