FCT Confirms 36 COVID-19 Cases As Toll Hits 2170
The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, on Friday confirmed thirty-six new cases of Coronavirus. The confirmation was made by FCTA in a tweet via its Twitter handle. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Abuja to 175. The tweet reads: THIRTY-SIX (36) NEW CASES IN THE FCT. “Summary of COVID-19 FCT as at […]
Tony Allen, Legendary Afrobeat Co-Founder, Dies Aged 79
The Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, who is credited with creating Afrobeat along with his old bandmate Fela Kuti, died suddenly at the age of 79 in Paris on Thursday, his manager said. “We don’t know the exact cause of death,” Eric Trosset said, adding it was not linked to the coronavirus. “He was in great […]
IMF Lists Unpopular Policies CBN Must Reverse
The IMF wants the CBN to end some of its harshest policies including lifting the forex ban on 41 items. The International Monetary Fund, IMF on Tuesday approved a sum of $3.4 billion via a Rapid Financial Instrument to Nigeria. The loans come at a period when countries across the world are battling with the […]
WHO Probes Animal Source Of Coronavirus
The World Health Organisation (WHO), says the agency will work with relevant organisations to identify the animal source of coronavirus. They are the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General, made this known via the WHO Twitter account. Read Also: Russian PM Contracts […]
Atiku’s Company, Gotel Explains Sack Of 46 Staff
Gotel Communication, the company owned by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has explained that the sack of some staff of the company was for the purpose of restructuring. The company sacked 46 of its staff on Friday, the 2020 May Day celebration. A statement signed by Gotel General Manager, Mohammed El Yakub, explained that the rationalisation of […]
Over 1,000 Lagosians Are Now Infected With Coronavirus
Coronavirus infections in Lagos have reached 1,006 after the state recorded 30 new cases on Friday. It appears the state has passed its peak as it recorded a drop in infections in the last two days. After it ramps up 87 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Lagos recorded a drop in infections to 45 on Thursday […]
Police Exhume Corpses Of 3 Kidnapped UNIPORT Students
The bodies of three students of University of Port Harcourt(UNIPORT), kidnapped since 7 April, were exhumed by the police today. One of the bodies was that of a female student identified as Joy Adoki. By the confession of one of the arrested kidnappers, she was gang-raped and then unconscionably hacked to death. Police put all […]
101 Prisoners Regain Freedom In Kwara
Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has granted executive pardon to 101 prison inmates in the state to de-congest prisons. It was part of the strategies to curb the transmission of the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The freed inmates were drawn from the Oke-Kura Maximum and Mandala Medium Correctional Centres in Ilorin, the state capital. Adebisi […]
Irish Airline Ryanair Cuts Up To 3,000 Jobs Over Virus
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair said on Friday it planned to axe 3,000 pilot and cabin crew jobs, or 15 percent of staff, with air transport paralysed by coronavirus. Dublin-based Ryanair added in a statement that most of its flights would remain grounded until at least July and predicted it would take until summer 2022 at […]
Crude Crash Brings Down Singapore Oil Tycoon
Singapore tycoon O.K. Lim built up his oil empire from a single-truck outfit through hard work and high-risk gambles, a rags-to-riches tale that made him a legend among crude traders. But it all came crashing down when oil markets were plunged into unprecedented turmoil by the coronavirus pandemic and revealed the keen poker player appeared […]
China Journalist Jailed As Free-Speech Clamp Intensifies
A journalist who had worked for some of China’s most powerful propaganda outlets has been jailed for 15 years after being accused of attacking the ruling Communist Party, court documents showed. The sentence handed down on Chen Jieren is one of the harshest moves yet against free speech by China’s government under President Xi Jinping, […]
Biden Says Alleged Sex Assault ‘Never Happened’
US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former aide, saying the incident she says occurred 27 years ago “never happened.” The former vice president thus broke a month of silence on the most potentially damaging claims he has confronted since launching his White House bid a year ago. Republicans have […]