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Friday, 17 April 2020 05:04

Another fire incident kills 14 IDPs in Borno

At least 14 persons were killed in a fire incident at a camp for displaced persons (IDPs) in Borno State. Residents of the camp and similar ones in Borno were displaced from their homes by the Boko Haram insurgency which has caused tens of thousands of deaths. Casualty figure from the fire was announced in a statement by presidential spokesperson, Mr Garba Shehu, Thursday evening. Shehu said the fire occurred at an IDP camp in Ngala local government of Borno. He said President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday evening described as “extremely horrifying,” the news of the death of 14 persons and…

Friday, 17 April 2020 05:00

Trump announces 3-phase plan to reopen US economy

President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out “a phased and deliberate approach” to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases. “We’re starting our life again,” Trump said during his daily press briefing. “We’re starting rejuvenation of our economy again.” He added, “This is a gradual process.” The new guidelines are aimed at easing restrictions in areas with low transmission of the coronavirus, while holding the line in harder-hit locations. They make clear that the return to…

Friday, 17 April 2020 04:58

UK lockdown extended for 'at least' three weeks

Lockdown restrictions in the UK will continue for "at least" another three weeks as it tackles the coronavirus outbreak, Dominic Raab has said. The foreign secretary told the daily No 10 briefing that a review had concluded relaxing the measures now would risk harming public health and the economy. "We still don't have the infection rate down as far as we need to," he said. It comes as the UK recorded another 861 coronavirus deaths in hospital, taking the total to 13,729. Strict limits on daily life - such as requiring people to stay at home, shutting many businesses and…

Friday, 17 April 2020 04:57

WHO outlines conditions for easing restrictions

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief, Mr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus yesterday said countries that want to lift coronavirus restrictions must meet a row of conditions to prevent another surge of infections. In his weekly address to Geneva-based diplomats, Tedros said that easing social and economic curbs “must be done extremely carefully. If done too quickly, we risk a resurgence that could be even worse than our present situation.” He said, first of all, governments must ensure that the spread of the novel coronavirus is under control. According to new WHO guidelines, this means health authorities must know the origin of every…

Friday, 17 April 2020 04:55

Saro-Wiwa’s son dies of coronavirus

Son of late playwright and Ogoni activist, Mr Ken Saro-Wiwa, Menegian, has died from complications of covid-19. In an Instagram post, yesterday, his sister, Noo Saro-Wiwa, said ‘Gian’, as Menegian was referred to, who also had underlying health conditions, died on Monday after testing positive for coronavirus. “We said goodbye to my brother, Gian, on Monday. He had Covid-19 combined with underlying health conditions. Gian was the smartest and most talented out of all of us: a champion sprinter at school, a poet, an artist, budding engineer, a self-taught guitarist and pianist. But mental health issues limited his life from…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:54

Nigeria in dire financial troubles as oil price drops below $20

Price of Nigeria’s premium grade, Bonny Light, dipped yesterday to the lowest figure since the price of crude started plummeting at the International market, trading at $19.50 as against 21.06 per barrel Tuesday. Prices of crude have continued to fall despite the 9.7 million bpd output cut initiated by members of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, on Sunday. Other International grades, Brent and WTI dipped further, trading at $27.43 and $19.46 as against $29.92 and $21.09 recorded at the close of the market on Monday. Just last week, the federal government sent a revised 2020 Budget to National…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:52

FG lists criteria for selecting vulnerable Nigerians to get cash from govt

Federal Government says Nigerians with less than N5,000 in their bank accounts will be among the three categories of people to benefit from the palliatives to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Umar Farouq, said this while addressing State House reporters. She said based on President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that beneficiaries of the Conditional Cash Transfer be expanded by one million, the ministry would focus more now on the urban poor. “These are people who depend on the informal sector to earn their livelihood; they’re daily wage earners…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:50

FG pays N200bn to power sector operators to boost electricity

Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), Mr Mele Kyari, said wednesday that the federal government had paid over N200 billion to the power sector towards improving electricity supply. Kyari disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Abuja shortly after a closed door meeting between the NNPC; Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman, and Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Mr Usman Mohammed. “Actually the federal government has made payment of over N200 billion for power in the last 23 days and this will go a long way to ensure that issues around power supply are…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:49

Lassa fever killing more Nigerians than coronavirus, yet it isn’t receiving due attention - Report

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Lassa fever has killed at least 188 Nigerians this year, with experts saying the disease has wreaked havoc since its discovery in the country 51 years ago. Health officials have, therefore, called for a corresponding attention to end Lassa fever, emphasising that it is equally a deadly disease that has taken a toll on the citizens and medical practitioners over the years. It was gathered that from January this year to the first week of April, 963 people have fallen ill with the disease across 27 states of the country. Lassa fever killed…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:48

Nigeria loses first medical doctor to coronavirus

A medical doctor in Lagos, Mr Chugbo Enema has become the first health worker in Nigeria to die from COVID-19 after he contracted the virus from a patient he was treating. The doctor, who died at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Wednesday after being rushed to the facility Monday, was said to have managed a COVID-19 patient in a private hospital where he worked. The patient being treated died on Friday April 3. Confirming the development to journalist on Wednesday, Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Mr Chris Bode, said the doctor was not a staff of the hospital, but was rushed…

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Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:47

IMF warns of serious social unrest in countries due to pandemic

New waves of social unrest could erupt in some countries if government measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic are seen as insufficient or unfairly favoring the wealthy, IMF said in a new report on Wednesday. Governments had already spent nearly $8 trillion to combat the pandemic and mitigate the economic fallout, but more fiscal stimulus would be needed once the crisis abated, the global lender said in its semi-annual Fiscal Monitor. The spike in spending would sharply widen fiscal deficits, with global public debt set to rise 13 percentage points to more than 96% of gross domestic product in 2020,…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:46

Security agencies have killed more Nigerians under lockdown than coronavirus - Report

Nigerian security agents enforcing the Coronavirus lockdown in Nigeria have killed more citizens in the last two weeks than the deadly virus, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said. While the disease has so far killed 11 persons in Nigeria, according to data from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), security operatives have caused the death of 18 people, NHRC said in a report. In the report signed by its Executive Secretary, Mr Tony Ojukwu, and made public on Wednesday, the commission assessed the incidents of violation of human rights over the last two weeks. “There were eight documented incidents…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:45

Fire razes shops at Dugbe market in Ibadan

Tragedy struck in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, yesterday afternoon as fire razed about 30 shops at Lebanon Street, Dugbe Alawo in Ibadan, and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. Mattresses, clothes, household items, eye glasses, decoration materials, generators, and electronics were among goods destroyed by the inferno in the affected shops. Three persons were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury due to the fire that led to confusion and apprehension in Dugbe, Ogunpa, Ekotedo and their environs. A Toyota Matrix, parked by the roadside in front of one of the razed shops, was completely burnt. Although the source…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:44

Experts predict continuation of coronavirus social distancing until 2022

Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there could be resurgences of Covid-19 for years to come. The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that a one-time lockdown will not be sufficient to bring the pandemic under control and that secondary peaks could be larger than the current one without continued restrictions. One scenario predicted a resurgence could occur as far in the future as 2025 in the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment. Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard and co-author of…

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