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Wednesday, 18 March 2020 05:47

FG bars public, civil servants from traveling abroad over Coronavirus fears

Federal Government has banned all government officials, including public and civil servants, from traveling abroad. Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 announced the decision after a closed-door meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the committee, Mr Boss Mustapha, while briefing journalists, said the ban took immediate effect and affected all trips earlier approved. He said, “After due consideration and the trend of the spread of the novel Coronavirus, and subsequent declaration of the outbreak as a pandemic by World Health Organisation, the committee has decided that we upscale our health emergency system…

Wednesday, 18 March 2020 05:46

Third case of coronavirus confirmed in Lagos

Lagos State Ministry of Health has confirmed that there is yet another case of the ravaging coronavirus in Lagos, Nigeria. The patient is said to be an independent case not connected with the index case. The carrier, a 30-year-old Nigerian female who returned from United Kingdom on Friday, 13 March 2020, observed self-isolation, developed symptoms and has been tested positive. She is now receiving care in Mainland General Hospital. A tweet from the verified Twitter account of Lagos State Ministry of Health has confirmed the case. Vanguard

Wednesday, 18 March 2020 05:43

Abuja doctors begin strike over non-payment of salaries

Abuja chapter of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD-FCTA) on Tuesday began an indefinite strike to press home their demand for timely and adequate payment of their salaries, among other demands. The strike is coming at a very critical time when the Federal Government has just announced a third confirmed case of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Lagos State. ARD-FCTA is the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) chapter of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, comprising doctors practising in the 14 districts and general hospitals, departments of public health and primary health care development boards under the federal capital territory administration (FCTA),…

Wednesday, 18 March 2020 05:42

Yoruba World Congress calls for investigations into serial fire outbreaks in Yorubaland

PRESS RELEASE Prominent Yoruba leader, Mr Adebanji Akintoye, who is also a retired professor of history, has called on Federal Government and state governments to conduct investigations into the unusual spate of fire incidents in Nigeria and particularly in Yoruba land. Akintoye made this call after he paid a visit to the site of the recent explosion in Abule Ado area of Lagos state which claimed many lives and destroyed buildings and other properties worth billions of Naira. Akintoye who is also the International President of Yoruba World Congress expressed concern over the questionable silence of relevant authorities on the…

Wednesday, 18 March 2020 05:41

Disruption frenzy: Nations try to slow virus, aid economies

Mass disruptions shuddered across the globe Tuesday as governments struggled to slow the spread of the coronavirus while trying to keep their economies afloat. The chaos included border traffic jams in Lithuania, the deaths of 17 elderly residents in one Madrid nursing home and a bus service halt in Detroit when drivers didn’t show up for work. European Union leaders agreed to shut down the bloc’s external borders for 30 days. And in the U.S., West Virginia became the last state to report a case of infection, confirming the virus has spread nationwide. The administration of President Donald Trump was…

Tuesday, 17 March 2020 05:56

FG suspends plans to borrow $22.7bn

Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Monday, disclosed that the Federal Government has suspended its $22.7 billion external borrowing plans due to current realities in the global economic landscape. Speaking in Abuja at the 2020 International Conference on Nigerian Commodities Market, organized by Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, Ahmed stated that government would not go ahead with the borrowing programme even if it secures the approval of the National Assembly. The finance minister explained that the decision of the government to suspend the borrowing was because “market indices do not support external borrowings at the moment”. She said, “The parliament…

Tuesday, 17 March 2020 05:49

Boko Haram ambushes soldiers on rescue mission, kills 6

Six soldiers lost their lives in an ambush by suspected Boko Haram insurgents around Banki Junction in Borno state, military sources revealed. Two sergeants, two lance corporals and two privates were confirmed to be victims of the attack. The incident happened Sunday morning when about two companies of soldiers from the army’s 151 task force battalion in the area were on a ”rescue patrol”. “There were about 70 soldiers who were sent on that mission,” a source said. “We had information that some people were being held captives by the insurgents, and that was why the soldiers were mobilised to…

Monday, 16 March 2020 05:10

15 die in Lagos gas explosion, several buildings destroyed

An explosion at a gas processing plant on Sunday killed at least 15 people and destroyed about 50 buildings after a fire broke out in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, emergency services said. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said the explosion was triggered after a truck hit some gas cylinders stacked in a gas processing plant near the corporation’s pipeline in Abule Ado area of Lagos state. The impact of the explosion led to the collapse of nearby houses, damaged NNPC’s pipeline and caused the corporation to halt pumping operations on the Atlas Cove-Mosimi pipeline, the state-owned oil…

Sunday, 15 March 2020 05:28

US govt gives damning verdict on 2019 elections, says security agencies worked for APC, Buhari

United States Government says there is evidence that Nigerian security agents, including Department of State Services and Nigerian Army intimidated voters, officials of Independent National Electoral Commission and even election observers during the 2019 general elections. According to the US, this fuelled the impression that the Nigerian Army worked for the success of ruling All Progressives Congress. The US further stated that the Nigerian judiciary was still susceptible to intimidation by the executive and the legislative arms of government, adding that there was corruption in the judiciary, which made it not to be able to function independently. These observations are…

Sunday, 15 March 2020 05:26

Trump tests negative for Coronavirus

After days of resisting screening for the coronavirus, President Donald Trump tested negative for the virus, officials said Saturday night. Meanwhile, the White House began checking the temperature of anyone coming into close contact with the president and other officials. Prior to his testing, Trump said his personal physician told him he didn’t show symptoms and didn’t need to take the test. But Trump decided to do it anyway after repeated questions from reporters about why he was hesitating to undergo screening when he had been exposed to at least three people who have tested positive for the virus. The…

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Saturday, 14 March 2020 05:07

Nigeria’s External Reserves fall on crashing oil price

Nigeria’s external reserves recorded a decline of $2.3bn from $38.59bn to $36.22bn within a two-month period, covering January 1 and March 5 this year. An analysis of figures obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria on Friday indicated that this represented a decline of 5.9 per cent. Foreign exchange reserves are assets held on reserve by CBN in foreign currencies. They are used to back liabilities and influence monetary policy, which comprise foreign banknotes, deposits, bonds, treasury bills and other foreign government securities. These assets serve many purposes but are most significantly held to ensure that a government or its agency…

Saturday, 14 March 2020 05:06

From visit by El-Rufai and Sanusi’s mother, through ex-emir leading Jumat service in Awe, to his eventual arrival in Lagos - these are the fast-paced events Friday with deposed emir

Deposed Emir of Kano, Mr Muhammdu Sanusi, removed on Monday March 9 by Kano State Government and banished to Nasarawa state regained his freedom yesterday following an order of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. Mr Anwuli Chikere, while delivering a ruling in an ex-parte application the dethroned Emir filed through his team of lawyers led by Mr Lateef Fagbemi, held that Sanusi was entitled to his constitutionally guaranteed rights to personal liberty and movement. Governor of Kaduna State, Mr Nasir El-Rufa’i had visited him earlier yesterday as a mark of solidarity. He had honoured Sanusi with two…

Saturday, 14 March 2020 05:05

Osinbajo loses security aide in road accident

One of the Vice President Osinbajo’s escort riders, Mr Ali Gomina, a police inspector, lost his life Friday in a fatal accident while leading the vice president’s convoy to Abuja airport. Following the death of the rider, Mr Osinbajo cancelled the flight and returned to Abuja to mourn his security aide. A statement by the vice president’s spokesman, Mr Laolu Akande, said Osinbajo described Gomina as a diligent, hardworking and serious-minded officer who would be greatly missed. The statement read: “With grief in our hearts, we announce the death of one of the police escort riders on the Vice President’s…

Friday, 13 March 2020 05:08

Canadian PM Trudeau’s wife tests positive for Coronavirus

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday, and the outbreak prompted the province of Ontario to shutter schools to limit the spread. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau recently returned from London and experienced flu-like symptoms, so she was tested for the coronavirus, the prime minister’s office said earlier on Thursday. The test came back positive, it said in the evening. “The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms. As a precautionary measure and following the advice of doctors, he will be in isolation for a…

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