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Thursday, 05 March 2020 05:33

Buhari drops Peterside as NIMASA DG, appoints replacement

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr Bashir Jamoh as director-general of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Jamoh will replace Dakuku Peterside who was appointed in 2016 to head the maritime agency. Peterside’s tenure as NIMASA DG ends on March 10, 2020. The newly appointed DG is currently executive director for admin and finance at NIMASA. Jamoh, who hails from Kaduna, is also the current president of Chartered Institute of Transport Administration of Nigeria (CIoTA). The 56-year-old holds a PhD from University of Port Harcourt, specialising in logistics and transport management. He also holds a master’s…

Thursday, 05 March 2020 05:32

US offers $7m reward for information on Boko Haram leader Shekau

United States Department of State (USDS) Wednesday announced a $7million (N2.54b) bounty for information that could lead to the arrest of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. The information was posted on the USDS’ counter-terrorism project, Reward for Justice Programme’s verified French Twitter handle @RFJ_Francais on Tuesday evening. The is the second time since 2013 that US government would be placing a reward on Shekau and other Islamic State in Syria (ISIS) as well as Al-Qaeda terrorists on the global watch list. Shekau, a factional leader of Boko Haram terrorist group that has wreaked havoc in northeastern region of Nigeria since…

Thursday, 05 March 2020 05:27

Yoruba professionals rally support for Amotekun, advocate more Southwest integration

President of Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI), Mr Olusegun Ahmadu, has called on Yoruba people of the Southwest and their kith and kins in the Diaspora to rally round and support Amotekun to ensure the initiative succeed. According to him, every Yoruba person must support the ideals of Amotekun, which, he, however, stressed must be seen beyond its recent launch by governments of the six states to safeguard lives and property in the region, but also as a pragmatic initiative offering immense possibilities for dynamic development and holistic transformation of different aspects of life of the geo-political zone. Ahmadu…

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 05:18

COVID-19: Aso Rock moves to protect Buhari, others through rigorous screening of staff, visitors

As Nigeria raised the alert level against the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Presidential Villa in Abuja commenced careening of staff and visitors on Tuesday. Besides the hand sanitizer being applied to all who must pass through the security screening point at the entrance into the main offices building, health workers were seen at the corner carrying out screening with temperature screening device. It is believed that the exercise is being conducted to protect President Muhammadu Buhari and his household from the highly infectious virus which has killed prominent ruling members of Iranian government. It would be recalled…

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 05:15

Reps suspend sitting for 2 weeks over Covid-19 scare

House of Representatives has mandated management of the National Assembly to shut the parliament for two weeks to facilitate the installation of infrastructure and other preventive measures that would protect lawmakers and workers from coronavirus. The House urged Federal Government to release emergency funds to Federal Ministry of Health, as well as other health agencies and institutions to eliminate the threat of coronavirus in Nigeria. It also called for the immediate reactivation of all centres established and designated for the treatment and management of Ebola cases in the country for the management of suspected cases and victims of coronavirus. These…

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 05:15

Dangote donates N200m to fight Covid-19

Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) yesterday pledged to support the current efforts of federal government against Coronavirus with N200 million. The ADF’s intervention is considered the largest single donation by a corporate organisation in the country to contain the spread of virus since a foreigner was tested positive last month in Lagos. ADF also committed about N1 billion to the fight against the dreaded Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Africa. The foundation directly supported federal government’s Ebola containment efforts through strategic investments that built resilience and strengthened Nigeria’s health system in a manner expected to endure beyond the Ebola crisis period.…

Wednesday, 04 March 2020 05:13

Southwest Houses of Assembly pass Amotekun bill

Ogun House of Assembly yesterday passed the state’s Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Bill, barely 19 days after receiving the piece of legislation from the executive arm of government, as part of its determination to stem criminality in the state. The bill titled: “HB No. 35/OG/2020- “A Bill for a law to establish the Ogun State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps to Assist in Maintaining Law and Order in the State and Connected Purposes” was passed during a plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr Olakunle Oluomo, following the presentation of a report of the Special Ad-hoc Committee…

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 06:04

Harder times ahead for Nigeria as oil prices fall amid production cut

Nigeria’s vulnerable economy may face further challenges following plans by Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reduce crude oil output by about 2.7 million barrel per day (bpd) in an attempt to save the market from the shocks of Coronavirus. Oil prices have fallen to a record low since the outbreak early this year with the Brent selling at $51.64 as at 6:00pm yesterday. Asked on the impact of the development on the country’s revenues and the leeway by the Federal Government to cushion the effect, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylva, said Nigeria would rely…

Tuesday, 03 March 2020 06:02

Ex-INEC chair, Maurice Iwu claims cure for COVID-19

Former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Mr Maurice Iwu, a retired professor of pharmacognosy, said yesterday he has found a cure for the dreaded coronavirus. Iwu, who is CEO of Bioresources Institute of Nigeria, BION, disclosed this yesterday when he led his team of researchers to brief Ministers of Science and Technology and Health in Abuja. He said his institute identified and patented the possible COVID 19 treatment far back in 2015 at University of Nigeria Nsukka, where he was a professor of Pharmacognosy and continued in America when he was visiting scholar at the Division of experimental…

Monday, 02 March 2020 05:24

Authorities identify 100 people exposed to Nigeria’s first coronavirus patient

Nigerian authorities have been in touch with around 100 people who may have been exposed to an Italian man who is the country’s first coronavirus patient, Lagos state health commissioner said on Sunday. The man arrived in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, on Feb. 24 from Milan on a Turkish Airlines flight that had a connection in Istanbul. The following day he travelled to neighbouring Ogun state and was in the country for almost two full days before being isolated. Asked in a telephone interview about the number of people Nigerian authorities had been in touch with who may have had…

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Monday, 02 March 2020 05:23

Catholics protest in Abuja, say Buhari has failed to stem insecurity

Catholics bishops took to the streets on Sunday in Abuja to protest against serial killings of Nigerians by Boko Haram terrorists and kidnappers. The protesters, including Catholic faithful, all dressed in black, defied the day’s light showers and proceeded on a peaceful march from the Ecumenical Centre to Our Lady Queen of Nigeria in Area 3, praying and seeking God’s divine intervention. They said the protest was on behalf of over the 50 million Catholics and over 100 million Christians in Nigeria. President of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, Mr Augustine Akubueze, an archbishop, who led the protesters, accused the…

Monday, 02 March 2020 05:22

FG closes Independence Bridge Lagos for maintenance

Federal Ministry of Works and Housing on Sunday announced the partial closure of Independence Bridge in Lagos for routine maintenance until May 2 to replace damaged expansion joints. A statement by Mr Adedamola Kuti, Federal Controller of Works, Lagos appealed to road users to use alternative routes. “As part of the National Bridge Maintenance Programme of Federal Government, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing has embarked on the maintenance of Independence Bridge, the bridge linking Bonny Camp and Onikan in Lagos. “The maintenance has reached the stage of replacement of worn out expansion joints and laying of Asphaltic concrete wearing…

Monday, 02 March 2020 05:21

Nollywood actor, ‘Pa Kasumu’, is dead

A veteran Nollywood actor, Mr Olukayode Odumosu, popularly known as ‘Pa Kasumu’, has died. His son, Mr Tunde Odumosu, broke the news in a telephone call to our correspondent Sunday evening. Tunde, who lives in Lagos, said his father gave up the ghost at about 12.30 p.m. on Sunday. He said, “I was called that his condition had deteriorated on Friday but when I called him he didn’t sound so frail. I recall him asking me when I was coming to Abeokuta and I told him Sunday. I was told he was taken to the general hospital in Abeokuta but…

Sunday, 01 March 2020 05:19

Lagos govt relocates Italian with Coronavirus to better facility

Having condemned the isolation room given to him, due to poor ventilation and mosquito bites, Lagos state government has on Saturday transferred the forty-four year-old Italian man to a better facility. Lagos commissioner of health, Mr Akin Abayomi, admitted that the Italian man complained about the previous facility, saying he (Italian man) said he is now comfortable in his new ward. Recall that the patient had threatened to escape, after complaining of mosquito bites and hot weather. In view of that, Lagos state government moved him to a renovated facility, that is better than the other previous one. “I saw…

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