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Sunday, 26 January 2020 06:17

Lassa Fever: 195 confirmed cases, 29 deaths in 11 states - FG

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that 195 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever have been reported in 11 states, with 29 deaths so far recorded. It also disclosed that 89 per cent of the confirmed cases are from Ondo, Edo and Ebonyi states, and the increase in the number of cases at this time of the year was not unusual due to ecological factors. NCDC Director-General Mr Chikwe Ihekweazu, in a statement released in Abuja on Saturday, disclosed that NCDC has activated a National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) in response to the rising number of Lassa Fever cases…

Sunday, 26 January 2020 06:13

We want our daughter alive, with or without baby – Leah Sharibu’s family

The family of Christian teenage schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in 2018, Leah Sharibu, has described reports that she had a baby boy in captivity as a rumour. A senior lecturer at Department of Political Science, University of Jos, Mrs Gloria Puldu, who speaks for the family, also said that all they wanted was to have Leah home alive, with or without a baby. Some media organizations had earlier reported that Leah had a baby for a Boko Haram commander in Niger Republic and that she would have been released some months ago but for her pregnancy. Dismissing the…

Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:09

IPPIS: ASUU threatens strike over FG’s salary stoppage order

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it would immediately activate its resolution on a no pay, no work in response to the directive by the federal government to stop payment of lecturers’ salaries who failed to register on Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). ASUU had opposed the implementation of IPPIS in the tertiary institutions, saying it would among other things, infringe on the university autonomy and that it was out of tune with the operational peculiarities of the university. ASUU President, Mr Biodun Ogunyemi who spoke to THISDAY on telephone yesterday said: “We don’t have a copy…

Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:07

Mass evictions prompt protests as Lagos housing crisis mounts

The men in naval uniforms charged into the Lagos waterfront village of Okun Glass in the morning, chased out the residents, then called in the bulldozers. De facto village leader, 75-year-old Dauda Musa, said he fled as the men fired guns into the air. “They demolished our homes,” he said, standing in the rubble of what was once home to 3,000 people down the coast from the megacity Lagos. Nigeria’s navy said it had moved in to clear an illegal settlement - and accused some of the residents of vandalising nearby pipelines to steal crude. “This operation was not conducted…

Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:06

CAN tackles Sultan, insists Christians are persecuted in Nigeria

Christian Association of Nigeria has again dismissed claims by Sultan of Sokoto, Mr Sa’ad Abubakar III, that Christians are not under any form of persecution in the country. The Sultan, had at a recent event marking the closing of the 77th annual Islamic Vacation Course in Kano, denied that Christians were being persecuted in the country Abubakar said if such persecution really existed, it was supposed to have been tabled at the Interfaith Forum which he co-chairs with CAN President, Mr Samson Ayokunle. But speaking in Jos on Friday, Chairman of CAN in 19 northern states and Abuja, Mr Yakubu…

Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:05

As long as polygamy continues in Northern Nigeria, region can’t get out of poverty, backwardness - Sanusi

Emir of Kano, Mr Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has warned that unless people of the North change their culture, they will continue to be backward and in abject poverty. The emir made the comment in Gusau where he moderated a paper titled ‘The role of universities in nation building’ presented by Mr Usman Bugaje at the maiden convocation of Federal University, Gusau on Friday. The emir argued that the culture of marrying more than one wife by those who could not even properly take care of a single wife and producing many children was the main reason why the northern region…

Saturday, 25 January 2020 06:04

Coronavirus: Death toll rises as disease spreads

Health officials in China 15 more people have died from a coronavirus in the province of Hubei, where the outbreak first started. There are currently 1,287 confirmed cases in China, 41 of whom have died. It comes as China is begins celebrations of the Lunar New Year, one of the most important dates in its calendar. Many events have been cancelled and a new hospital is being built in the city of Wuhan. The virus has now spread to Europe, with three cases confirmed in France. The first case was in Bordeaux, while the other two were in the Paris…

Friday, 24 January 2020 05:48

Transparency International says corruption worse under Buhari. Here are 7 reasons underpinning TI’s report

Nigeria has dropped on Transparency International‘s yearly corruption perception ranking, moving two places down to rank the world’s 34th most corrupt nation. In the 2019 Transparency International’s corruption perception index released on Thursday, Nigeria scored 26 out of 100 points, falling by one point compared to 2018. In the country comparison, Nigeria ranks this year 146 out of 180 countries – two places down compared to 2018 results. According to Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Transparency International Chapter in Nigeria, the index aggregates data from different sources that provide perceptions by business community and country experts of the level…

Friday, 24 January 2020 05:47

Buhari has spent N1.7trn on power, GenCos claim N1.2trn loss; yet darkness pervades

Nigeria’s power generation companies (GenCos) in the past five years say it has lost a whopping N1.2 trillion to poor capacity utilisation and the country’s inability to transport over 21,184.62 megawatts of electricity to end users. With a peak suppressed load of 25,790MW on the grid, while peak generation hovers around 5,375MW (indicating that about 21 per cent of the suppressed grid load is met), Nigeria’s power generation capacity might substantially remain stranded in the face of load rejection by electricity distribution companies (DisCos) due to infrastructure and collection problems. Statistics exclusively obtained from the GenCos showed that since the…

Friday, 24 January 2020 05:46

FG, Southwest govs reach accord on Amotekun

Federal government and governors from South-west yesterday found a political solution to the growing rift over the regional security outfit, Amotekun. They both agreed to develop a legal framework for the outfit, whose launch has pitted the people of the region against the federal government, especially in the wake of the declaration by Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, that it is illegal. They also agreed that the regional security network would have to be aligned with the federal government’s community policing policy. Malami had insisted earlier yesterday that any security arrangement not supported by…

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Friday, 24 January 2020 05:44

Health experts calculate that coronavirus could kill 65m people within 18 months

A coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, has killed 17 people and infected more than 630. The virus has spread to at least seven other countries, including the US, were a 30-year-old man in Washington was confirmed to have the illness. A scientist at Johns Hopkins modeled what would happen if a deadly coronavirus reached a pandemic scale. In a simulated scenario, his organization predicted that 65 million people could die within 18 months. Eric Toner, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, wasn't shocked when news of a mysterious coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, surfaced in…

Friday, 24 January 2020 05:41

US to bar foreign pregnant women from entering country to give birth

President Donald Trump’s administration rolled out a new rule on Thursday that aims to limit “birth tourism” by women who enter the United States on tourist visas with the intention of obtaining citizenship for their babies born on American soil. Under the State Department regulation, which will take effect on Friday, pregnant women applying for visitor visas could be required to prove they have a specific reason for travel beyond giving birth, such as a medical necessity. Trump faces re-election in November and has made restricting legal and illegal immigration a focus of his 2020 campaign. During his presidency, he…

Thursday, 23 January 2020 05:34

Amotekun no threat to Nigeria’s unity – Tinubu

Former Lagos governor and National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Bola Tinubu, has called for dialogue as a way out of the acrimony and controversy that have trailed Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN), otherwise called Amotekun, established by South West. According to him, rather than pose a threat to the cohesion of the nation, Amotekun would complement efforts of the police and fill in existing performance gap. Amotekun, launched with glee in Ibadan, Oyo State, became mired in controversy when Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, declared it illegal, saying matters of…

Thursday, 23 January 2020 05:32

No crisis between Muslims, Christians – Sultan

Sultan of Sokoto and head of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Mr Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III on Wednesday in Abuja said there is no crisis between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, adding that ignorance has always been the cause of religious tension in the country. This is as President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Samson Ayokunle, who refused to make a speech during the programme, said he was not in a good mood to speak because of the killing of a CAN chairman in Adamawa state, Mr Lawan Andimi. “From December till now, we have continued to lose church…

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