The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 160 fresh Coronavirus infections in the country. The NCDC disclosed this on its official twitter handle on Saturday. According to the NCDC, the country has conducted about 532,765 tests since the first confirmed case relating to the coronavirus pandemic was announced. The agency noted that the number of deaths had increased by one and that 125 patients were discharged after they were successfully treated in the past 24 hours. It said that the new infections were reported in 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). This brings the total number…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Engr. Garba Balarabe With the global trend on digitalization and the paradigm shift from analog to digital technology, the need to pay more attention and embrace digital identification of citizens and corporate organizations for the full realization of ease-of-doing -business can never be over emphasized. Global economies and indeed Nigeria’s economic reforms agenda were all geared toward digitalization for optimum e-governance and finances as ways and means of ease of doing business. At present, our total National Identification Number (NIN) enrollment in Sokoto state stood at less than 20 percent of the entire population. This pauses a very serious…
By Elizabeth Carr, Bauchi The Secretariat of the Bauchi State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, is to be renovated by the state government. The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Media, Mukhar Gidado who led a team of engineers from the state Ministry of Works to assess the secretariat on Saturday, said the team would make recommendations to the state government for architectural design. The Governor had promised the newly elected executive council members of the Union, when they paid courtesy visit on him, that he would give the union a befitting secretariat. NUJ Chairman, Comrade Umar…
U.S. President Donald Trump, who is ill with the novel coronavirus and being treated at a military hospital, is seeing his condition improve, his physician said on Saturday. The president no longer has a fever and is not currently on oxygen to help him breathe, said Sean Conley, the physician to the president, addressing reporters outside the hospital. “The president is doing very well,” said Conley, adding that the medical team is “extremely happy with progress the president has made.” The president contracted coronavirus and was moved to the Walter Reed medical centre, a military facility outside Washington, on Friday, in what…
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 positive cases in Africa reached 1,497, 391 as of Saturday, the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll due to illnesses related to COVID-19 in Africa has reached 36,504 as of today. The continental disease control and prevention agency also said that the number of people who have recovered from the infectious virus across the continent had reached 1,236,859 so far. The centre said that the most COVID-19 affected countries in Africa are South Africa, Morocco,…
Journalists reporting developments in the nutrition sector in Kaduna State, say poor budgetary allocation is threatening the survival of 18,355 Severe Acute Malnourished (SAM) children in the state. Mr Joshua James, Executive Director, Open Kaduna Radio, expressed the concern on behalf of the journalists during a virtual 2021 Draft Budget Townhall Meeting on Saturday, with the theme, “Budget of Recovery”. James explained that the N188 million allocated for nutrition interventions in the 2021 draft budget was grossly inadequate to save the estimated 18,355 who could die of SAM. He said that the National Demographic Health Survey, 2018 shows that 1.1…
Novak Djokovic maintained his imperious progress at the French Open with a 6-0 6-3 6-2 drubbing of Colombian Daniel Galan to move effortlessly into the last 16 on Saturday. The 33-year-old was rarely extended by his 153rd-ranked opponent and even found time to help out with court sweeping duties when the match was interrupted by rain. Djokovic, like 12-times champion Rafa Nadal, has reached the last 16 without the loss of a set. Things will soon toughen up though, with powerful Russian Karen Khachanov up next. The 33-year-old Serb won the first set in 28 minutes and, when he broke…
Italian champions Juventus announced on Saturday that their entire squad have gone into isolation after two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. Juventus, who are scheduled to host Napoli on Sunday, confirmed those returning positive tests were “neither players nor members of the technical or medical staff”. “This procedure will allow all members who tested negative to the controls to carry out regular training and match activities, but will not be allowed contact with outside the group,” the club said in a statement. “The club is in constant contact with the competent health authorities.” Reuters
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence and Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Anti Corruption, Senator Aliyu Wamakko, has donated one hundred and five ( 105), motorcycles to the member of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN). ASHENEWSONLINE reports that Wamakko made the pledge last week when he paid condolence visit to Tangaza local government over the killing of a Divisional Police Officer and an Inspector of Police and cases of kidnapping. While the Senator pledged to give five motorcycles to the vigilantes in each of the 21 local governments of the state, he also said he provide special…
Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach the fourth round of the French Open as she beat eighth seed Aryna Sabalenka 7-6(7) 2-6 6-3 on Saturday. The 30th seed displayed her trademark court craft to undermine Sabalenka’s power as she surpassed her previous best third round showing at Roland Garros in 2017. Sabalenka led 5-1 in the opening set tie-break, but a series of errors allowed 26-year-old Jabeur to snatch it. Former French Open junior champion Jabeur’s level dipped in the face of some fierce Sabalenka hitting as the second set slipped away in little over 20…