French health authorities recorded the highest daily increase in coronavirus infections since the beginning of the pandemic, as the government considers further measures to stop the virus’ spread. On Thursday night, 9,843 new cases were announced from the previous 24 hours, the AFP news agency reported, citing the health ministry. The government is set to discuss further measures to contain the pandemic on Friday and the scientific advisory board has called on the government to act, according to the report. Many doctors fear that the intensive care units could be overburdened in autumn – as they were in March. Currently,…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
No fewer than 50 houses and properties worth millions of Naira have been submerged and destroyed by flood in Gallah ward of Agwara Local Government Area of Niger. The Member Representing Borgu-Agwara Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Alhaji Jafaru Mohammedi, made this known on Thursday after commiserating with the flood victims. Mohammedi, who was accompanied by the Agwara Council Chairman, Alhaji Nura Kokoli, said he would work with the council to cushion the effect of the disaster on the people. “They need our help now and by the special grace of God we will do something,” he said. He…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 197 new cases of COVID-19, with five deaths recorded in the country. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. The agency said that the total confirmed COVID-19 infections in the country had reached 55,829. It noted that the 197 infections were reported from 12 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The NCDC said that the number of deaths rose from 1,070 to 1,075, while the number of discharged cases also increased by 200. According to it, Plateau leads with 83 new cases, followed by Lagos…
An English High Court court ordered P&ID to pay the sum of 1.5 million pounds to the Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN), during its scheduled hearing on Thursday. The hearing followed Nigeria’s major victory, granted by the court last week Friday, to bring a fraud challenge against a $10 billion arbitration award obtained by vulture-fund-backed P&ID, well outside the normal time limits. The court’s grant means Nigeria will now proceed to a full fraud trial. The hearing on Thursday was to decide procedural and costs issues relating to Nigeria’s applications to challenge the arbitration award as well as determine the…
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defence and Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Anti Corruption, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, on Thursday, lost his daughter, Sadiya, at the age of about 23 years. The deceased died at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, following delivery complications. Her funeral prayer was conducted same night at the residence of Senator Wamakko, Sahabi Dange, road, Gawon Nama, Sokoto. The prayer was led by the Chief Imam of Sultan Bello Juma’at Mosque, Sokoto, Liman Malami Shehu Akwara. The funeral prayer was attended by Senator Wamakko, former Deputy Governor and National Commissioner, National Population…
Following the signing into law of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 (CAMA) by President Muhammadu Buhari on 07th August 2020, there has been a lot of controversy. Some leaders of the Christian community in particular have complained bitterly that the law interferes excessively in their affairs, which are purely religious and should therefore be out of bounds for regulatory agencies. This is not a new position. I recall the same argument was made by Kingsway International Christian Centre in the United Kingdom over a decade ago. The church is led by a Nigerian pastor, Matthew Ashimolowo and had…
Sequel to appeals by stakeholders from various parts of the country, the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, has extended the submission of memoranda by two weeks. A statement issued by the Office of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, who is also the committee’s chairman, indicates that memoranda will now continue to be received until Friday, 25th September this year. Earlier deadline for submission of memoranda was Friday, 11th September, 2020. Giving further explanations, the Office stated that the extension of deadline would accommodate those who requested for more time to bring…
President Muhammadu Buhari says Federal Government’s wisdom in promoting self-sufficiency over the years has helped significantly in averting a food crisis, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Speaking at the National Food Security Council meeting held at the State House, Buhari maintained that the pandemic had exposed the level of preparedness of nations to shocks of food security. He noted that there was need for more effort to increase food production and self-sufficiency, assuring that the federal government would continue to promote policies that favour investments in the agricultural sector. “The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated more than any event…
)A container housing 5,141 Smart Card Readers at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Ondo State headquarters were on Thursday evening engulfed by fire. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, who confirmed this in a telephone interview on Thursday night, said he was in Akure for some INEC preparations for the state governorship election scheduled for Oct. 10, said that the inferno started at about 7.30pm. As at the time of filling this report, Okoye said that efforts were still ongoing to put out the fire. The cause of the inferno was not…
In a year devastated by locust plagues, the COVID-19 pandemic, and massive flooding that displaced over a hundred thousand people and left nearly 200 dead, Kenyans have to take their good news where they can find it — even if it promises to be short-lived. After an unconscionably slow start battling the locust infestations ravaging Kenyan farms, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) recently announced that it had scored important, but unfortunately limited, gains against the destructive insects. At the end of July, the second wave of locusts had been beaten back in all but two of the twenty-nine Kenyan…