The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has reported 90 new cases of COVID-19. The Centre on its Twitter handle @NCDCGov Tuesday night, also said the country recorded five additional death. With the latest number of cases, Nigeria has now recorded a total 56,478 cases so far. According to it, Lagos State recorded 33 cases while Plateau followed with 27 cases. Lagos-33 Plateau-27 Kaduna-17 Ogun-6 FCT-4 Anambra-1 Ekiti-1 Nasarawa-1 The release further showed that a total of 44, 430 persons have been discharged while the country has recorded 1,088 deaths so far.
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The House of Representatives’ Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), on Tuesday, hosted the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio to a closed-door meeting for over three hours. The meeting, which held in the office of Mr Olubumi Tunji-Ojo, the Committee Chairman at the National Assembly Complex, began at about 3.30 p.m. and ended at about 7.00 p.m. Akpabio had earlier visited the acting Clerk of the National Assembly (CNA), Mr Olatunde Ojo to congratulate him on his appointments. Speaking to journalists earlier, Akpabio said that he was also at the National Assembly to further boost the…
Top-12 finalist ventures and entrepreneurs this year hail from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda The two winners of the 2020 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize were announced this evening at the Africa Green Revolution Forum Virtual Summit in Rwanda: Moses Katala co-founder and CEO of Magofarm Limited (Tanzania) and Daniella Kwayu co-founder and CEO of Phema Agri (Tanzania). Each winner will receive US$50,000 to support and expand their agribusiness operations. Part of the Generation Africa youth initiative, the aim of this prize is to identify and inspire young people across Africa to seize the…
An indigenous scientist, Chief Apollos Keniyinbo, on Tuesday solicited the support of stakeholders to showcase a solution, he claimed to have found for the novel coronavirus. The Centre for Creative Scientists in Niger Delta in Yenagoa, Keniyinbo said that there was need for Nigeria to look beyond the developed countries for a vaccine and cure for the virus. “I am appealing to government at all levels to create an environment that will let the science community to verify and validate what I have done so far. “From when the pandemic broke out in China, I started working on a solution and…
By Christine Ochogo I. For the second day in a row, Jerry Oyoo, a western Kenyan farmer from Nyagowa village, Karachuonyo Constituency has just returned home with a sack of maize from his farm in Kimira wetland. “This is a huge waste of time, energy and money,” Mr Oyoo tells me sounding as if he needs some psycho-social support. “I spent Ksh 5000 (USD50) to pay for the tractor man to till my land. I spent a further Ksh 3000 (USD30) to pay farm labourers for the first weeding plus a further Ksh 2500 (USD25) for the second weeding, and…
The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has called on the governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi to respect the rule of law and the decision of the appeal court on the installation of the Alawo of Awo, Oba Azeez Sulaiman Aladejuyigbe. MURIC described the governor’s attempt to review the decision of the court as unlawful, illegal, illegitimate, unconstitutional, extra-judicial, undemocratic and a rape on the rule of law. The group’s position was made known in a press statement issued on Tuesday, 15th September, 2020 by its Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola. “We are calling on Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State to dissolve…
By Tina George, Minna The Niger state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on the state government to honour its agreement and employ teachers of Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK in its schools. Speaking during the Christian Teachers Forum in Minna, the state chairman, Rev. Mathias Echioda pointed out that the association in the state will not relent on its call for the state government to leave up to its promise to recruit CRK teachers. Observing that the state government was reneging on its agreement, Echioda maintained that teaching CRK in Niger schools remained paramount to Christian faithful, and a matter…
Professor Woke Soyinka, has thrown his weight in support of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who posited that Nigeria is more divided under President Muhammadu Buhari, and that the country is “on the very edge of total collapse.” “Today, Nigeria is fast drifting to a failed and badly divided state; economically our country is becoming a basket case and poverty capital of the world, and socially, we are firming up as an unwholesome and insecure country. “And these manifestations are the products of recent mismanagement of diversity and socio-economic development of our country,” Obasanjo had said. The Presidency…
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has commended the move by the government of United States, for issuing visa restrictions on persons with history of electoral-related violence. The move, according to the Executive Director, Auwal Ibrahim Rafsanjani in a statement made available to Ashenewsonline on Tuesday, is primarily to restore fairness, credibility and transparency in Nigeria’s electoral processes. “We recognised the remarkable development as restoration of fast-eroding democratic principles and core values in the nation’s electoral processes, dominated by decades of unchecked violence, vote buying and ballot lootings. “We express total support for the new policy,…
The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District, Mohammed Sani Musa, has disbursed 1,800 bags of fertilizers to farmers in his constituency. The Senator stated that the fertilizers were being distributed to the nine local government areas that make up the constituency to boost agricultural activities. Making the distribution, the lawmaker who was represented by Alhaji Baba Sule Bissala, said the fertilizers will enable the farmers have adequate input for their farms, especially as most of them have been affected by COVID-19 pandemic. He noted that the farm produce in Niger East senatorial district, have the ability to feed…