The Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto Diocese on Saturday, write in his Christmas message to Nigerians to suggest that there would have been a coup were a Southerner currently the country’s president. In the same message, he also referred to Islam as a violent religion. However, MURIC in a press statement issued by Professor Ishaq Akintola, it’s director of the organization on Monday, alleged that the Bishop was rather filled with “tramadolised religiosity”. Read MURIC’s statement below: “We are shocked to our marrows by the vitriolic attack launched yesterday by Rev. Hasan Kukah against Islam as a religion. The Catholic…
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Nigeria’s women affairs minister, Mrs Pauline Tallen has tested positive for COVID-19. A statement she personally signed on Sunday, said though she was asymptomatic, series of tests conducted on her and family members returned her positive while the family members tested negative. Tallen has since gone into isolation and receiving treatment.
By Vivian Emoni The practice of collecting, treating, and managing waste prior to disposal has become a necessity in developing and modern societies. Over the years, most waste products have been regarded as having second-rate value and could be recovered and reused for valuable goods. Subsequently, waste can be wealth when properly managed especially in developing economies experiencing recession such as Nigeria. However, adequate waste is a requirement for effective integrated waste management, which will boost resource recovery, reuse, and recycling. Waste is often seen as something that is of no use or anything useful that is considered less important…
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Sunday warned that the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) would not be the last such crisis. Tedros gave the warning in a video released to mark the first-ever International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday. “History tells us that this won’t be the last pandemic and epidemics are a fact of life,” he said. The WHO head said that better investment in public health supported by governments and society could “ensure that our children and their children inherit a safer, more resilient and more sustainable world.” Tedros added that the new coronavirus turned…
Everton moved two places up to second in the English Premier League (EPL) and finished in the top four on Christmas Day for the first time in 16 years. This was after a late Gylfi Sigurdsson goal gave them a 1-0 win at bottom team Sheffield United on Saturday. The result left Everton on 29 points from 15 games, two behind champions and leaders Liverpool who are at home to West Browmich Albion on Sunday, while the winless Blades stayed rooted to the bottom with two points. Missing several key players, Everton looked subdued in the first half and nearly…
Health authorities in northern Zambia on Saturday launched a massive oral cholera vaccination campaign aimed at containing the frequent outbreak of diarrhea disease in some districts. The first round of vaccination campaign will be done in Nsama, one of the districts with high cholera incidences in which over 7,000 people will be captured, according to the state-run news agency, the Zambia News and Information Service (ZANIS). The National Cholera Elimination Coordinator Freddy Kapaya was quoted saying the first round would run for seven days and that the vaccine would be administered to people of all ages including children from the…
Manchester City breezed to a 2-0 home win over Newcastle United thanks to goals in each half from Ilkay Gundogan and Ferran Torres. The victory lifted City to fifth in the English Premier League (EPL) on Saturday. City went ahead in the 14th minute when Gundogan calmly fired home Raheem Sterling’s pass from close range after a typically patient and incisive build-up from Pep Guardiola’s side. Dominant in possession throughout, City went two up 10 minutes after the break. This was when Newcastle defender Federico Fernandez could only deflect a cross from Joao Cancelo into the path of Ferran Torres,…
The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 829 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), pandemic outbreak in the country. The NCDC made this known via its verified website on Saturday. The NCDC said that the new infections bring the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 83,576 which includes 70,495 discharged cases and 1,247 deaths. The public health agency said that the country sadly recorded one additional death in the last 24 hours. It disclosed that 256 patients were discharged after recovering from the infection from isolation centers across the country. “Our discharges today include 113…
The strain of virus of the second wave of coronavirus currently circulating in Senegal is “more virulent” than that of the first wave. Senegalese Minister of Health and Social Action, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, disclosed this on Saturday. In an interview with a local newspaper, Le Quotidien, Sarr said that, in terms of the aggressiveness of this second wave, “the virus is considered to be more virulent’’. “Clearly, from the point of view of the statistics that we have on the positivity rate by district, but also the attack rate and other parameters, we can confirm that the start of this…
Germany reported 13,755 more COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours on Sunday, bringing the national tally to 1,640,858, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The nationwide death toll rose by 356 to 29,778, the data showed. Germany reported its first case of the new COVID-19 variant on Thursday in a woman, who flew in from Britain, local health authorities said. The patient arrived via Frankfurt airport on Dec. 20 and tested positive upon arrival. Further virus sequencing of the sample at the National Coronavirus Consulting Laboratory in Berlin showed it was a case of variant B.1.1.7.…