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Power and network failures reportedly marred commencement of the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Saturday in some centres in Lagos and Abuja.
According to reports, some candidates in a few Computer-Based Test centres in Lagos State, scheduled for 7am, were unable to take the exam until 1pm, and when they were called in to commence the exam, their computers reportedly went off after writing just two or three papers.
The newspaper learnt that the Virtual Private Network, which transmits the questions from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, failed in a handful of those centres, leading to anxiety …
The South China Morning Post said a 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe.
The patient’s case was logged on Nov. 17, 2019, more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China, which is in Hubei province, at the end of December 2019.
At the time, authorities suspected the virus stemmed from something sold at a wet market in the city.
However, it’s now clear that early in what is now a pandemic, some infected people …
A mighty pipeline explosion shook several houses along Abule Ado area of Ojo, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Sunday morning.
Thick smokes and balls of fire envelop the atmosphere as panic struck residents scampered to safety.
The explosion reverberated and shook houses several miles away.
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA’s spokesman, Nosa Okunbor said the explosion might be that of a pipeline explosion.
“LASEMA Team Heading to Abule Ado, Trade Fair axis for investigation of alleged pipeline explosion. Awaiting details and preliminary reports,” he said.
…“That explosion
