The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s address on the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging it was empty and failed to address the salient demands of the impact of the scourge on the nation.
It also alleged that outside the social distancing and isolation, which Nigerians had already imposed on themselves, Buhari had no new solutions to offer the nation.
The party further regretted that the address did not touch on the real necessities of majority of Nigerians who reside in the states where President Buhari had ordered a lockdown.
A Professor of Geophysics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife has debunked the explanation given by Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and the police for the deafening blast experienced early on Saturday near Akure.
Professor Adekunle Abraham Adepelumi, after leading a research team to the site said emphatically it was caused by a meteorite.
The P.M.News first reported that the blast, which left a crater on its trail, and destroyed several buildings, was caused by a meteorite.
However, Governor Akeredolu and the Police Commissioner Undie Adie attributed the blast to an …
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has appealed to Nigerians including the fans of the Super Eagles to remain positive and adhere strictly to all outlined precautions by the government in order to stem the tide of Coronavirus pandemic.
The German coach in his appeal message to football fans amidst growing fear over the outbreak said the virulent virus must not be allowed to stop friendship.
“This virus cannot (and must not be allowed) to stop friendship,” the 66-year-old Rohr former Bayern Munich defender told Nation Sport from his home in France.
Rohr is regarded as a ‘friend of Africa’ after …
The presiding Pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa has expressed disappointment over the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to declare curfew without providing relief packages for the people.
In a statement he personally signed, the cleric wondered how people could cope with such heartless and senseless idea.
He said,” Declaring curfew without finding ways to make the people happy is therefore heartless, and I call on President Buhari to do everything in his power to help underprivileged people.
“How do you want the people selling tomatoes and peppers in the markets to cope? When
Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast will help to bring all the separate interventions into an integrated response strategy.
Buhari had, during a nationwide broadcast on Sunday, ordered a lockdown of Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun States, respectively, in a move to curtail the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) to other states.
The move became necessary following the rise in cases of patients with Coronavirus in Nigeria.
Reacting to the development, Ezekwesili, in a series of tweets on her Twitter page on Sunday night, wondered
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari made a nationwide live broadcast by 7 pm on Sunday the 29th of March, 2020.
Fellow Nigerians,
From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide emergency, the Federal Government started planning preventive, containment and curative measures in the event the disease hits Nigeria.
The whole
