May 3, 2020

Europe Prepares To Ease Lockdowns As Pandemic Ebbs

Europe Prepares To Ease Lockdowns As Pandemic Ebbs

May 3, 2020 6:25 pm

European nations on Sunday prepared for further cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions following signs the pandemic may be slowing, with hard-hit Italy set to follow Spain in allowing people outside after weeks of confinement.

More than 243,000 people have been killed and 3.4 million infected worldwide by the virus, which has left half of humanity under some form of lockdown and pushed the global economy towards its worst downturn since the Great Depression.

With signs that the spread of the disease is coming under control, parts of Europe, Asia and the United States have begun to lift restrictions to try …

MGM Pitches Plan For NBA To Finish Season In Vegas

MGM Pitches Plan For NBA To Finish Season In Vegas

May 3, 2020 6:23 pm

MGM Resorts International has pitched a proposal to the NBA to complete the coronavirus-halted 2019-20 season on courts in Las Vegas convention centers, the New York Times reported.

The plan, according to the newspaper, would have players and their families, plus other essential personnel, stay in a quarantined area in MGM hotels along the Las Vegas Strip while practicing and competing on courts in the same facilities.

Players and broadcasters would have access to the usual resort facilities while in the protected area under the plan by MGM, which has 13 Vegas resort properties.

The plan would convert MGM convention …

North And South Korea Exchange Gunfire At Border - Seoul

North And South Korea Exchange Gunfire At Border: Seoul

May 3, 2020 6:22 pm

North Korean troops fired multiple gunshots towards the South in the DMZ dividing the peninsula on Sunday, prompting South Korean forces to fire back, Seoul said.

The rare exchange of gunfire comes a day after North Korean state media reported that leader Kim Jong Un had made his first public appearance in nearly three weeks following an absence that triggered intense speculation about his health and fears about the stability of the isolated nation.

A South Korean guard post was hit by several shots from the North, the joint chiefs of staff (JCS) in Seoul said in a statement, adding …

US Secretary Of State, Pompeo’s COVID-19 Test Result Revealed

Pompeo Steps Up US Pressure On China Over Pandemic

May 3, 2020 6:21 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday stepped up a US campaign to hold China accountable for the spread of the deadly coronavirus, asserting there is “enormous evidence” the virus originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan.

The high-security bio-containment facility, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has called such claims “impossible”.

Pompeo, speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” did not elaborate on what he also described as “significant amounts of evidence”. But Pompeo’s words clearly sought to buttress repeated criticism from Donald Trump about China’s role in the pandemic.

The US president has said that by playing down the …

World Press Freedom Day - Journalists Still Under Attack

World Press Freedom Day: Journalists Still Under Attack

May 3, 2020 2:45 pm

To mark World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, the One Free Press Coalition has called for the immediate release of all imprisoned journalists amid increasing threats to press freedom worldwide during the coronavirus pandemic.

Each month, the coalition, which comprises prominent news organisations and publishers, including Al Jazeera Media Network, brings to the public’s attention the 10 “most urgent” cases of journalists whose freedoms are being suppressed or whose cases are seeking justice.

Throughout the years, the campaign has highlighted the plight of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who was killed inside the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018, as

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FFK Blasts Wigwe - You Gave FG N1bn To Sack Hundreds

FFK Blasts Wigwe: You Gave FG ₦1bn To Sack Hundreds

May 3, 2020 2:44 pm
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has berated the Managing Director of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe for sacking hundreds of staff after giving the Federal Government ₦1 billion to fight Coronavirus.

Access Bank had given the Federal Government ₦1 billion to wage war against Coronavirus.

But the bank, few days ago laid off lots of staff, citing economic downturn arising from Coronavirus lockdown as the reason.

The bank also cut the salaries of staff of the bank, as part of measures to stay afloat.

Read Also: I’m Not Surprised At Kano Coronavirus Death Rate – FFK

Fani-Kayode, reacting to the development said it …

Survivors Of Nigeria's 'Baby Factories' Share Their Stories

Survivors Of Nigeria’s Baby Factories Share Their Stories

May 3, 2020 2:40 pm
As 16-year-old Miriam* stepped out of her tent to fetch water near the Madinatu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state in January last year, a middle-aged woman she knew as “Aunty Kiki” approached her.

She asked Miriam if she was interested in moving to the city of Enugu to work as a housemaid for a monthly salary.

Miriam, who is now 17, wasted no time in accepting the offer and began to prepare for her trip to the east the following day.

She told her 17-year-old cousin, Roda*, about it and advised her to approach Aunty

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UK Government Debt Surpass £2 Trillion For First Time

Doctors Prepared To Announce My Death’ – Boris Johnson

May 3, 2020 2:39 pm

UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has revealed that doctors prepared to announce his death as he battled the coronavirus disease after testing positive.

The Prime Minister made his first public appearance on Monday after fully recovering from the disease he battled for nearly a month.

Speaking with the Sun UK, Boris said he was in a life-or-death struggle against the virus, adding that he depended on litres and litres of oxygen to survive.

Read Also: Child No.5 For Boris Johnson, Fiancee Symonds Gives Birth

According to him, doctors already made arrangements on how to announce his death if things went

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U.S. Deepens Charge Against China’s Wuhan Lab

U.S. Deepens Charge Against China’s Wuhan Lab

May 3, 2020 2:32 pm

The United States has doubled down on its accusation that China’s Wuhan lab unleashed the disruptive coronavirus into the world.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that there was “enormous evidence” that the virus originated in the lab.

“There is enormous evidence that this is where it began,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Read Also: China Says That All Wuhan Virus Patients Discharged

But while highly critical of China’s handling of the matter, Pompeo declined to say whether he thought the virus had been intentionally released.

President Donald Trump has been increasingly critical of China’s role in …

Iran Set To Reopen Mosques In Low-Risk Areas

Iran Set To Reopen Mosques In Low-Risk Areas

May 3, 2020 2:30 pm

Health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said 47 people died of the virus over the past 24 hours, the lowest daily count in 55 days.

He told a news conference he hoped “the trend will continue in the upcoming days”.

President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised statement on Sunday that 132 counties, about one-third of the country’s administrative divisions, will “reopen their mosques as of tomorrow”.

“Social distancing is more

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Police Detain Clarence Peters For Kodak's Death

Police Detain Clarence Peters For Kodak’s Death

May 3, 2020 2:30 pm

Music director and producer Clarence Peters is currently being detained by Lagos police over the death of popular dancer, Love Divines known as Kodak.

This happened after reports emerged that the popular dancer died at Peters’ house on Wednesday while charging her iPhone.

It was reported that the dancer was barefooted and sat near the door of the residence while operating the plugged phone when the incident happened.

Read Also: Policeman Who Killed Female Colleague In Rivers Dismissed

According to reports, she suffered chest burns when the phone fell on her body and died before they got to the hospital.…

Pregnant Woman Dies Of COVID-19 In Abeokuta hospital

Pregnant Woman Dies Of COVID-19 In Abeokuta hospital

May 3, 2020 2:29 pm
The Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, has confirmed the death of a pregnant woman in the facility as a result of contracting coronavirus.

The Head of Clinical Services (HCS) of the hospital, Dr. Fidelis Ojeblenu, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday in Abeokuta.

The hospital was thrown into confusion on Saturday, as people in and around the area took to their heels on hearing the news.

Ojeblenu said that two patients, a man, and the expectant mother, had tested positive to COVID-19 at the hospital.

Read Also: Nigeria Records 220 New Cases Of Coronavirus, 2,388 Total

He stated …

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