May 12, 2020

Buhari Appoints Prof. Gambari As New Chief Of Staff

Buhari Appoints Prof. Gambari As New Chief Of Staff

May 12, 2020 10:51 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Professor Agboola Ibrahim Gambari as his new chief of staff.

The former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Department of Political Affairs, who is an indigene of Kwara State, was appointed to replace the late Abba Kyari on Tuesday, May 12.

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Gambari, 75, is currently the Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues for the Secretary-General of the United Nations and was the Minister of External Affairs between 1984 and 1985 before he became the chairperson of …

Truck Loaded With Almajiris Intercepted In Ogun

Truck Loaded With Almajiris Intercepted In Ogun

May 12, 2020 5:40 am
Operatives of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement (TRACE) Corps have intercepted an IVECO truck loaded with 30 Almajiris.

The traffic agency said the IVECO truck, with registration number, Kano XG172 KNG, was suspected to be coming from Kano State.

TRACE spokesman, Babatunde Akinbiyi said the truck was loaded with assorted pepper and covered with tarpaulin.

Read Also: Again, Cross River Govt Intercept Almajiris At Border

According to him, the truck which is meant to carry only goods, was intercepted at Joju area of Sango in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of the State.

It could not be understood

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Osinbajo Is Chairman Short People Association – El-Rufai

Osinbajo Is Chairman Short People Association – El-Rufai

May 12, 2020 5:40 am

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has joked that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, is the chairman of the ‘Short People Association of Nigeria’.

El-Rufai tweeted this on Monday night, in response to a video posted by comedian Gbadewonuola Olateju Oyelakin, better known as Teju Babyface on Twitter.

The clip showed the Governor making an appearance on Babyface’s show in 2010.

Read Also: Osinbajo Breaks Silence On His Whereabouts

“Yes…..I remember this @Tejubabyfacetv interview in 2010…..how time flies….HE VP Osinbajo is the current chairman of the Nigerian Association of Short People…

“So we are represented at the highest echelons of governance!

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Africans No Longer Wanted In China – Abike Dabiri-Arewa

Africans No Longer Wanted In China – Abike Dabiri-Arewa

May 12, 2020 5:39 am

Chairman of the Nigerian in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Arewa, has alleged that Chinese want Africans out of their country.

Abike Dabiri-Arewa, made the claim while lamenting the alleged maltreatment of Nigerians in China.

She urged Nigerians in China to always demand for their rights.

Speaking during a town hall meeting of Nigerians in the United States, US, via zoom, over the weekend, Dabiri-Erewa said despite having many illegal Chinese migrants in Nigeria, none of them has been exposed to maltreatment.

Read Also: China Warns HK Protesters Against ‘Stirring Up Trouble’

The former lawmaker, however, assured that Nigerian government was making

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Wuhan Records New Cases Of Virus After Lockdown Ease

Wuhan Records New Cases Of Virus After Lockdown Ease

May 12, 2020 5:37 am
Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, has reported its first new infections since the lifting of lockdown on the central Chinese city.

According to the Chinese state media, the Wuhan health authorities made this known in a statement on Monday stating that five cases were discovered on Sunday in a single residential community, the first confirmed in the city since April 3.

The health authorities said that 17 new infections were reported in China on Monday, Seven out of the cases were “imported” on a flight to Beijing that stopped in Inner Mongolia’s Hohhot for

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Madagascar Sends Coronavirus Cure To Nigeria

Madagascar Sends Coronavirus Cure To Nigeria

May 12, 2020 5:36 am

Madagascar’s breakthrough on coronavirus is expected to land in Nigeria soon.

The drug named ‘COVID Organics’ is for the prevention and cure of the disease.

It was gathered that the consignment coming to Nigeria has been dispatched to Equatorial Guinea from where it will be shipped to Abuja.

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According to reports, the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 was preparing to receive the solution in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.

The source said a decision will be taken when the herbal drink arrives in the country, the Nation reports.

“Before any food or

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FG Evacuates More Stranded Nigerians From Canada

FG Evacuates More Stranded Nigerians From Canada

May 12, 2020 5:34 am

The Nigeria High Commission in Canada has said that it is set to evacuate Nigerians stranded in that country due to coronavirus travel restrictions.

Federal Government announced that it had commenced the evacuation of hundreds of stranded Nigerians willing to return home from various countries.

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The mission in a statement on Monday, stated that it had received no fewer than 200 requests for evacuation, NAN reports.

The statement read “A Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Air Peace had been specially arranged to fly the intending returnees home this Thursday.

“This could be

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NCC Makes Clarification On ‘Switching On’ Of 5G Network

NCC Makes Clarification On ‘Switching On’ Of 5G Network

May 12, 2020 5:32 am
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, on Monday said it has not issued any license for Fifth Generation Network also known as 5G in Nigeria.

NCC Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, issued the denial in a response to reports making the rounds that Nigerian telecommunications’ industry was at the verge of switching to 5G network.

Danbatta, in a statement signed and sent to DAILY POST by Dr. Henry Nkemadu, NCC’s Director, Public Affairs said the claim which came from some “faceless individuals or groups cannot be further from the truth.”

According to Danbatta, the “Commission has unequivocally stated that

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Lebanon Reacts To Video Of Stranded Nigerian Ladies

Isolation Centres Fill Up As More Nigerians Return

May 12, 2020 5:31 am
The federal government has given an update on over 600 Nigerians flown back to the country and others being expected.

Geoffrey Onyeama, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, disclosed that they were at various isolation centres in Lagos and Abuja.

The minister, however, lamented that the facilities had reached saturation point and would not be able to take more.

Read Also: Kaduna Captures 2 COVID-19 Patients Who Escaped Isolation

He spoke at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 press briefing on Monday.

“The number we are able to care for are limited, this means we are going to be staggering

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Catholic Church Donates Hospitals As Isolation Centers

Catholic Church Donates Hospitals As Isolation Centers

May 12, 2020 5:30 am

The Federal Government has announced that the Catholic Church in Nigeria has donated its 425 hospitals and clinics nationwide as isolation centers for coronavirus patients.

Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 made the announcement on Monday, adding that the increased cases of coronavirus across the country was due to the fact that testing capacity has been increased in the country.

Read Also: Catholics Hold Protest March In Anambra Over Killings

He said ”During the first week, the country recorded high cases of COVID-19.

”This is attributable to

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Kanu Speaks On Wike's Demolition Of Hotels

Kanu Speaks On Wike’s Demolition Of Hotels

May 12, 2020 4:41 am

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, and director of Radio Biafra has taken to his official Facebook Page to condemn the demolition of hotels by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.

The leader reiterated that Governor Nyesom Wike could have handled the situation better instead of demolishing the hotels that flouted the lockdown orders.

In his words:

Wike Hotel Demolition & all the Furious Sanctimonious Humbug

When El-Rufai the midget Islamic terror mastermind was busy terrorising and pauperising thousands of Biafran businessmen by demolishing their hotels, bars, restaurants and homes in Abuja, some of the raging hypocritical …

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