May 16, 2020

Data Shows US Economy In A Shambles

Data Shows U.S. Economy In A Shambles

May 16, 2020 6:09 am
Newly released multi-faceted  economic data showed the U.S. economy is in a shambles and may not rebound quickly even when the devastating lockdowns imposed to stop the coronavirus pandemic are lifted.

Data tracking industrial production and the vital retail sector released Friday showed record declines in April.

This was the first full month of lockdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19 virus that has killed nearly 86,000 people and caused around 36.5 million people to lose their jobs in the world’s largest economy.

With millions of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits every week since the lockdowns began in …

Bundesliga Returns Today, Timetable For Other Leagues

Bundesliga Returns Today, Timetable For Other Leagues

May 16, 2020 6:08 am
Football is back. The German Bundesliga this weekend becomes the first major European league to resume following the two-month coronavirus shutdown.

Also resuming is the 2nd Bundesliga.

Six  matches are slated for today at the elite German league.

Borussia Dortmund are hosting Schalke 04 at their Signal Iduna Park at 14:30.

Augsburg are also hosting Wolfsburg at the same time.

Read Also: Premier League Presses On With ‘Project Restart’

Three other matches  scheduled for the same time-belt are:

Fortuna Düsseldorf v  SC Paderborn 07,  RasenBallsport Leipzig v Freiburg and Hoffenheim v Hertha BSC.

At 17:30, Eintracht Frankfurt will host Borussia …

Yobe Receives Another Batch Of Almajiris From Adamawa

Yobe Receives Another Batch Of Almajiris From Adamawa

May 16, 2020 6:07 am
The Yobe State government has announced that its officials have received another batch of 58 Almajiris repatriated from Adamawa State on Friday.

The Executive Secretary, Yobe Emergency Management Agency, (SEMA), Dr. Mohammed Goje, alongside State Focal Person, North East Development Commission, (NEDC) Dr. Ali Ibrahim Abbas received the returnees in Damaturu on behalf of the state government.

Read Also: Deportation Of Almajiri Children Illegal – Reps

Dr. Goje, while giving a breakdown of the repatriated Almajiris said that so far, Yobe state has received 241 Almajiris from Gombe, Nassarawa and Adamawa states.

“We have so far received a total number

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NCDC Declared Me Positive With No Result – Dokpesi

NCDC Declared Me Positive With No Result – Dokpesi

May 16, 2020 6:06 am

The Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi Junior, has lamented that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, never gave him the result showing he tested positive to COVID-19.

Junior, who is the son to DAAR Communications Plc founder, Raymond Dokpesi, expressed disappointment that he was not given any documentary evidence to show he was positive and when he tested negative to the virus.

He made the disclosure while recounting his sojourn and that of his father in an isolation centre in Gwagwalada, Abuja.

Read Also: Sani Raises Alarm As Dokpesi Reveals His ‘COVID’ Drugs

Addressing reporters at

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Sani Raises Alarm As Dokpesi Reveals His 'COVID' Drugs

Sani Raises Alarm As Dokpesi Reveals His ‘COVID’ Drugs

May 16, 2020 5:09 am

A former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has reacted to the revelations made by some discharged Coronavirus patients.

Media mogul, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, had revealed that every drug they were given while in isolation were malaria medications.

This was after Dokpesi, the founder of DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM, was discharged earlier in the week. He declared that he was confused.

Many other recovered patients, including the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and a former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, all made similar revelations.

But

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Fresh, Strange Facts About Coronavirus

Fresh, Strange Facts About Coronavirus

May 16, 2020 5:08 am

Scientists around the world are building up their knowledge about the coronavirus, as they frantically search for a cure and vaccine.

The virus, first reported in Wuhan, China last December, has killed over 300,000 people worldwide.

It has also infected over 4.5million people.

Everyday, scientists build up a dossier on the virus as they unlock new information.

Here are five strange facts now known about the virus:

Read Also: 85,974 Americans Are Now Dead From Coronavirus

 

1. Survives heat up to a point

The coronavirus can survive long exposure to high temperatures, according to a French study.

While …

Health Minister Resigns After Disagreement With President

Health Minister Resigns After Disagreement With President

May 16, 2020 5:07 am
Nelson Teich, Brazil’s Minister of Health, has resigned.

Teich resigned on Friday after a month in office amid differences with President Jair Bolsonaro over handling of the growing COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

The Minister’s office disclosed on Friday that he had handed in his resignation and would hold a press conference later in the day.

Read Also: 85,974 Americans Are Now Dead From Coronavirus

Brazil President Bolsonaro has been pushing in recent days for wider use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus, a move the Minister was not in agreement with.

The Minister and the President also disagreed

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Biafra - Nnamdi Kanu Is A Coward – Uwazuruike Counters

Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Is A Coward – Uwazuruike Counters

May 16, 2020 5:07 am

The fratricidal war of words between leaders of the two foremost Biafra agitation groups, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, founder of Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), which was rekindled earlier in the week, has gotten messier.

Kanu had berated Uwazuruike for allegedly taking the issue of Biafra to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) in The Hague, Netherlands; a move he said was belittling as several Igbo groups had taken Biafra’s matter to United Nations which was a far more recognized body.

The …

N-Power Beneficiaries Will Be Paid Soon – FG

N-Power Beneficiaries Will Be Paid Soon – FG

May 16, 2020 5:06 am
Nigerian Government has announced that beneficiaries of the Social Investment Programme, N-Power, will receive their April stipend next week.

The beneficiaries have been lamenting the continuous delay in the payment of their stipends for some months now.

They are now clamouring for their April payment since the announcement of the lockdown in some states owing to the outbreak of coronavirus.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, however, gave the assurance on Friday, adding that the payment process was at the final stage.

Farouq, who spoke on Friday at the daily briefing by members of …

China Threatens US On Latest Huawei Ban

China Threatens U.S. On Latest Huawei Ban

May 16, 2020 5:04 am

China has urged the United States to stop the “unreasonable suppression of Huawei and Chinese enterprises”.

It also threatened retaliation against the US for the move by putting major U.S. firms on an “unreliable entity list”, according to Communist Party tabloid Global Times.

US tech giants Apple, Cisco, Qualcomm and plane maker Boeing are among the firms that may be targeted, the report said.

The reaction came after Washington announced new export controls to restrict Huawei’s access to semiconductor technology.

Read Also: Trump Hints On Ending Trade Relationship With China

The latest restrictions on the world’s second-largest smartphone manufacturer, which …

P/Harcourt In Total Darkness, As Angry Youths Shut Afam Power Station

Nigerian Electricity Workers Threaten Strike

May 16, 2020 5:03 am

The electricity workers under the umbrella of Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) has threatened to embark on a fresh strike following the unlawful sack of its President, Dr. Chris Okonkwo, and other anti-labour activities of the management of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

The Managing Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Umar Mohammed, had on April 24 issued the letter dismissing Okonkwo.

Read Also: No Electricity Disconnection During Lockdown – IBEDC

Okonkwo was the company’s General Manager, Special Duties.

The letter reads: “After servicing TCN for a period of about six years, please be informed that …

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