May 21, 2020

Imo Elders Council Charge Uzodinma To Probe Predecessors

Imo Elders Council Charge Uzodinma To Probe Predecessors

May 21, 2020 3:24 am

Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma has been charged to probe his predecessors and recover every penny alleged to have been stolen by them.

The Elders Council in the state gave the charge today during a meeting with the speaker of the state House of Assembly, Chiji Collins at the complex, Owerri.

Speaking, Edmund J.K Onyebuchi, the state chairman of the council assured the Assembly of their council’s unalloyed support in bringing the past governments to proper scrutiny.

He said, “we are senior citizens of the state and are not afraid of anybody. When things are going wrong, we shout

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End SARS: NECO Postpones Examination

Nigerians React As Buhari Sacks NECO Registrar, Appoints Northerner

May 21, 2020 3:23 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has come under attack over the sack of the Registrar, National Examination Council, NECO, Prof. Charles Uwakwe.

NECO registrar was sacked on Wednesday for fraudulent practices and suppression of official records.

Four other top management officials of the council were also dismissed after investigation.

Mr Abubakar Gana was immediately appointed as the acting Registrar.

This did not go down well with some Nigerians who took to their Twitter pages, accusing the President of practicing nepotism.

They lamented the replacement of the registrar with a Northerner.

Read Also: NECO Sacks 19 Staff Over Certificate Forgery

Here are …

Rolls-Royce Cuts 9,000 Jobs As Airlines Turn Off Engines

Rolls-Royce Cuts 9,000 Jobs As Airlines Turn Off Engines

May 21, 2020 3:22 am

Rolls-Royce, the British maker of plane engines, said Wednesday it will cut at least 9,000 jobs and slash costs elsewhere, as the coronavirus hammers the aviation sector.

“This is not a crisis of our making. But it is the crisis that we face and we must deal with it,” chief executive Warren East said in a statement announcing that Rolls would cut nearly one-fifth of its global workforce.

“Our airline customers and airframe partners are having to adapt and so must we.”

Unions said they expected most of the cuts to occur in the UK, while analysts said the knock-on …

The Father-Son Duo Accused Of Masterminding Ghosn's Japan Escape

The Father-Son Duo Accused Of Masterminding Ghosn’s Japan Escape

May 21, 2020 3:21 am

The American men accused of smuggling former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn out of Japan are a former US special forces operative who spent time in prison and his football-playing son.

On the surface, Michael Taylor, 59, and Peter Taylor, 27, appeared to be living a quintessential American middle-class life in the small, wealthy town of Harvard, Massachusetts.

But from there, US prosecutors say, the pair drew on the elder Taylor’s experience as an ex-Green Beret to plot a brazen escape worthy of a Hollywood movie.

Ghosn is now living as a fugitive in Lebanon after he absconded on December 29, …

WHO Supports for Madagascar’s Cure After Bribery Claims

WHO Supports Madagascar’s Cure After Bribery Claims

May 21, 2020 3:20 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed it is considering Madagascar’s COVID Organics for a clinical observation process.

This was made known by the President of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina in a tweet on Wednesday.

Rajoelina after a meeting with Director-General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said WHO had congratulated Madagascar for the discovery of its COVID Organics, adding that it had accepted to support the clinical observation process in Africa

Read Also: WHO Offered $20M Bribe To Poison Madagascar Cure’

Recall that the Rajoelina had over the weekend claimed that the WHO offered his country the sum of $20m as a

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Trump Mulls Travel Ban On Brazil As Cases Skyrocket

Trump Mulls Travel Ban On Brazil As Cases Skyrocket

May 21, 2020 3:19 am

Brazil on Wednesday hit a record high for new cases of coronavirus in twenty-four hours.

The country’s health ministry confirmed 19,951 new cases in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 291,579 confirmed cases.

This makes Brazil the third country with the highest coronavirus cases globally behind the United States and Russia.

This new surge tops the previous record set Tuesday.

Read Also: Trump Hooked On COVID-19 Drug Hydroxychloroquine Without Prescription

Related deaths caused by coronavirus also increased by 888 on Wednesday, bringing the country’s total to 18,859 deaths, the ministry reported.

When asked about Brazil’s increasing numbers, US …

Super Cyclone' Amphan Batters Bangladesh, India

Super Cyclone’ Amphan Batters Bangladesh, India

May 21, 2020 3:19 am

The strongest cyclone in decades slammed into Bangladesh and eastern India on Wednesday, sending water surging inland and leaving a trail of destruction as the death toll rose to at least nine.

High winds and torrid rains pounded coastal villages and cities, bringing down power lines, uprooting trees and inundating homes.

“The situation is more worrying than the coronavirus pandemic. We don’t know how to handle it,” India’s West Bengal state leader Mamata Banerjee told reporters late Wednesday.

Read Also: Bangladesh Evacuates 100,000 As Cyclone Bulbul Approaches

“Almost everything is destroyed in the coastal villages of the state.”

Authorities had

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60 Per Cent Of COVID-19 Cases In Rivers Are Oil Workers – Wike

60 Per Cent Of COVID-19 Cases In Rivers Are Oil Workers – Wike

May 21, 2020 3:18 am

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has stated that 60 per cent of coronavirus cases recorded in the state are from oil workers returning from rigs.

Governor Wike disclosed this when the Management Team of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited paid him a courtesy visit at Government House Port Harcourt.

He stated that it is for this reason that the state government has insisted that oil workers coming into the state must be tested to confirm their coronavirus status.

Read Also: Wike Approves Building Of Schools On Sites Of Hotels

The Rivers state Governor also said that the Nigeria Air Force …

Nigeria Records 200 COVID-19 Deaths

Nigeria Records 200 COVID-19 Deaths

May 21, 2020 3:17 am

The total number of COVID-19 related deaths in Nigeria now stands at 200.This was confirmed in a tweet by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC).

Read Also: UK Coronavirus Death Toll Over 35,000

The NCDC while confirming 284 new cases of the disease in the country on Wednesday, said Nigeria has so far recorded 6677 cases and 200 deaths.

It said, “6677 cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria;

“Discharged: 1840, Deaths: 200.”

Meanwhile, as at May 20, 2020, there are 329,047 deaths globally and 5,076,720 confirmed cases in the world.

 

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Buhari Executes Major Shake Up Of Permanent Secretaries

Buhari Sacks NECO Registrar, Prof. Uwakwe, Dismisses 4 Top Officials

May 21, 2020 3:17 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Registrar, National Examination Council, NECO, Prof. Charles Uwakwe and outright dismissal of four top management officials of the council over series of allegations.

This was contained in a letter dated May 11, 2020 signed by the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Education, Arc. Sonny Echono, on behalf of the Education Minister and made available by the Head, Information and Public Relations Division, NECO, Mr. Azeez Sani,

Their removal was as a result of recommendations by a panel investigating allegations of misconduct levelled against them while they were on suspension.

Read Also: Breaking: Buhari Won’t

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Overpriced ventilators - Bolivia Health minister sacked, arrested

Overpriced Ventilators: Bolivia Health Minister Sacked, Arrested

May 21, 2020 3:16 am

Bolivia’s health minister, Marcelo Navas was on Wednesday sacked and arrested over corruption charges related to the purchase of ventilators to fight coronavirus.

The government spokeswoman, Isabel Fernandez reported that Marcelo Navas was sacked in order to prevent interference into the investigation of 170 Spanish ventilators with over-inflated prices.

Navas was immediately replaced by his deputy, Eidy Roca.

Read Also: FG Blasted For Begging Billionaire For Ventilators

He and two other people under investigation have been arrested, police chief Ivan Rojas said, NAN reports.

Rojas disclosed that investigators would search Navas’ office, adding that the ventilators were reportedly vastly overpriced …

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