May 25, 2020

Bushfire-hit Australians still in tents as virus slows recovery

Bushfire-Hit Australians Still In Tents As Virus Slows Recovery

May 25, 2020 4:50 pm

Victims of Australia’s catastrophic bushfires are still living in tents, garages and makeshift shelters months after the blazes ended, with efforts to rebuild their lives hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Inside a small tin shed on Australia’s south-east coast, a family of six takes refuge from the cold as the southern hemisphere winter begins to bite.

The structure — chock-full of toys and beds — has been home to 51-year-old Anita Lawrence and five of her children since February.

Read Also: Australia Loses $2.5b Weekly To Virus Shutdown

She had been in Tasmania when fires ripped through the area, torching

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Russian prosecutors seek 18 years for ex-US marine in spy trial

Russian Prosecutors Seek 18 Years For Ex-US Marine In Spy Trial

May 25, 2020 4:50 pm

Russian prosecutors on Monday requested a former US Marine charged with spying receive an 18-year sentence, after a closed-door trial denounced by Washington and his family.

Paul Whelan, 50, was detained in Moscow in December 2018 for allegedly receiving state secrets, but he insists he was framed when he took a USB drive from an acquaintance thinking it contained holiday photos.

His trial, which caused tensions between Moscow and Washington and sparked speculation of a prisoner swap, concluded with closing arguments on Monday.

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Whelan’s lawyer told reporters after the session that prosecutors …

Italian Govt To Recruit 60,000 Volunteers To Enforce Social Distancing Rules

Italian Govt To Recruit Volunteers To Enforce Social Distancing Rules

May 25, 2020 2:49 pm

Italy has revealed plans to recruit 60,000 volunteers who will monitor citizens’ adherence to the social distancing rules in the country’s post-lockdown phase.

The scheme, announced by Regional Affairs Minister Francesco Boccia, on Monday came amid mounting concern that people are mingling dangerously close to one another on beaches, in bars and on public squares.

“The volunteers will not be vigilantes, but spreaders of good behaviour,’’ Bari Mayor and head of the Italian Mayors’ Association (ANCI) Antonio Decaro told Monday’s La Repubblica newspaper, NAN reports.

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According to Boccia,

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Japanese Economy Shrinks By 27.8 Percent

Europe Lifts Virus Shutters As Japan Ends Emergency

May 25, 2020 2:48 pm

Europeans flocked to parks, gyms and pools Monday as more countries eased coronavirus restrictions, while Japan lifted its state of emergency but urged vigilance to avoid another wave of infections.

However the virus, which has now infected more than 5.4 million people worldwide and killed almost 350,000, continued its rampage across Latin America, sparking a US travel ban for people coming from Brazil.

With the global economy battered, governments are scrambling to provide relief to businesses and citizens wearying of mass confinement.

In hard-hit Spain, Madrid and Barcelona cautiously emerged from one of the world’s strictest lockdowns with parks and …

Osimhen Father's Death - Lille Offers Private Jet For Burial In Nigeria

Osimhen Father’s Death: Lille Offers Private Jet For Burial In Nigeria

May 25, 2020 1:45 pm

French Ligue 1 side,Lille, have offered Victor Osimhen a private jet to bring him back home and be with his family following the death of his father.

Osimhen announced the death of his father, Patrick, via Twitter on Sunday.

“RIP dad. No words to describe this feeling,” Osimhen tweeted.

The Nigeria Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick also commiserated with the former Sporting Charleroi star.

“I have spoken to Victor Osimhen and expressed the sorrow of the NFF and the entire Nigerian Football family,” Pinnick said.

Read Also: NFF Moves To Return Osimhen To Nigeria

“His club, Lille OSC of France …

EPL - Ighalo Set To Leave Man Utd As Talks Collapse

EPL: Ighalo Set To Leave Man Utd As Talks Collapse

May 25, 2020 1:45 pm
Manchester United’s attempts to extend Odion Ighalo’s loan deal has hit a brick wall.

The six-month agreement expires in just one week.

Shanghai Shenhua have rejected United’s requests to keep Ighalo at Old Trafford for another three months.

Read Also: Ighalo’s loan Deal With Man Utd Ends

The Chinese Super League have asked Ighalo, to rejoin the club to prepare for the start of the delayed season.

Unless United can make a late breakthrough in negotiations, Ighalo will return to Shanghai when his loan ends next Monday.

The 30-year-old scored four goals in eight matches before the COVID-19 shutdown

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Why I Can Never Bring P-Square Back Together – Jude Okoye

Why I Can Never Bring P-Square Back Together – Jude Okoye

May 25, 2020 1:44 pm
Former manager of now-defunct duo P-Square, Jude Okoye, has said he will never try to bring his two brothers together again.

Jude stated this during an Instagram Live chat with blogger, Tunde Ednut on Sunday.

He also claimed that P-Square’s split, which happened in 2017, was instigated by Peter Okoye, who had issues with him.

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Jude, who revealed that he had stepped aside as manager up to five times, made it clear that he had tried everything humanly possible to settle the rift.

“Peter has a problem

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APGA Chairman Defects To APC In Abia

APGA Chairman Defects To APC In Abia

May 25, 2020 1:43 pm
The Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance,(APGA), in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia state, Chief Kalu Mba Nwoke, has dumped the party for the governing All Progressives Congress,(APC).

Mba Nwoke, who spoke in Ohafia, during the weekend, said he defected to a new party with hundreds of APGA Stakeholders and members, assuring that with their entry into the APC, the PDP and APGA would be extinct and buried in 2023.

According to the APGA Chairman, “I have officially joined APC. With my latest joining of APC and the

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100 Days After, Governor Douye Diri Yet To Form Cabinet

100 Days After, Governor Douye Diri Yet To Form Cabinet

May 25, 2020 1:43 pm

More than three months after inauguration as the governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri is yet to appoint commissioners. Gov. Diri marked his first hundred days in office yesterday after being inaugurated as the fifth executive governor of the state on February 14, 2020, after the Supreme Court nullified the election of Chief David Lyon of the APC due to his running mate’s certificate scandal. Our correspondent reports that some of the commissioners who served under the immediate past Governor, Seriake Dickson, are still serving in their capacities under Diri’s government.

Read Also: COVID-19: Diri Signs Executive Order

For instance, …

Jude Okoye Goes Out 'Guns Blazing' Against May D, Cynthia Morgan

Jude Okoye Goes Out ‘Guns Blazing’ Against May D, Cynthia Morgan

May 25, 2020 11:02 am

On May 24, 2020, Nigerian Video Director, Producer and CEO of Northside Entertainment, Jude ‘Engees’ Okoye replied all the allegations against him by his former artist, Cynthia Morgan during an Instagram Live chat with blogger, Tunde Ednut. Earlier in the day, Morgan had become a trending topic for some of the things she said about Okoye in a chat with Vanessa Ogbebor.

Here are the things he said;

 

 I never took her name, Cynthia Morgan

During the chat with Ogbebor, Cynthia Morgan intimated that she changed her name from Cynthia Morgan to Madrina because the contract she signed with …

“An Insult”: Johnson Risks Party Wrath For Backing Aide Cummings

“An Insult”: Johnson Risks Party Wrath For Backing Aide Cummings

May 25, 2020 10:28 am
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson backed his senior adviser Dominic Cummings on Sunday, despite calls from within his own Conservative Party for the aide to resign for driving 250 miles during the coronavirus lockdown.

Cummings, an architect of the 2016 campaign to leave the EU, came under pressure when newspapers reported he had traveled from London to northern England in March when his wife was ill with COVID-19 symptoms during a nationwide lockdown.

With Johnson’s words that he had acted with integrity, Cummings was safe, at least for now. But the row in the governing Conservatives looks set to rumble …

AfDB Chief, Adesina Reveals How Nigeria Can Be Restructured

Corruption At AfDB: U.S. Rejects Adesina’s Exoneration

May 25, 2020 10:28 am

The United States has rejected the clean bill given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina by the African Development Bank (AfDB) ethics committee, over corruption allegations.

Instead, the U.S. has called for an independent probe, thus upending AfDB’s board decision to end an investigation against Adesina.

In a letter dated May 22 and addressed to Niale Kaba, chairwoman of the bank’s board of governors, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Treasury disagreed with findings by the bank’s ethics committee that “totally exonerated” Adesina.

Kaba confirmed receipt of the document and declined further comment, according to Bloomberg.

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