June 15, 2020

Brazilian retirement home offers 'hugging curtain' for safe contact

Brazilian Retirement Home Offers ‘Hugging Curtain’ For Safe Contact

June 15, 2020 4:35 pm

A retirement home in Brazil has come up with a creative solution to allow friends and families to enjoy personal contact with aging residents particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus: a “hugging curtain.”

The large plastic curtain, installed in a retirement home in the city of Sao Paulo, allows residents on one side and visitors on the other to engage in the sort of comforting hugs that COVID-19 has made impossible for months.

The curtain has pockets through which resident and visitor can insert their arms, and they are outfitted with shoulder-length black gloves for added protection.

“It really feels good; …

BP to take up to $17.5bn hit on coronavirus

BP To Take Up To $17.5bn Hit On Coronavirus

June 15, 2020 4:34 pm

British energy giant BP said Monday that it will take a hit of up to $17.5 billion in the second quarter as “sustained” coronavirus fallout ravages global oil demand.

The company, fresh from outlining plans to axe almost 10,000 jobs on COVID-19 fallout, said in a statement that it will suffer a negative impact of between $13 billion and $17.5 billion (11.4 billion euros and 15.3 billion euros) in non-cash impairments and write-offs.

BP also cut its long-term oil price forecast after the deadly virus outbreak slammed the brakes on the global economy and hurt oil prices this year.

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Facebook rejects call to share revenue with Australian media

Facebook Rejects Call To Share Revenue With Australian Media

June 15, 2020 4:33 pm

Facebook on Monday rejected calls from the Australian government and news companies that it share advertising revenue with the media, suggesting it would rather cut news content from its platform.

The US tech giant said in a submission to Australia’s competition watchdog that news represents a “very small fraction” of the content in an average user’s news feed.

“If there were no news content available on Facebook in Australia, we are confident the impact on Facebook’s community metrics and revenues in Australia would not be significant,” it said in a thinly veiled threat to boycott local news companies.

“Given the …

Herdsmen Butcher 65-Year-Old Man In Imo

Herdsmen Butcher 65-Year-Old Man In Imo

June 15, 2020 4:32 pm

A 65 -year- old -man, Mazi Ozoemena Iriaka, has been killed by herdsmen yesterday, in Umuekpu-Agwa, Oguta Local Government Area (LGA), Imo State.

This happened barely 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated his administration’s victory over incessant killing in the country and the need to regularize the activities of the herdsmen in the country.

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The villagers who converged at the scene of the incident said the killing has continued for some time as the bandits threatened to attack the community and their farmland again considering that …

NIN And SIM Card: SERAP Threatens Court Action

Publish Details Of ₦800bn Recovered Loot – SERAP To Buhari

June 15, 2020 2:42 pm

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information Act (FoI) to President Muhammadu Buhari on alleged payments to private accounts.

The body asked Buhari to direct Abubakar Malami, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice and Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance to publish a comprehensive list of names of people from whom N800billion in looted funds have been recovered, the details of spending of the money and the dates of the recovery.

It also urged the president to direct anti-graft agencies to investigate allegations that payments totalling N51billion were made into individual accounts in …

Russia sentences US ex-marine to 16 years in spy trial

Russia Sentences US Ex-Marine To 16 Years In Spy Trial

June 15, 2020 2:29 pm

A Russian court on Monday sentenced former US marine Paul Whelan to 16 years in a penal colony for espionage in a verdict that has outraged Washington.A Moscow court found Whelan guilty of receiving classified information as he stood in the dock with a sign that read “Sham trial!” and pleaded for US President Donald Trump to intervene.

The court process is “slimy, greasy Russian politics, nothing more, nothing less,” he told reporters.

The case has strained ties between Moscow and Washington and fuelled speculation of a prisoner swap.

Whelan, 50, has been held in a Moscow jail since …

Delhi coronavirus fears mount as hospital beds run out

Delhi Coronavirus Fears Mount As Hospital Beds Run Out

June 15, 2020 2:20 pm

Ashwani Jain succumbed to the coronavirus in an ambulance as his family pleaded with several hospitals to take him in, the latest victim of the pandemic sweeping through the Indian capital and exposing a deadly shortage of hospital beds.

“They don’t care whether we live or die,” said his 20-year-old daughter Kashish, whose uncle, Abhishek, sat with Ashwani in the back of the vehicle on its desperate journey across Delhi.

“It won’t matter to them but I have lost my father, he was the world to me,” she said, tears welling up as she showed a photo of him.

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Edo2020 - Obaseki To Meet Buhari Before Next Move

Edo2020: Obaseki To Meet Buhari Before Next Move

June 15, 2020 1:41 pm

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has revealed that he will be meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari before making his next move after his disqualification from the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in the state.

The governorship screening committee of the APC Friday rejected his candidacy, alongside Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi and Matthew Iduoriyekemwen.

The disqualification was announced by the chairman of the screening committee, Prof. Jonathan Ayuba at a press conference in Abuja.

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Obaseki who is seeking a second term in office, also said he is still consulting …

Nigerian Doctors Commence Nationwide Strike

Nigerian Doctors Commence Nationwide Strike

June 15, 2020 1:40 pm

Following the expiration of its notice, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has commenced a nationwide strike.

NARD President, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, had warned that the doctors would embark on an industrial action if the Federal Government failed to meet its demands.

In a circular Sunday night, the body ordered its members nationwide to down tools.

The decision was consequent upon the 14 days ultimatum “served the government for indefinite strike action, in accordance with the resolution of the Ordinary General Meeting of the Association on the May 29”.

NARD told all resident doctors, medical officers below the …

Bollywood Star, Sushant Singh Rajput Commits Suicide

Bollywood Star, Sushant Singh Rajput Commits Suicide

June 15, 2020 1:39 pm

Popular Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, 34, has committed suicide in his house in Mumbai’s Bandra city.
According to DCP Pranay Ashok, spokesperson of Mumbai Police, the actor was found dead on Sunday at his sixth floor apartment in Bandra (West).

Ashok said Rajput was found hanging at his residence and preliminary investigation showed he committed suicide though no suicide note was found in his residence.

“Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide, but the Mumbai Police is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death,” Ashok said.

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Prime Minister decries Australian sentenced to death in China

Prime Minister Decries Australian Sentenced To Death In China

June 15, 2020 1:39 pm
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on Monday, expressed sadness about a citizen who was sentenced to death in China recently.

The death sentence comes amid an ongoing political and trade row between China and Australia.

In a statement, Morrison said; “I and the government are very sad and concerned that an Australian citizen, Karm Gilespie, has been sentenced to death in China.

“Our thoughts are with him, his family and his loved ones”.

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Morrison said that the Australian government would continue to support Gilespie and have raised …

Wenger Denies Being Aresenal's New Manager

Wenger Denies Being Aresenal’s New Manager

June 15, 2020 10:22 am
Former Arsenal coach, Arsene Wenger has denied  rumours that he could return to Arsenal to occupy the vacant role as club chairman.

This is coming after the former club chairman Sir Chips Keswick retired at the end of May after 15 years.

Martin Keown, former Arsenal defender had urged the club to appoint Wenger as chairman saying the Frenchman’s return to the club at boardroom level would be ‘special’.

Keown told talkSPORT: ‘It would be something special to see Arsene Wenger come onto the board.

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”I don’t think so somehow, …

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