The PDP said it rejects completely, the ₦121 per litre announced by the President Buhari-led government yesterday.
Africa Daily News reported yesterday that for the third time, since the COVID-19 outbreak, the Buhari administration announced reduction in the pump price of petrol.
In a statement posted on its official Twitter handle on Tuesday, the PDP described the new price as highly provocative and a
Obiano in a statewide broadcast on Tuesday evening, said all hospitals, private and public must provide places where they can keep patients suspected of having COVID-19 while they await the result of their samples.
“Every hospital in Anambra State must set up a mini holding ward where patients whose samples have been taken for a Covid-19 test can be kept while the result of the test is awaited.
“This
Democratic presidential aspirant and former US Vice President, Joe Biden has blasted President Donald Trump for walking to a church near the White House as protesters were dispersed with tear gas, flash grenades and rubber bullets by security agents.
Trump, surrounded by his aides on Monday, held up the Bible in front of the St. John’s Episcopal Church at the White House and declared “we have the greatest country in the world.”
Reacting to Trump’s action, Biden, while delivering an address in Philadelphia, referenced the Constitution’s First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom
The FCTA made the confirmation in a tweet via its Twitter account on Wednesday.
According to the Administration, two COVID-19 patients have also been discharged after showing full recovery.
The tweet read: “13 NEW CASES, 2 DISCHARGED IN THE FCT
“Summary of #COVID19FCT as at June 2, 2020, Total number of confirmed cases: 687
“Total number of active cases: 465, Total discharged: 202, Deaths recorded: 20.”
The administration advised residents
He made the revelation on Tuesday in an online session marking their one-year in power.
The session, tagged ‘Covinspiration’, was moderated by Dayo Israel.
NAN quoted Hamzat as saying, “I was scared. The emotion was not necessarily that of happiness, but I was scared as the expectations were high regarding what we need to do to make sure that we do not disappoint.
“I knew that we had been tutored very well;
US President, Donald Trump has expressed condolence to the family of David Dorn, a retired police officer who was shot dead by some protesters on Tuesday.
David Dorn was reported to have been killed by looters after he responded to a burglary alarm at Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry on Martin Luther King Drive in St. Louis.
St. Louis Police Chief, John Hayden confirming his death in a press conference on Tuesday, said about 55 businesses, including the pawn shop, reported property damage overnight, following the protests held in Downtown St. Louis over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Reacting,
A viral video making rounds on social media shows a Black American police officer blasting United States president, Donald Trump for his statement “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”.
The police officer starts by declaring that he is not afraid of the President because he took an oath to protect the citizens and not to harm them in any way.
He also says that President Donald Trump has nothing to offer if he can stand by and watch an innocent black civilian being killed by the police and nothing is done about it.
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A bitter feud between Qatar and a Saudi-led alliance drags into a fourth year on Friday with no end in sight.
In June 2017, Saudi Arabia led its Gulf allies the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, along with Egypt, to cut all ties with Qatar, accusing it of backing radical Islamist movements and Iran — a charge denied by Doha.
There were indications of an imminent thaw around the turn of the year, but all overtures have so far come to nothing.
Here is a recap:
– Ultimatum to Doha –
On May 24, 2017, a statement attributed to Qatar’s
Trade negotiators from Britain and the EU embarked on a fourth round of post-Brexit negotiations Tuesday but no-one in London or Brussels expects a breakthrough this week.
Instead, once the latest cross-Channel video conferences are over, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen will meet to decide how to proceed.
A “high-level” June meeting to take stock of the talks was already foreseen in the political declaration signed by both parties alongside the divorce accord.
But it may take on more urgency now, as talks between EU negotiator Michel Barnier and his UK counterpart David Frost …
It is 26 June 1984. Mission Specialist Mike Mullane lies in his couch in the cockpit of Space Shuttle Discovery. This will be the 12th flight in the Space Shuttle programme but Discovery’s and Mullane’s first. The upgraded spacecraft is showroom fresh – the surfaces shiny, free of scratches and scuff marks, the displays polished and controls untouched.
Mullane, the veteran of 134 US Air Force
In the meantime, protests have swept across the US and the UK – and sports stars have added their voices in various ways too.
On Tuesday, across the world, people and organisations have been sharing a simple, but striking message of protest, with a social media ‘blackout’.
A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of “Antifa” was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account.
