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“I apologize for my voice, lately I have to talk a lot. But the most surprising thing is that today you are seeing a person who managed to power through coronavirus standing on his feet,” he said during a visit to a military
Three Sudanese migrants were killed in a shooting in Libya after the country’s coast guard intercepted them at sea and returned them to shore, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.
The UNHCR said it “deplores the tragic loss of three lives and calls for an urgent investigation” into the shootings at Al-Khums, a port city about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Tripoli late Monday.
“The shooting occurred after more than 70 people were disembarked from a vessel,”
Canada on Tuesday gave the green light for people with severe symptoms of COVID-19 to be treated with the anti-viral drug remdesivir.
“Remdesivir is the first drug that Health Canada has authorized for the treatment of COVID-19,” said the health ministry.
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At least two major US studies have shown that remdesivir can reduce the duration of hospital stays for COVID-19 patients.
Washington authorized the emergency use of the medicine — which was originally intended as a treatment for Ebola — on May 1, followed by several Asian nations including Japan and …
The Nigerian Stock Exchange returned to negative territory on Tuesday with the market capitalisation shedding ₦70 billion due to losses by some blue chips.
The market capitalisation was down 0.54 per cent to close at ₦12.858 trillion compared with ₦12. 928 trillion on Monday.
Also, the All-Share Index (ASI) dipped 133.45 points or 0.54 per cent to close at 24,650.16 against 24,783.61 recorded on Monday.
The downturn was impacted by losses recorded in large and medium capitalised stocks, amongst which are; Seplat, Total, MTN Nigeria Communications (MTNN), Julius Berger and Guaranty Trust Bank.
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Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), has been released from Kuje Correctional Centre nine months after his detention, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has confirmed.
Maina, who was arraigned before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Oct. 25, 2019, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his son, Faisal, and firm, Common Input Property and Investment Ltd., had been in detention since the period.
However, Maina’s Lawyer, Adeola Adedipe, in a telephone interview with NAN on Tuesday, said the ex-PRTT boss was finally released on Monday evening after completing the …
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina after he was cleared of all corruption allegations levelled against him by an anonymous group.
His exoneration, the President said, is further validation of his competence and integrity to lead the institution.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, President Buhari called on Dr. Adesina to remain steadfast as he continues to lead the institution.
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Apart from Dr. Adesina, the President also hailed …
Senator Dino Melaye has lost the bid to return to the Senate, about eight months after he was defeated in the Kogi West senatorial district election.
He contested the November 2019 poll on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and lost to Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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Senator Melaye had filed a suit at the Court of Appeal to challenge the judgement of the Kogi State National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal which affirmed the election of Senator Adeyemi.
He asked the court to upturn …
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters also called out Father Ejike Mbaka, the founder and head of Adoration Ministries in Enugu.
The group wondered why the cleric, known for his predictions, saw no vision about the killings.
The Catholic priest was accused of seeing only judgments delivered by Nigeria’s apex court.
“Fr Mbaka is obviously blind to the killings happening in Southern Kaduna. He only sees who the Supreme Court wants to make Governor”, it tweeted.
To most Nigerians, the height of lawlessness witnessed daily across the Nigerian road networks must be addressed to protect the populace and the image of the country and the saddest fact about this is that most of these crimes and abuses are carried out by law enforcement agencies whose duties are to guide and protect citizens plying the roads.
Recently, some Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officials were seen assaulting a man.
The man who appeared to be totally naked was hanging on to the bonnet of the Federal Road Safety Corps …
The Progressive Yoruba Youths, a civil society group, has condemned a statement credited to the Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), suggesting that the federal Government has shown lack of capacity to deal with the violence in the North.
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, is the Chairman of the ASCAB, which was launched ahead of May 1.
ASCAB had claimed that authorities in Nigeria had failed to link the spread of the pandemic to failure of an effective public health system, the absence of social security and health insurance for the masses, while governments had no preference …
Facebook and Twitter have taken down a viral video retweeted by Donald Trump which claims that Dr Anthony Fauci misled the country on hydroxychloroquine.
The clip, which was originally posted by the right-wing news site Breitbart, featured four people who identified themselves as doctors speaking in front of the Supreme Court building.
One was Stella Immanuel, who claims to be a physician in Houston, and said hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug often touted by Trump, was a cure for COVID-19.
She attacked ‘fake doctors’ who doubt the efficacy of the drug, and claimed it’s a ‘cure’, adding ‘you don’t need a …
Chief Charles Udeogaranya, a presidential aspirant of All Progressives Congress in the 2019 elections and an interested candidate for the 2023 presidential elections has opined that Ndigbo should forget about the notion of an Independent Biafran republic and work towards the betterment of Nigeria by supporting the 2023 presidency.
Supporting his claim, he states that Igbos are better off when Nigeria prospers than in a fresh separatist state. He also stressed that all other regions have not met the Nigerian dream when saddled with Nigeria’s Presidency, but Igbos will wipe the tears off the face of every Nigerian and …
