August 25, 2020

Spain Calls In Army To Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

Spain Calls In Army To Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

August 25, 2020 6:07 pm

Spain will call in the army to help identify those who have been exposed to people infected with coronavirus as part of efforts to curb the spread of the disease, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday.

The central government will make 2,000 soldiers who are trained in tracking available to the regions, which are responsible for health care, to assist in tracking cases and stem a rise in infections, he told a news conference.

“We could even increase this figure as required through the urgent training which we have planned,” Sanchez said.

Many experts have blamed a lack of virus …

Boko Haram: 4.3m People Face Hunger in North-east, Says UN

UN Expert Urges FBI To Probe Reporter’s Death In South Sudan

August 25, 2020 6:06 pm

Three years on from the killing of US-British journalist Christopher Allen in South Sudan, a UN rights expert on Tuesday urged the FBI to step up and conduct an investigation.

Allen, 26, a freelance reporter, was embedded with rebel fighters and fatally shot in the head during a battle with the South Sudanese army in late August 2017.

“The fact that for three whole years there has been no independent investigation into Mr. Allen’s killing sends a very dangerous signal that journalists and media workers can be targeted with impunity,” said Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or …

UEFA Gives Nod To Partial Fan Return For Super Cup

UEFA Gives Nod To Partial Fan Return For Super Cup

August 25, 2020 6:05 pm

UEFA announced Tuesday that they 30 percent of stadium capacity would be filled at the Super Cup in Budapest where Champions League winners Bayern Munich face Europa League victors Sevilla.

The game is scheduled for September 24 and will become the first international match to be played before a crowd, the coronavirus pandemic having forced games behind closed doors.

“While it has been important to show that football can carry on in difficult times, without fans, the game has lost something of its character,” said UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.

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“We hope to …

Boko Haram: 'I Have Lost Respect For Zulum’ – FFK

NUJ Fires Back At Fani-Kayode For Insulting Journalist

August 25, 2020 6:05 pm

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has lambasted the former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode for verbally assaulting Cross River State Correspondent of the Daily Trust Newspaper, Eyo Charles.

The PDP chieftain had held a press conference in Cross River State at the end of his tour of states in the South-South region controlled by the party.

The ex-minister in a viral video was seen attacking the journalist and calling him stupid for asking the ex-minister if his tour was being sponsored by any politician or political group.

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Buhari gives Borno youths plaudits for not looting

Buhari Receives Gold, Precious Stones From Zamfara

August 25, 2020 2:02 pm

Governor Bello Matawalle has presented gold bars and an assortment of precious stones, products of Zamfara to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The presentation was done on Monday night at the State House, Abuja.

Zamfara State has the highest gold deposits in the country.

In addition, the state is also known for eight other minerals which are in commercial quantity.

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These are are asbestos, columbite, chronite, iron ore, manganese, marble, lithium and tantalite.

The illegal mining of the minerals has been linked to the wave of killings and banditry in the state.

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DR Congo Declares End To Deadly Measles Epidemic

DR Congo Declares End To Deadly Measles Epidemic

August 25, 2020 2:02 pm

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday declared the end of a 25-month outbreak of measles that claimed the lives of more than 7,000 children aged under five.

The outbreak was countered by vaccination on a massive scale, in which millions of children and infants were immunised.

“For the past month, we are able to say that this epidemic has been eliminated from across our territory,” Health Minister Eteni Longondo told a press conference.

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“We can say that measles (in the DRC) no longer exists.”

Measles is a …

Ivory Coast Leader Urges Peace As He Files Candidacy For Elections

Ivory Coast Leader Urges Peace As He Files Candidacy For Elections

August 25, 2020 1:57 pm

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara called for peace after clashes that have claimed at least eight lives as he filed his candidacy on Monday for elections less than three months away.

Clashes broke out after Ouattara, who initially said he would not stand again, changed his mind following the sudden death of prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, his anointed successor.

“I know I can count on all my fellow citizens to ensure that this election is peaceful and that Ivorians can make their choice in peace, without violence,” Ouattara said as he left the headquarters of the Independent Electoral Commission …

African National Teams Set To Resume Playing In October

African National Teams Set To Resume Playing In October

August 25, 2020 1:54 pm

African national teams are set to resume playing this October, according to CAF, with a nine-day window available for friendly matches ahead of 2022 Cup of Nations qualifiers one month later.

No international matches have been possible in the continent this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to new dates for both Cup of Nations and 2022 World Cup eliminators.

Clubs have also been badly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak with the semi-finals and finals of the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup, originally set for May, yet to be played.

Here, AFP Sport updates the positions regarding …

FFK Reveals Those Seeking To Trigger 2nd Civil War

S/East Tour: Fani-Kayode Goes Off On Daily Trust Journalist

August 25, 2020 1:13 pm

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation, verbally brutalised Eyo Charles, a journalist who asked him a question relating to his recent state tours at a press conference in Calabar, Cross River State.

The ex-minister, who began a tour of some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) states in July, visited Cross River last week.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that at the end of the tour, he held a press conference where he showered encomiums on Ben Ayade, governor of Cross River. Among the projects he inspected are the superhighway that would stretch from the Atlantic ocean in Bakassi to …

At Least Five Dead In China Restaurant Collapse

India Collapsed House: 2 Confirmed Dead, 16 Feared Trapped

August 25, 2020 12:39 pm

Two persons were reported dead and 16 others feared trapped on Tuesday after a residential building collapsed in Western India, the Police said.

The five-storey building, said to house several families and 47 apartments, collapsed in Maharashtra state’s Raigad district on Tuesday.

Police officer Shashikiran Kashid said two persens died in the accident and the seven injured were rescued by the National Disaster Response.

More than 70 people were initially feared trapped, but Raigad Police Chief, Anil Paraskar, said about 60 inhabitants managed to flee just as the building began to crumble.…

Gov Akeredolu Under Fire Over Move To Reduce School Fees

Ondo Guber Battle: Meet The Top Four Gladiators

August 25, 2020 12:38 pm

On the 10th of October, 2020, Ondo people will go out to participate in the gubernatorial election, where no fewer than 17 candidates will be slugging it out.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on August 18, 2020, closed the window for political parties to nominate or substitute their candidates and running mates.

The commission had earlier unveiled the list of 17 candidates, their running mates as well as parties running for the governorship election, but much of the discourse on the impending election centres on four candidates.

Here is the profile top candidates in the election.

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Rivers Police Shoot Teenager Ledesi Kote For Impregnating Girl

Rivers Police Shoot Teenager Ledesi Kote For Impregnating Girl

August 25, 2020 12:28 pm

Unless three different surgeries are urgently conducted on the left leg of Ledesi Kote, a 19-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer for impregnating a girl, according to doctors, the young man may lose the leg to amputation.

According to Kote, the father of the victim, He was in his compound in K. Dere community in Gokana local government area of Rivers State on Friday, August 21, 2020, around 7am, when a Sienna drove into his compound with about four armed police men.

“They went straight to my son’s room door and were banging and cocking guns.

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