August 2020

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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Nigerians React As MultiChoice Hikes Prices Of DSTV Subscriptions

Nigerians React As MultiChoice Hikes Prices Of DSTV Subscriptions

August 25, 2020 10:01 am

Multichoice have once again announced increment in the prices of DSTV and GOTV subscriptions for the second time in less than 4 months.

The development has, however, angered Nigerians both on social media and on streets who blame the government for allowing the South African-owned company manipulate them.

The price hike is coming despite the unprecedented hardship and suffering being experienced by Nigerians as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Giving reasons for its upward review of pricing, the company cited factors such inflation, operations, the mandatory increase …

One Reported Killed As Gunmen Abduct JSS3 Students In Kaduna

One Reported Killed As Gunmen Abduct JSS3 Students In Kaduna

August 25, 2020 9:28 am

Gunmen have reportedly abducted an unconfirmed number of students from a school in Kaduna State.

The incident took place on Monday at Prince Academy in Samba-Kasaya, a village around Buruku area in Chikun Local Government Area of the state.

Those kidnapped are said to be some JSS 3 students who are preparing for the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) before the armed men invaded the school at about 7am and took them away.

The Kaduna State Police Command has yet to confirm the incident and the number of those abducted.

But a security source in the area told Channels Television…

Trump Faces Tough Questions About African-Americans

Republicans Uphold Trump’s Pandemic Response

August 25, 2020 5:26 am

U.S Republicans went all out to defend President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and attacked his opponent, calling him ”Beijing Biden” during the first night of the Republican convention.

They accused the rival Democrats of being weak on crime, soft on China and likely to stifle economic growth if Joe Biden becomes president.

Trump was earlier nominated unanimously as the party’s candidate for president.

The 73-year-old president showed up in North Carolina for an unscheduled in-person speech to delegates of the Republican National Convention, despite the pandemic.

A video hailing Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying …

FG Places $3,500 Fine On Airlines Who Disobey COVID Protocols

FG Places $3,500 Fine On Airlines Who Disobey COVID Protocols

August 25, 2020 5:26 am

The Federal Government on Monday said airlines would be fined $3,500 per passenger for airlifting passengers without negative COVID-19 test results as it prepared to open international flights.

The Coordinator, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, said this at the daily briefing of the PTF on COVID-19 in Abuja, NAN reports.

Speaking on the new protocols that would start from August 29, Aliyu said it was expected that passengers coming into the country must present a PCR COVID-19 test result that was within seven days.

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The coordinator …

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