September 7, 2020

Libya Reports Highest COVID-19 Cases For Single Day (1)

Libya Reports Highest COVID-19 Cases For Single Day

September 7, 2020 5:07 pm

Libya on Monday reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus infections, the highest tally for a single day since the conflict-ravaged country announced its first cases in late March.

“Of the 4,291 tests performed on Sunday, 1,080 were positive,” said the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a Tripoli-based government agency.

The figure brings the total number of Covid-19 cases in the North African country to 18,834, including 16,376 who required hospitalisation, 2,162 patients who recovered and 296 deaths.

Read Also: India Passes Brazil For World’s Second Most Virus Cases

The NCDC urged people in areas where the virus is spreading …

Navalny Out Of Medically Induced Coma – Berlin Hospital

Navalny Out Of Medically Induced Coma – Berlin Hospital

September 7, 2020 5:06 pm

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who Germany says was poisoned by a weapons-grade Novichok nerve agent, is now out of a medically induced coma and is being weaned off mechanical ventilation, the Berlin hospital treating him said Monday.

“He is responding to verbal stimuli,” Charite hospital said in a statement, reporting that the 44-year-old’s condition “has improved”.

However, the hospital said it was too early to determine the long-term impact of the poisoning.

Navalny fell ill after boarding a plane in Siberia last month. He was initially treated in a local hospital before being flown to Berlin for treatment.

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Ondo Gov, Akeredolu Approves 22 New Appointments

Gov Akeredolu Purchases ₦1.2Bn Cars For Ondo Lawmakers

September 7, 2020 4:46 pm

The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has come under criticism from the opposition over the distribution of 2020 model SUV KIA Sportage to members of the state House of Assembly as official vehicles.

The governor had earmarked about ₦1.18billion in the 2020 budget for the procurement of vehicles for the House of Assembly.

The cars were presented to the leadership of the house on Friday, a day to the official flag off of the governorship campaign of the All Progressives Congress, with the opposition alleging that the expenditure was meant to score a political point.

Seven members of the …

Nigeria’s 60th Anniversary Celebrations To Last One Year - Lai

Petrol Price In Nigeria Cheapest In Africa – Lai Mohammed

September 7, 2020 4:46 pm

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed on Monday said despite the recent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit to ₦162 per litre, the price of the commodity in Nigeria remained among the cheapest in Africa.

He said this at a press conference in Abuja.

Read Also: Lai Mohammed Justifies ₦5 Million Hate Speech Fine

Mohammed was joined at the briefing by the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman; and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva.

The minister said, “In spite of the recent increase in the price of fuel to N162 per litre, petrol

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No Nigerian Will Be Mandated To Take COVID Vaccines – FG

Borrowing To Subsidise Electricity Grossly Irresponsible – FG

September 7, 2020 4:45 pm

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says it will be “grossly irresponsible” to borrow to subsidise electricity tariff amid the economic crunch caused by the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

He also said no provision was made for fuel subsidy in the Revised 2020 Budget, noting that about N1.7trn has been spent on tariff shortfalls to support the electricity sector since its privatisation.

The President, who spoke on Monday during his second-term First Year Ministerial Performance Review Retreat in Abuja, noted that under the new arrangement, only customers who get electricity for 12 hours and above per day …

Education Minister Reportedly Sick, Flown To Germany (1)

Education Minister Reportedly Sick, Flown To Germany

September 7, 2020 3:56 pm

Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, is reportedly in a hospital in Berlin, Germany.

The latest trip was the third time Adamu would be flown abroad in recent months.

The minister is reportedly undergoing treatment for a kidney-related procedure.

However, the reason for the current trip is still unknown.

There are concerns that his absence has affected issues including reopening of schools, the University of Lagos (UNILAG) leadership imbroglio, among others.

Read Also: APC Youths Give Pass Mark To Adamu Adamu

The federal government eventually named John Momoh as acting Chairman of the Governing Council after removing Wale Babalakin.

Adamu, who has …

ASUU Confirms Kidnap Of Two Profs, Others In UNIABUJA

ASUU Justifies Strike, Condemns Increased Petrol, Electricity

September 7, 2020 3:56 pm

Striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked students to understand that its strike was caused and sustained by the imposition of the new remuneration regime by the federal government on lecturers.

The Yola Zonal chapter of the union which comprises members from Adamawa, Taraba, Yobe and Borno States and which articulated its response to its ongoing strike during a press briefing in the Adamawa State capital on Monday, similarly condemned the federal government for allowing hikes in petrol price and electricity tariff.

Read Also: ASUU Berates FG Over New Fuel Pump Price, Electricity Tariff

“The coercion of our …

China Shows Off COVID-19 Vaccines For First Time (1)

China Shows Off COVID-19 Vaccines For First Time

September 7, 2020 12:50 pm
China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.

High hopes hang on the small vials of liquid on show at a Beijing trade fair this week — vaccine candidates produced by Chinese companies Sinovac Biotech and Sinopharm.

Neither has hit the market yet but the makers hope they will be approved after all-important phase 3 trials as early as year-end.

A Sinovac representative told AFP his firm has already “completed the construction of a vaccine factory” able to produce …

Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants reach Indonesia ‘after seven months at sea’ (1)

Nearly 300 Rohingya Migrants Reach Indonesia After 7 Months

September 7, 2020 12:45 pm
Nearly 300 Rohingya migrants reached Indonesia early Monday claiming to have been at sea for seven months, United Nations officials said, in one of the biggest landings by the persecuted Myanmar minority in years.

 

The migrants — including more than a dozen children — were spotted at sea on a wooden boat by locals who helped them land near Lhokseumawe city on Sumatra’s northern coast, officials said.

“From their testimonies, they said that they were seven months adrift,” said UN refugee agency coordinator Oktina, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

“We have seen their condition is very …

Cocaine traffic booming amid COVID-19 – Europol (1)

Cocaine Traffic Booming Amid COVID-19 – Europol

September 7, 2020 10:00 am
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) says cocaine trade boomed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Traffic from South America to Europe has reached “record amounts”, Sascha Strupp, a Strategic Analyst told Dpa.

Strupp called narcotics trade a “growing market”, adding that “coronavirus did not have any influence on smuggling via sea routes.”

From January to June, more than 25,000 kilogrammes of cocaine were seized in the port of Rotterdam.

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The amount is more than double of what was found in the same period of 2019.

In August,

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World's Oldest Professional Footballer Miura Playing At 53 (1)

World’s Oldest Professional Footballer Miura Playing At 53

September 7, 2020 9:59 am

The second round of the Japanese League Cup is not normally international news. But when top-division side Yokohama FC played Sagan Tosu last month, it made headlines around the world. Why?

Because the Yokohama captain, Kazuyoshi Miura, was 53 years old.

Miura’s never-ending career fascinates football fans around the world. His contract extensions are reported by the BBC and CNN. He holds the Guinness record for “world’s oldest goalscorer”.

Even his inclusion in the FIFA 20 computer game – after first appearing in it 24 years ago – made headlines.

So who is “King Kazu” and why does he keep …

President Buhari Sacks NDE DG, Argungu

Buhari Government Moves To Stop Future Scams Like P&ID’s

September 7, 2020 9:59 am

The Buhari administration has moved to tighten the bureaucratic loopholes that will ensure scams such as the one attempted by an Irish firm, Process, and Industrial Development (P&ID), never occurred again.

Abubakar Malami, Justice Minister and Attorney-General gave an insight on the measures, in an interview with Channels TV on Sunday night.

Read Also: FG Uncovers New Fraud In P&ID Contract

“The first thing that has been done is to ensure that there are consequences for wrongdoing and those elements in respect of which investigations have been concluded, were charged, arraigned before the court and convicted.

“As well, we have

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