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NIGERIA RECORDS 17 DEATHS IN 24 HOURS AS COVID-19 CASES HIT 25,694

*The father, who lives in Nigeria, apparently confessed to the heinous act by claiming that he behaves abnormally whenever he is 'possessed' By Chris Murphy/ MIRROR.CO.UK: A dad who raped his own three-year-old daughter blamed 'evil spirits' for his heinous actions after he was arrested by police. The father, who Mirror Online has not named, allegedly carried out the horrific attack as his wife was giving birth, police in Nigeria say. He stands accused of defiling his daughter on 28th April, according to local newspaper reports from Imo state. The girl, two months from her fourth birthday, told a TV...

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By Sheriff Folarin: Nigeria was once an indisputable leader in Africa: what happened?
By Sheriff Folarin, Professor of International Relations, Covenant University The traditional leadership and redeemer posture of Nigeria in Africa has, in recent years, been put into question. Issues like corruption and infrastructural decay have held the country down from playing a leadership role in Africa. As have transitions from one poor leadership to another. A visionary leadership is lacking while public institutions are weak, inept and compromised. Decades of political patronage and nepotism have seen a corrosion of quality and…

Monday, 25 May 2020 03:27
Coronavirus death toll in France surpasses 10,000
The Coronavirus death toll in France has surpassed 10,000 mark, with 541 new death recorded in the last 24 hours. According to France’s health officials, the dreaded pandemic has killed 10,869 people in the troubled country. The large number of death has forced French President, Emmanuel Macron to hint at an extension of lockdown till April 15 to effectively checkmate the spread of the disease. According to Jérôme Salomon, Head of the Public Health Authority, the nation now had 7,148…

Thursday, 09 April 2020 00:50
Coronavirus is not a scam, says Fed Govt
The Federal Government has once again emphasised the seriousness of the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on (COVID-19), Mr. Boss Mustapha, who emphasised the seriousness on Wednesday, spoke on the perspective in some quarters, where COVID-19 is believed to be a hoax. The PTF also defrayed the claim being spread through the social media that members of the task force were…

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Business and Economy Nigeria records 17 deaths in 24 hours as COVID-19 cases hit 25,694
Seventeen people died of COVID-19 in the various isolation centres of Nigeria in the last 24 hours, the NCDC announced on Tuesday. The death toll was the highest single day record in recent weeks. And it means that between 28 June and 30 June, 25 people died from the virus and its complications. An additional 561 cases were announced for Tuesday, taking the country’s total to 25,694. The number of people discharged increased from 9,402 to 9746. Lagos remains the indisputable leader with another 200 cases. Its cumulative total is now 10,516 cases. Edo, which is fifth in the ranking of most affected states, registered 119 cases. Its total tally is now 1,105. Here is the breakdown of cases Lagos-200Edo-119Kaduna-52FCT-52Niger-32Ogun-19Ondo-16Imo-14Plateau-11Abia-8Oyo-8Bayelsa-7Katsina-6Kano-5Bauchi-3Osun-3Kebbi-3Borno-2Jigawa-1 25,694 confirmed9,746 discharged590 deaths

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Business and Economy Giadom’s planned APC NEC meeting illegal: NWC speaks
The National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) said that Victor Giadom, the pretender to the chairmanship is not competent to summon the APC NEC meeting. Mr. Hilliard Etta, National Vice-Chairman (South south) of APC who is standing in for acting National Chairman Senator Abiola Ajimobi said Giadom, lacks the legal and the constitutional backing to call a NEC meeting of the party. He added that the membership of Chief Giadom has been suspended by a competent court of jurisdiction in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and as such, he is no longer of the APC NWC. But Etta also condemned reference to Ajimobi-led NWC as a faction of the NWC. “It is not right to refer to 17 members, with 15 of them physically present and two who met with us virtually as a faction. This is the National Working Committee of the APC. “When you call him (Giadom) factional acting Chairman, we wonder why,” Eta said Further dismissing attempt by Giadom to convene a NEC meeting of the party, Etta noted that Article 25B(i and ii) of the APC Constitution (2014 as amended) gives the conditions precedent to summoning a NEC meeting. He cited the articles…

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