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  •Commends ODU and Igbomina Mobile Clinic  The Kwara state Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commended the leadership of Offa Descendants Union (ODU) for acting proactively by forming a high powered local Technical Committee on COVID-19 to stem the spread of the dreadful virus in Offa Local Government and other parts of the state. Governor AbdulRazaq made this known in Offa during a condolence visit to the good people of Offa at Olofa of Offa's palace. AbdulRazaq who was received by HRM Oba Muftau Gbadamosi Esuwoye ll also visited the state government's designated holding centre in Offa, General Hospital Offa and a host of other health facilities designated to combat COVID-19 pandemic in the town. The Governor consequently directed that the Local Committee headed by Professor Abdulwaheed Olatinwo be collapsed into and made a Sub-Committee under the state's Technical Committee on COVID-19. He also approved a location in the outskirts of the town to be ...

From Nicholas Kalu, Abuja and Ozigbe Okoeki ⦁ Govt moves to stop robberies  ⦁ Agbakoba, others seek nationwide lockdown  ⦁ NCDC to raise testing capacity to 4,000 daily A hard time awaits criminals who have been terrorising residents of Lagos and Ogun States following the COVID-19 lockdown. The Army, Navy, Airforce and Directorate of State Services (DSS) operatives will join the Police on the offensive against the miscreants.Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu on Monday announced the deployment of special forces in the two states. He vowed on Tuesday to go tougher on the criminals. Parts of Lagos and Ogun states have witnessed increased robbery attacks in the past one week. Gangs attacking residents and looting shops. Many residents have formed emergency vigilance groups, having been forced to keep vigil. They set up bonfires in streets in a bid to ward off the criminals as tension heightened. The vigilance groups have also been unleashing terror on innocent...

By Medinat Kanabe A Nigerian COVID-19 survivor, John Opabola who lives in Longford in the Republic of Ireland, has explained what he went through after contracting the virus. Opabola, who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, said it started with a cough. According to him, he contracted the virus at work when an infected colleague came into his department to pick up a laptop. “When I started having dry cough, I called a General Practitioner who booked me for a COVID-19 test. After a few days I began to vomit and experience diarrhea; at this point, I couldn’t stand by myself and breathing became very difficult for me.” Asked if the symptoms were similar to something he had experienced in the past that could have confused him, he answered in the negative. “It started with a dry cough and you know when you experience dry cough here in Ireland around this time, we assume that it is just a flu so I quickly began to exercise and practise the normal procedure to cure mysel...

By Collins Nweze The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has developed a three-year policy plan to revive the economy. CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele, who announced the measures on Tuesday, said the Policy Response Timeline will guide Nigeria’s crises management, and orderly rebooting of the economy by relying on homegrown solutions. In a report titled: Turning COVID-19 Tragedy into an Opportunity for a New Nigeria, the CBN boss said the policy framework will come in three phases- immediate term policy of zero to three months, short-term policy priorities of zero to 12 months and medium-term policy priorities of zero to three years. Emefiele said the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in China has rapidly permeated and profoundly changed the world. While the crisis is first and foremost a public health issue which has claimed the lives of over 123,600 people worldwide, and counting, the economic damages are unprecedented on several fronts. He said the agricultural...

• Abductors of ex-Western State director’s daughters nabbed by Wale Oyewale, Ibadan The Oyo State Police Command has paraded one Olaniyi Abegunde, 34, for allegedly killing of a woman evangelist with the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Imole, Agbeni, Ibadan, Mrs Grace Ajibola. Abegunde, who is a house painter, allegedly attacked Ajibola at her Oluyole residence on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, and went away with some of her belongings, including three Automated Teller Machine cards. During the parade of suspected criminals at the state police command headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan, on Tuesday, the Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, said Abegunde was an errand boy to the victim. The CP stated, “Abegunde attacked the woman with a wooden object, strangled her and later stole her Tecno mobile phone and three ATM cards, having discovered about N2m in the victim’s account, when she sent him to withdraw money for her. “The suspect was later arrested in his hideout in Akure, the Ondo St...

by Peter Dada, Akure Men of the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have arrested one Femi Adejuwon for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl. The state Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Philip Ayuba, made this disclosure in a statement on Tuesday. The commandant stated that the suspect was a student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. He said, “Information reaching us from concerned citizens in the Ijoka area of Akure on Sunday, April 12, 2020, was that a 16-year-old girl, who is currently seeking admission into a higher institution, was allegedly raped by one Femi Adejuwon, an undergraduate of the Accountancy Department of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti. “During investigation, the victim narrated her ordeal in the hands of the suspect after being discharged from the Police Clinic, Akure. “She said the suspect called her on the telephone to meet him in his friend’s place. On getting there, Femi Adejuwon took her in, shut the door ...

From Justina Asishana, Minna A Councillor in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State has disappeared with palliative grains meant for vulnerable households in his ward. The Councillor is said to be nowhere to be seen after been given 30 bags of palliative grains which should have been distributed to people in his ward. The Nation gathered that the Councillor was part of the committee set up for the distribution of the grains for his community. The Secretary to the Niger state government and Chairman of the Niger state COVID-19 taskforce, Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Matane confirmed the incident which he described as unfortunate. Matane who expressed disappointment over the attitude of the Councillor lamented that the people of the constituency would have to suffer because of the greediness of their leader. According to him, 10 bags each of rice, maize, and Millet was allocated to the 274 wards across the 25 Local Government Areas of the State by the State government to be shar...

by Deji Lambo  An apprentice foodstuffs seller, identified simply as Chukwuemeka, has been allegedly killed by his co-apprentice, Chuks Victor, during a scuffle at their boss’ shop on Allison Street in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Victor and another co-apprentice, Emmanuel John, were arguing over the space to display the goods of their boss when the argument degenerated into a fight. During the fight, it was learnt that Victor, out of anger, took a coconut and threw it in the direction of John, but Chukwuemeka, who was watching the fracas, was hit by the coconut. When PUNCH Metro visited the scene of the incident, an eyewitness, Onyebuchi Odoh, said the coconut fractured Chukwemeka’s skull, adding that he was immediately rushed to hospital for treatment. The 22-year-old stated, “My boss left Chukwuemeka in my care to train him. We were together in the shop when the fight started. As the second manager, I moved closer to intervene, but they ...

by The Cable The government of the United States has suspended its funding of the World Health Organisation. President Donald Trump told journalists on Tuesday that the organisation “failed in its basic duty”. “Today I am directing my administration to halt funding while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” he said during a White House press briefing. “American taxpayers provide between $400 million and $500 million per year to the WHO and in contrast, China contributes $40 million a year or even less. “As the organisation’s leading sponsor, the United States has a duty to insist on full accountability. One of the most dangerous and costly decisions from the WHO was its disastrous decision to oppose travel restrictions from China and other nations. “The WHO failed in its basic duty and must be held accountable. “Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China t...

     Al-Hikmah Varsity, others donate to COVID-19 campaign Kwara Farmers who can identify themselves with any registered farming associations are allowed to go to their farms during the total lockdown the government has declared to prevent the spread of Corona Virus in the state, a statement said early Saturday. The Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 also exempted journalists on duty from the lockdown in line with global best practices during such emergencies.  “The Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 hereby permits such farmers to do their job unhindered during the lockdown to the extent that they can identify themselves as legitimate farmers. Even then, they are not expected to violate any of the safety protocols in the course of doing so,” Rafiu Ajakaye, CPS to the Governor and spokesperson for the Technical Committee, said in the statement. “The committee urges all the enforcement agencies to please grant free passage to such farmers after identi...

·         Gov says recovered looted funds help COVID-19 campaign ·         Kwara gets more ventilators Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has refurbished the state's oxygen plant, over nine years after it last functioned at usable capacity. The revamped facility bolsters Kwara’s capabilities to manage Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients who may require ventilators for a lifeline. Kwara currently has two COVID-19 cases -- both of whom are asymptomatic at the moment. “This facility comes handy at this time. If for whatever reason any of our patients require oxygen, Kwara does not need to buy oxygen from any private sources or other states,” AbdulRazaq said on Friday in Ilorin at a brief ceremony to hand over the facility for use. “In fact, the plant’s capacity is such that we can sell to private hospitals and some other states. Yesterday, we supported the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) with 13 small cylinders and one bi...

Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 sadly confirms two separate cases of COVID-19 in the state. One is the wife of the UITH patient, a UK returnee, who died last Thursday and the other is another UK returnee.    This statement is issued at 18:33pm, a few minutes after the government received official confirmation of test results from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Test Centre in Ibadan.    The government will address a news briefing tomorrow morning at 11am to give details and further measures now being taken to tackle the development.   Rafiu Ajakaye Chief Press Secretary to the Governor/ Spokesman of the Technical Committee on COVID-19 April 6, 2020.

By Bamidele Ademola-Olateju I wasted 24 minutes of my life yesterday on a voice note making the rounds. I ignored it at first because I don't listen to voice notes. I have been threatened through one before. One guy even thought he can command me to do myself harm but he picked the wrong target. Later, I had to listen to this one because I got it from so many people, I lost count. The Kunle who mentioned himself and later plead for his identity to be protected went from Trump is the savior of the world trope, 5G will kill us with radiation, cancer, death by evaporated blood, to the mark of the beast 666, to a democratic president and a woman vice president of the United States, who will be the antichrist. What a world we live in! This conspiracy did not provoke laughter. It looks to me as the consequence of dumbness and downstream stupidity, we must protect the world from. I feel insulted by the sharing these things gets in our information ecology. This guy packaged inf...

Dr Popoola The man who made this audio message can be likened to someone who is interpreting a strange language he has never studied. He does not know what he's saying. In a simple language, the so called 5G (fifth generation) is a transmission at far higher frequency range than 4G. This feature implies  transmission of greater quantum of energy (signal) per time, hence heavy data (such  as images)  will  download faster and will be transmitted at higher resolution. Meanwhile this may require more booster antennas  at closer ranges in order to travel very far because high frequency signals get attenuated faster than low frequency signals. In short 5G will be able to accommodate larger  data than 4G. 5g Generally, people have always displayed some fear each time a new technology arose. The fear attributed to mobile technology is that the signals (waves) are injurious to humans. Meanwhile all mobile signals most  fall within microwaves (extre...

Top Singer, Salawa Abeni raises alarm after being blackmailed with her old 'n*de photos'.... leaks it herself . Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni has raised an alarm after being blackmailed with her old "n*de photos". Salawa who shared screenshots of her chats with the blackmailer,  revealed that the man who identified himself as Jason and a resident of Osun state is threatening to tarnish her image and destroy her career of over 45 years. She wrote as she shared the "n*de photos" in which she suffered a nip-slip;  @officialsalawaabeni - Good morning my Family, friends and Fans.  I have something very important to tell you and I will really appreciate your audience.  I am very disappointed that someone somewhere will try to tarnish my image and threaten to destroy my career of over 45 years.  This morning, I received messages from somebody threatening to expose very old pictures of me and in the process, blackmailing me for money. These could’ve been pictures of me...