Direct primary’ll provide better participation – Oke

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHWO2UFebQf9ud81bZW5nGSPdkkUvZAWh_ib2R6PZcuHMRnNoJkV7EzUt7G-zwaNTuHEDveIUlKX0EITOpOv0fgdqgikU5dRnkNpjMvulmsvUuiYdKToStBzV-TZe2RTTuQgs_YNmCOI/s1600/33B130A8-6624-407D-9266-F9C15EBB50AE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="480" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDHWO2UFebQf9ud81bZW5nGSPdkkUvZAWh_ib2R6PZcuHMRnNoJkV7EzUt7G-zwaNTuHEDveIUlKX0EITOpOv0fgdqgikU5dRnkNpjMvulmsvUuiYdKToStBzV-TZe2RTTuQgs_YNmCOI/s400/33B130A8-6624-407D-9266-F9C15EBB50AE.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>As the All Progressives Congress, Ondo State Chapter prepares for its governorship primaries, two stakeholders in the party have expressed support for the direct mode of primaries.</b><br /> <br /> The senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District, Ajayi Boroffice, who spoke through his media aide, Kayode Fakuyi, said, “The option of indirect primary is not desirable because Ondo APC has two factions and the court case could go in favour of the aggrieved faction. The lesson from the Zamfara experience is that APC risks losing everything if a faction is allowed to elect party candidates.<br /> <br /> “Therefore, direct primary is the best option for APC in Ondo State. It will bring the two factions together, provide level-playing field for all governorship aspirants and give all party members the powers to elect the governorship candidate.”<br /> <br /> In the same vein, a chieftain of the party, Olusola Oke, who emerged as the consensus candidate of the Unity Forum of the party, said direct primaries would provide equity and fairness in the party.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Speaking through his Special Adviser on Media, Rotimi Ogunleye, he said, “As a democrat and in agreement with the overwhelming opinion of the majority of the leaders and members of the APC in Ondo State, I am in full support of direct primary as allowed by the constitution of our party.<br /> <br /> “It is a fact that there is a faction in Ondo APC executive and the matter is pending in court. For equity and fairness, direct primary will provide participatory platform for all shades of interests that were prevented from participating in the last congress of the APC in Ondo State.”<br /> <br /> The state chairman of the party, Ade Adetimehin, declined to comment on the issue when contacted by one of our correspondents.<br /> <br /> “I don’t have anything to say about the issue of primaries for now but all I can say is that the party is preparing for the primaries and the main election,” he said.

Latest-News Direct primary’ll provide better participation – Oke

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29 corpers to repeat service year in Ondo, Katsina, Ogun

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMctzTGqw-8Tza-0r_RyTFeCYKbRXiq43yqkUBarQ0qVknpsQ8xmJJeANmCHe9mrDhSMm9L4TM5aamUGI52FqtNba3pgADBGAmihuqB0WTJR6BhC7bSTpsKqr5qk-b7EiLGjcemPSOS_4/s1600/8148D738-2C57-4C10-AF09-6D88C81871B0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="700" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMctzTGqw-8Tza-0r_RyTFeCYKbRXiq43yqkUBarQ0qVknpsQ8xmJJeANmCHe9mrDhSMm9L4TM5aamUGI52FqtNba3pgADBGAmihuqB0WTJR6BhC7bSTpsKqr5qk-b7EiLGjcemPSOS_4/s400/8148D738-2C57-4C10-AF09-6D88C81871B0.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The NYSC has said 29 corps members will repeat service year in Ondo, Katsina, Ogun for various offences.</b><br /> <br /> In Ondo State, five corps members will repeat the service over alleged abscondment during the service year.<br /> <br /> Nine other corps members also had their service year extended as punishment for indiscipline and misconduct.<br /> <br />  The state coordinator of the NYSC in Ondo State, Mrs Grace Akpabio, disclosed this while speaking at the passing out of the 2019 Batch ‘B’ (Stream 1) corps members in Akure.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> She announced that out of 1,609 corps members due for pass out, only one of them merited the state honours award while 100 received commendation certificates.<br /> <br /> In Katsina State, seven corps members will repeat their service year for allegedly absconding from service.<br /> <br /> They are members of the 2019 NYSC Batch B, Stream1.<br /> <br /> The state Coordinator, Alhaji Ahidjo Yahaya, made the disclosure on Friday while monitoring the collection of certificates by members of 2019 NYSC Batch B, Stream 1. They are 1529 in all.<br /> <br /> Yahaya said the six corps members absconded from the service; hence the punishment.<br /> <br /> He also revealed that eleven other corps members “will have their services extended for committing various degrees of offences as they contravened the NYSC bye- laws.”<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, in Ogun State, 28 errant corps members of 2019 Batch B, Stream I, were sanctioned with extension and remobilisation of service.<br /> <br /> The NYSC coordinator in Ogun State, Dr Belinda Faniyi, disclsosed this on Thursday during the passing-out of the corps members in Abeokuta.<br /> <br /> Faniyi said 4250 corps members had been discharged after observing their one-year obligatory national service in the state.<br /> <br /> In Kebbi State, the Coordinator, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed, in his farewell address to the outgoing corps members, disclosed that eight corps members had their service year extended while two would repeat the entire service year for contravening various rules and regulations of the scheme.

Latest-News 29 corpers to repeat service year in Ondo, Katsina, Ogun

The NYSC has said 29 corps members will repeat service year in Ondo, Katsina, Ogun for various offences. In Ondo State, five corps members will repeat the service over alleged abscondment during the service year. Nine other corps members also had th…

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Close to $1bn stolen under Abacha, Buhari reveals

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZAefLweKP8X7g3tdQEJdukHN7qH3C1wkvfcNkiZs_3De31-5xar7P-QdlsyQ76KBqtkoO5BsN4Y1rQY9MtiVjub2R7B1dAk2AJPK1KD8fK5VEefvnrLU1wElOQbisClib5MUVnU5LiU/s1600/B873CF57-22F0-4658-8A83-01C41610FFF9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="480" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZAefLweKP8X7g3tdQEJdukHN7qH3C1wkvfcNkiZs_3De31-5xar7P-QdlsyQ76KBqtkoO5BsN4Y1rQY9MtiVjub2R7B1dAk2AJPK1KD8fK5VEefvnrLU1wElOQbisClib5MUVnU5LiU/s400/B873CF57-22F0-4658-8A83-01C41610FFF9.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>President Muhammadu Buhari has said close to $1bn was “stolen under a previous, undemocratic junta in the 1990s.”</b><br /> <br /> Buhari, in an article published in Newsweek, a United States-based magazine, expressed appreciation to the “friendly nations” that returned the stolen funds.<br /> <br /> Though the President did not mention Abacha by name, it was apparent he was referring to the deceased dictator.<br /> <br /> It was earlier reported that three weeks ago, Nigeria received $311m in repatriated Abacha loot from the United States and the Bailiwick of Jersey.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> After Nigeria recovered the loot from US and Jersey, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, said the money would be used in expediting the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Abuja-Kano road, and the Second Niger Bridge.<br /> <br /> Previous recoveries had also been made from UK and Switzerland.<br /> <br /> Buhari, in his article, stated that the country could move forward with road, rail and power station construction, “partly under own resources, thanks to close to $1bn of funds stolen from the people of Nigeria under a previous, undemocratic junta in the 1990s that have now been returned to our country from the US, UK and Switzerland.”<br /> <br /> The President added, “That the friendly nations agreed to return the funds after so long is a testament to the fact that, with our governance reforms, Nigeria is rightly seen as an increasingly stable and beneficial place to transact and invest.”

Latest-News Close to $1bn stolen under Abacha, Buhari reveals

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Ogun, Adamawa, Oyo, Lagos top list of presidential aides

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHU1q4pNjaa_XxGotS6MBog-CFumRsqi907oDwepjHS1k1mRWOeXXSMuvEll_292NDXC238a00SztnAzuwF8BseXRi0btuqPG-MkRbubF3EoBk0DvuWfNBylgcV-9lCoyKWDN2Udj3JI4/s1600/7C2E7D7B-4B97-463D-A80F-AB77F5E460F6.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="480" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHU1q4pNjaa_XxGotS6MBog-CFumRsqi907oDwepjHS1k1mRWOeXXSMuvEll_292NDXC238a00SztnAzuwF8BseXRi0btuqPG-MkRbubF3EoBk0DvuWfNBylgcV-9lCoyKWDN2Udj3JI4/s400/7C2E7D7B-4B97-463D-A80F-AB77F5E460F6.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Ogun, Adamawa, Oyo and Lagos states are currently topping the list of states with the highest number of presidential aides in an updated list prepared by the Presidency.</b><br /> <br /> The 142 aides on the list are attached to the President Muhammadu Buhari his wife, Aisha; Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo; his wife, Dolapo; Chief of Staff to the President; and a few ministers.<br /> <br /> An analysis of the list showed that Ogun, Osinbajo’s home state, topped the chart with 16, Adamawa, the home state of the President’s wife, Aisha, came second with 12, while Oyo State came third with 11 aides.<br /> <br /> Lagos came fourth with 10 aides while Kano followed closely with nine presidential aides to occupy the fifth position.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Buhari’s home state, Katsina, as well as Ondo state, are tied in the sixth position with seven presidential aides each.<br /> <br /> Edo, Ekiti and Osun states are occupying the seventh position with six presidential aides each.<br /> <br /> Bauchi, Kebbi and Nasarawa states have the lowest number of presidential aides with one each.<br /> <br /> States without representation on the list are: Imo, Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Plateau, Zamfara and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.<br /> <br /> A zonal analysis showed that the South-West geo-political zone which has a total of 56 presidential aides accounts for the highest number.<br /> <br /> The North West is second with 25 aides while the North East came third with 21.<br /> <br /> The South has 17; North Central has 12 while South East came last with nine.<br /> <br /> According to an updated list, there are currently eight Special Advisers to the President; 55 Senior Special Assistants; 64 Special Assistants; and 15 Personal Assistants. However, not all of them are paid from federal coffers.

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Ogun, Adamawa, Oyo and Lagos states are currently topping the list of states with the highest number of presidential aides in an updated list prepared by the Presidency. The 142 aides on the list are attached to the President Muhammadu Buhari his wi…

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BREAKING: President Muhammadu Buhari reconstitutes NNPC board

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVGxKN7ZxwwIDsr6SKyeipuG0WdMaMPDW7u6uDnebQ942RJ8o0hqTWMyTKLyIT28lii-LMQHQF1V9smpS70BLdqUWwCwhW3CVDrUJ1KPv5qWuXWM9xQBX1J3Qrd-sAde8sMpK2rETG8M/s1600/420B7ADA-D953-493D-A548-84E3F208C99B.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="750" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVGxKN7ZxwwIDsr6SKyeipuG0WdMaMPDW7u6uDnebQ942RJ8o0hqTWMyTKLyIT28lii-LMQHQF1V9smpS70BLdqUWwCwhW3CVDrUJ1KPv5qWuXWM9xQBX1J3Qrd-sAde8sMpK2rETG8M/s400/420B7ADA-D953-493D-A548-84E3F208C99B.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>President Muhammadu Buhari has Saturday approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), after the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016.</b><br /> <br /> The Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this. Members of the new Board are: Mohammed Lawal (North West), Tajudeen Umar (North East), Adamu Mahmood Attah (North Central), Senator Magnus Abe (South South), Dr Stephen Dike (South East), and Chief Pius Akinyelure (South West).<br /> <br /> The new board will be in place for three years.<br /> <br /> Recall that Vanguard had reported the death of the immediate past Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> His demise was disclosed by the current Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, via his verified Twitter handled.<br /> <br /> Kyari said, “My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night.<br /> <br /> “He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him.”

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Fire razes Lagos market, destroys properties worth billions

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kNdd68z0KqMLlnmXPX7SZBTEHRaEPFw_Df5vL9fiHXftnBp8ti4ytX760SHRPNDDqiQ8_sWD6YL5bZOBxH15zCmEz2z53q3O13wz3ak0ulZGYVVKIdFwOpxrgJ7KZwf603DAEcbn7Y8/s1600/A5B5BC76-5D91-4FEB-8C6C-C95DBAF21DA2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kNdd68z0KqMLlnmXPX7SZBTEHRaEPFw_Df5vL9fiHXftnBp8ti4ytX760SHRPNDDqiQ8_sWD6YL5bZOBxH15zCmEz2z53q3O13wz3ak0ulZGYVVKIdFwOpxrgJ7KZwf603DAEcbn7Y8/s400/A5B5BC76-5D91-4FEB-8C6C-C95DBAF21DA2.jpeg" width="362" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Saturday, May 30, 2020, when fire gutted Olaleye Market in Somolu, Bariga area of Lagos State in which several items and properties worth billions of naira were destroyed.</b><br /> <br /> Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the raging fire which occurred at about 12.15 am, Saturday, razed the market to rubble.<br /> <br /> According to Oke-Osanyintolu, at press time, at about 8 am, though, no life loss, nor injuries recorded in the disaster, while efforts were intensified by emergency responders to ensure that the fire did not cause further havoc as well as curtail it’s spread to proximal buildings.<br /> <br /> He added that properties and goods valued to worth several billions of naira were razed down in the inferno.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> LASEMA boss explained, “LASEMA Response Team received a distress call from the control room as regards a fire outbreak at the aforementioned location and immediately deployed to the incident scene<br /> <br /> “Upon arrival at the scene, it was discovered that Olaleye Market located at Shomolu was gutted by fire.<br /> <br /> “However the investigation is currently ongoing to ascertain the cause of the fire.<br /> <br /> “Lagos State Fire Service, LRU fire and the Federal Fire Service are currently battling the inferno and preventing it from spreading to other residential buildings<br /> <br /> “No life was lost and no injuries sustained, but properties and goods whort several billions of naira is currently being razed down by the inferno” Operation ongoing.”<br /> <br /> It was gathered that traders and property owners who raced to the scene to salvage some of the items during the raging fire were prevented by emergency response workers to avoid possible loss of life in the process.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the victims were seen lamenting the situation and counting their losses.<br /> <br /> However, at press time the cause of the inferno could not be ascertained.

Latest-News Fire razes Lagos market, destroys properties worth billions

The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Saturday, May 30, 2020, when fire gutted Olaleye Market in Somolu, Bariga area of Lagos State in which several items and properties worth billions of naira were destroyed. Director-General, Lagos State Emer…

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‘I thought Forbes was reputable’: Kylie Jenner breaks silence on being labelled fake billionaire

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqdbmwsNdk3TFS01qa39R_V7E9RLcNblz3PDemNc63jXtGny2wcfOm1YNPzRlJkNo6KL_YHBH_RTzAeTJ-5zV5lX_DMpuhacD0AE9uwurQ0fp8foCPu9O5UwvgEcV3_7VJr7RJ-2URTc/s1600/D097181B-7E33-4BEC-BFB7-4B48D07BCC34.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="624" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqdbmwsNdk3TFS01qa39R_V7E9RLcNblz3PDemNc63jXtGny2wcfOm1YNPzRlJkNo6KL_YHBH_RTzAeTJ-5zV5lX_DMpuhacD0AE9uwurQ0fp8foCPu9O5UwvgEcV3_7VJr7RJ-2URTc/s400/D097181B-7E33-4BEC-BFB7-4B48D07BCC34.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Kylie Jenner has dismissed a report by Forbes that accused her and her family of inflating her financial worth and forging tax returns.</b><br /> <br /> The bombshell report by Forbes said that Kylie is no longer a billionaire and she had lied all these years.<br /> <br /> The publication that ranks rich people worldwide claimed Kylie Cosmetics was overvalued.<br /> <br /> It said the $324m pocketed by Kylie in January from a 51 percent sale to Coty, showed the entrepreneur had exaggerated her worth.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> It now put her net worth at $900 million.<br /> <br /> Apparently unaware of the report, Kylie said she woke up to read a ” number of inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions”, made by Forbes.<br /> <br /> She also denied lying to be classified a billionaire.<br /> <br /> ” I’ve never asked for any title or tried to lie my way there EVER. period”.<br /> <br /> The Lip Kit creator then gave it back to Forbes, saying she thought it was a ‘reputable site”.<br /> <br /> She challenged Forbes to prove its accusation.<br /> <br /> “Even creating tax returns that were likely forged” that’s your proof? so you just THOUGHT they were forged?”<br /> <br /> And she then went on to say she had other things on her plate than to get worried by the Forbes article.<br /> <br /> “I am blessed beyond my years. I have a beautiful daughter, and a successful business and I’m doing perfectly fine. I can name a list of 100 things more important right now than fixating on how much money I have”, she tweeted.<br /> <br /> Kylie was named the world’s youngest billionaire both in 2019 and 2020 by Forbes.<br /> <div><br /></div>

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Buhari’s five years wasteful — PDP

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvTRrYb4d8i26VX11NtLA__vhr2fBa-g4bMhU0bhsLzIZGLW8e-FZ0btLuZkGITd8UQ83dg8n9kDTC5FGCiWX1PYaoJItftIf0NE3mJ18Z7JBOAR6E1NP6GJrf-qNVQNCjNLMCDphqNpr/s1600/buhari+a+PDP.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="297" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvTRrYb4d8i26VX11NtLA__vhr2fBa-g4bMhU0bhsLzIZGLW8e-FZ0btLuZkGITd8UQ83dg8n9kDTC5FGCiWX1PYaoJItftIf0NE3mJ18Z7JBOAR6E1NP6GJrf-qNVQNCjNLMCDphqNpr/s400/buhari+a+PDP.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday described the five years of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a waste.<br /> <br /> The opposition party said its verdict on the APC-led federal government was that it had taken Nigeria 60 years backward.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> PDP maintained that the Buhari-led APC government has turned Nigeria into a wasteland, had her economy devastated, shattered national dreams and crushed the hope of citizens while setting the nation backward.<br /> <br /> The party, at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, said that May 29, formerly Democracy Day before it was changed to June 12 by President Buhari, has become synonymous with the enthronement of incompetence, insensitive leadership, endemic corruption in high places and governance by propaganda and false performance claims.<br /> <br /> PDP at the briefing addressed by National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, lamented that the All Progressives Congress administration has reversed all the gains achieved by the PDP for which May 29 was always celebrated and left the country dejected and despondent.<br /> <br /> Kola said under President Buhari, May 29 has become a day of grieving for Nigerians; a day for commemoration of failed promises, reversal of gains achieved by past leaders and retrogression in our body polity as a nation.<br /> <br /> The PDP spokesman said more importantly, the Buhari administration has failed in its three major governance planks of provision of security, economic recovery and fight against corruption and “ruined our productive sector, frustrated our farmers, manufacturers and small scale entrepreneurs, devalued our naira, wrecked employment opportunities for our youth, turned our once prosperous nation into the poverty capital of the world while accumulating huge foreign debts for this generation and the unborn.<br /> <br /> He said: “Under five years, President Buhari has borrowed from every corner of the world. These include external borrowing of $10.72 billion (N4.1 trillion) in 2015, $11.41 billion (N4.4 trillion) in 2016, $18.91 billion (N7.3 trillion) in 2017, $25.27 billion (N9.8 trillion) in 2018, $27.68 billion (N10.7 trillion) in 2019 as well as 2020 loans of $3.4 billion (N1.3 trillion) from IMF, $4.4 million (N1.594 billion) internal borrowing, $22.7 billion (N8.8 trillion) external loan and the recently yet to be approved $5.513 billion (N2.1 trillion) waiting before the National Assembly.<br /> <br /> “Our party had already alerted Nigerians that with the volume of borrowing, President Buhari and the APC have placed our nation on the international auction market.<br /> <br /> “In the last five years, corruption has also worsened in government circle as shown in Transparency International (TI)’s corruption perception index.<br /> <br /> “Federal Government agencies such as the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) among others have been opened up for pillaging by the cabal in the Presidency and the APC.<br /> <br /> “It is distressing that instead of heeding wise counsel to accept failure and avoid making false performance claims, the Buhari Presidency just yesterday released a list of recycled fictitious achievements, including very insensitive claim of having routed out bandits; even as marauders were pillaging communities and killing our compatriots in Sokoto and other states, particularly in the Northwest,” the party submitted.

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Expect 11,000 MW of electricity by 2023 — Lai Mohammed tells Nigerians

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNtJfmVXjjORPWG6v7bAYKgMGUUiErXY9869cMJieykBJ3UtK2wRUm3JyUnydIk7wRlGGK4oJmjwyIDYGorrZ-6wTrYvM_KY52uJsP3_p5D4lfJBB2l0rlDr8DUuF3xyFpkn50T5IDaxw/s1600/Lai-Mohammed+laugh.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNtJfmVXjjORPWG6v7bAYKgMGUUiErXY9869cMJieykBJ3UtK2wRUm3JyUnydIk7wRlGGK4oJmjwyIDYGorrZ-6wTrYvM_KY52uJsP3_p5D4lfJBB2l0rlDr8DUuF3xyFpkn50T5IDaxw/s640/Lai-Mohammed+laugh.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Electricity supply is expected to rise to 11,000 megawatts by 2023 under an agreement with the German firm Siemens, Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said on Friday.<br /> <br /> According to him, it will first grow to 7,000MW by the end of next year from the present 3,400 megawatts.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The minister spoke at a press conference in Abuja as part of activities marking the first year anniversary of the second term of the Buhari Administration.<br /> <br /> He said: “Following an agreement with German company Siemens in July 2019 to boost power supply in Nigeria, the stage is set for the perennial power problem to become a thing of the past.<br /> <br /> “Under the three-phase agreement, Nigerians will enjoy 7,000 megawatts of reliable power supply by the end of 2021 (phase 1), 11,000 megawatts by the end of 2023 (phase 2) and 25,000 megawatts in the third phase.<br /> <br /> “To put things in perspective, Nigeria’s current power generation capacity is more than 13,000 megawatts, but only an average of 3,400 megawatts reliably reach consumers. In essence, the current amount of power that reaches consumers will more than double by the end of next year.<br /> <br /> “In addition, this will create thousands of jobs and will leapfrog the country into the next level of industrial and social development.”<br /> <br /> He said that based on the performance of the last five years,it was clear that President Muhammadu Buhari was taking Nigeria to the next level of irreversible change.<br /> <br /> On the fight against corruption, Mohammed said the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recovered cash and assets in excess of N118 billion in the last one year.<br /> <br /> He said the ICPC recovered N81 billion while the EFCC confiscated N32 billion<br /> <br /> Of the cash recoveries made by ICPC, N41.98 billion was restrained on review of MDAs’ Personnel Cost Expenditure and Capital Development Fund while N35.011 billion was recovered in lands, buildings and vehicles, N1.167 billion as cash in Treasury Single Account and N0.77 billion from constituency projects tracked.<br /> <br /> The minister said that N 1.097 billion was recovered in completed constituency projects upon return of contractors to site, N 0.865 billion Cash in Other Accounts and 1.113 million dollars cash in domiciliary account.<br /> <br /> He said the Commission has also established a Constituency Project Tracking Group named Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Group, to track performance of publicly-funded projects.<br /> <br /> Mohammed said that the projects targeted are those with immediate impact on the livelihood of ordinary Nigerians.<br /> <br /> “Four hundred and twenty-four of such projects were tracked within the period under review, which led to the completion of many abandoned projects and recovery of billions of naira on some of the projects.<br /> <br /> He said: “Number of completed constituency projects in education, health, water resources, agriculture and other sectors increased to over 400 nationwide, from those that were specifically monitored.<br /> <br /> “Furthermore, over 300 contractors who had abandoned projects returned to site in various parts of the country.<br /> <br /> In the area of prosecution, the minister said the Commission secured 25 convictions in the past one year.<br /> <br /> He said the commission received 1,934 petitions within the period under review and concluded investigations on 588 petitions while 105 cases were filed in court.<br /> <br /> He credited EFCC with securing 1,270 convictions including high profile ones, and recovering N32.6 billion, $10,348 , £ 758,155; €183,475; 294,950 Saudi Riyal; 2,800 Chinese Yuan; 300 Canadian Dollars and 500 CFA.<br /> <br /> The minister also said that the border drill/exercise swift response introduced by the government has gone a long way in reducing robbery and kidnapping in the country, boosting of agriculture and reducing smuggling.<br /> <br /> “We have witnessed a reduction in cases of insecurity – kidnapping, banditry, armed robbery or other violent crimes.<br /> <br /> “The border closure has drastically reduced availability of hard drugs on the streets, as well as curbed activities of armed smugglers.<br /> <br /> “Talking about security, you are all aware of the unprecedented successes being recorded ever,” he said.

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Governor Wike threatens fresh lockdown in Rivers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinuqaAGjZCp2HN7lxM7uzzVjerDHwTvmeTAdTAoWje18RhRIV9JUZ8dOFRmHeSv-fEhAjk2Jhc2WCODSTsUVirc0c8fFpFI5QBLjnrBS76FvO-lCWyfPb8k6koQSWoHP2d6UBuARyNls7q/s1600/wike1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1441" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinuqaAGjZCp2HN7lxM7uzzVjerDHwTvmeTAdTAoWje18RhRIV9JUZ8dOFRmHeSv-fEhAjk2Jhc2WCODSTsUVirc0c8fFpFI5QBLjnrBS76FvO-lCWyfPb8k6koQSWoHP2d6UBuARyNls7q/s640/wike1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday warned that a fresh coronavirus lockdown was imminent in the state if residents continued to disobey the safety rules of physical distancing and wearing of face masks.<br /> <br /> The governor, in a broadcast to mark the first year of his second term in office, decried the spread of the virus despite the strict measures he put in place to contain it.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said 12 people have so far been killed in the state by the virus.<br /> <br /> He called for the cooperation of all residents with his administration in building a stable and vibrant economy.<br /> <br /> “As at today, we’ve painfully lost 12 persons, and probably more, to the death pangs of the coronavirus,” he said:<br /> <br /> Continuning, he said: “For us, every life matters and every life lost is a monumental tragedy, not only to the immediate families, but also to all of humanity.<br /> <br /> “Regrettably, we have observed that the advisories, directives and regulations on social distancing and the compulsory wearing of face masks are being ignored at alarming proportions in the state, much to our collective discomfort and peril.<br /> <br /> “So many people are moving about on our streets and into other public places without face masks.<br /> <br /> “We have sighted businesses, including banks and shopping centres attending to customers without face masks or maintaining physical distancing.<br /> <br /> “We have also seen people on our streets buying and selling without face masks or observing social distancing in clear disregard of the ban on clustered trading activities and unauthorized social gatherings.<br /> <br /> “These are all very irresponsible and risky behaviours in the face of the invisible and ravaging pandemic and the enormous threat it poses to public health and the safety of human lives.”<br /> <br /> Soliciting the support of residents, he said: “As a government, we welcome constructive criticisms devoid of politics and mischief, because they serve to make us better performers.<br /> <br /> “This is a time for governance, not politics, and we welcome everyone on board to create an environment that promotes balanced economic growth, thriving private investments, boundless opportunity and a State we can truly call our pride and heritage.<br /> <br /> “For us, nothing matters more than Rivers State, our people, our interests, our treasures, our enormous resources and assets, our accomplishments and our greatness.”

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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday warned that a fresh coronavirus lockdown was imminent in the state if residents continued to disobey the safety rules of physical distancing and wearing of face masks. The governor, in a broadcast to ma…

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I’ll knock out Anthony Joshua in third round - Tyson Fury boasts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35900dsLwACFn-FKJarxOKNj4bVxRjVPstKPts0ofudPEoitH5jbeWelVEyoH9OpBMvYoXs39irKYxwkYek11bxHpzZFzK_2_m60nwvuC3Nm1jAGK6GSbdtwCiDDGoAcgYAsc8nXjc9h9/s1600/Fury+anthony+joshua.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="750" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35900dsLwACFn-FKJarxOKNj4bVxRjVPstKPts0ofudPEoitH5jbeWelVEyoH9OpBMvYoXs39irKYxwkYek11bxHpzZFzK_2_m60nwvuC3Nm1jAGK6GSbdtwCiDDGoAcgYAsc8nXjc9h9/s640/Fury+anthony+joshua.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Tyson Fury has predicted he will knock out Anthony Joshua inside three rounds – with a left hook.<br /> <br /> The heavyweight world champions are on a collision course for 2021, assuming they both come through their respective title defences.<br /> <br /> Fury must defeat Deontay Wilder for a second time while Joshua is due to defend his three belts against mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Those fights are expected to take place this winter with Fury and Joshua then meeting early next year, likely in Saudi Arabia.<br /> <br /> And Fury expects an easy night as he bids to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis.<br /> <br /> “AJ’s style is tailor made for mine. He’s an upright fighter walking forward with a classic defence,” he told Sky Sports. “Strong and powerful. He’s got no footwork, hardly any resilience. And he’s a bit gutless when it comes down to getting clipped.<br /> <br /> “I think I’d knock him out in round two, three rounds. First time I connect on him, his legs will do a dance and I’ll just jump on him like the little fat kid did in America that time.<br /> <br /> “It’s going to be a left hook to the temple, and you’re going to see him doing a Bambi dance all over the ring.”<br /> <br /> Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn believes the rivals could fight twice next year.

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How I, my wife were infected with coronavirus – Leicester manager

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCAzkxLXhCm1cNCD35zB955mFbsO9jnaXzNEeR12BhjHD9vjYN7svmK830iPrvmPCiRSXEoxzuxAeICg1Nhak5Mg9FOQEDHHySnxuclNC8xylHluoaudrHVTN_FxN5joQNorUVuCdUVXr/s640/rodgers+brenden+leceister.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> <br /> Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers said he could hardly walk after contracting the novel coronavirus in March but he has since made a full recovery.<br /> <br /> Rodgers is the second manager to confirm he had a positive test for COVID-19 after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.<br /> <br /> He said he showed strong symptoms and was left breathless after falling ill shortly after the Premier League season was suspended.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “I could hardly walk and it reminded me of walking up Mount Kilimanjaro,” Rodgers, who climbed the mountain for charity in 2011, said.<br /> <br /> “We had a week off when we were supposed to play Watford and then the week after that, I started to struggle.<br /> <br /> “For three weeks I had no smell or taste. I had no strength, and a week after, my wife was the same. We were tested and both of us were detected with the virus,” the 47-year-old former Liverpool and Celtic boss added.<br /> <br /> “I remember trying to run for the first time and it was hard to go 10 yards. I had no real appetite and it was a weird sensation of eating food without ever tasting and smelling what it was. It has made me really appreciate being fit and healthy.”<br /> <br /> Since players returned to limited group training last Tuesday, 12 positive tests for the virus have been confirmed at England’s top flight clubs.<br /> <br /> The Premier League, which has nine rounds remaining, will restart on June 17, with Leicester in third place on 53 points, four behind second-placed Manchester City.

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Air Peace evacuates 301 Chinese from Nigeria

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxZVtJAksJw4xsWysKQawOSx-hgAPpqlcLjie7ZaJtKkxHzrFH_dHlL-E_sHvxV8skqhsbfk6xbN5_abcvxi-DTUGaACObk1w4ksjFePc9XVG7VFZm7WoltkCSNCHx2Z5j3AcJCV0Uc1hy/s1600/air+peace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxZVtJAksJw4xsWysKQawOSx-hgAPpqlcLjie7ZaJtKkxHzrFH_dHlL-E_sHvxV8skqhsbfk6xbN5_abcvxi-DTUGaACObk1w4ksjFePc9XVG7VFZm7WoltkCSNCHx2Z5j3AcJCV0Uc1hy/s640/air+peace.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Air Peace has evacuated 301 Chinese from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China.<br /> <br /> Mr Stanley Olisa, Spokesman of the airline, said in a statement on Friday that the evacuation which took place on Thursday was arranged by the Chinese government.<br /> <br /> Olisa said the flight took off at 10: 05p.m. Nigerian time and arrived China at about 1:15 p.m. Nigerian time on Friday.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He said that Air Peace was also the airline that evacuated Israelis in Nigeria late March and has been contacted by other countries for evacuation operations.<br /> <br /> “Air Peace on Thursday, May 28, operated its second flight to China as we evacuated 301 Chinese nationals back to their country,” he said.<br /> <br /> He added that the flight departed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at exactly 10.05 p.m to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, China.<br /> <br /> He said Air Peace deployed its Boeing 777 aircraft with the registration number 5N-BWI for the evacuation exercise.<br /> <br /> The Regional Airport Manager, South West, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mrs Victoria Shin-Aba, said the flight, P47807 pushed back from the Echo terminal of MMIA at 9:40p.m. with 325 souls onboard – 301 Chinese evacuees and 24 crew members.<br /> <br /> She explained that all relevant government agencies such as FAAN, Nigeria Immigration Service, Port Health Services officials and others were fully on ground to ensure the success of the evacuation exercise.<br /> <br /> “Air Peace is slated to carry out more evacuation operations for other nationals living in Nigeria, as the airline and other domestic operators gear up to resume scheduled flight operations soon.<br /> <br /> “There are indications that commercial flight operations would resume early June, as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has started auditing airlines in preparation for scheduled passenger service,” she said. (NAN)

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BREAKING: Former NNPC GMD, Maikanti Baru is dead

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4y3vca9FNrTB0G5RJ7nTWKoYy9BSYnWQvc0NxF2_KULPpJkR-Vp4YTtN-oNzxRJWQuFptiBqg4XArrYWlByHkM34WB-uc1UIqmmv043LLyYlZLom3g5TKd6-XsSJVQ3jNSGGDc122Bad/s1600/baru.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="696" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd4y3vca9FNrTB0G5RJ7nTWKoYy9BSYnWQvc0NxF2_KULPpJkR-Vp4YTtN-oNzxRJWQuFptiBqg4XArrYWlByHkM34WB-uc1UIqmmv043LLyYlZLom3g5TKd6-XsSJVQ3jNSGGDc122Bad/s400/baru.png" width="400" /></a></div> The Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, is dead.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He passed on at 60.<br /> <br /> According to a tweet by the present GMD, Mele Kyari, Baru died on Saturday midnight. He described him as a brother, friend and a mentor, praying that the Almighty Allah forgive his shortcomings'<br /> <br /> Mele Kyari announced his death in a tweet on Saturday morning.<br /> <br /> “My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night,” Kyari said.<br /> <br /> “He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him.”<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night. He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him.</div> — Mele Kyari (@MKKyari) <a href="https://twitter.com/MKKyari/status/1266595562977099777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="async" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

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The Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, is dead. He passed on at 60. According to a tweet by the present GMD, Mele Kyari, Baru died on Saturday midnight. He described him as a brother,…

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Trump ‘terminates relationship’ with WHO

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="566" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-D4OXwhb3BNHpPsWbwkmWCy4PlgnaXFnvB-Nzlth0kMjf4RNl2Bdwf0Avn8o_X0_-OR5RiH6ZICwHgspBB4R7Wmn0g7ELfdBbGBQEmC6TWN5eKHo6OYbpuXjXVy4qiG7Vj7peCQilEjQ/s400/trump+thumb.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was severing ties with the World Health Organization, signalling the end of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the UN agency as the deadly coronavirus pandemic rages on.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> As Europe speeded along the path to reopening after months of crippling lockdowns, Trump’s move is likely to spark dismay, especially in other parts of the world where the outbreak has yet to reach its peak.<br /> <br /> Russia recorded a record number of deaths on Friday and several nations in Latin America are bracing for difficult weeks ahead, especially Brazil, where the toll has soared.<br /> <br /> Last month, Trump suspended funding to the WHO, accusing it of not doing enough to curb the initial spread of the novel coronavirus and being too lenient with China, where the global outbreak began last year.<br /> <br /> On Friday, he made that decision permanent — a dire one for the UN agency’s finances as the United States is by far its biggest contributor, having given $400 million last year.<br /> <br /> “Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization,” Trump told reporters.<br /> <br /> The Republican leader said the US would be redirecting funds previously allocated to the WHO “to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs.”<br /> <br /> “The world needs answers from China on the virus. We must have transparency,” Trump said.<br /> Beijing has furiously denied the US allegations that it played down the threat when the virus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, and insisted it has been forthcoming.<br /> <br /> So far, the pandemic has claimed more than 362,000 lives and hammered the global economy.<br /> <br /> Populations are learning to adjust to life with the long-term threat of infection as the virus continues its march around the globe — with more than 5.8 million cases — and a vaccine remains elusive.<br /> <br /> AFP

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Nigeria's Coronavirus infections now over 9,000

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDc8fABHd6RNxUQWvLxppwlvh9o6IcwimCnAYGG7pDIyd9MJZVX2gElUeMFEubnHoBlP2GyG5bjbzXSA0Uz42adWZT3iGTf7ltyv9gm9wxeuhqeRRpqY59y09YKSiWkiv0v6egD0S8Zmx-/s1600/coronavirus+isolation+yaba+lagos.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDc8fABHd6RNxUQWvLxppwlvh9o6IcwimCnAYGG7pDIyd9MJZVX2gElUeMFEubnHoBlP2GyG5bjbzXSA0Uz42adWZT3iGTf7ltyv9gm9wxeuhqeRRpqY59y09YKSiWkiv0v6egD0S8Zmx-/s640/coronavirus+isolation+yaba+lagos.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Nigeria’s Coronavirus infections have surpassed 9,000 with the addition of 387 new cases on Friday.<br /> <br /> According to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the nation now has 9,302 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, as the deadly virus continues to spread in the country.<br /> <br /> Lagos recorded a huge coronavirus infections, ramping up 254 new cases, while FCT recorded 29 fresh cases and Jigawa, 24 cases.<br /> <br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> According to the NCDC, “on the 29th of May 2020, 387 new confirmed cases and 2 deaths were recorded in Nigeria<br /> <br /> “No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours.<br /> <br /> “Till date, 9,302 cases have been confirmed, 2,697 cases have been discharged and 261 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory.<br /> <br /> “The 387 new cases are reported from 14 states- Lagos(254), FCT(29), Jigawa(24), Edo(22), Oyo(15), Rivers(14),Kaduna(11), Borno(6), Kano(3), Plateau(2), Yobe(2), Gombe(2), Bauchi(2), Ondo(1).”<br /> <b><br /> Affected States and figures in Friday’s infections</b><br /> <br /> Lagos-254<br /> FCT-29<br /> Jigawa-24<br /> Edo-22<br /> Oyo-15<br /> Rivers-14<br /> Kaduna-11<br /> Borno-6<br /> Kano-3<br /> Plateau-2<br /> Yobe-2<br /> Gombe-2<br /> Bauchi-2<br /> Ondo-1

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Derek Chauvin the killer of George Floyd arrested

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYwUhYaeuysnzujNZnYhjtu5iK7muia64rrkAaVBsSvkNrTyse7pHDIRU0eg2KBGvNoYb0huZ8pbEglFeNZ-WalspINgZ1NP4NkUBIQKqXnNhT-cBn-q2FjKPA6wJt1bwMXjIfMHSyXjRf/s640/Derek-Chauvin-and-his-victim-George-Floyd--768x576.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> Derek Chauvin, the sacked Minneapolis police officer shown on video fatally putting his knee on the neck of African-American George Floyd has been arrested.<br /> <br /> Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said the dismissed cop was taken into custody Friday.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Video showed Chauvin, a white cop kneeling on Floyd’s neck for at least eight minutes on Monday night, after Floyd was arrested.<br /> <br /> The police department initially said Floyd “physically resisted” the officers and that he died after “suffering medical distress.”<br /> <br /> Chauvin was fired on Tuesday along with three other officers involved in the arrest of Floyd.<br /> <br /> Since then, Minneapolis has erupted in protests.

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BREAKING: Court discharges Sen. Adeleke‎ over alleged exams malpractices

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHxlGKe1cbqhxBK_80H-zZHqt-oRKC9UEQheQ2GJO3MJyMJGJSIM4Jn_MpH9CpCtKCDm-7zNuh0YLusCCTlhocNKY7XAGfrfhGbaaAjDzurE0PCcCLkWpEPIkq3YJfx_hnWNCCZRkkrY/s1600/CCF3EBCF-B5F1-4024-BFBA-AB5F028B4ED2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuHxlGKe1cbqhxBK_80H-zZHqt-oRKC9UEQheQ2GJO3MJyMJGJSIM4Jn_MpH9CpCtKCDm-7zNuh0YLusCCTlhocNKY7XAGfrfhGbaaAjDzurE0PCcCLkWpEPIkq3YJfx_hnWNCCZRkkrY/s400/CCF3EBCF-B5F1-4024-BFBA-AB5F028B4ED2.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke in the alleged examination malpractices trial involving him and four others.</b><br /> <br /> Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Friday, said he was minded to discharge Adeleke in view of the prosecution’s decision to withdraw charges against him.<br /> <br /> ‎Justice Ekwo elected to continue with the trial of the other four co-defendants in the case, who were re-arraigned on Thursday on a seven-count amended charge filed in the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP).<br /> <br /> Background:<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Adeleke was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja in October 2018 along with Sikiru Adeleke (who is said to be the senator’s relative), Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (a head teacher), Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo (registrar) and Dare Samuel Olutope (a teacher).<br /> <br /> Ademola and Sikiru were accused of fraudulently registering as students of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Ojo-Aro, Osun State, to enable them sit for the National Examinations Council (NECO) examination of June/July 2017.<br /> <br /> The other three defendants were accused of aiding the commission of the alleged offence.<br /> <br /> At the resumed hearing on Thursday, prosecution lawyer Simon Lough said the state had amended the charge to exclude Adeleke following his continued absence in court.

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A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke in the alleged examination malpractices trial involving him and four others. Justice Inyang Ekwo,…

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Teacher, four others killed as gunmen attack Plateau community

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitoPNdmeZb5JbSAP56jsO1o26ebqeY7djS9HuC6E4SQLv1tL8iwI6ABu3xgdjEJWpSApkeqTCj4sxhvS1hrIeF78ErVbPugYZsT5uv8EG8VrwgXyhNDDlxs4VXvSelValcjyKld3swu1A/s1600/2EA992E6-FEDF-44A0-ABCC-B57E278559F2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="480" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitoPNdmeZb5JbSAP56jsO1o26ebqeY7djS9HuC6E4SQLv1tL8iwI6ABu3xgdjEJWpSApkeqTCj4sxhvS1hrIeF78ErVbPugYZsT5uv8EG8VrwgXyhNDDlxs4VXvSelValcjyKld3swu1A/s400/2EA992E6-FEDF-44A0-ABCC-B57E278559F2.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <b>Five people have been killed by gunmen who attacked a food joint in Miango Community, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.</b><br /> <br /> It was learnt that the victims were eating at the canteen in Nzharuvo Miango when the gunmen attacked them, killing all the customers including the shop owner, Miss Asabe Samuel, and a school teacher identified as Mr Gideon Tunku.<br /> <br /> Chairman of Miango Youth Development Association, Nuhu Nkali, who confirmed the killings to newsmen in Jos on Friday said the incident happened on Thursday night.<br /> <br /> Nkali said, “We just lost five of our people in a fresh attack. The victims were killed at a food shop in Nzharuvo Miango around  9:50 pm on Thursday. The shop is just along the road about 18 kilometers to Jos.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “The victims just went there to eat when the gunmen came and shot all of them dead, Miss Asabe Samuel, the shop owner, Mr. Gideon Tunku (school teacher) Bala Adi Joro, Audu Amadu Mi, and Shedrack Joshua.”<br /> <br /> He said the incident had been reported to security agencies, whom he said were already interrogating 10 persons suspected to have carried out the attack.<br /> <br /> He said, “When the attack took place yesterday (Thursday), we informed the security personnel at their duty post not more than one kilometer from the scene of the incident.<br /> <br /> “A few hours later, around 1:18 am, a vehicle carrying ten young men was intercepted by the vigilante at Jebu Bassa community. The vehicle made some suspicious turns before it was blocked by vigilantes and when they were interrogated, they claimed to be returning to Kaduna after supplying tomatoes in Shendam. But when one of them was interviewed separately, he said a different thing and claimed to be coming from Faringada Market in Jos.<br /> <br /> “Right now, they are at the police station in Bassa because they are suspected to be the ones who carried out the attacks in our community. ”<br /> <br /> A spokesman for the Plateau State Police Command, ASP Ubah Ogaba, confirmed the incident and said an investigation into the matter was ongoing at the time of filing this report.

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Minnesota police arrest CNN correspondence on live broadcast

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHWdNG4HRqDVNyKaePV05ywGrhiEs0I7vCyblTW_OctQkyYQvi_-3oZXsmqiP-5dYsU1EZYLKkvpHBjcTDow0uuKOznDCFHneW797mkmEW9qjYoNQnFYT4gBHkyIS6xPUlXbGxqYGN7U/s1600/751DC994-680F-4082-B1F2-EDA065C11690.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="750" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHWdNG4HRqDVNyKaePV05ywGrhiEs0I7vCyblTW_OctQkyYQvi_-3oZXsmqiP-5dYsU1EZYLKkvpHBjcTDow0uuKOznDCFHneW797mkmEW9qjYoNQnFYT4gBHkyIS6xPUlXbGxqYGN7U/s400/751DC994-680F-4082-B1F2-EDA065C11690.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>A CNN crew was arrested by police Friday morning while giving a live television report in Minneapolis, where the crew was covering ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd.</b><br /> <br /> The crew, including correspondent Omar Jimenez, were handcuffed and detained as Jimenez gave a live report on a Minneapolis street.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a>

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Messi tips Chelsea‘s Mount as ‘one of the best’

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3xhQxKnOitnauhAHNIjW1U37UMu44JEY-5aD5QAO8RuPG5yeWQpffhEAybQDkt3yJvC8IY1M-bfl_B6TlBaFUC5PqZmJvgghTkjn19LXa2WIw-r6OBWlnQIUfPCVt7JLV4wk1WByuFfM/s1600/4A2EB139-1364-466C-8A07-8552F3AEE97C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="480" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3xhQxKnOitnauhAHNIjW1U37UMu44JEY-5aD5QAO8RuPG5yeWQpffhEAybQDkt3yJvC8IY1M-bfl_B6TlBaFUC5PqZmJvgghTkjn19LXa2WIw-r6OBWlnQIUfPCVt7JLV4wk1WByuFfM/s400/4A2EB139-1364-466C-8A07-8552F3AEE97C.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has tipped Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount to become “one of the best” footballers in the world.</b><br /> <br /> Mount, who was playing on loan at Derby County last season under current boss Frank Lampard, has been brilliant in his debut Premier League season at Chelsea.<br /> <br /> The 21-year-old has contributed six goals and four assists in the Premier League this season, earning him his first six caps for England.<br /> <br /> Messi, who has won heaps of trophies and individual honours in his career at Barcelona, has tipped Mount to become one of the best players in world football.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Speaking about Mount, Messi said (via the Daily Mirror): “Having watched him play he has the potential to be one of the best.”<br /> <br /> Former Everton midfielder Tim Cahill was also recently full of praise for Mount after his breakthrough season.<br /> <br /> “I like the look of Mason Mount,” Cahill told Sky Sports. “I think he’s a top goalscorer and he’s got a massive career ahead of him.<br /> <br /> “One of the reasons why I like him a lot is because of his coach [Frank Lampard] and the way that he’s trying to mould a player similar to himself.<br /> <br /> “He can lead him and show him the right ways.<br /> <br /> “You can see that starting to come to fruition with his football this season. I’m a big fan.”

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APC inaugrates 16-member committee for reconciliation in Oyo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIydNwQh3MFCzoA7LOEUTBcDTf8FspN7o9nZQRg4L-AhC7WsPS5xhtaEUGiOGZhRDaDzRs0BJUJB9DJK3RbDDzoueJeyQOEoxZf8U20Jo3sVoUboEOmWwidsAnDN0v8ckNzT-mfoETxvk/s1600/9EFCD4A9-898B-4113-9B56-E867545A5B8A.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="743" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIydNwQh3MFCzoA7LOEUTBcDTf8FspN7o9nZQRg4L-AhC7WsPS5xhtaEUGiOGZhRDaDzRs0BJUJB9DJK3RbDDzoueJeyQOEoxZf8U20Jo3sVoUboEOmWwidsAnDN0v8ckNzT-mfoETxvk/s400/9EFCD4A9-898B-4113-9B56-E867545A5B8A.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Reconciliation Committee of the Oyo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has held its inaugural meeting at the State Secretariat of the party in Ibadan.</b><br /> <br /> The State Chairman of the party, Chief Akin Oke, who inaugurated a 16-member Committee, issued letter of nomination for reconciliation committee to each member.<br /> <br /> The party which governed the state between 2011 and 2019 lost to the Peoples Democratic Party as a result of crisis that tore it apart.<br /> <br /> The ex-governor of the state, Otunba Alao-Akala, heads the 16-man Committee.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Other members of the reconciliation committee are Prince Gbade Lana (secretary), Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin, Alhaji Kamar Ajisafe, Pa Akin Ojebode, Alhaji Laide Abass, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, Segun Odebunmi, Niran Alarape, Mojeed Olaoya, Isiaka Areokuta, Mabel Williams, Chief S.M. Akindele, Adefisoye Adekanye and Rasaq Arikewuyo.

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Trump yet to fulfill his ventilator promise to Nigeria – FG

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0xvDsbXwsIuZ1tpwdglnlnp0cLLzecoylHNZhyphenhyphenK83Mn8UVZKAfu0dJmfbHutTAd44Au3n5WMUKAUU7H8F3rKHylvINPpxJNDZrq_03tgpoSH6hSQqipcRme6AFTF3kZy3N_MgBrw6uF0/s1600/FBAE227F-1D55-4981-97E5-5A7F1D3745C6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="714" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0xvDsbXwsIuZ1tpwdglnlnp0cLLzecoylHNZhyphenhyphenK83Mn8UVZKAfu0dJmfbHutTAd44Au3n5WMUKAUU7H8F3rKHylvINPpxJNDZrq_03tgpoSH6hSQqipcRme6AFTF3kZy3N_MgBrw6uF0/s400/FBAE227F-1D55-4981-97E5-5A7F1D3745C6.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Federal Government is yet to receive the ventilators promised by U.S. President Donald Trump.</b><br /> <br /> Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19.<br /> <br /> The U.S. President on April 28, promised to send some ventilators to the country during his telephone conversation with President Muhammad Buhari.<br /> <br /> Mohammed said: “On when the ventilators promised by President Trump will arrive, to the best of my knowledge, they have not arrived.  When they do arrive it will be made known to the public. “<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> In his quick run down of the activities of the ministry in sensitizing the populace on the best ways to contain the spread of the virus, the minister said jingles were produced for both the radio and television in various  languages.<br /> <br /> “The ministry so far produced video and radio jingles in the following areas: General information of COVID-19 Use of Face Masks; Burial protocol; Testimonials by COVID 19 survivors and Mass gathering.”

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AfDB says ‘no decision’ yet on demands for probe of Akinwumi Adesina

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1Zypc-s4DSG5DkNmIZq-fJAn7fRj76PrrbdVnNpbMSsPnuKcnC_x3kxSoP6CwQg_WEtxLl4-WqjNKuXKd8CoEo83lPNEYz4ZJAb2AlWn7BEBQyP-JqZG1cDucXIP00I98VPADxqK_EU/s1600/3121F587-F49C-4B80-914C-4C83636D6407.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1Zypc-s4DSG5DkNmIZq-fJAn7fRj76PrrbdVnNpbMSsPnuKcnC_x3kxSoP6CwQg_WEtxLl4-WqjNKuXKd8CoEo83lPNEYz4ZJAb2AlWn7BEBQyP-JqZG1cDucXIP00I98VPADxqK_EU/s400/3121F587-F49C-4B80-914C-4C83636D6407.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday said “no decision” had been taken regarding a US push for an outside probe into its president, Akinwumi Adesina accused by whistleblowers of ethics breaches.</b><br /> <br /> US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Washington is dissatisfied with the outcome of an internal inquiry that has exonerated AfDB chief Akinwumi Adesina.<br /> <br /> The chair of the AfDB board, Niale Kaba, who is also Ivory Coast’s minister of development, said the panel met on Tuesday “to examine the issue emerging from a whistleblowers’ complaint” against Adesina.<br /> <br /> “No decision has been taken,” she said in a statement in French, countering what she said was information “falsely conveyed by certain media.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> On Wednesday, some press reports said the board had accepted Mnuchin’s request that it appoint “an independent outside investigator of high professional standing” to take an in-depth look at the complaint.<br /> <br /> In a 15-page document, the whistleblowers earlier this year charged that ethics breaches including personal enrichment and favouritism had spread under Adesina’s tenure.<br /> <br /> The AfDB’s ethics panel completely cleared Adesina after conducting its own investigation, saying the accusations “rested on no objective, solid facts.”<br /> <br /> Akinwumi Adesina is the first Nigerian to be in charge of the 56-year-old AfDB, one of the world’s five largest multilateral development banks.<br /> <br /> The 60-year-old former agriculture minister is known for his bow ties and flamboyant manner, but also for a managerial style that critics say is authoritarian.<br /> <br /> The bank was shaken by a string of departures after Adesina took the helm in 2015.<br /> <br /> Nigeria, whose stake makes it the bank’s biggest shareholder, on Thursday threw its weight behind the embattled Adesina.<br /> <br /> “The call for an ‘independent investigation’ of the President is outside of the laid down rules, procedures” of the AfDB, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said in a letter to Kaba.<br /> <br /> On Wednesday, Adesina issued a statement that insisted he was innocent, lashed the accusations as “trumped up” and vowed to continue working.<br /> <br /> Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo also gave Adesina his support in a letter dated Tuesday, saying the US treasury secretary had “ridiculed” the bank’s governance and urging African leaders to stand up.<br /> <br /> “If we do not rise up and defend the AfDB, this might be the end of the Afdb,” he said.<br /> <br /> Kaba said that “in no case has (Adesina) been asked to resign” — some media reports have sketched the possibility of a “withdrawal” from office by the bank chief, who is seeking a second term.<br /> <br /> He is the only candidate in an election which was set for late May but which has been postponed until August because of the coronavirus pandemic.<br /> <br /> In October 2019, the AfDB raised $115 billion (105 billion euros) in fresh capital, an operation deemed a personal success for Adesina.<br /> <br /> It is the only African institution which has a triple A rating by credit rating agencies.<br /> <br /> The bank has 80 state shareholders, 54 of which are African, while others are from the Americas, Asia and Europe.

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N30m fraud: Why we granted Bobrisky bail – Police

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVy7LMgFGXxqXro5TTsQ2L6U3veMKHxCPguEWR098vZw7DfgSjLEEPCmOUs_fMHc59GI8RH9y766Yo2Yp6ITORVWBnlJVh2b5fe0nDeDGDTU6Mg_SsXSXpYUYQ0fnma1V9tZf6fOOho1U/s1600/536EB56C-6F7F-4EC4-B6CC-968811406C81.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="600" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVy7LMgFGXxqXro5TTsQ2L6U3veMKHxCPguEWR098vZw7DfgSjLEEPCmOUs_fMHc59GI8RH9y766Yo2Yp6ITORVWBnlJVh2b5fe0nDeDGDTU6Mg_SsXSXpYUYQ0fnma1V9tZf6fOOho1U/s400/536EB56C-6F7F-4EC4-B6CC-968811406C81.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Nigeria Police Force says it granted cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, bail because it is “mindful of the people” it takes into custody.</b><br /> <br /> Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba said that Bobrisky was arrested in connection to a N30m fraud, adding that the matter was under investigation.<br /> <br /> Mba said, “He (Bobrisky) was arrested, but he has been granted bail; he is no longer in our custody but he is still under investigation. He was arrested on the allegation by a businesswoman that he fraudulently collected N30m from her.<br /> <br /> “We had to grant him bail because of the lockdown and we are also mindful of the people we take into custody but the case is still under investigation.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> It was gathered that the yet-to-be-identified businesswoman had petitioned the police over the matter.

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Macaulay extols Okowa’s giant strides in five years

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtkdtwEdOg25MbvVBz9OZIKBiYFChH9xsPI6iHM3OFjddZdn3dSt2eD8uGHO-BboUJKXu2DkCHdLWHMSfiKum0i56U01cZFTknnIFYgHO1XA39M50SbSff8Adh0Ac9IzdpBpAWi6pc9A/s1600/603838E9-D5E9-4C85-B03F-E0CDB4DBF6AB.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="692" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtkdtwEdOg25MbvVBz9OZIKBiYFChH9xsPI6iHM3OFjddZdn3dSt2eD8uGHO-BboUJKXu2DkCHdLWHMSfiKum0i56U01cZFTknnIFYgHO1XA39M50SbSff8Adh0Ac9IzdpBpAWi6pc9A/s400/603838E9-D5E9-4C85-B03F-E0CDB4DBF6AB.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>A former Secretary to Delta State Government (SSG), Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay has felicitated with the Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa on his fifth year anniversary in office.</b><br /> <br /> In a goodwill message to commemorate the anniversary, Macaulay noted that the Governor, so far has done creditably well.<br /> <br /> Also, he lauded the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state for its sagacity in propping up a structure that has made possible the success of the administration.<br /> <br /> “It is five years of uncommon strides in a continuous harvest of democratic deliverables, touching lives and improving on the landscape; five years of steady infrastructure upgrade; five years of unbroken leadership in sports and macro-economic development.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “Your Excellency, you are in fact a living proof that democracy remains the best form of government to have been evolved by man,” the former SSG said.<br /> <br /> Macaulay who is the Director General (DG) of Warri, Uvwie and Environs Development Agency (WUEDA), described the Governor as the Ekweme of Nigeria’s politics.<br /> <br /> He said that the past five years has been a period of Peace and steady Progress, and wished Okowa and the PDP family many more years of progressive service to humanity even as the Governor work assiduously on his Stronger Delta mandate.

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New Zealand discharges last COVID-19 patient, records no new case in 5 days

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Nigeria records lowest toll in one week as NCDC confirms 182 new COVID-19 cases

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‘It’s better they remain at home’ — Lagos parents kick against reopening of schools

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Buhari to receive report Sunday – PTF

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSF0HDpJ8wusdCrKJoIhxVUVuO7MK02nZvhSx5d1bnkCduUFe1NQ3cjr14-ogsC2-kQpmsajk0cO_-IJOLOIx39_SLnXLXa6O-oOfl8AuNPKXOzjH3VdbzK8cxb7QaxdAQcRyug_yp_g/s1600/4F8D213D-D635-4641-9851-170D1DB374B3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="750" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSF0HDpJ8wusdCrKJoIhxVUVuO7MK02nZvhSx5d1bnkCduUFe1NQ3cjr14-ogsC2-kQpmsajk0cO_-IJOLOIx39_SLnXLXa6O-oOfl8AuNPKXOzjH3VdbzK8cxb7QaxdAQcRyug_yp_g/s400/4F8D213D-D635-4641-9851-170D1DB374B3.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has said President Muhammadu Buhari would receive more recommendations from the PTF on Sunday.</b><br /> <br /> He stated this during the PTF briefing in Abuja on Thursday, saying the report would be submitted in the next 72 hours after an assessment report on the eased lockdown.<br /> <br /> Mustapha said, “Within the next 72 hours, the PTF will conclude its assessment on the impact of the measures put in place and further recommendations would be submitted to the President for a decision.”<br /> <br /> The PTF chair and Secretary to the Government of the Federation also stressed the need for a drastic change in lifestyle and behaviour of Nigerians because COVID-19 was long term and that the cure was not readily available.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “This advisory is based on the fact that the battle is long term and the cure is still in the distant future, nearest being towards the end of 2021. We continue to urge our citizens to follow these advisories diligently,” he stated.<br /> <br /> Also, the PTF National Coordinator, Sani Aliyu, said the task force would be focusing on greater community mobilisation by engaging over 800,000 volunteers.<br /> <br /> “This strategy involves an aggressive campaign to ensure everyone in the community is armed with the information they need to stop the spread of COVID-19 and to protect themselves.<br /> <br /> “It will empower communities to self-mobilise within their interest groups and collectively practise and enforce prevention measures,” Aliyu said.<br /> <br /> He explained that the campaign would cut across communities in the 774 local government areas at the grassroots by engaging partners such as the National Orientation Agency, the Nigerian Red Cross Society, the United Nations Children Education Fund, Jamaatu Nasrul Islam, National Council for Women Societies, Yar’Adua Foundation, Nigerian Interfaith Action Association, the UN system and many more.

Latest-News Buhari to receive report Sunday – PTF

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has said President Muhammadu Buhari would receive more recommendations from the PTF on Sunday. He stated this during the PTF briefing in Abuja on Thursday, saying the report wou…

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COVID-19 test kits now being sold in black markets, NCDC raises alarm

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp324d2RCRZhCqBcfsGms9eR_xsm-fZvmjcFJ-zlkIUGvN9Roo6j58J04Zhq09OtY2tX_-2UYB32y9GGJ16vQMAjP74jJiRdseyyfEOM5q8otFkMCs8nDx-rjXHWlWKztZWwe4vixy6f4/s1600/92BA2F47-24C6-4A3A-B1DF-3AF4BAFE238B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="480" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp324d2RCRZhCqBcfsGms9eR_xsm-fZvmjcFJ-zlkIUGvN9Roo6j58J04Zhq09OtY2tX_-2UYB32y9GGJ16vQMAjP74jJiRdseyyfEOM5q8otFkMCs8nDx-rjXHWlWKztZWwe4vixy6f4/s400/92BA2F47-24C6-4A3A-B1DF-3AF4BAFE238B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said yesterday Nigerians have started selling COVID-19 diagnostic test kits in “black markets”.</b><br /> <br /> Speaking at the Presidential Task Force briefing yesterday in Abuja, Ihekweazu warned those who are desperate for test to be careful.<br /> <br /> He also called for caution as industries gear up to reopen for businesses. The NCDC DG said there was currently a lot of pressure as companies seek to test their employees before they resume work.<br /> <br /> Ihekweazu warned Nigerians to be cautious while purchasing diagnostic test kits.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “It is important that as we open our industries, we really think about the measures that we advise everyone to carry out and leave testing for the purpose for which it is there.”<br /> <br /> “There is a growing black market on rapid diagnostics test kits in Nigeria, we have to be careful in what we buy, how we use it and how we interpret the results that they provide,” he said.<br /> <br /> He also disclosed that the Nigeria private-sector coalition against COVID-19 (CACOVID) donated N47 million to support sample transportation to boost testing.

Latest-News COVID-19 test kits now being sold in black markets, NCDC raises alarm

Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said yesterday Nigerians have started selling COVID-19 diagnostic test kits in “black markets”. Speaking at the Presidential Task Force briefing yesterday in Abuja, …

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Covdi-19: NYSC love birds hold wedding by 5am to avoid crowd

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmW-_YpRRlwETCxUdXm78KRzAFnCY8ozhqdWtLEKN6cen4OFnq1BlAPt4VYOkS5Zcof7lYvttkWk-xKccGjmsllTG4cXsvgtZZ5LnoN_ca-z0o4m0n_oADM8PznURXW99eQzgutVS0p4A/s1600/26629FC6-F4C8-4229-B8AB-35CF6DB80759.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="750" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmW-_YpRRlwETCxUdXm78KRzAFnCY8ozhqdWtLEKN6cen4OFnq1BlAPt4VYOkS5Zcof7lYvttkWk-xKccGjmsllTG4cXsvgtZZ5LnoN_ca-z0o4m0n_oADM8PznURXW99eQzgutVS0p4A/s400/26629FC6-F4C8-4229-B8AB-35CF6DB80759.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Two National Youth Service Corps members who met and fell in love during their service year will wed by 5am on Saturday (May 30) to avoid crowd in line with COVID-19 safety protocols.</b><br /> <br /> The wedding of Felicia Haruna from Kaduna State and Mark Makafan from Kogi State is scheduled to hold at St Peter Claver Catholic Church Cathedral, Kafanchan, Kaduna State.<br /> <br /> The Director General, National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Thursday blessed the couple’s intention, urging them to accept and tolerate themselves as husband and wife.<br /> <br /> The NYSC Director-General, who was returning from Gombe State, where rainstorm destroyed the corps Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development centre, stopped in Jos to bless the would be couple.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He urged other corps members to emulate the duo as they plan to settle down after service.<br /> <br /> The News Agency ot Nigeria reports that Ibrahim tossed a nuptial drink for the couple and shower them with gifts, including money.<br /> <br /> The Plateau State Coordinator of NYSC, Caroline Embu, said the scheme was happy for the corps members.<br /> <br /> Embu stated the scheme’s joy knows no bound as such does not happen all the time.<br /> <br /> “I am exceptionally happy because this doesn’t come often and when it happens and it is right under our nose, it brings joy to both NYSC and members of staff here,” said the Director.<br /> <br /> She advised other corps members to give it a chance and a try out relationship without despising humble beginnings.<br /> <br /> Makafan said that he met Haruna during their orientation course at the NYSC Orientation Camp.<br /> <br /> He said: “We started a relationship that is leading to marriage, while in camp as members of Platoon 7.<br /> <br /> “The moment I met her, something told me that she is my wife.<br /> <br /> “As faith would have it, we will be husband and wife this Saturday.”<br /> <br /> On her part, Haruna said she was one of the ladies that had made up their minds that they would not date a corps member.<br /> <br /> She added: “But I am not just dating but marrying one.<br /> <br /> “The moment he came to me something told me that he is more than a friend.<br /> <br /> “And by grace of God I am going to spend the rest of my life with.”

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Buhari orders fierce military operation against bandits over killings of 70 persons in Sokoto

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXOs5XwOYqAQ0YVFZAz54vPZo62e5YCGnXHTZT4jylymp4_m0MspC7YOTXIw3oojZ1WSymmsRyuOMwxRg49nCHEzXcScay3FtH5iQXTUFxnQJR1vwuUD5OA2w66lMoNfYQugUVmq_z6s/s1600/5AD33EC1-2D7E-40EC-8584-D9B935A4A7EF.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="750" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXOs5XwOYqAQ0YVFZAz54vPZo62e5YCGnXHTZT4jylymp4_m0MspC7YOTXIw3oojZ1WSymmsRyuOMwxRg49nCHEzXcScay3FtH5iQXTUFxnQJR1vwuUD5OA2w66lMoNfYQugUVmq_z6s/s400/5AD33EC1-2D7E-40EC-8584-D9B935A4A7EF.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday ordered a “fierce” military operation against bandits in Sokoto State.</b><br /> <br /> The directive came following Wednesday’s attacks in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state, which left many people dead and others injured.<br /> <br /> The President condoled with the families of the victims.<br /> <br /> “As the world and Nigeria battle coronavirus pandemic, it is tragic and unfortunate that bandits have remained active in parts of the country, killing innocent people and throwing families into despair.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “We will not abandon you to your fate because we are determined to bring these mass murderers to their knees and crush them totally”, a Presidency statement by his media aide, Mr Garba Shehu, said on Thursday night.<br /> <br /> Buhari added that a major military operation code-named ‘Operation Accord’ had been launched by the military against the bandits terrorising the North-West and North Central states.<br /> <br /> “This operation will be a full time and sustained military offensive that is intended to deny the bandits any breathing space to reorganise and regroup”, he explained.<br /> <br /> Buhari reassured Nigerians that the government was determined to protect them against “remorseless psychopathic mass killers who have no regard for the sanctity of life.’’<br /> <br /> The bandits struck barely 24 hours after Governor Aminu Tambuwal visited Sabon Birni and Isa local government areas, gunmen attacked Sabon Birni, killing many.<br /> <br /> Sources said bandits on motorbikes attacked Garki, Dan Aduwa, Kuzari, Katuma and Masawa villages, few kilometres from Sabon Birni at about 6pm on Wednesday.<br /> <br /> When contacted, Sokoto State Police Command PPRO, ASP Muhammad Sadiq, who could not confirm the figure of casualties, which unconfirmed source put at about seventy, told our correspondent to wait for a press conference, saying the command was putting its facts together.<br /> <br /> He however later said, “Kindly be informed that the press conference has been postponed due to the fact that the CP had to exit the command to go on a visit to the affected areas.”

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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday ordered a “fierce” military operation against bandits in Sokoto State. The directive came following Wednesday’s attacks in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state, which left many people dead and ot…

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Buhari writes Reps, seeks fresh $5.513bn loan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQwBTkaqNRqe8IpslOvGFUsp2rF7vJe0PFJNh-g1NrD9Hh1qoCsw55GL4xXQBKdLOFsdcppPDJ5iloSC2f_OzgbUExAF9cCMhZuQhIZ3w84C5o9VtyjCNpGEtpYptHbDys9d6fzKdDQU/s1600/5AB5C33C-8949-4B73-AAC6-4CC0341726C6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="750" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOQwBTkaqNRqe8IpslOvGFUsp2rF7vJe0PFJNh-g1NrD9Hh1qoCsw55GL4xXQBKdLOFsdcppPDJ5iloSC2f_OzgbUExAF9cCMhZuQhIZ3w84C5o9VtyjCNpGEtpYptHbDys9d6fzKdDQU/s400/5AB5C33C-8949-4B73-AAC6-4CC0341726C6.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the House of Representatives to request for the approval of fresh external borrowings totalling $5.513bn.</b><br /> <br /> Buhari, in the letter read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plenary on Thursday, said the funds were for 2020 budget deficit, financing of critical projects, and some states of the federation.<br /> <br /> The President also presented a revised 2020 Appropriation Bill and 2020-2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.<br /> <br /> The National Assembly had recently approved a loan of N850bn for the Federal Government, while another of $22.79bn, which the Senate has already approved, is pending before the House.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br />

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President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the House of Representatives to request for the approval of fresh external borrowings totalling $5.513bn. Buhari, in the letter read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plen…

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BREAKING: Buhari decentralizes Force CID, approves Nigeria Police restructure, more commands

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Lagos BRT: Operator speaks on when service will resume

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLA_dV_ffd1W8Cd72y2AZxkQDA_sDynxaQ9oYQ0QMRaNeeFwSir51XWR-9QCtFXb0fC_IJeB-mv_7DdN07WSOYl1PkuQWBUfwwt47o9tmwk0__quKWkKkV2fxuYUeXq6sSKLdynoIeq0/s1600/5F441517-C65B-45F8-B84A-353AB7A62459.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXLA_dV_ffd1W8Cd72y2AZxkQDA_sDynxaQ9oYQ0QMRaNeeFwSir51XWR-9QCtFXb0fC_IJeB-mv_7DdN07WSOYl1PkuQWBUfwwt47o9tmwk0__quKWkKkV2fxuYUeXq6sSKLdynoIeq0/s400/5F441517-C65B-45F8-B84A-353AB7A62459.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The operator of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Primero Transport Services Ltd., says it will restore services on Friday, following talks with the Lagos State Government over withdrawal of its services.</b><br /> <br /> The BRT operator had withdrawn its services since Monday over losses due to COVID-19 new transport guidelines that mandated it to commute only 20 passengers per trip instead of 70.<br /> <br /> An authoritative source had told NAN that the company might likely run out of diesel and other supplies that would likely disrupt BRT operations in the state.<br /> <br /> Several BRT users had been complaining about this development since Friday when the news broke out and since Monday when the buses were withdrawn.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Giving an update on the withdrawal of services, Mr Fola Tinubu, BRT Managing Director, told NAN on Thursday that the management felt the pains of commuters in the state since Monday.<br /> <br /> “I withdrew all the buses since Monday because we cannot continue at 20 passengers for 70 capacity buses without increase in fares. The losses, we are piling up, were just too much and threatening.<br /> <br /> “Primero should be back in full operations tomorrow (Friday) because we are talking to the Lagos State Government and all issues will be resolved today.<br /> <br /> “I am sorry for the inconveniences and distress this withdrawal of services has caused the teeming commuters in Lagos who rely on BRT services since Monday.<br /> <br /> “I assure everybody that Primero will be back in full operations tomorrow and we will put 320 buses out to make sure people get to where they are going in a fast and safe way,” Tinubu said.<br /> <br /> According to him, the firm will ensure that going forward, the wait time and queues at bus stations are reduced.<br /> <br /> “We will do all within our power to ensure resumption of operation. We would have resolved all our issues this afternoon,” he added.<br /> <br /> Tinubu, however, did not give details of the agreement reached  betwen the state government and his company in respect of the fares and number of passengers to be carried per bus.<br /> <br /> On May 15, NAN reported shortage of BRT buses across various routes, presence of long queues and an increase in awaiting time at BRT stations in Lagos.<br /> <br /> BRT users have been complaining over the shortage of buses since the easing of the current lockdown on May 4.<br /> <br /> The state government had directed the 70-capacity buses to carry only 20 passengers.

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Trump to sign executive order on social media

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRLdQboxcsTfmBETyy21TwQSDRZsPLBQTNPjR23TgESDfqxujg-V_nDpDQLAsfvq4akWbnArEQQdRPftlL-b5z1rRJaTaEGfo6gkOeEC3cqDpaKpFQCEH-Cz-4uuAbecSAQypmB13Nga0/s1600/35A7A658-78DA-4F41-ABC3-8623EA83A853.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="480" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRLdQboxcsTfmBETyy21TwQSDRZsPLBQTNPjR23TgESDfqxujg-V_nDpDQLAsfvq4akWbnArEQQdRPftlL-b5z1rRJaTaEGfo6gkOeEC3cqDpaKpFQCEH-Cz-4uuAbecSAQypmB13Nga0/s400/35A7A658-78DA-4F41-ABC3-8623EA83A853.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday after threatening to shutter social media platforms following Twitter’s move to label two of his tweets misleading.</b><br /> <br /> After long resisting calls to censure Trump over his truth-defying posts, Twitter on Tuesday accused the president of the first time of making false claims.<br /> <br /> Trump had tweeted — without any evidence — that more mail-in voting would lead to what he called a “Rigged Election” this November.<br /> <br /> Twitter’s slap on the wrist was enough to drive Trump into a tirade — on Twitter — in which he claimed that the political right in the United States was being censored.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Trump would sign an executive order “pertaining to social media” on Thursday, his aides said, without offering any details.<br /> <br /> But an undated draft version of the order obtained by The Washington Post on Wednesday said: “we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to hand-pick the speech that Americans may access and convey online.”<br /> <br /> The order would make it easier for federal regulators to argue that the companies are “suppressing free speech when they move to suspend users or delete posts,” The New York Times reported, citing two senior administration officials.<br /> <br /> Both newspapers also reported that the order, which they said had not yet been finalized, could see tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google held legally responsible for content posted on their platforms.<br /> <br /> Twitter’s move to tag the president’s tweets comes after years of being accused of ignoring the president’s violation of platform rules with his daily, often hourly barrages of personal insults and inaccurate information sent to more than 80 million followers.<br /> <br /> Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg waded into the row, telling Fox News that his social network — still the biggest in the world — has a different policy.<br /> <br /> “I just believe strongly that Facebook should not be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” Zuckerberg said in a snippet of the interview posted online Wednesday by Fox.<br /> <br /> “I think, in general, private companies, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”<br /> <br /> Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey fired back on Wednesday night, saying that his platform’s effort to point out misinformation did not make it an “arbiter of truth.”<br /> <br /> “Our intention is to connect the dots of conflicting statements and show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves,” he tweeted.<br /> <br /> He doubled down on the new policy, writing: “Fact check: there is someone ultimately accountable for our actions as a company, and that’s me… We’ll continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections globally.”<br /> <br /> Kate Ruane, at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that Trump has no power to regulate Twitter.<br /> <br /> The constitution “clearly prohibits the president from taking any action to stop Twitter from pointing out his blatant lies about voting by mail,” she said.<br /> <br /> For all his protests, Trump is a political giant on social media.<br /> <br /> By contrast, his Democratic election opponent, Joe Biden, has only 5.5 million Twitter followers.<br /> <br /> Social media suits Trump’s unorthodox communications style and his penchant for conspiracy theories, rumours and playground-style insults.<br /> <br /> The claim that Twitter is biased against conservatives fits the White House narrative that the billionaire president is still an outsider politician running against the elite.<br /> <br /> The row is also a useful smokescreen when Biden is homing in on widespread dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has left more than 100,000 Americans dead.<br /> <br /> Polls consistently show Biden in a strong position, despite barely having left his home during weeks of social distancing measures — and his relatively meagre social media presence.<br /> <br />

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Lagos gives update on Agege flyover, 4th mainland bridge, Badagry highway

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JUST IN: Gunmen abduct CAN Chairman in Nasarawa

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEB3CV60b6YNqH1o164u7_f6ZoocZngZm_yBARbZRUv2ljMJWSDGuBwu0wf5JYuFb9pytwPA1BxsZfIEJOzuLKEWlO2ICmBfJrJyNlVbpuZ7fe_UmjD30-NJs5HcdjAZdorrW4_Q3_EI/s1600/D6F0B8D1-8AB0-420A-BC2C-EA5607722720.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="750" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEB3CV60b6YNqH1o164u7_f6ZoocZngZm_yBARbZRUv2ljMJWSDGuBwu0wf5JYuFb9pytwPA1BxsZfIEJOzuLKEWlO2ICmBfJrJyNlVbpuZ7fe_UmjD30-NJs5HcdjAZdorrW4_Q3_EI/s400/D6F0B8D1-8AB0-420A-BC2C-EA5607722720.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed the abduction of Bishop Joseph Masin, the state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), by gunmen in Lafia.</b><br /> <br /> The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Bola Longe, confirmed the development to newsmen on Thursday in Lafia.<br /> <br /> Longe said the bishop was abducted by the gunmen who stormed his residence in Bukan-sidi, Lafia metropolis, on Wednesday night.<br /> <br /> He said that a Police team had been deployed to trail the abductors to ensure the safe rescue of the victim and possible arrest of the perpetrators.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Corroborating the incident, Elder Yohanna Samari, a former CAN Secretary in the State, said the bishop was abducted by the attackers at midnight at his Bukan-sidi residence.<br /> <br /> Samari said that the abductors took the CAN chairman away on a motorcycle.<br /> <br /> He said that although nobody was hurt during the incident, the family had been greatly traumatised.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Pastor Tayo Samuel, the CAN Vice Chairman in the state, said the abductors had contacted the family demanding for N20 million ransom.

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COVID-19: CBN issues directive to banks, reduces interest rates

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Angry US protests for second night over police killing of black man

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRVY9QOQ6qQwZApqPTeSDVnsk4hcr_Z1hppx7YBStKallENR9I4VltpK5a06xafN0lrAabTt1OEI6FB5j7qD4A1tmIS-rwntaKsNkHQ-Ma-eDOEWFvI4VU-fhgk1zh86y8HPceF1s6ak0/s1600/3A566268-A898-42B1-8ECC-46757B8F5079.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="300" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRVY9QOQ6qQwZApqPTeSDVnsk4hcr_Z1hppx7YBStKallENR9I4VltpK5a06xafN0lrAabTt1OEI6FB5j7qD4A1tmIS-rwntaKsNkHQ-Ma-eDOEWFvI4VU-fhgk1zh86y8HPceF1s6ak0/s400/3A566268-A898-42B1-8ECC-46757B8F5079.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Demonstrators clashed with police, looted stores and set fires as a man was fatally shot during a second night of protests in the US city of Minneapolis Wednesday over the killing of a black man by a police officer.</b><br /> <br /> Police fired tear gas and formed a human barricade to keep protesters from climbing a fence surrounding the Third Precinct, where the officers accused of killing the black man, George Floyd worked before they were fired on Tuesday.<br /> <br /> They pushed protesters back as the crowd grew, a day after firing rubber bullets and more tear gas on thousands of demonstrators angered by the latest death of an African-American at the hands of US law enforcement.<br /> <br /> Minnesota State Governor, Tim Walz, urged people to leave the area around the precinct where several fires were burning, warning of the “extremely dangerous situation” in a tweet late Wednesday.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Outrage has grown across the country at Floyd’s death on Monday, fuelled in part by bystander cellphone video which shows him, handcuffed and in the custody of four white police officers, on the ground while one presses his knee into the victim’s neck.<br /> <br /> President Donald Trump in a tweet called Floyd’s death “sad and tragic”, and all four officers have been fired, as prosecutors said they had called in the FBI to help investigate the case.<br /> <br /> Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo cautioned protestors Wednesday to remain peaceful.<br /> <br /> But by 10:00 pm (0300 GMT Thursday) an auto parts store across from the precinct had been set alight and a nearby Target was being looted, according to US media.<br /> <br /> Police continued to hold the crowds back from scaling a fence into the precinct’s parking lot, where their cruisers contain guns.<br /> <br /> As the violence escalated, with more businesses looted, a man was shot near the protests and later died, police said. A person has been arrested.<br /> <br /> Protesters remained peaceful at two other locations in the city.<br /> <br /> At the place where Floyd was first taken into custody, people chanted and carried placards and sent out bouquets were set out as tributes to Floyd.<br /> <br /> Calls for justice came from around the country.<br /> <br /> “I would like those officers to be charged with murder, because that’s exactly what they did,” Bridgett Floyd, the victim’s sister, said on NBC television.<br /> <br /> “They murdered my brother…. They should be in jail for murder.”<br /> <br /> Protesters marched on downtown Los Angeles and briefly blocked the 101 Freeway.<br /> <br /> Some demonstrators smashed the windows of two police highway patrol cruisers, clambering on the hood of one of the vehicles. One of the protesters was injured when they fell off the vehicle as it sped away.<br /> <br /> Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey said he could not understand why the officer who held his knee to Floyd’s neck on a Minneapolis street until the 46-year-old restaurant worker went limp has not been arrested.<br /> <br /> “Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail? If you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now,” Frey said.<br /> <br /> – ‘I can’t breathe’ –<br /> The case was seen as the latest example of police brutality against African Americans, which gave rise six years ago to the Black Lives Matter movement.<br /> <br /> Floyd had been detained on a minor charge of allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill to make a purchase at a convenience store.<br /> <br /> In the video, policemen hold him to the ground while one presses his knee to Floyd’s neck.<br /> <br /> “Your knee in my neck. I can’t breathe…. Mama. Mama,” Floyd pleaded.<br /> <br /> He grew silent and motionless, unable to move even as the officers told him to “get up and get in the car.”<br /> <br /> He was taken to hospital where he was later declared dead.<br /> <br /> Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said the FBI needs to thoroughly investigate the case.<br /> <br /> “It’s a tragic reminder that this was not an isolated incident, but part of an engrained systemic cycle of injustice that still exists in this country,” Biden said.<br /> <br /> “We have to ensure that the Floyd family receive the justice they are entitled to.”<br /> <br /> Democratic Senator Kamala Harris called the policeman’s using his knee on Floyd’s neck “torture.”<br /> <br /> “This is not new, it has been going on a long time… what our communities have known for generations, which is discriminatory implementation and enforcement of the laws,” she said.<br /> <br /> “He was begging to be able to breathe,” she said. “It was a public execution.”<br /> <br /> The protests evoked memories of riots in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 after a policeman shot dead an African American man suspected of robbery, and the case of New Yorker Eric Garner, who was detained by police for illegally selling cigarettes and filmed being held in an illegal chokehold that led to his death.<br /> <br /> “How many more of these senseless excessive-force killings from the people who are supposed to protect us can we take in America?” said civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who was retained by Floyd’s family<br /> <br /> Crump pointed out that the arrest involved a minor, non-violent crime, and there was no sign, as police initially claimed, that Floyd resisted arrest.<br /> <br /> “There is no reason to apply this excessive fatal force,” Crump said.<br /> <br /> “That has to be the tipping point. Everybody deserves justice … We can’t have two justice systems, one for blacks and one for whites.”

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96uK_VZzcP5WRxngbjVQA9KI45bD6PG1ikBWKZEBQxo_nGqjxMh-3LXAK74XI139nr17t9tjFX-Bdh4av_eKYdaVRg84hz3pER8wcLzksAwj7zaOyd5qCGp1UnUNo_cs-E8ageKwZTQo/s1600/EF83C93F-D3D4-40DD-980B-6EBEC874A2B3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96uK_VZzcP5WRxngbjVQA9KI45bD6PG1ikBWKZEBQxo_nGqjxMh-3LXAK74XI139nr17t9tjFX-Bdh4av_eKYdaVRg84hz3pER8wcLzksAwj7zaOyd5qCGp1UnUNo_cs-E8ageKwZTQo/s400/EF83C93F-D3D4-40DD-980B-6EBEC874A2B3.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Retired English professional footballer, Peter Crouch who hopes to represent the Super Eagles, has joked about obtaining a Nigerian passport.</b><br /> <br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <div dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">So excited to get my Nigerian passport through today <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gosupereagles?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gosupereagles</a> 👍🏻</div> — Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) <a href="https://twitter.com/petercrouch/status/1265338304209342467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="async" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> Crouch via his official Twitter account made the joke and stated that; ”So excited to get my Nigerian passport through today”.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Before his retirement, Peter had scored 22 goals for his country. He also appeared twice at the World Cup.

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vmJHFq1iqZOscZmxzHX2kj5yFGLlE3cET_r1XZgjJ9Ffe84uBGklmzrbXfXGfMYO7DPgZ7WtzN6xBNwJFdy0VWcDzhhiX5sEgPX2Q0xC2Ubn9m6SScPh1z257-CEORXq624_iUHBWd0/s1600/C753CFD8-2C74-46FA-A130-26C05FF0205E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="480" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8vmJHFq1iqZOscZmxzHX2kj5yFGLlE3cET_r1XZgjJ9Ffe84uBGklmzrbXfXGfMYO7DPgZ7WtzN6xBNwJFdy0VWcDzhhiX5sEgPX2Q0xC2Ubn9m6SScPh1z257-CEORXq624_iUHBWd0/s400/C753CFD8-2C74-46FA-A130-26C05FF0205E.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, alleged that the Dr. Kayode Fayemi-led administration had sold the State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.</b><br /> <br /> The state PDP Caretaker Committee Secretary, Diran Odeyemi, asked the governor to explain to Ekiti people the status of the property located at T.Y Danjuma, Asokoro, Abuja.<br /> <br /> Odeyemi, said this in a statement in Ado Ekiti. He claimed there was credible evidence to show that the property had been sold, adding that “Governor Fayemi must explain to Ekiti people why the building was demolished and a new structure being built on the land.”<br /> <br /> He alleged that the Fayemi-led All Progressives Congress administration “got the state government to buy a property belonging to him in Abuja, to be converted to a new Governor’s Lodge after selling the one in Asokoro, Abuja.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The party scribe said, “Should spending billions of naira on a new Governor’s Lodge in Abuja be the priority of the same Fayemi’s government that sacked over 3,000 workers under the pretext that there was no money to pay them?<br /> <br /> “As at today, the edifice sitting on 2000sqm on T. Y. Danjuma, Asokoro, Abuja is no longer there. It has been demolished and new structure is being built on the land. At the site, no signpost stating the owner of the new structure, the contractor and consultant as it should be if the new structure is being built by the state government.<br /> <br /> “Also, assuming but not conceding that the new structure with like 15 feet bunker is being built by the state government, what is the justification for pulling down the old structure and building a new one at this time? At what time did the former structure become dilapidated to warrant total demolition to pave way for a new one?<br /> <br /> “It is therefore our demand that Governor Fayemi must explain to Ekiti people what happened to the multi-billion-naira edifice in Abuja.”<br /> <br /> However, the state Commissioner for Works, Mr Sola Adebayo said, “We have heard about the allegation from the PDP. I don’t think we have any reason to rush in replying because there is nothing like fraud as regards the Abuja property. We will respond very soon.”

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200 Zamfara, Katsina bandits killed in air strikes — DHQ

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7-XNoEH59IPLcph-OiXnMibTwoz5GKm08M-D_bYZICthyk1R6AmlEmJM3SRQ91k339Xb-VMiNA0oIniIE8xh_UCAQ9eUwjrxqpqWiWp5tQXqkY7-ZZZ3x4WxPG6XHDB0lLFR4ccwyAI/s1600/24D012CC-39CF-45FF-B390-92E4E90B50F8.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge7-XNoEH59IPLcph-OiXnMibTwoz5GKm08M-D_bYZICthyk1R6AmlEmJM3SRQ91k339Xb-VMiNA0oIniIE8xh_UCAQ9eUwjrxqpqWiWp5tQXqkY7-ZZZ3x4WxPG6XHDB0lLFR4ccwyAI/s400/24D012CC-39CF-45FF-B390-92E4E90B50F8.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Over 200 bandits have been killed by the army between Zamfara and Katsina states in multiple air strikes.</b><br /> <br /> The strike was conducted at Ibrahim Mai’Bai’s Camp in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State and Kurmin Kura in Zurmi of Zamfara State between 22 and 23, May this year.<br /> <br /> Confirming the incident the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations Maj. Gen. John Enenche, said the air strikes were executed after a series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions.<br /> <br /> The two locations, according to Ehenche were being used as hideouts for some notorious bandit leaders whilst also serving as collection points for rustled cattle.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Accordingly, Air Component, employing Nigerian Air Force ground attack aircraft and helicopter gunships, engaged the two locations in multiple passes, destroying the makeshift structures in the camps as well as killing the bandit leaders and their fighters.<br /> <br /> “Human Intelligence (HUMINT) sources later confirmed that close to 200 armed bandits were killed in the air strikes at the target locations” He added.<br /> <br /> Commenting on the issue, the Chief of the Air Staff , Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, commended the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji for their professionalism and directed them to remain resolute towards eradicating all armed bandits.<br /> <br /> Air Marshall Sadique said this would lead to achieving directives of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of restoring normalcy in the North West and North Central Zones of the Country.

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