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Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:50

FG pays N200bn to power sector operators to boost electricity

Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), Mr Mele Kyari, said wednesday that the federal government had paid over N200 billion to the power sector towards improving electricity supply. Kyari disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Abuja shortly after a closed door meeting between the NNPC; Minister of Power, Mr Sale Mamman, and Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Mr Usman Mohammed. “Actually the federal government has made payment of over N200 billion for power in the last 23 days and this will go a long way to ensure that issues around power supply are…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:49

Lassa fever killing more Nigerians than coronavirus, yet it isn’t receiving due attention - Report

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Lassa fever has killed at least 188 Nigerians this year, with experts saying the disease has wreaked havoc since its discovery in the country 51 years ago. Health officials have, therefore, called for a corresponding attention to end Lassa fever, emphasising that it is equally a deadly disease that has taken a toll on the citizens and medical practitioners over the years. It was gathered that from January this year to the first week of April, 963 people have fallen ill with the disease across 27 states of the country. Lassa fever killed…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:48

Nigeria loses first medical doctor to coronavirus

A medical doctor in Lagos, Mr Chugbo Enema has become the first health worker in Nigeria to die from COVID-19 after he contracted the virus from a patient he was treating. The doctor, who died at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Wednesday after being rushed to the facility Monday, was said to have managed a COVID-19 patient in a private hospital where he worked. The patient being treated died on Friday April 3. Confirming the development to journalist on Wednesday, Chief Medical Director, LUTH, Mr Chris Bode, said the doctor was not a staff of the hospital, but was rushed…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:47

IMF warns of serious social unrest in countries due to pandemic

New waves of social unrest could erupt in some countries if government measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic are seen as insufficient or unfairly favoring the wealthy, IMF said in a new report on Wednesday. Governments had already spent nearly $8 trillion to combat the pandemic and mitigate the economic fallout, but more fiscal stimulus would be needed once the crisis abated, the global lender said in its semi-annual Fiscal Monitor. The spike in spending would sharply widen fiscal deficits, with global public debt set to rise 13 percentage points to more than 96% of gross domestic product in 2020,…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:46

Security agencies have killed more Nigerians under lockdown than coronavirus - Report

Nigerian security agents enforcing the Coronavirus lockdown in Nigeria have killed more citizens in the last two weeks than the deadly virus, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said. While the disease has so far killed 11 persons in Nigeria, according to data from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), security operatives have caused the death of 18 people, NHRC said in a report. In the report signed by its Executive Secretary, Mr Tony Ojukwu, and made public on Wednesday, the commission assessed the incidents of violation of human rights over the last two weeks. “There were eight documented incidents…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:45

Fire razes shops at Dugbe market in Ibadan

Tragedy struck in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, yesterday afternoon as fire razed about 30 shops at Lebanon Street, Dugbe Alawo in Ibadan, and destroyed goods worth millions of naira. Mattresses, clothes, household items, eye glasses, decoration materials, generators, and electronics were among goods destroyed by the inferno in the affected shops. Three persons were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury due to the fire that led to confusion and apprehension in Dugbe, Ogunpa, Ekotedo and their environs. A Toyota Matrix, parked by the roadside in front of one of the razed shops, was completely burnt. Although the source…

Thursday, 16 April 2020 05:44

Experts predict continuation of coronavirus social distancing until 2022

Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there could be resurgences of Covid-19 for years to come. The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that a one-time lockdown will not be sufficient to bring the pandemic under control and that secondary peaks could be larger than the current one without continued restrictions. One scenario predicted a resurgence could occur as far in the future as 2025 in the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment. Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard and co-author of…

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:32

Buhari to EU on N21bn donation: ‘I’m touched by your generosity despite your own coronavirus challenges’

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commended the European Union (EU) for donating 50 million Euros (N21 billion) towards containing the novel coronavirus in Nigeria. Receiving the EU delegation, led by its Ambassador, Mr Ketil Karlsen in Abuja, he noted that the gesture would immensely revitalise the nation’s healthcare systems. He expressed the condolences of the government and people of Nigeria to EU-member countries and families who lost their loved ones to the epidemic. ‘’Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and communities impacted. We are confident from history that the resilience of Europe and our global collective will enable…

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:31

Recession not seen in Nigeria in the last 30 years coming - IMF

International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria’s economy will recede by 3.4 per cent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted global supply chains. “This would be the worst recession in 30 years, and the second recession in five years, following closely after a negative economic growth of 1.51 per cent in 2016,” the IMF said. In 1987, Nigeria’s economy receded by -10.87 and -0.6 in 1991. The Fund stated this in its April 2020 World Economic Outlook report released, yesterday, in Washington DC, USA. IMF Chief Economist and Director of Research Department, Gita Gopinath, said…

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:30

We won’t share donated funds to Nigerians - FG

Federal Government says funds donated by the private sector towards fighting coronavirus are meant for development of healthcare infrastructure and cannot be used to provide palliatives during lockdown. Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, said this yesterday when he featured on a Radio Nigeria programme, “Politics Nationwide”. He was responding to comments from Nigerians requesting that part of the billions of naira being donated by public-spirited individuals and private institutions should be shared to the people to cushion the effect of the extended lockdown. The minister said the Presidential Task Force for the Control of Coronavirus was neither…

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Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:29

Buhari, Lawan, Gbajabiamila meet in Aso Rock

Senate President Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors to discuss the implementation of the National Social Investment Programme, among other issues. This comes days after a clash between the National Assembly and Special Adviser to the President on Social Investment Programme, Ms Maryam Uwais, over the need for a reform of the process of implementing the programme. Uwais had, on April 8, responded to criticisms of the programme by the legislature with allegations that lawmakers were criticising the implementation of the SIP partly because some of them…

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:27

Ganduje makes u-turn on Northern govs decision, puts Kano on lockdown

Governor of Kano state, Mr Abdullahi Ganduje has ordered a lockdown of the state for seven days beginning from Thursday as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. The governor made the announcement during a meeting with Islamic scholars. “Following the outbreak of this disease, COVID-19 in Kano and the subsequent cases we recorded, Kano Government has resolved to lockdown the state for a duration of seven days starting from Thursday 16th April,” he said. “We want to however call on the scholars that Kano residents should start purchasing food stuff, as that would help curtail the spread…

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:26

In house-to-search, Lagos identifies 119 persons with coronavirus symptoms

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Mr Akin Abayomi, said a total of 119 people with COVID-19 symptoms have been identified in the state. Abayomi, at a briefing of Tuesday, said a total of 118,000 households had been reached in the search of possible COVID-19 cases in communities, adding that the search was activated to limit the spread of the disease in the state which had the highest number of COVID-19 patients in the country. "We’ve embarked on an active case search in communities. The idea is to go to hotspots and go from door to door with our health personnel.…

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:25

Trump cuts WHO funding over coronavirus, global death toll mounts

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing condemnation from infectious disease experts as the global death toll continued to mount. Trump, who has reacted angrily to criticism of his administration’s response to the worst epidemic in a century, has become increasingly hostile towards the WHO. The Geneva-based organisation had promoted China’s “disinformation” about the virus that likely led to a wider outbreak than otherwise would have occurred, Trump said. “The WHO failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable,” Trump told a White House…

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