NCDC confirms first coronavirus death in Edo State

NCDC confirms first coronavirus death in Edo State

By Rasheed Sobowale The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the death of a coronavirus (COVID-19) patient in Edo State. Vanguard gathered that the Centre, late Friday published the update of the coronavirus cases in Nigeria. The latest report indicated the confirmed cases to have risen to 210, after the addition of the […]
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Loyibo to Oshiomhole: You have left uncommon footprint in Nigeria

Loyibo to Oshiomhole: You have left uncommon footprint in Nigeria

By Perez Brisibe TRADITIONAL Prime Minister of Tuomo kingdom in Delta and Bayelsa States, Chief Mike Loyibo, has described the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as a man who has left an ineligible and uncommon footprint in the political history of Nigeria. Chief Loyibo in a statement, Friday, commended […]

COVID-19: Mandela Obasi, Abia Lawmaker, distributes relief materials to constituents

COVID-19: Mandela Obasi, Abia Lawmaker, distributes relief materials to constituents

It was all joy at the palace of the Enachioken of Abiriba in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State as the Lawmaker representing Ohafia North State Constituency at the Abia State House of Assembly, Honourable Mandela Egwuronu Obasi, presented relief materials to the people of his constituency through the traditional rulers of the area. […]

Trump uses Defense Production Act to order GE, Philips to make ventilators

Trump uses Defense Production Act to order GE, Philips to make ventilators

President Trump on Thursday announced that he had used the Defense Production Act to order US companies to manufacture and deliver more urgently needed ventilators to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “Moments ago I directed Secretary [Alex] Azar and acting Secretary [Chad] Wolf to use any authority under the Defense Production Act to ensure that domestic […]

Chairman, Itsekiri Bible translator, Aganbi, dies at 99

Chairman, Itsekiri Bible translator, Aganbi, dies at 99

By Jimitota Onoyume Chairman Itsekiri Bible translator, Deacon Stephen Ejueyitsi Aganbi, has passed on at the age of 99 years at his residence in Koko, headquarters, Warri North local government area, Delta state. A statement made available to newsmen in Warri signed by Mr Felix Aganbi said the late Aganbi, a London trained Lawyer was […]

World Bank excludes Nigeria in $1.9bn COVID-19 response launch

World Bank excludes Nigeria in $1.9bn COVID-19 response launch

Emma Ujah The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $1.9 billion first set of emergency support operations for developing countries around the world, using a dedicated, fast-track facility for COVID-19 (coronavirus) response. However, the global financial powerhouse excluded Nigeria from the list of the 25 countries to benefit from the support. The organization […]

Bill Withers: Lean On Me and Ain’t No Sunshine crooner dies at 81

Bill Withers: Lean On Me and Ain’t No Sunshine crooner dies at 81

Soul singer Bill Withers, famous for a number of timeless classics such as Lean On Me and Ain’t No Sunshine, has died aged 81. The three-time Grammy winner, who withdrew from making music in the mid-1980s, died from heart complications, his family said. His death comes as people across the world have found comfort in […]

Tension in Kwara as UK returnee reportedly killed by COVID-19 virus

Tension in Kwara as UK returnee reportedly killed by COVID-19 virus

By Demola Akinyemi The death of a Chartered Accountant, Alhaji Jimoh Muideen, Thursday evening in University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITHC) who just returned from the United Kingdom where he attended the graduation ceremony of one of his children has sparked off tension in Kwara State that COVID-19 might have crept into the state. Kwara […]