Italy’s Conte vows to reopen schools in September
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte vowed Sunday to reopen schools by September and allow many businesses to resume in a week’s time as the country emerges from a near-total shutdown. Conte told La Repubblica newspaper that he will spell out the full details of how Italy will ease its way out of the world’s longest […]
We will use creative writing to fight COVID-19, says PEN President
By Elizabeth Osayande The President, PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists) Nigeria, Mr Folu Agoi, has said they will use creative writing to fight COVID-19. Mr. Agoi said this at during a special online rendezvous of the Nigerian Centre of PEN International, aka PEN Nigeria, to launch PEN’s Free the Word WhatsApp platform, part […]
Everton ‘appalled’ by Kean’s house party in virus lockdown
Everton said they are “appalled” at one of their players widely reported to be Italian international Moise Kean hosting a house party contravening the social distancing measures recommended by the British government due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 20-year-old striker filmed himself hosting the party, the Daily Mirror reported. The Mirror says Kean sent video […]
Omeruo reveals why Eaglets stars fade in Europe
Former Golden Eaglets player, Kenneth Omeruo has said that the country’s Under-17 players who excelled at the FIFA World Cup and made it to Europe often failed to shine because of bad choices they made. Nigeria has won the FIFA U-17 World Cup five times but only hand full of the Eaglets stars make a […]
COVID-19: SERAP asks governors to redirect security votes, life pension to fund healthcare
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the 36 state governors urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors from the state to invest in and improve public healthcare facilities and access to quality education.”
Lagos says masks compulsory to stop coronavirus
Authorities in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos have made wearing of masks mandatory in a bid to halt the coronavirus, a spokesman said Sunday. “Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced on Saturday that wearing of face masks in public was now compulsory in the state,” his spokesman Gboyega Akosile told AFP. He said the measure was aimed […]
