Forums

Look At What This Ghana Soldier Did, After He Caught Some People Who Violated The COVID-19 Lock Down To Buy Food. .This Is How Any Reasonable Soldier/Police Officer Should Behave At This Difficult Time. Not All Those Ones Running Around Looking For Who To Brutalise And Flog.Ghana Soldier… Video not supported.Nigeria Soldier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yll_bnPamH0&feature=youtu.be…

World heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, has revealed that he has “lost close ones” to coronavirus.Joshua disclosed this via a clip on his YouTube channel on Wednesday.Quote“Wherever you are in the world I’m just checking in personally for everyone to just say, I hope you were well I will keep it safe.“I’ve lost no one immediate to me. But I’ve lost close ones from my boxing gym, close friends and friends of friends. And it gets serious when it starts coming closer to home,” the 30-year-old said.Joshua’s title defence against IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev scheduled for June, is set to be rescheduled due to the pandemic.Quote“I would love to be out there right now doing the most on my dirt bikes, meeting up with my boys, sparring, going down to the boxing gym. Even a rebel like me is trying to follow some guidelines to do the right thing,” he added….

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed twenty-three new cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria; 9 in Lagos, 7 in the FCT, 5 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Kaduna and 1 in Bauchi StateAs at 08:00 pm 1st April there are 174 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two deaths…

A former Somali Prime Minister, Nur Hussein died on Wednesday in the United Kingdom from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.Hussein’s family confirmed the death at King’s College Hospital in London – one week after he contracted the deadly virus.The former prime minister served between November 2007 and February 2009 in the transitional government of Somalia.His death has already stirred reactions back home, with current Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Khaire, mourning him.Quote“My deepest condolences to the people of Somalia and to the family of former Prime Minister who died in London,” Khaire said in a statement.“I pray to Allah to let his soul rest in peace,”Over 900,000 have been diagnosed with the flu-like virus worldwide with about 40,000 deaths….

As the cases of coronavirus continues to rise in Nigeria, the Ondo state government has decla­red a three-day period of fasting and prayers commencing from Th­ursday, 2nd to Satur­day, 4th April for Ondo State and the country to seek the face of God over the pandemic.This was made known in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, Mr Donald Ojogo, where it was also revealed that the state would be closing its land and sea borders with its neighbouring states of Ekiti, Osun, Ko­gi, Edo as well as Ogun State.See the full statement below;Quote“Having observed the trend in respect of COVID-19 and the pos­sibility of its unde­terminable spread, the Government of Ondo State has ordered the closure of its borders with the neig­hbouring states of Ekiti, Osun, Ko­gi, Edo and Elefon, our coastal border with Ogun which in the recent past, has witnessed heavy human traffic from Lagos and Ogun…

On Sunday, March 29, 2020, the president placed Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states on a 14-day lockdown as one in a raft of measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus in Africa’s most populous nation.However, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the release of 70,000 metric tonnes of grains from Nigeria’s National Strategic Grain Reserves to cushion the pains of a coronavirus hit the nation.The grains will be distributed “to poor and vulnerable persons in frontline #COVID19 States, as well as persons whose livelihoods will be affected by the lockdowns,” the presidency announced in a tweet.The president also announced a ramping up of the administration’s social investment programs as people are forced to sit at home.Quote “I have directed that the conditional cash transfers for the next two months be paid immediately. Our Internally displaced persons will also receive two months of food rations in the coming weeks,” B…

Osun government on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government to come to its aid in containing the spread of COVID-19 in the state as confirmed cases rose to 14 from the initial two.Mr Ismail Omipidan, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Gboyega Oyetola, while giving an update on the cases in Osogbo, said the state had no choice than to appeal to the Federal Government in tackling the rising cases.He said 127 persons returning from Ivory Coast on Saturday were held at the border with Ogun and later quarantined at an isolation centre in Ejigbo.The governor’s aide said that 12 of the returnees tested positive to the coronavirus and were currently receiving treatment.Quote“On Saturday, 127 persons from Ivory Coast in six buses came into the state from Ogun and were disallowed by the State Executive Council from mixing with the general public to prevent community transfer of the virus.“Between Saturday and Tuesday, 24 samples from…

The drug for the treatment of the dreaded coronavirus will be ready soon if the testing of the vaccine is completed.The assurance was given by the Chairman of the Imo State Taskforce on COVID-19, Prof. Maurice Iwu in Owerri on Wednesday.The professor of Pharmacognosy from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), had presented a plant-based patented treatment for COVID-19 to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu which is now been tested in United States.While briefing newsmen in Owerri shortly after Seplat Petroleum and Waltersmith Oil Ltd donated COVID-19 preventive material to the state government, Prof. Iwu disclosed that there is a positive sign that it would soon be ready.“The work on the drug we are developing is still going on. We are encouraged by the result we are getting. We are getting very positive signs.”He disclosed further “luckily the drug is a safe one. It is drug already in use. We are repur…

Friends of a Nigerian doctor have been mourning after he died of Lassa Fever, weeks to the end of his House Job. The Doctor whose goes by the name Dzuana Vanen Philip, according to friends was a very intelligent, careful and meticulous Doc who struggled before becoming a Doctor.It was learnt that he wrote UTME countless times just to study Medicine & Surgery. Unfortunately, his dreams was cut short by Lassa fever.Read his friend words below……

The Zamfara State Government on Monday, busted a rehabilitation centre in Gusau, the state capital and rescued 57 inmates tied in chains.It was gathered that Governor Matawalle earlier got a wind of a secret existence of this center and immediately ordered his Commissioner for Special Duties Alhaji Mohammed Saddiq Maiturare to lead a team of Security operatives and some officials from the state Ministry for Women and Children Affairs to the reported Center. On arrival, no fewer than 57 male and female inmates were found in the squalid House which serves as the Center operated by one Malam Iliyasu Abdullahi Gamagiwa. The inmates were reportedly found chained.The security operatives immediately released the inmates and took them to the state remand home where they were fed before the next line of action to rehabilitate and reunite them with their families. The Commissioner said the inmates were kept in a horrible manner without proper…

Luck has ran out on a gay man in Delta state after he was caught trying to sleep with an underage boy.A man identified as Efe has been apprehended in Delta state after he tried to forcefully sleep with a boy. It was gathered that the man who is a fruit seller was caught redhanded at Akintola road in Sapele. It was gathered that the man also had bead on his waist. He was arrested and will be handed over to the police….

Some angry youths in Warri have been caught on camera attacking the taskforce team deployed to enforce the stay-at-home order.A video has emerged online showing the moment angry Warri youths on Wednesday morning, attacked some of the state taskforce team deployed to enforce the state government’s sit at home order.The governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, on March 26, announced that the state will be on total lockdown beginning from today April 1, to prevent the importation of the Coronavirus to the state.Men of the state taskforce who were sent out to enforce the order, were attacked by some angry youths along Jakpa road. According to the youths, they cannot sit at home when they have no food to eat.Watch the video below:…

Wimbledon has been cancelled, due to the coronavirus pandemic, for the first time since the Second World War, with All England Club chiefs making the tough decision at an emergency board meeting on Wednesday.According to MailOnline, the coronavirus pandemic has put paid to many sporting events, and The Championships are the next to fall, with the UK death toll currently standing at 1,789.It was considered impossible for the tournament to be moved back to later in the year, or to be played without fans, and so chiefs have pulled the plug entirely.This is the first time that Wimbledon will not be staged since 1945. Only one Grand Slam has missed a year since the war, the 1986 Australian Open, and that was for the technical reason of the date shifting forward from December into January.It is the biggest blow to hit Wimbledon since 1973, when 81 male players staged a boycott in protest at the refusal to allow Yugoslavian Nikki Pilic to…

Portugal has temporarily given all migrants and asylum seekers full citizenship rights, granting them full access to the country’s healthcare as the outbreak of the novel coronavirusescalates in the country.The move will “unequivocally guarantee the rights of all the foreign citizens” with applications pending with Portuguese immigration, meaning they are “in a situation of regular permanence in National Territory,” until June 30, the Portuguese Council of Ministers said on Friday.The Portuguese Council of Ministers explained that the decision was taken to “reduce the risks for public health” of maintaining the current scheduling of appointments at the immigration office, for both the border agents and the migrants and asylum seekers.Portugal declared a State of Emergency on March 18 that came into effect at midnight that day and was due to last for 15 days. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said during a news co…