How a Prince Built a Legacy Through Art

Arts & CultureEducationNigeriaHow a Prince Built a Legacy Through Art

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 8, 2020

Museums in Nigeria are owned by the government and like other public facilities, museums suffer from under-funding and poor maintenance. This has made facilities with art materials which have strong links to peoples identities and cultures have little appeal. But a Nigerian University and a Yoruba prince have partnered to change this. In October 2019, the partnership between the Pan-Atlantic University and Prince Yemisi Shyllon — a Yoruba prince from Ogun state in southwest Nigeria...

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Boko Haram: ‘Save Our Husbands from Avoidable Deaths’ – Police Officers’ Wives Tell Government

National SecurityNewsNigeriaBoko Haram: ‘Save Our Husbands from Avoidable Deaths’ – Police Officers’ Wives Tell Government

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 8, 2020

Wives of police officers serving in the northeast have asked the government to redeploy their husbands in order to prevent them from being widows. The call was made in a protest in Jos, where the women, dressed in black attire, protested the killing of their husbands by the insurgents and alleged that no action was carried out by the government. One of the protesters said some of the officers had overstayed in their places of...

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‘Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Ready for Emergency Use in April,’ Chinese Official

HealthNewsWorld News‘Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be Ready for Emergency Use in April,’ Chinese Official

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 7, 2020

A health official in China says coronavirus vaccine could be ready for emergency use next month. What could be a breakthrough to put an end to the disease — that has spread to over fifty-five countries, infecting 100,000 persons and leaving over 3000 people dead – is coming weeks after Chinese scientists revealed the sequence of the coronavirus. “According to our estimates, we are hopeful that in April some of the vaccines will enter clinical...

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Hotel Used for Coronavirus Quarantine in China, Collapses, 70 People Trapped

HealthWorld NewsHotel Used for Coronavirus Quarantine in China, Collapses, 70 People Trapped

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 7, 2020

An eighty-room hotel in southeast China, used as a quarantine facility for persons exposed to coronavirus has collapsed, according to reports According to the Daily Maily, the Xinjia Hotel, located in Quanzhou City in Fujian province, collapsed on Saturday, around 7:30pm. The Ministry of Emergency Management, said at least 34 people had been rescued as at 10pm local time. Videos posted online show rescue officials combing through the wreckage. News report say the hotel was...

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BREAKING: Why PDP Sacked 4 Directors, 58 Others

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBREAKING: Why PDP Sacked 4 Directors, 58 Others

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 7, 2020

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has carried out a mass sack of 50 per cent of its workers, a notice pasted at the National Secretariat of the party revealed. In what appears as the result of a financial crisis, 62 officials and other members of staff were affected by the mass disengagement. Those affected include 4 directors, two deputy directors, 6 assistant directors, seventeen supervisors, 14 intermediate staff and nineteen junior staff. The workers were...

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El-Rufai sets to demolish Kaduna Market, orders traders to leave within three days

MarketsNewsNigeriaEl-Rufai sets to demolish Kaduna Market, orders traders to leave within three days

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 7, 2020

The Kaduna State Government has informed occupants of the Kasuwan Barchi market in Tudun-Wada of Kaduna Central Local Government of the state to leave the area in three days. The eviction notice which was issued by the Director-General of the Kaduna State Urban Planning and Development Authority, KASUPDA, Ismail Umar-Dikko, to the occupants of the market on Friday, is to pave way for the Urban Renewal Projects by Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Part of the notice...

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Nigeria: FG Sets Up Group to Harmonise Power Sector Reforms Across the Country

NewsNigeriaPowerNigeria: FG Sets Up Group to Harmonise Power Sector Reforms Across the Country

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 7, 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of a Power Sector Reform Coordination Working Group, to coordinate the power reforms of various levels of government, a statement by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State Governor, discloses. The Chairman of the Committee on Power Sector Reforms and Distribution Company Ownership, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, said the working group which would meet every week had commenced work and would bring all power reform efforts under the leadership of the...

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Twitter’s CEO Reconsidering Moving to Africa Due to Coronavirus

BusinessHealthWorldTwitter’s CEO Reconsidering Moving to Africa Due to Coronavirus

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 6, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak has made Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey to rethink his plans to spend up to six months in Africa, after he made the announcement in November 2019. Although he did not mention the country he would stay, there are speculations that it could be one of Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria or South Africa. Mr. Dorsey made this announcement during the Morgan Stanley conference in California that he would reconsider the idea, citing coronavirus outbreak. He...

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N1.23bn Fraud: Court Rejects Prof. Maurice Iwu’s Application to be Tried in Abuja

Law & JusticeNewsNigeriaN1.23bn Fraud: Court Rejects Prof. Maurice Iwu’s Application to be Tried in Abuja

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 6, 2020

The application by the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Maurice Iwu, seeking the transfer of his N1.23bn fraud trial from Lagos to Abuja has been rejected. Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos dismissed the application on Friday, saying it lacked merit. Giving reasons for dismissing the application, the judge said most of the witnesses by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were in Lagos and that...

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Update: Coronavirus in Nigeria: Health Ministry Looking for Two Passengers on the Same flight with the Italian Man

HealthNewsNigeriaUpdate: Coronavirus in Nigeria: Health Ministry Looking for Two Passengers on the Same flight with the Italian Man

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)March 6, 2020

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said he’s looking for two passengers who were on the same flight with the Italian man — who brought COVID-19 to Nigeria — and would release their identity if unable to locate them. According to Prof. Abayomi, during a press briefing on Thursday, of the people who boarded the plane with the Italian from Milan, only two persons were left to be identified and that...

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