The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital chapter, has called on its members to embark on a five-day warning strike from June 29. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the NARD President, Dr Abraham Akinbola and the General Secretary, Dr. Abubakar Usman. The statement, made available to newsmen on Sunday in Ibadan, hinged the action on a resolution from a virtual congress of the association. The News Agency...
The Defence Headquarters says the troops of ‘Operation Hadarin Daji’, eliminated several bandits and rescued many kidnapped victims in continuation of aggressive clearance under ‘Operation Accord’ in Katsina and Zamfara States. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Enenche said the troops had on June 26 foiled an attack at Mara Zamfarawa village in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing six bandits while...
The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra, Mr Andrew Kumapayi, on Sunday, confirmed the death of a middle-aged man, who died in a road crash at Zik Roundabout on the Onitsha-Awka expressway. Kumapayi, who confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka, said that the crash involved a truck driver, who ran over a tricycle. He said that the accident occurred at about...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, says 317 stranded Nigerians, who departed London on Sunday are expected to arrive in Nigeria following a successful evacuation. Onyeama made this known via his official twitter handle @GeoffreyOnyeama on Sunday while giving an update on the evacuation of stranded Nigerians abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic. “@flyairpeace evacuation flight APK 7801 from Heathrow Airport, London, just departed with 317 passengers including 9 infants, after several hours of delay...
Indeed, I believed and hoped that our current president—with so much energy and the many years spent persistently lobbying for another opportunity to govern Nigeria—would embark upon a titanic legacy of progress, reconciliation, and harmony in Nigeria as President Jonathan did in 2015, and as Lincoln did with the abolishment of slavery more than a century and a half ago in the United States. —Dr. I. D. Onwudiwe, The distribution of a $22.7 billion loan...
How many times must I fall from my toe against your feet Before I count my teeth with my tongue, Mr. Despot? My expectations such as are your countrymen’s respite, How many declining expectations on account of fiat? We winged our dreams in great heights to herald our hopes, We must now jettison all aspirations to accommodate fear, Where freedom has lost all responsibility to bear, Whose aspiration inspires such thuggery, succumb to your dopes?...
LONDON — The Rolling Stones are threatening President Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at his rallies despite cease-and-desist directives. The Stones said in a statement Sunday that their legal team is working with music rights organization BMI to stop use of their material in Trump’s reelection campaign. “The BMI have notified the Trump campaign on behalf of the Stones that the unauthorized use of their songs will constitute a breach of...
■ “Phone lines have been busy and a few big shots in your country are in the panic mode now because here in UAE, we don’t play when it comes to shit like this” His arrest was a surprise and made global news. So intense that news sites, blogs, social media threads and gossip tabloids went agog with photos and story-versions of his extravagant lifestyle. Yet, somehow, it was expected because the world knew what...
Animated TV comedy “The Simpsons” is ending the use of white actors to voice characters of colour, producers said on Friday. “Moving forward, ‘The Simpsons’ will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” they said in a brief statement. Also, United States Minneapolis city council advances plan to dismantle police department after Floyd’s death. The statement did not elaborate but the move follows years of public pressure about the Fox television show’s Indian convenience store character Apu, who...
Nigeria In Saturday recorded 779 new cases of COVID-19 as its total infections hit 24,077. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on its official Twitter handle. NCDC said that the 684 new confirmed cases were reported in 22 states, with four deaths. The health agency said that no new state reported a case in the last 24 hours. Also, Bangladesh COVID-19 cases reach nearly 134,000, deaths near 1,700. The NCDC said that Lagos reported the highest number of cases with...
