Iran: Virus Deaths Continue to Fall But Capital Remains Hotspot

New figures from Iran’s Health Ministry on Saturday suggest the country’s daily count of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to fall. Just 50 new virus-related deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours, ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said on Saturday, down from daily highs of more than 700 in mid-March. Over the same period the country confirmed 1,520 new coronavirus cases, though the majority did not need to be hospitalised, the spokesman told...

Insurgency: Gov. Zulum Establishes Office in Auno

Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno is to establish an outreach office in Auno village of Konduga Local Government, to encourage villagers fleeing from insurgency to return. Zulum, who stated this on Saturday during a visit to the village, said he would be using the office from time to time to boost the peoples’ confidence to return to the village. He described the move as strategic because of Auno’s closeness to the state capital and the...

Curfew: Suspected Hoodlums Attack Policemen in Edo, Kill One Officer

Suspected hoodlums on Friday attacked policemen attached to Auchi Division in Edo and killed an officer enforcing the Coronavirus curfew imposed by the Federal Government. DSP Chidi Nwabuzor, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Edo, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Saturday. Nwabuzor said that serious manhunt was presently ongoing to arrest the hoodlums. According to him, ”on Friday night at Auchi, the officer, one Insp. Felix Egbon and...

NOUN Begins Free Virtual Training for 600 Participants

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has began virtual lectures and hands-on-laps training for 600 participants through its Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning, (ACETEL). Mr. Ambrose Gowong, Communications Officer, ACETEL, in a statement said the training was a  partnership between ACETEL­-CISCO Academy and the Directorate of Learning Content Management System (DLCMS) of NOUN. He said  NOUN Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration, Prof. Justus Sokefun, who declared the training open, said the training was part...

Tokyo Games Could Be ‘Greatest Ever’, Says Coates

Senior international Olympics official John Coates said on Saturday the delayed Tokyo Olympics could end up being the greatest Games ever, coming next year as the world emerges from COVID-19 crisis. Coates, Australia’s Olympic chief and head of the International Olympic Committee’s inspectorate for the Games, cited the examples of positive Summer Games that followed the two world wars of the 20th century. The Tokyo Games were postponed for a year to 2021 in the...

Ghana registers More Than 500 Coronavirus Cases at Industrial Facility

More than 500 workers at an industrial facility in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s health service said, as total cases jumped by nearly 30 per cent in a single day. The health service did not name the facility, where it said in a statement that 533 out 1,300 workers had tested positive. The overall number of cases in Ghana rose to 4,012, including 18 deaths, from 3,091 on Thursday. That represents...

Kano Records 65 New Cases of Coronavirus, Total Infection Hits 547

Kano State Ministry of Health has confirmed that 65 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases had been recorded in the state. The ministry via its verified Twitter handle @KNSMOH, said that the development had raised the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state to 547. “Update as at 11:35 p.m. May 8, 2020; 65 new cases of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Kano state. “Total confirmed cases in Kano state are now 547, three additional patients...

Bob Dylan Announces First Album of New Music Since 2012

Bob Dylan is releasing his first album of new music in eight years following a spurt of creativity from the man regarded as one of the world’s most influential songwriters. Rough and Rowdy Ways” will be released on June 19, according to a brief announcement on Dylan’s official website early on Friday. It will be a double album but no further details were given. The announcement followed the release late on Thursday of a third...

NCDC Records 386 New Cases of COVID-19, Total Infection Now 3912

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday recorded 386 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 3912. The NCDC also said that 10 new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 117. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that this is the highest number of cases recorded in a single day in the country....

NYSC Says Missing ‘Ada Chidi’ Not a Corps Member

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), says that a lady Miss Bianca Chidi whose where about is not known is not a corps member contrary to reports in some quarters. Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the Director, Press and Public Relations of NYSC, said this in a statement issued in Abuja, on Friday. Adeyemi was reacting to a publication by a newspaper with the  caption “NYSC Where is Miss Bianca Ada Chidi”. “The management wishes to state that as...

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