A fire incident that occurred on Monday around 4.20p.m completely burnt down Al-Amin filling station located at Elebu area of Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that two shops inside the petrol station and a section of a building behind it were also destroyed by the fire. NAN also reports that money from sales made for the day, which was said to be kept inside one of the stores in the filing station...
France’s strict 54-day coronavirus lockdown was officially over on Monday, however many restrictions were due to remain in place. French people will now be able to leave their homes without carrying a signed declaration as to why they are on the streets and most shops and other workplaces are set to reopen. However, in a country with one of Europe’s highest COVID-19 death tolls, 26,380 as of Sunday, authorities are anxious to keep social mingling...
Hong Kong Police said 230 people, including children, were arrested on Monday after they responded to a series of pro-independence protests. Critics, however, claimed that they accidentally caught up multiple people out for Mother’s Day. On Sunday, the Police said they responded to several small protests in violation of the law. However, critics said the action actually netted many people, who had simply been enjoying the first evening they have been allowed outside in weeks,...
A withering bombardment shook Tripoli on Sunday as the eastern-based forces of Khalifa Haftar fought overnight for new territory in the southern suburbs, after losing ground recently around the city. Armed men in the south had stormed one of the facilities in northwest Libya, reducing supply and adding to the misery of Tripoli residents. “My father said we should be ready to leave at any moment… the fighting last night was heavier than at any...
Some traders at the Balogun Lagos Trade Fair Complex market on Monday expressed misgivings on the planned fresh lockdown by the Lagos State government to check the spread of coronavirus pandemic. The traders, who expressed relief for the subsisting three days a week trading period instead of total lockdown that was the situation some weeks ago, urged the government to speed-up testing capacity to capture infected persons. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of betraying the almajiris, poor and vulnerable Nigerians after using them to grab power in 2015. The PDP made the allegation on Monday in a press release signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the party. “The PDP notes that APC’s disdain and desertion of our citizens had further exposed it as a deceitful party which used...
Nigeria had been ranked 115 of the 180 countries of the world that enjoyed press free. The country moved from 120 that it was ranked in 2019 to 115 in 2020. According to the international non-profit organization, Reporters Without Borders, journalists in Nigeria operate under a “climate of permanent violence”. It goes further to add that journalists in Nigeria “are often spied upon, attacked, arbitrarily arrested, or even killed.” The report reflected that a journalist had been...
The founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola on Monday, urged the Federal Government against waiting till all towns and villages in the country are free from COVID-19 before reopening schools. According to him, “only the Almighty God Himself can determine when the current coronavirus pandemic will be eradicated globally,” In a statement, the ABUAD founder stated that schools nationwide were suddenly closed down by the government on March 23 when some pupils...
A total of N40.2 trillion was spent by Nigerians on food and non-food items in 2019, a report just released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed. The report which details findings on the consumption expenditure pattern in Nigeria is based on the Nigeria Living Standard Survey (NLSS) which was last conducted in 2009. It classifies household consumption expenditure types by food and non-food items at the national, zonal level, state level, and the...
The basic psychology of a dictator is entrenched in unrestrained power, fear, and anxiety. Out of anxiety and paranoia, he resorts to extreme vendetta which impedes the process and permeates his ability to make rational decisions. But there is one irony about a dictatorship that people always ignore. Often, dictators are created by those that would become their victims. In Nigeria, such is the case, because the man who currently serves as the Governor of...
