The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed four new cases of novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) in the country with three in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), and one in Lagos State. The new cases take the toll of confirmed cases in the country to a total 139. Earlier on Tuesday, four cases had been confirmed in both Osun and Ogun States. NCDC, through its verified Twitter account on Tuesday, said that out of the...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, says his ministry has not received any request from Nigerians aboard for their evacuation in view of the global Novel Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic outbreak. Onyeama made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force briefing on update of COVID-19 in the country. “As of now, we do not have any request from any of the embassies from Nigerians wishing to be evacuated from various...
The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdussamad Rabiu, has donated a 3-story building in Kano, to serve as an isolation centre for the COVID-19 disease. Mallam Garba Mohammed, Chairman Kano state fundraising committee on COVID-19, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Kano. According to the statement, the BUA CEO had already instructed his contractors to commence the renovation of the gigantic structure immediately. It said the building situated along Court Road in Tarauni...
Pearl Entertainment Modeling Concept (PEMC), the organisers of the forthcoming 2020 Most Adorable Queen In Nigeria/Nigeria Noble Achievers Award, has postponed the event due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Samuel Osioh, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PEMC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos that the decision to postpone the event was taken in collaboration with its sponsors and partner. Osioh said that 20 contestants had registered for the 3rd...
KADUNA: Inmates of the Prison at Kaduna State Have Began Violent Protest, Insisting that Officials Must Release them to Avoid Being Infected by the Deadly Virus. Security personnel, including prison wardens, are reportedly battling the inmates. Reports say shots have been fired in the ensuing fracas. Developing story…Details soon…
The continuous drop of oil price in the global market alongside the rapid rise of COVID-19 Virus would definitely take a heavy toll on the country’s economy. This has been a major source of concern to many Nigerians especially with the absence of reassuring words from the federal government. The outbreak of the virus has resulted in the closure of factories in China, one of Nigeria’s largest trading partners, and a reduction in imports, global...
Borno state governor Babagana Zulum has decried that the threat posed by the novel COVID-19 pandemics as more deadly than the Boko Haram insurgency. Addressing the state in a broadcast, Zulum said the pandemic was another trying and difficult period in the state which required pragmatic and preventive measures to address. “This time we are faced with a more sinister and more deadly threat as a result of the COVID pandemic, which has been exponentially...
A lot of people may want to pretend that they are not aware that membership of any socio-cultural, religious, political, economic, or any other group, attracts forms of financial commitment. Even citizenship is not for free, because citizens show financial commitment through the payment of taxes. No meaningful establishment can stand without the monetary contributions of its members. When you willfully belong to any legally recognized group, the nomenclature notwithstanding, and you make financial contributions...
Ambassador Hassan Jika Ardo, needs no introduction in Nigerian politics; he was former Chairman of CPC and pioneer Chairman of APC in Taraba state before he was appointed as Nigerian Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago with concurrent accreditation to Guyana, Commonwealth of Dominica, Suriname, Barbados, and Grenada all in the Caribbean -southern America. In this exclusive interview with The West African Pilot News’s regional correspondent Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, the fiery politician Ambassador Ardo bares his mind...
(Reuters/NAN) Crude oil fell sharply on Monday with U.S. crude briefly dropping below 20 dollars and Brent hitting its lowest level in 18 years on heightened fears that the global coronavirus shutdown could last months and demand for fuel could evaporate further. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell 1.14 dollars or 5.3 per cent to 20.37 per cent. “The price of oil is now so low that it is becoming unprofitable to many oil...
