The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 252 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak in the country. The NCDC, which made the disclosure on its official twitter handle on Tuesday, said that a Multi-Sectoral National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 3, has continued to coordinate the national response activities across the country. The public health agency said that the 252 put the country’s total number of infections at 52,800, with...
The People’s Democratic Party Caucus in the House of Representatives has threatened to sue Federal Government over what it described as breached in relation to the FG’s Special Works Project designed to provide 774,000 jobs in the country. A few weeks ago, the caucus rejected the allocation of only 25 slots to members of the House of Representatives as against the 30 slots allocated to the upper chamber members. Also, 30 slots were allocated to...
We want more people to be able to travel without contributing to climate change. Earlier this month, I wrote about how COVID-19 is a cautionary tale for climate change. There’s no doubt that we have experienced terrible suffering and economic hardship over the last several months. But as hard as it is to imagine right now when we’re still in the middle of the pandemic, climate change has the potential to be even more devastating. The...
Reports say that some yet to be identified gunmen stormed Prince Academy in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State and abducted a number of Secondary School students preparing for their examinations Monday morning. The gunmen were said to have first raided houses in Damba-Kasaya community in Chikun LGA before heading to the school. A local resident who simply identified himself as Wakili Bawa said the gunmen came “in a large number like they always...
Up to 172 countries have been engaging with the “largest and most diverse COVID-19 vaccine portfolio” coordinated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), its chief said on Monday. “At present, there are nine vaccines that are part of this dynamic portfolio,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus at a virtual news briefing, referring to the COVAX Global Vaccines Facility. He added that nine other vaccines were under evaluation for the longer term. According to him, COVAX...
Professor Folasade Ogunsola has emerged as the acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Professor Ogunsola was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor in-charge of development services before she emerged as the Vice-Chancellor on Monday afternoon following an election at a Senate meeting which had 167 professors in attendance, the West African Pilot learned. Mrs Ogunsola got 135 votes of 167 while her opponent, Professor Ben Ogbojafor, who is also a deputy vice-chancellor, scored 31 votes. One vote...
The Progressive Ambassadors of Nigeria (PAN) has urged ECOWAS and the Federal Government to wade-in on the imposition of $1million trade-levy on Nigerian Traders in Ghana, by Ghanaian authorities. This is contained in a statement issued by Emmanuel Ohiomokhare, PAN’s National Director of Media, on Sunday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that PAN is a non-governmental organisation of Nigerian traders in Ghana seeking to promote and protect the welfare of Nigerian...
The number of coronavirus cases in India topped three million on Sunday, government data showed. This is as the South Asian country logged the world’s biggest daily rise in cases for almost three weeks. India, a country of 1.3 billion, has so far reported 3,044,940 infections, with 69,239 cases being reported in the last 24 hours, the Federal Health Ministry said. India is ranked third behind Brazil and the United States in the highest number...
The junta that has overtaken power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body that will rule the country for three years and has agreed to release the detained President, a source in a visiting West African delegation and the rebel soldiers disclosed on Sunday. Last week’s coup was Mali’s second military intervention in eight years. The coup followed months of protests calling for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign as the public is discontent with...
A video clip of a widow, Mrs. Vero Ngene whose house amongst many other houses was demolished at Ukwu Oji Emene, went viral on social media last week. Ngene lamented that she has no place or source of income to build another home as her ancestral home wherein her late husband and four children were buried was marked among houses for destruction. The pathetic story of this widow was so touching as she cried that...
