Lagos Commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi has tested positive for coronavirus. Commissioner for Information and Strategy Gbenga Omotoso announced this on Monday via Twitter. He said: “Subsequent to close contact with persons feeling unwell and testing positive for the COVID-19 infection, the Honourable Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has tested positive for the virus. Professor Abayomi became aware of his status following the required testing protocol of contact tracing procedures. “However, he is doing well with no symptoms. “Adhering to the protocol of the home-based strategy in Lagos State, the Honorable Commissioner will be isolating in his home…
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The junta that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years and has agreed to release the ousted president, a source in a visiting West African delegation and the rebel soldiers said Sunday. Last week’s coup — Mali’s second in eight years — followed months of protests calling for Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign as public discontent with the government grew over the collapsing economy and a brutal Islamist insurgency. “The junta has affirmed that it wants a three-year transition to review the foundations of the Malian state. This transition will be directed by…
The 18 newly elected local government council chairmen in Ondo state will be sworn this morning by the state governor Rotimi Akeredolu. All the chairmen were elected under the platform of the All Progressive Congress in the election held last Saturday across the state. The chairman of the State Independence Electoral Commission ODIEC, Prof Yomi Dinakin, said that the ruling APC won in the councils which include Akoko North-East, Akoko South-East, Ose, Owo, Akure South, Akure North and Ifedore. Others are Odigbo, Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo, Ilaje, Okitipupa, Irele, Ese Odo, Ondo West, Idanre, Ondo East, Akoko North-West and Akoko South-West.…
The rearrested suspected Ibadan serial killer, Sunday Shodipe, has revealed he escaped when given opportunity to bathe at the Mokola Police Station on August 11. He revealed this in an unconfirmed video posted by an Ibadan-based broadcaster, Hamzat Oriyomi, on Sunday. Shodipe, who was arrested on July 17, escaped from Mokola, Ibadan police station on August 11. He said he decided to escape when he realised the police officer guarding him was engrossed in a chat with another officer at the station. Shodipe explained a female Divisional Police Officer, who was recently deployed to the station, ordered one officer (Funso)…
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has created nine new Performance Based Navigation (PBN) Area Navigation 10 (RNAV10) regional routes across Nigeria’s airspace in preparation for the resumption of international flight operation in the country. The Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, said yesterday that the newly created PBN routes include the UQ300- connecting Lagos to the Central African Republic; the UY604-linking Abuja, Port Harcourt to Southern Africa; the UQ181- connecting East and Central Africa to Europe through Nigerian airspace and the UQ400-connecting Southern Africa to North Africa through Nigeria to Europe. Others include the UQ324-from Addis Ababa to…
Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the controversies generated over the disinvitation of the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai by the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. Fani-Kayode, who is also a lawyer, noted that the Governor’s withdrawal as one of the guest speakers at the NBA annual general conference, is now being given religious colouration. He said the decision by the NBA National Executive Committee, NEC, is resulting in a clash between Christians and Muslims in the country. Recall that El-Rufai’s invitation to speak on the topic: ‘Who is a Nigerian?’ met a heavy resistance from members of the association, leading to…
As the re-election of the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina draws closer, Nigeria has increased its shares in ownership of the Bank. Nigeria, according to a report by Bloomberg now owns 16.8% of the shares of the Bank, from 13% prior to this new acquisition. Germany is the closest with 7.4% ownership, followed by the United States with 5.5%. The re-election of Adesina will take place on the 25th of August during the annual meetings of the Bank scheduled for the 25th-27th of August. Adesina is having no one to challenge his re-election for another 5years tenure,…
Report of the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters has recommended the repeal and re-enactment of a brand new Electoral Act by November. The essence of the new law, according to the committee, is to bar non-degree holders and former Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, staff from contesting presidential and other polls, Vanguard learned, yesterday. A member of the committee in the House, Kpam Jimin Sokpo (PDP-Benue), said the House would also repeal and do a total overhaul of the piece of legislation. He said: “We are trying to compare the INEC’s proposed provisions, those of the Senate and…
THE lawyer representing the embattled former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has stated that the Justice Ayo Salami panel investigating activities of the anti-corruption commission under his client cannot submit any interim report without hearing from him [Magu]. The lawyer, Wahab Shittu, in a press release he signed and made available to the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday, was reacting to a report (not in the Tribune titles,) claiming that the panel has commended the sack and prosecution of Magu. According to Shittu, the story was “a false story being orchestrated in the public…
The Ondo State Chapter of the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, has condemned in its entirety the just concluded election into Local Government Offices across the State. The exercise, in its conception, execution and predictable outcome, falls short of the minimum standard of democratic process and ought to be condemned by all lovers of democracy and good governance. We watched from afar, the charade that was called election across the state and saw only what is at best a poorly executed and hurriedly packaged electoral heist The Zenith Labour Party had earlier boycotted the scam, owing to our conviction that…