A polythene manufacturing company has been gutted by fire at Ahmmadiya Bus Stop , Abule-Egba area of Lagos State. Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said there was no casualty. It was learnt that the incident occurred on Saturday while production was ongoing at the factory on Wifunke Street, behind Total Filling Station, Abule-Egba. According to some factory attendants, the fire sparked off from a section of the plant due to overheating of a production unit. According to him, responders including the LASEMA team, the Federal Fire Service, and the Lagos State Fire Service have arrived at the…
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Many Nigerians on Friday via social media demanded justice for a 16-year-old girl, Tina Ezekwe, allegedly killed by a trigger-happy policeman in the Iyana Oworo area of Lagos on Tuesday. The cop was said to be from the Bariga Police Division. Reports indicated that the policeman was trying to arrest a bus driver for violating the nationwide curfew imposed by the Federal Government to check the spread of coronavirus. In the process, the policeman was said to have shot the bus driver and Tina standing by the roadside. It was learnt that Tina, an Imo State indigene who resided at…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of the appointment of Justice M.B. Dongban-Mensem as the Acting President of the Court of Appeal with effect from June 3, 2020, for a further period of three months. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in statement yesterday, said the appointment was pursuant to Section 238(4) and (5) of the Constitution 1999 (as amended). President Buhari had on March 5, 2020, announced his initial appointment for an initial period of three months, with effect from March 6, 2020, when the immediate past PCA President, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, statutorily retired from service.
The Federal Government is yet to receive the ventilators promised by U.S. President Donald Trump. Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19. The U.S. President on April 28, promised to send some ventilators to the country during his telephone conversation with President Muhammad Buhari. Mohammed said: “On when the ventilators promised by President Trump will arrive, to the best of my knowledge, they have not arrived. When they do arrive it will be made known to the public. “ In his quick run down of the activities…
Ondo State Government has said that it has no plan to downsize its workforce despite dwindling revenue occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic. It said it does not want to add additional burden to its citizens Commissioner of Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, who stated this on Friday, said finances of the state have been negatively affected just like every other state. According to him: “No single state is insulated from the ravaging pandemic and its adverse economic effects. “Revenue generation has to tow to the situation because only a productively engaged populace can earn revenue. “It is natural for every segment…
The immediate past Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, is dead. Baru’s death was announced by the current GMD of the corporation, Mele Kyari, on Saturday morning. The former NNPC boss was said to have died late last night. In a tweet via his official Twitter handle, Kyari described his predecessor as a brother, friend and mentor. He said, “My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr. Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night. “He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him” Kyari…
President Trump has terminated the partnership between the World Health Organization and the US, according to remarks he made today outside the White House. Trump blamed WHO’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in China as part of the reason. “We have detailed the reforms that it must make and engaged with them directly but they have refused to act. Because they have failed to make the requested and greatly needed reforms, we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization and redirecting those funds to other worldwide and deserving urgent global public health needs. The world needs answers from China on the virus. We must have transparency,” Trump said.
The Osun Government says an 82-year-old woman recovered from the coronavirus disease in the state, against the belief that elderly people with chronic diseases are the highest risk group. Dr Rafiu Isamotu, the State Commissioner for Health, confirmed the recovery in a statement on Friday in Osogbo. Isamotu said that the woman, who was hypertensive, recovered from the virus after receiving treatment for nine days at the isolation and treatment centre, Asubiaro General Hospital, Osogbo. He said that the woman, a widow, was confirmed positive and admitted into the facility on May 13. According to him, the octogenarian recovering from…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State has written Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i to consider reopening of worship places in its next phase of COVID-19 lockdown relaxation. CAN, in a letter addressed to Kaduna Deputy Governor and Chairperson, Standing Committee on COVID-19, Kaduna State, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, came up with an 18-points worship guidelines in accordance with COVID-19 protocols, to be adopted when churches are reopened, The letter signed by Kaduna CAN chairman, Rev. Joseph Hayab, said: “Our association notes with high regards the various recommendations and steps taken by the state government through the Standing Committee towards…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has struck out the case against Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Senator Adeleke was charged to court by the Federal Government over alleged exam malpractice. The prosecution counsel, Mr. Simon Lough filed an application for the withdrawal of charges against the Senator. The trial judge, Justice Inyang Eekwo in his ruling on Friday, in turn, discharged Senator Adeleke with the view of Mr Lough’s (the prosecutor) decision to withdraw the charges against him. Senator Adeleke was the former governorship candidate of the PDP in the last Osun State governorship…