Men of the Nigerian Army are currently in a gunfight with some Boko Haram insurgents in Mainok, Kaga Local Government Area of Borno State. Some residents of the community, who spoke with YemieFash on Wednesday, said the insurgents entered the community at about 6:00pm and immediately proceeded to the army base.
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Twitter announced on Tuesday that it could allow employees to continue to work from home indefinitely even after the end of the coronavirus crisis. Jennifer Christie, Twitter’s head of human resources, said if employees were in a position to work from home and they wanted to continue to do so “forever”, Twitter would “make it possible”. Christie’s post said Twitter was one of the first companies to implement the stay-at-home model in early March. According to media reports, several other tech companies, such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, did the same. The company said offices would remain closed until at…
Mauritius on Wednesday declared wary victory in its first battle with coronavirus, saying it had “zero” active patients and had not documented a single new case in 17 days. The Indian Ocean island nation initially surged ahead of other eastern African countries in terms of caseload, hitting a peak of 332 just shy of six weeks into its outbreak. Ten people died. It imposed one of the first and strictest lockdowns in Africa, going so far as to initially shut supermarkets for 10 days, a measure that has been extended until June 1. “Today we are at 17 days without…
Lawmakers in the Ondo State House of Assembly on Wednesday queried the state government over the N30b bond approved by the lawmakers, urging the state government to furnish the House on how the money was spent. The lawmakers had last week invited the State Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Wale Akinterinwa, to appear before the House to explain how the money was spent by the executive arm. Addressing the House, Akinterinwa explained that about N14.8b has been accessed by the state government out of the initial N30b bond raised and approved by the lawmakers. He explained that the N14. 8b was…
The Delta State Government on Wednesday said it had increased its capacity to handle more cases of COVID-19 with the inauguration of a new 100-bed Isolation Centre in the state. Secretary to the State Government, Chiedu Ebie, stated this during the inauguration of the facility located at National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Permanent Orientation Camp at Issele-Uku, Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state. He said that the feat was achieved through a partnership between the state government, the private sector coalition on COVID-19 (CACOVID) and NYSC. Mr Ebie added that the establishment of the isolation centre was a…
Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) in Ondo State on Wednesday, intercepted a truck containing 23 Northerners along Ilesha /Akure Road for flouting the interstate restriction order of the Federal Government. The vehicle which was intercepted at Igbaraoke Town in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state by the VIO officials after noticing the truck loaded with many people heading towards Akure, the state capital. It was discovered that all the occupants of the truck hailed from the Northern part of the country and were heading to nowhere in particular in Akure. The driver of the truck who spoke in Hausa language…
The new Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has promised to offer his loyalty, competence, and support to President Muhammadu Buhari. Gambari made this known while speaking to State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday. The new CoS said his guiding principle to succeed in his new role would be to serve the President to the best of his ability. He, however, noted that his primary allegiance is to the President and not the public, adding that he would not be carried away by comments made about him in the…
According to Oluyemi Fasipe Akinwole, he made a tweet via his Twitter handle confirming that two new cases of the deadly virus(Covid19) has been confirmed in Ondo state bringing the total cases to 18, while 11 patients has been discharged and just one death recorded. https://twitter.com/YemieFASH/status/1260486452447719425?s=19
House of Representatives yesterday mandated its Committees on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements, Finance as well as Debt Management, DMO, to liaise with the Ministry of Finance and the DMO Office to seek review or outright cancellation of latest Chinese loans to Nigeria on the principle of force majeur. The House is also set to empanel a high powered investigation committee to look into all extant China/Nigeria loan agreements since 2000, with a view to ascertaining their viability, regularising and renegotiating them. It said the National Assembly had been put in the dark on how most of the Chinese loans were…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two Chinese nationals for allegedly attempting to offer N100 million bribe to the commission’s Sokoto zonal head of operations, Lawal Abdullahi, and his team. The anti-graft agency said it also seized three laptops, five smart phones and some documents from the suspects. The Chinese, Meng Wei Kun and Xu Kuoi, are officials of construction company Zhounghao Nigeria Limited. Parading them at the Sama Road office of the Commission, Abdullahi said they offered him and his team the bribe money to compromise an ongoing investigation of the company.…