Gov. Nasiru El-Rufai has extended the lockdown order in Kaduna State by another two weeks, the state Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe said in a statewide broadcast on Tuesday. News Agency of Nigeria reports that residents of the state have been on lockdown for the past 60 days and there were calls for ease down of the restrictions to allow poor residents contend with the challenges of zero income and food shortages. The deputy governor, however, said the government expects residents to abide by the COVID-19 prevention protocol, otherwise any spike in the cases would force the government to tight…
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“An elderly man, who blames the younger ones of leading others by bad examples, says so not simply because he desires correction of the mistakes, but regrets that he himself is no longer in a position to cause more of the bad examples.” Evidently, a discerning mind could adduce this to the deliberate falsehoods and half-truths recently told to a bewildered Nigerian public by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In his penchant for oddity and making partisan statements that divide rather than unite, Chief Odigie-Oyegun threw a rattlesnake in an…
Olori Janet Afolabi, Queen of Apomuland and Publisher of Scroll Report online magazine, has donated 100 face masks to Government Special School for the Blind, Ikere Ekiti in Ekiti State. The school Principal, Omojala Adewale, received the face masks from Mercy Aderiyi, who volunteered to deliver them. Olori Afolabi said the act of kindness was part of her effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has been described as the world’s largest emergency. She advised that the rules of COVID-19 should be obeyed, encouraging people to wash their hands regularly and maintain social distancing, especially in over crowded communities.
The Computer Guild of Nigeria has berated Sheikh Pantami, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy in Nigeria over uproar with Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission. Earlier this week, Abike Dabiri-Erewa exposed how the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Ibrahim Isah Pantami, allegedly chased her staff away from their office at the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC, with armed men and locked up their personal items. The Computer Guild of Nigeria (CGN) in a statement by the National President of the organization, Wole Adedoyin described Dr. Sheik Pantami as a jobless and unserious…
Lagos State Government, in her continuous effort to provide the much needed relief to taxpayers and mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic, has through the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) further extended the deadline for filing of Annual Tax Returns to June 30, 2020.Annual returns for individuals (both employees and self-employed persons) that were initially due on May 31st, 2020 can now be filed any time on or before the 30th of June, 2020.According to the Executive Chairman of LIRS, Mr. Ayodele Subair, “As the Lagos State Government keeps abreast of global best practices in containing the Covid-19…
An Oyo State-based socio-political organisation, Oyo Kajola Group (OKG) has described the approval of N22.5billion loan by the State House of Assembly as a thoughtful and people-centred decision. The group said that the approval of the loan application for the government of Oyo State to uplift infrastructure and refurbish the health sector across the state was equally timely. The OKG in a statement by its Media Coordinator, Adebayo Ayandele, commended Governor Seyi Makinde for the courage to do the right thing by seeking funding alternatives for the state’s infrastructure drive following dwindling resources occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has commiserated with the Nigerian Union of Journalists and Guild of Editors on the death of one of their colleagues, Mr. Waheed Bakare.Lawan also condoled with Mr Bakare’s family, and the Management and Staff of the New Telegraph newspapers where Bakare worked as the Saturday editor.”I extend my condolences to the family of Mr Bakare and to members of the journalism profession in general over the untimely death of their colleagues.”May Almighty Allah grant the departed soul eternal bliss and comfort his loved ones and colleagues as they grapple with the painful loss,” Lawan…
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, has donated a modular motorised fumigator to the management of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan. Oba Ogunwusi presented the donation in his palace, Ile-Ife on Tuesday. The Ooni applauded the country’s healthcare workers for being hardworking and committed in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). He said that the fumigator would assist the hospital in the fight against COVID-19. The royal father described health workers as an ‘unbreakable’ army of patriotic Nigerians. He advised that Nigeria’s hospital system should be strengthened towards productivity, especially in cases of emergency.…
Joshua Kimmich’s first-half lob gave leaders Bayern Munich a 1-0 victory at second-placed Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga on Tuesday. The slim win closes Bayern in on the league title with a seven-point advantage over their rivals and six games left in the season. Kimmich, sent a perfectly-weighted chip over stranded keeper, Roman Buerki in the 43rd minute as the champions landed big win, at an empty stadium that normally seats 80,000 fans. The win is in the visitors’ quest for a record-extending eighth straight league crown. Bayern, who have now won their last seven league matches, are on 64…
The Kano State Government has dismissed as “mischievous” reports insinuating that food items donated to the state under the Federal Government palliative on COVID-19 had been destroyed. Malam Muhammad Garba, the state’s Commissioner for Commissioner, Information, Youths and Culture, in a statement on Tuesday in Kano, dismissed the report as “roguish” peddled by disgruntled elements. The reports alleged that the grains were destroyed due to lack of storage facilities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the federal government had supplied over 100 trucks of grains, including millet, maize, rice and sorghum for distribution to the poor to cushion…