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A security man stands at the main gate of Computer Village, the largest Information and Communications Technology accessories market in African continent, to prevent access to the market in compliance with the extended lockdown by the government as measures to curb the pread of COVID 19 coronavirus in Lagos, on May 18, 2020. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP) *Says Positive Cases Increase By 100 Per Cent After September *Closes All Schools *Servants On Level 14 Below To Stay At Home Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday said Lagos may slip into a second wave of Coronavirus pandemic, if residents failed to comply with the precautionary measures against the spread of virus. The governor disclosed that of every 100 tests that the state has performed, an average of 10 turn out to be positive, stating it is an increase from the five per hundred recorded in September, though lower than the peak in August, which was between 20 and 30 per hundred. “This suggests the existence o

FILE PHOTO: Burundi President Pierre Buyoya listens to reporters’ questions during a news conference in Brussels, Belgium December 5, 2001. REUTERS/Thierry Roge/File Photo The former president of Burundi Pierre Buyoya has died in Paris of Covid-19 at the age of 71, several close relatives told AFP on Friday. “President Pierre Buyoya died last night in Paris. He had Covid-19,” a member of his family told AFP, requesting anonymity. Several other relatives confirmed the death of Buyoya, who served as special envoy of the African Union to Mali and the Sahel from 2012 until November this year. Buyoya “had been hospitalised Wednesday last week in Bamako where he was placed on a respirator,” the family member said. “He was evacuated to Paris yesterday afternoon. His plane made a stopover and arrived in France in the evening. He died as the ambulance took him to hospital in Paris for treatment,” the source said. Buyoya resigned as AU envoy in late November after being sentenced to life impriso

Oritamefa Baptist Model School (OBMS), Total garden, Ibadan celebrates the 2020 end of the year and Christmas party on the 15th December 2020 at the chapel. The event was decorated with various activities including song presentations by the students, choreography and drama presentation was not left out. The event was spiced-up by the word of God by Revd, Dr. Remi Awopegba with a topic Are you prepared for a landing space for Jesus? With a text from Luke 2 verse 7. Revd Awopegba Begins by welcoming all the members of the board of the school from the Principal, Mrs Odekunle, Admin officers and the vice chairman of the board. Among those in attendance includes the Vice Principal, Mr Oni, Mr Adebanwo, Mrs Adeloye, HODs like Mssr Adewale, Class tutors, subject teachers, and most importantly Mr Sunday Adegoke Adeoye - who had been away for sometimes due to his involvement in an accident. Special activity of the event is the recognition and Awards of excellence to an S

The Nigerian Senate has summoned the country’s service chiefs, the Minister of Defence, the Inspector-general of Police and the Director of the Department of State Service over the worsening security situation in the country. The upper chamber’s decision comes amidst last weekend’s abduction of over 300 boys of a government secondary school in northwestern Katsina state. The motion which sought the invitation of the country’s top security officials was moved by Senator Bello Mandiya from Katsina State. The Senate also urged the President Muhammadu Buhari to without further delay implement a report of the Senate Committee on Security Challenges. Lawmakers in their various contributions passed a vote of no confidence on the various heads of security agencies in the country over their inability to prevent the abduction of the innocent children. They were more saddened by the fact that the Nigerian leader had consistently ignored all resolutions passed by the Senate on the issue of insecur

A map of Niger, a state in north-central Nigeria.   At least 19 people have been kidnapped by gunmen in Ogu and Tegina communities in Rafi Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. The Chief of Staff to Rafi LGA Chairman, Mohammed Mohammed, confirmed the incident to Channels Television on Monday. He, however, had to place telephone calls to some residents of the affected communities for more information. Efforts to reach the police authorities to confirm the incident proved abortive as the Police Public Relations Officer in Niger, Wasiu Abiodun, did not pick his calls or respond to messages sent to him. A resident of Ogu, Kamal Wayam, decried that the attackers stormed the community on Sunday morning and started shooting into the air. “The gunmen in their large number arrived in Ogu on motorcycles and before we knew what was happening, they started shooting into the air. “They ransacked people’s houses and whatever valuable they could lay their hands on, they carted away,” Wayam said

NYSC members The Jigawa state government has announced that it has discovered eight new cases of COVID-19 among members of the National youth service (NYSC) corps posted to the State. The Permanent Secretary Ministry Of Health, Alhaji Salisu Muazu Babura made the disclosure in a press briefing yesterday in Dutse, confirmed that out of the 15 persons screened, eight tested positives for COVID-19 are and are now receiving treatment at the state isolation centre. Salisu Babura explained that they have no plan to enforce lockdown in the state unless people fail to obey the protocol procedures, charged people to washed their hands five times a day, maintain social distance as well as continue to use facemasks. He stated that two more isolation centres would be open in the state, one in Birnin Kudu and the other one in Jahun general hospital in case of emergency case of the global pandemic may occur. Vanguard News Nigeria

Nigeria's First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has been in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since September after the wedding of her daughter, Hanan, and has therefore not been involved in any government activity, SaharaReporters has gathered. SaharaReporters gathered that the First Lady is not in a hurry to return, despite spending over three months, as she reportedly stated that the Aso Rock Villa was not secure for her family. Nigeria's First Lady, Aisha Buhari. This concern was triggered by a shooting incident which occurred in June and caused some panic among occupants of the Aso Villa. SaharaReporters had reported that there was a crisis in Aso Villa after security details of the President's wife removed Buhari's Personal Assistant, Sabiu 'Tunde' Yusuf, from the place after he refused to embark on a 14-day isolation period upon returning from a trip to Lagos. Shortly afterwards, the First Lady's ADC, Usman Shugaba, in an attempt to apprehend Yusuf, reportedly fir

The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Monday said the government had opened discussions with kidnappers who invaded Government Science Secondary School,  Kankara Local Government Area of the state. SaharaReporters reported that Bandits had stormed the school on Friday night and abducted over 300 students after a gun duel with the police. Governor of Katsina state, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari PT Despite arriving the state hours before the abduction took place, President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to visit the community three days after the incident. A google map check by SaharaReporters showed that the distance between Daura, Buhari's hometown, and Kankara is 190km, a journey of less than 3-hours if the President decided to travel by road. President  @MBuhari  Appears In New Video Visiting His Cows In Katsina After Refusing To Visit Families And School Of Kidnapped Katsina Students | Sahara Reporters  https://t.co/kot4yis9Nh   pic.twitter.com/PVveM3OF52 — Sahara Reporters (@Sa

A student (name withheld) of the attacked Government Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State who escaped from the bandits’ hideouts said two of the students have been killed. A parent of a missing student, Hajia Faiza Hamza Kankara, who spoke to Vanguard said the survivor student stated this while giving an account of his ordeal in the hands of the captors. The grieving parent said the student told them that the bandits feed them with leaves and beat them like cattle. She also said the student told them that students still missing stands at over 500 saying whoever said the number of missing children is 10, is a liar. According to her, “my son, Usman Lawal Tahir is in SS2 class. He is still missing. “One of the students who returned yesterday (Sunday night) said they were 520 that included two that were killed and him who escaped. “So whoever says the missing children were 10 lied. “Today (Monday), another child just returned and he is been interviewed in the principal’s office. So w

Bishop Stephen Adegbite has emerged as the new Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN Lagos chapter. He takes over from Apostle Alexander Bamgbola whose tenure has come to an end. The election which took place at the Hoares Memorial Methodist Cathedral, Yaba, Lagos had delegates from all the five blocs which include Christian Council of Nigeria, Catholic Society of Nigeria, Organisation of African Indigenous Churches, ECWA/TEKAN and PFN/CPFN. Adegbite, who came through from the Christian Council of Nigeria bloc will serve for a term of 5 years under the new resolution of CAN. Until his election, he was the Treasurer of CAN in Lagos State and currently serves as the Director for National Issues and Social Welfare, CAN Headquarters in Abuja.

The United Nations has condemned the mass abduction of students at the Government Science School at Kankara, Kastina State. The organisation expressed its concern in a statement by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, on Monday. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School at Kankara late on Friday. They engaged security forces in a fierce gunbattle, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forest. Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari, who visited the school on Saturday, said soldiers were working to locate and free the hostages. On Sunday, the governor noted that 333 students were still missing. It read, "The Secretary-General strongly condemns the 11 December attack on a secondary school in Katsina State, Nigeria, and the reported abduction of hundreds of boys by suspected armed bandits. "The Secretary-General calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the abducted children and their safe retur

Samples from the same shipment also tested positive for COVID-19 in Zhegzhou days ago. (Credit: Franc24.com) An imported frozen food packaging sample tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Yuanyang County in central China’s Henan Province. The sample was taken from the packaging of a batch of imported frozen shrimp from South America, local authorities in Yuanyang reported late Sunday. As of Monday morning, local authorities have conducted nucleic acid tests on 22 relevant people, including those, who had direct contact with the food. All results showed negative. Authorities have also sealed the shipment of frozen food from which the tainted sample was taken and disinfected the storage facility. The tainted sample in Yuanyang County was from the same shipment of imported frozen shrimp where COVID-19 had been found days ago in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. NAN

Onyema Ogbuagu, a Nigerian-American researcher and medical doctor, said the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine “will be the final nail in the coffin” for the virus that has killed over 1.6 million people worldwide. Ogbuagu stated this on Saturday, at a virtual series on the theme, ‘COVID-19: Vaccine, Hesitancy, Myths and Reality’, organised by the Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) in partnership with Ngex. He also dismissed concerns that the vaccine would alter deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Pfizer and BioNTech had announced that the first vaccine they developed against COVID-19 could prevent more than 90 percent of people from getting infected. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the vaccine for public use, adding that the authorisation is a “significant milestone” in the pandemic. “I think that issue of vaccine hesitancy is not new. It’s been an issue that has played us for a long time. In fact, I think the World Health Organisation (WHO) at some p

Residents of Kankara during a protest against the abduction of students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, Katsina State…on Sunday. Photo: Olaide Oyelude Osama Aminu Maale, an 18-year-old student of Government Science School, Kankara, in Katsina State, has narrated how he escaped from bandits who kidnapped hundreds of his colleagues last Friday. According to Maale, 520 students were abducted when the armed bandits stormed the school on Friday night. “There were a total of 520 of us that were taken by the gunmen from the school,” he told AFP on the phone. “After they took us away we stopped inside the bus where they made the older students take a headcount. We counted 520,” he said. The hostages were split into groups before Maale and four others escaped. “One of the gunmen hit me repeatedly when I failed to keep up with the rest of the group due to my failing health before he let me trail behind, giving me the chance to escape,” Maale added. The Federal Government h

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Southwest zonal caretaker committee has suspended its chairman, Dayo Ogungbenro, for negligence of duty, saying he has failed to call any meeting since he was appointed. Seven out of the 12 members in the caretaker committee, who suspended the chairman, also called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to appoint another chairman, who will be alive to his duties to pilot the affairs of the party in the zone pending the conduct of the zonal congress. Rising from its meeting in Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday, the seven members; Zonal Secretary, Hon. Daisi Akintan, Mrs Funmilayo Ogun, Hon. Ayobola Fadeyi- Awolowo, Prince Nekan Olateru-Olagbegi, Hon Wahab Owokoniran, Alhaji Mustapha Sikiru and Hon. Martins Olu- Abiloye, insisted that on no account would they sit in any meeting with the suspended chairman. The meeting was also attended by Engr Adedeji Doherty, Hon Sikirulai Ogundele, Hon. Sunday Bisi and Chief Bisi Kolawole, Chairmen of Lagos,

After some weeks of reprieve, hoodlums have again unleashed terror on a former member of the House of Representatives, Dr Fatai Aborode and a security guard, Semiu in different parts of Oyo State. While the ex-lawmaker was reportedly killed in his way from his farm at Igangan in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of the state, the security guard was killed at a filling station, Moniya in Akinyele Local Government. The Oyo State Police Public relations officer, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi has confirmed the death of the former legislator. Fadeyi said, “At about 1750 hrs of 11/12/2020, along Apodun road Igangan, one Alhaji Fatai Aborode ‘m’ of Igangan, was robbed and shot by four unknown gunmen, the victim was rushed to Olugbon hospital Igboora where he was confirmed dead”. The statement further said that “Effort is on to arrest the fleeing assailants. Further details revealed that the lawmaker was waylaid by suspected kidnappers at a nearby village in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Are

Bandits armed with assault rifles attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s north-western Katsina state late on Friday, police said, and two local people told Reuters hundreds of students were missing. The gunmen stormed the Government Science secondary school in Kankara district at about 9.40pm, and police at the scene returned fire, allowing some students to run for safety, police spokesman Gambo Isah said in a statement. Police said they were working with the army and air force to determine how many pupils were missing or kidnapped, and to find them. One officer was shot and wounded in the exchange of fire with the gang, they said. There were chaotic scenes at the school on Saturday as desperate parents and security personnel gathered to search for about half of the school’s 800 students who were still missing, one parent and a school employee told Reuters. Katsina, the home state of Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, is plagued by violent bandits who regularly attack