Patience Jonathan’s Abuja hotel to be converted to isolation centre
A hotel belonging to Patience Jonathan, former first lady, will be converted to an isolation and treatment centre for COVID-19 patients, according to TheNation. The hotel, said to be located in Abuja, is reportedly under interim forfeiture secured by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2018. The newspaper quoted a source as saying…
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COVID-19 vs hunger virus: Buhari, lockdown is not sustainable
The conundrum: Do we sustain the lockdown to contain coronavirus and risk the upsurge of insecurity and citizens’ unrest or do we lift the restrictions and find other means of controlling the spread of COVID-19? For a country like Nigeria with complexities and deprecable socio-economic indices, imposing restrictions on movement for an extended period of…
Buhari to address Nigerians today
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will address Nigerians at 7pm today (Monday). The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement. Though the statement gave no hint on what the President would be speaking on, The PUNCH gathered that it may not be unconnected…
Lockdown extension anticipated as Buhari addresses nation by 7pm
President Muhammadu Buhari will deliver a national broadcast by 7pm on Monday. This is according to a statement released by Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity. “President Muhammadu Buhari will broadcast to the nation Monday, April 13, 2020, at 7pm,” the statement read. “Television, radio and other electronic media outlets…
FRC assesses COVID-19 impact on audit firms
The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria says it has assessed the impact of COVID-19 on audit of reporting entities in Nigeria. It had also released guidelines for external auditors and matters to consider during COVID-19 in order to maintain high-quality audit in Nigeria after consultation with key stakeholders. It stated, “Given the severity of the…
15 patients discharged but Nigeria records five new COVID-19 cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced five new COVID-19 cases and 15 recoveries. In a tweet on Sunday night, the agency said two were recorded in Lagos, another two in Kwara and one in Katsina. This brings Nigeria’s current total to 323. Of that figure, 85 persons have been discharged. As of…
‘Robbers’ attacking residents of Agege, Mangoro, Iyana Ipaja
There is panic in Mangoro, Ogba, Agege, Iyana Ipaja and Dopemu areas of Lagos as suspected hoodlums are robbing residents. In what appeared like a coordinated operation, the hoodlums were said to have arrived in okadas and buses, armed with different kinds of weapons. Residents who spoke with TheCable said the suspects looted food stores…
No reopening of schools yet, FG tells Nigerians
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Federal Ministry of Education has urged Nigerians to disregard some false news making the rounds that the Federal Government had directed the reopening of schools. The ministry’s Director of Press, Ben Goong, said on Sunday that there was no such directive from the minister, Adamu Adamu, as everyone had been instructed…
Critics linking 5G to COVID-19 talking in ignorance –Adebayo, licensed telecoms operators’ chairman
Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria, Gbenga Adebayo, debunks allegations that 5G technology is responsible for COVID-19, popularly called coronavirus. He tells SIMON UTEBOR that those spreading the propaganda are not well informed about science Recently, there has been so much talk about 5G technology, what is a 5G technology? 5G is the…