Day: June 6, 2020

Nigeria’s Kwara Gov mourns New Telegraph Editor, Waheed Bakare

Damilola Olonade

    Governor of Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has commiserated with the family of Mr Waheed Bakare, Saturday Editor of the New Telegraph newspaper. Bakere aged 50 years old died recently after a brief illness. The governor said this in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye. “On behalf of the people and government of Kwara State, the Governor mourns with the family of Alhaji Waheed Bakare, the New Telegraph family, the entire newspaper industry, and the people of Ajasse Ipo over the death of…

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Total suffers $12bn revenues deficit, mulls jobs’ cut

Efe Wellington

  French oil and gas supermajor, Total has suffered a whooping $12 billion deficit in its revenues forecast. The company, which also announced planned to ensuŕe cost cutting to meet the deficit, maintained that it anticipated a $12bn revenue shortfall due to a fall in oil prices triggered by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Job losses or what the International Oil Companies (IOCs) prefer to refer to as downsizing is one of the potent measures of cost cutting. Chevron, with a similar case of revenues shortfall, had already announced the…

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President threatens to withdraw Brazil from WHO

ADEOLA YUSUF

  President Jair Bolsonaro has threatened to withdraw his country, Brazil, from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Bolsonaro said Brazil would consider leaving the WHO unless it stops being a “partisan political organisation.” Earlier, the WHO showed an opposite view against Bolsonaro’s efforts to lift lockdowns, as the COVID-19 epidemic was still plaguing the country. Replying to loosen the social distancing order, WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said a key criteria for lifting lockdowns should be slowing transmission. With a new record of daily COVID-19 fatalities, Brazil outnumbered Italy to become…

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