Month: June 2020

Nigerian Women now three times likely to be raped than before – Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

Rapes in Nigeria now three times the typical level as women and children were locked down with their abusers due to Coronavirus pandemic, Nigerian Minister of Women Affairs Pauline Tallen, has said. Tallen said rapes had reached an “alarming rate” as every state in Nigeria, West Africa’s most populous nation, was affected by sexual violence and a series of high-profile rapes. “We are calling for legal intervention,” she said. “From details that we have, there are hundred of cases that are within our courts that have not been addressed and…

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Production cost scam: Mass oil contracts, projects’ cancellations loom in Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

Head of Nigeria’s oil corporation reveals how oil companies swindle the system of millions of dollars through production cost padding, vows recalcitrant firms may be shown way out   Nigeria, Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter, says it uncovered sharp practices by oil firms and contractors who pad oil production cost with frivolous claims and charges, fleecing the country of millions of dollars daily even before the commodity is produced. Oil production in Nigeria is between $18 and $23 per barrel compared to between $1 and $4 per barrel in Saudi…

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3,700 Journalism Scholars, Schools Condemn Journalists’ arrest, molestation during protest

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Association of Schools of Journalism (ASJMC) and Mass Communication (ASJMC) and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) comprising of 3700 educators and student of about 190 journalism programmes have jointly condemned arrests and violence toward journalists covering widespread citizen protests for racial justice. ASJMC is a non-profit, educational association composed of some 190 JMC programs at the college level. The majority of the association’s members are in the United States and Canada. AEJMC on the other hand is a nonprofit organization of more than 3,700…

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Numbers of registered oil, gas firms in Nigeria hits 8,060

ADEOLA YUSUF

The number of registered service providers and operating firms in the Nigeria’s multi-billion dollars oil and gas industry has hit 8,060. Minister of state for petroleum resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, who declared this during the inauguration of the Governing Council for the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Tuesday, maintained that these companies are the ones found on the register of the NCDMB JQS portal. Charging members of the newly inaugurated Governing Council to support the attainment of the Nigerian Content 10-Year Strategic Roadmap, he stated, according to…

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Why my 34-yr old daughter gave birth to quadruplets after 13 children – mother

ADEOLA YUSUF

Mother of Hauwa Sulaiman, a 34 years old housewife and a mother of 13 children who gave birth to quadruplet babies in Zaria, Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria, Mallama Saudatu Haruna, has disclosed that her daughter’s child delivery pattern was hereditary. The housewife, Mrs. Hauwa’u Sulaiman was delivered of the four babies on Friday 5th June 2020 at the Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Kofar Gayan, Zaria. She was, however, transferred to Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Shika with the babies for more medical attention. She had given birth to triplets twice,…

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How COVID-19 killed 589 people in Kano – Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

The death of 589 people, being the 60% of the “mysterious” deaths in Nigeria’s northern Kano state was triggered by or due to COVID-19, Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has declared as he gave graphical details of deaths between April and May. Ehanire, a Medical Doctor, who declared this during a press conference in Abuja, Nigeria’s administrative capital, noted that the peak in deaths occurred in the second week of April, and that by the beginning of May, the death rate had gone back down to the normal rate. Giving…

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Heart attack kills Burundi President, Nkurunziza, at 55

ADEOLA YUSUF

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack aged 55. He was, before his death announced in a statement, due to step down in August after his party’s candidate won elections May, and had been president since 2005. Nkurunziza came to power at the end of Burundi’s 12-year civil war, which killed 300,000 people and was driven by similar ethnic tensions as the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. A former leader of a Hutu rebel group, he was elected…

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Fear as Five Nigerian Lawmakers Test Positive For COVID-19

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Five out of the 24 members of the Nigeria’s Gombe State House of Assembly have tested positive for COVID-19 creating apprehension across the state. Chairman of the task force, Prof Idris Mohammed, stated this in Gombe on Monday while updating newsmen on the situation of the pandemic in the state. According to him, the lawmakers whose identities were not disclosed have been admitted at different isolation centres in the state. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state, has, together with 66 other people from the state, also tested positive for…

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BREAKING: How Nigeria’s Abia Governor, Ikpeazu, Tested Positive For COVID-19

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Governor of Abia State, South East Nigeria, Okezie Ikpeazu, has tested positive for COVID-19. Commissioner of information in the state, John Okiyi Kalu, announced the case in a statement on Monday. He said the governor had gone into isolation before his result returned positive, and that he has directed the deputy governor to act on his behalf pending the time he resumes duty. ”Recall that on Saturday, 30th May, 2020, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu volunteered his sample for COVID-19 test and subsequently directed members of the state Executive Council (EXCO)…

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AustaZeneca, Bill Gates offer 400m vaccine doses on trial to low income nations December

ADEOLA YUSUF

  400 million of Oxford coronavirus vaccine should be ready for low and middle income countries by the end of 2020, Pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca has said. There is still no guarantee the vaccine will work but the company is pushing ahead with production anyway to shorten the timeline in case it does prove effective. In all, 2 billion doses of the vaccine will be available for global vaccination after a new deal that included $750m from Bill Gates, Pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca has said. AstraZeneca, which struck two new deals to…

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