Day: July 25, 2020

Lagos releases details, Justifies N1m daily spending on each severe COVID-19 patient

Damola Oyede

  Only  200 patients, being about 8 per cent of the 2490 cases admitted on our facilities got from between N500, 000 and N1 million each daily spending on drugs and maintenance, Lagos information commissioner     The Lagos State, Nigeria’s COVID-19 epicenter, has released more details on its up to N1million daily spending pattern for treatment and managment of each severe COVID-19 petient. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has on Thursday, declared during a briefing aired live on Television that the state spends about N100,00 daily for mild…

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I rape grandmothers because I can’t resist their jiggling ‘bum bum’ – serial rapist

Aliyu Aliyu

  A 32-year old Nigerian serial rapist, Sani Garba, has confessed that he easily get attracted to the jiggling ‘bum bum’ (buttocks) of grandmothers who are majorly the victims of his escapades. Garba who was apprehended by the Niger State’s command of the Nigerian Police Force for allegedly raping a 60-year-old grandmother, pleaded for forgiveness. Like his experience with all his victims, the accused said that he was attracted by the victim’s jiggling buttocks. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) at the comand, Mr. Wasiu Abiodun, said that the suspect was…

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Ghana’s COVID-19 cases hit 31,057, deaths 161 + DATA from regions

Aoko Benjamin

  The COVID-19 total case count on Ghana is now 31,057 after 691 new cases were confirmed. Latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on the country’s coronavirus situation, which shows this as at Friday, July 24, 2020, noted that the Greater Accra Region remains the epicentre of the infection with 16,068 cases. The update also indicated that eight more persons have died from the virus, bringing the total death toll to 161. However, 27,801 persons have recovered from the virus. Active cases, therefore, stands at 3,095. The GHS…

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Nigeria’s Kwara State cancels Sallah prayers over COVID-19

Aliyu Aliyu

  Muslim, Christian clerics laud cancellation of Eid prayers in Kwara, declare support for government Nigeria’s Kwara State Government has announced the cancellation of Eid-ul-adha (Sallah) congregational prayers across the state, citing the steep rise in the state’s Covid-19 cases and the danger of such a large gathering worsening the situation. The government, which announced this in a statement, also declared a ban on vigils in churches and mosques while restating the ban on concert, clubbing, beer parlour, and bar in hotels. Kayode Alabi, Deputy Governor and Chairman of the…

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How First Lawyer from Nigeria’s Northern region, AGF AbdulRazaq, died at 93

Aliyu Aliyu

  First lawyer in the history of Nigeria’s northern region, Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Folorunsho (AGF) Abdul-Razaq, is dead. The family, which announced the death in a statement sent to Platforms Africa, gave details of how Abdul-Razaq, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) – father of AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Governor of Kwara State, breathed his last at the age of 93 in Abuja. He was born in 1927. Announcing his demise in a statement issued by Dr Alimi AbdulRazaq on July 25th 2020, the family said that the accomplished legal luminary died peacefully…

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