Day: November 17, 2020

Panic in Lagos as hoodlums, Police clash again + PHOTOS

Subomi Awokolude

Residents of Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, were thrown into a state of panic and confusion on Tuesday as hoodlums and Police clashed few weeks after the #EndSARS protest was hijacked. Activities at the popular Apapa-Oshodi expressway and some parts of the Amuwo Odofin Local Government were particularly paralysed when hundreds of commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders and hoodlums reportedly attacked Nigerian Police officers and Lagos Task Force officials. The officials have earlier been accused of compounding motorcycles belonging to some of them. The riot…

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AFCON: Drama as Sierra Leone rejects Super Eagles’ COVID-19 test results

Aoko Benjamin

  There was a drama at the Freetown Airport on Monday as officials of Sierra Leone immigration rejected the COVID-19 test results officially presented to them for Super Eagles. The Nigeria’s National team landed in Freetown for a qualifier with the Sierra Leone National Team. The players and officials have earlier being subjected to the COVID-19 test before takeoff from Benin Airport in Edo state, southsouth Nigeria. The entire delegation to Tuesday’s 2022 AFCON qualifying match arrived in Freetown aboard a chartered flight. Then a drama ensued at the airport…

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Nigeria’s Obasanjo ‘heads to Ethiopia for mediation’ as civil war fear rises

Aoko Benjamin

  Nigeria’s ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday jetted to Ethiopia to mediate in the conflict between the government and the northern Tigray region, his spokesman said. “He is on his way to Addis Ababa for talks,” Kehinde Akinyemi told AFP on the visit of the former Nigerian leader to the Ethiopian capital. “He is going there for mediation,” Akinyemi said, without giving further details. Both the Ethiopian government and the African Union said they had no information on any visit by Obasanjo, who has previously acted as a United Nations…

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NYSC tests 620 Niger corps members, camp officials for COVID-19

Aliyu Aliyu

  The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has tested all 620 corp members posted to Niger State, Nigeria northcentral, for COVID-19. The NYSC Coordinator in the state, Mrs. Funmilayo Ajayi, who confirmed this during the opening ceremony of the Batch B, Stream 1 Orientation Course, said that the 620 corps members, camp officials and camp marketers were tested by the Niger State NCDC team. The coordinator said: “In keeping with the Covid- 19 preventive guidelines, the state NCDC Team have carried out thorough Covid-19 screening for individual residents in the…

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54 African nations’ governance performances downgraded

Aoko Benjamin

  Overall governance performance in Africa has been downgraded, first time in a decade. The United Nations (UN) data shows there are 54 countries in the continent. The decline happened in the countries’ governance index in 2019, according to the Index of African Governance produced by the Mo Ibrahim foundation. It reported a general decline in citizens’ participation, human rights, rule of law and security on the continent – which were worsened by the impact of Covid-19. Last year’s score on governance fell by 0.2 points below that of 2018 but…

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