Day: December 3, 2020

1.9m Nigerians Living With HIV/AIDS – USAID

Precious Ibekwe

About 1.9 million Nigerians are living with HIV/AIDS. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which disclosed this, said it tested over three million Nigerians for HIV in 2020 and initiated 142,000 people on anti-retroviral therapy. The agency also quoted the latest report of the HIV/AIDS in the country, Nigeria HIV/ AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS) to validate the data. The disclosure came at a ceremony where USAID and telecoms infrastructure giant, IHS Nigeria, donated 70,000 rapid test kits to the Bayelsa State government in support of the…

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Trump says ‘Biden Can’t Be President’ if Election Fraud Claims are verified

Wonuola Olujobi

President Trump is once again charging that last month’s presidential election was rigged and rampant with fraud. In an address posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages that the president described as possibly “the most important speech, I’ve ever made,” Trump charged that “lots of bad things happened” during the election. And he argued that “if we are right about the fraud, Joe Biden can’t be president. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of votes. We’re talking about numbers like nobody has ever seen before.” Taking aim again at the surge in absentee balloting and…

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EKEDC deepens CSR investments, donates Ventilators to LUTH, LASUTH

Damilola Olonade

  Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Thursday deepened its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) investments with donation of two ventilators to tertiary hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The two tertiary hospitals – Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) – received the equipments at separate occasions. Managing Director, EKEDC, Engineer Adeoye Fadebiyi, was represented by Company Secretary and Chief Legal Office, Eko DisCos, Wola Joseph, to donate the ventilator to LASUTH while the Chief Human Resource officer, Mr. Aik Alenkhe, represented him by leading…

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COVID-19: Restrict International Flights Now – MURIC urges Nigeria          

Aliyu Aliyu

  Following reports worldwide indicating a second coming of the dreaded Corona virus, the Nigerian Islamic human rights organization, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has called on the Nigerisn Government to restrict international flights immediately. This was contained in a press statement issued by the director of MURIC, Professor Ishaq Akintola, on Thursday, 3rd December, 2020. The statement reads: “The second coming of COVID-19 is definitely more severe. According to Wikipedia, the deadly virus has killed 1.49 million people globally. 64.2 million have been infected while 41.2 million have recovered from…

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