Month: December 2020

Kenya’s COVID-19 deaths hit 1,655, cases decline amid 2nd wave

Aoko Benjamin

East African country records 130 new cases, 2 more deaths in past 24 hours Kenya has confirmed two more COVID-19-related deaths making the number of those who have died from the dreaded infection to hit 1,655. The East Africa country also reported 130 new infections, indicating a decline in the number of infections amid a second wave of the pandemic in the eastern African country. “Two patients have succumbed to the disease, bringing the cumulative fatalities to 1,655,” the country’s Health Ministry tweeted in its recent update. The new confirmed…

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Daughter of popular Nigerian Pastor commits suicide + PHOTOS

Wonuola Olujobi

  Miss Renua Giwa-Amu, daughter of famous Nigerian Pastor, Femi Giwa-Amu, reportedly committed suicide on Sunday, 27th December 2020. The 27 year-old lady reportedly took her life after taking to her Facebook page and Instagram story to alleged that she was going to commit suicide while warning her mother and other members of her family not to mourn her as they obviously do not care about her. The young lady earlier this year called out her famous father on social media accusing him of raping her as child on various…

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22 Nigerian COVID-19 patients In Critical Condition, on Oxygen in Abuja

Dawood Rabiu

    22 out of 86 patients currently receiving treatment at various isolation centres within the Federal Capital Territory  (FCT) are said to be very critical and only surviving through oxygen at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada. This came as the second wave of the COVID-19  pandemic ravages the Africa’s most populous country. 20 medical doctors and health workers have died of the dreaded infection in the last one week just as frontline workers at the Thisday Dome Isolation Centre have continued to groan over the non-payment of…

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Pulpit abuse for descecrating politics by Yinka Odumakin

Yinka Odumakin

Many watchers of events around 2023 politics in Nigeria knew that the declaration by popular Pastor, Tunde Bakare, on Bola Tinubu, one of the major contenders for President Muhammadu Buhari’s seat, would generate  torrents of reactions, but very few knew that this one with lots of venoms would come from Yinka Odumakin who was, on many occasions, seen at the front seat as worshipper in Bakare’s Church. Here below, is the reaction.   Pulpit abuse for descecrating politics by Yinka Odumakin CHIEF Ayo Adebanjo was practically in tears as he…

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Tears as Sun ex-Editor, Rasaq Bamidele, loses Son in Road Crash + PHOTOS

Damilola Olonade

  “Tears have been burrowing down my cheeks ending up and drenching my chest,” a former Assistant Editor of Daily Sun Newspapers, Alhaji Rasaq Bamidele, said as he described how he received the sad news of his son, Abdul Wasii Kayode Adegboyega Bamidele’s death in a fatal accident on Christmas day, Friday, December 25, 2020. “Can the tears ever cease to flow?! Bamidele asked as he confirmed the sad news on his personal Facebook handle Saturday night. “Who wipes my tears as I just lost a darling son, a dependable Ally,…

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We are still surprised COVID-19 deaths, cases are low in Africa – Bill Gates

Precious Ibekwe

Bill Gates, a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), says the world still does not have enough data to understand why COVID-19 numbers have not been as high as predicted in Africa. The American philanthropist who invests heavily in healthcare in Africa said he is, however, happy to have been wrong about COVID-19 rates in the continent. “One thing I’m happy to have been wrong about—at least, I hope I was wrong—is my fear that COVID-19 would run rampant in low-income countries,” he wrote in his end of…

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Bakare Didn’t Defend Tinubu; He Defanged Him by Kperogi

Farooq A. Kperogi

Bakare Didn’t Defend Tinubu; He Defanged Him By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Pastor Tunde Bakare’s trending video on Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for which he is receiving caustic flak from the Nigerian online commentariat, isn’t the deodorization of Tinubu’s smelly underbelly that many people say it is. It is, on the contrary, an effective denunciation of Tinubu and a deep, lasting, strategic delegitimization of his “omo Eko” bona fides. In the video, Bakare essentially mainstreamed reputationally deleterious information about Tinubu that had flourished on the fringes of Yoruba society,…

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Pope Francis demands COVID-19 Vaccines-For-All in Christmas message

Wonuola Olujobi

Pope Francis in his message on Friday prayed for an end to suffering in the world and emphasized on unity among the people. The Pope on the Christmas day, offered the faithful the traditional papal blessing “Urbi et Orbi’’ (to the city and to the world). “We are all in the same boat,’’ the Pope said from the Benediction Hall at the Apostolic Palace, where he gave his address instead of from the central balcony of the basilica, to crowds in St Peter’s Square. The change from balcony to hall…

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Mali opposition leader Soumaila Cissé dies of COVID-19 in France + PHOTOS

Aoko Benjamin

Malian opposition leader, Soumaïla Cissé, died of coronavirus on Friday in Paris, France, his family and his Union for Republic and Democracy (URD) party have confirmed. Cissé was transferred from Niamey, Niger, for specialised treatment in France. A former member of Mali’s National Assembly, Cisse was abducted on 25 March while campaigning for legislative elections in the northwest Timbuktu region. After six months in the hands of jihadists, he was released in October, along with French humanist, Sophie Pétronin, and two Italians, in exchange for 200 detainees released at the…

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Two Nigerian Professors dump University For Local Government Jobs + PHOTOS

Dawood Rabiu

  Two professors in Nigeria have left their classroom role at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) to take up council jobs in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria. They were sworn-in as Local Government chairmen in the state. The duo, identified as Adamu Alooma, a Professor of Banking and Finance, also former Dean, at the UNIMAID faculty of Management Sciences, and Ibrahim Bukar, a Professor of Education, from the same varsity, came among the 27 elected chairmen of Local Government Areas (LGAs) sworn-in on Wednesday by Governor Babagana Zulum. While Alooma took…

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