Day: January 2, 2021

Nigeria suffers five fresh COVID-19 Deaths, 1,074 Cases in 24 hours

Dawood Rabiu

  Nigeria opened 2021 on a high COVID-19 count, as for the third consecutive day, more than 1,000 new positive samples and five deaths were recorded on Friday. The new cases, which were confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), were recorded in 14 states and the federal capital territory in the country’s COVID-19 update for January 1, 2021. Lagos alone had more than half the total number of infections recorded on Friday with 642 new positive samples. After Lagos was Kaduna with 92 new cases, followed by…

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Nigeria’s Vice President Osinbajo will become president in 2021 – ‘Prophet’

Aoko Benjamin

    The Founder of Prophetic Hill Chapel of Ghana, Prophet Nigel Gaisie, has stirred up controversy with his prediction that the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), would emerge president in 2021. The prophecy was delivered by the Christian cleric during the cross over service into 2021 on Thursday. President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2019 for a four-year term ending in 2023 but Gaisie said: “Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will become president in 2021.” He tactically did not mention the name of the country or…

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#EndSARS: How Oba Of Lagos Returned To Palace Two months after mob attack

Gbenga Adeoti

  The Oba of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Rilwanu Akinolu, has returned to his palace on Friday, January 1— two months after a mob invasion during the #EndSARS crisis. Oreoluwa Finnih, Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos governor on Health, who confirmed, in a tweet, that the monarch returned to the Iga Idunganran Palace on Friday, gave graphical details of his return. She posted a video on her handle, which showed the traditional ruler wearing a face mask and dancing — he was also surrounded by persons who appeared to…

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