Month: January 2021

Nigeria’s COVID-19 daily infection cases hit 1,204, highest since outbreak

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Nigeria has recorded its highest single-day Coronavirus Disease infection with 1,204 new cases on Monday. The country has never recorded this figure since outbreak of the dreaded infection in the Africa’s most populous nation in March, 2020. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made the revelation on its Twitter handle on Monday. Before now, the highest single-day infection was 1,145 recorded on December 17, 2020. The second highest single-day infection before that of Monday was the December 23, 2020 figure of 1,133. The epicentre of the pandemic in Nigeria,…

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Popular Nigerian TV personality, Lara Wise, contracts COVID-19 + PHOTOS

ADEOLA YUSUF

  “Exactly one month ago, I tested positive for COVID-19,” a popular personality on Television in Nigeria, Lara Wise, has declared. Wise, a former reporter at The Voice of America, Washighton DC, and a popular face on Africa Independent Television (AIT) as well as Silverbird TV, is an aide to the country’s Deputy Senate President. She announced her status on her Facebook page on Sunday, January 3, 2020, with statement which indicated that she has now tested negative for the dreaded virus, Platforms Africa can report authoritatively. Here below is…

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Commissioner accused of Sexually harassing under age, Suspended

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The Nigeria’s Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has suspended the state’s Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, from office for allegedly harassing a 16-year old girl, identified as one Barakat Melojuekun. He explained that his suspension had become necessary to allow an independent investigation into an allegation to unravel the truth behind the matter and ensure justice is served appropriately. Abidoun said that the suspension was also to enable Abudu-Balogun cooperate fully with the independent investigation being carried out by the state’s Police command. In a statement issued in Abeokuta…

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University of Lagos ex-VC, Prof Ibidapo Obe, Dies at 71

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Former University of Lagos Vice-chancellor, Professor Ibidapo Obe, has died aged 71. The former University don passed away on Sunday, 3rd of January 2020. Until his death, he was the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, First Technical University, Ibadan. Olayinka O. Balogun, Registrar and Secretary to Council, confirmed Ibidapo-Obe’s death in a statement. “With heavy heart, and submission to the will of God I write to inform Council members of the transition to glory of Professor Oye Ibidapo-Obe, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, First Technical University, Ibadan which…

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Bola Tinubu hospitalised in France, heightened COVID-19 scare – Report

ADEOLA YUSUF

  Strongman of Nigeria Politics, Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos state, has been hospitalised in Paris, France, after falling ill. This has created confusion and caused COVID-19 scare in Lagos politics and among his loyalists across the country. TheCable, which reported this said, owever, that contrary to speculations, he has not been diagnosed with COVID-19. TheCable understands he tested negative for COVID-19 before travelling to the UK in December. He initially complained of exhaustion and had travelled out to rest, TheCable was informed. He was flown to Paris…

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We Expect More Business in 2021 –Nigerian Casket Sellers, Undertakers

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The most striking, perhaps most controversial, New Year wish is that of casket makers, sellers and undertakers, who pray and wish for more business in 2021. Here are the details plus their grouse with Muslims. For Sunday Ayeni and his siblings, growing up as a child was memorable. As casket makers and undertakers, they were used to playing and sleeping inside the caskets without any fear, as coffins of different sizes were made in his family’s living room on the Lagos Island, Lagos. It is a lucrative business for…

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Paternity Scandal: Sack FCMB MD, Adam Nuru, Now – 1,829 petitioners to CBN

ADEOLA YUSUF

  . All you need to know about Senior Banker’s romance, fathering of two kids through married staff, and stroke, death of mistress’ husband   Over 1,829 people as at press time have signed a petition asking the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sack the Managing Director of First City Monument Bank, Adam Nuru, over an alleged paternity scandal involving a former staff of the bank. The petition alleged that the MD was responsible for the demise of Tunde Thomas, whose wife, Moyo, allegedly bore her boss two kids.…

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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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’

ADEOLA YUSUF

    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

ADEOLA YUSUF

  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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