Day: May 11, 2021

No new COVID-19 Curfew, Lockdown in Nigeria – Information Minister

Gbenga Adeoti

  Nigeria not overwhelmed by banditry, terrorism, kidnapping, farmer-herder conflic-Lai Mohammed    Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has declared that there is no new COVID-19 curfew or lockdown in the country. Mohammed, who said this while clearing the air on reports that the country has been put under new restrictions, maintained that the restrictions and curfew announced by the Presidential TaskForce (PTF), which he is a member of, has been in place evwn before now. “There is nothing new in the announcement and the restictions and curfew…

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Shell declares 50% Crude Oil Output Slash Target for 2035

Efe Wellington

  “If we do not make that type of process by the middle of next decade, we have a problem not just as a company but as a society,” Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden, says   Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s head expects clean energy to make up half of the company’s energy mix “somewhere in the next decade.” “If we do not make that type of process by the middle of next decade, we have a problem not just as a company but as a society,” Chief Executive Officer…

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How Robbers attacked Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Admin Officer’s Aso Rock Home

Aliyu Aliyu

  Professor Gambari house is on a street next to the Villa in Aso Rock, considered one of the safest places in the Africa’s biggest economy..   The Nigerian Presidency has confirmed that robbers attacked the homes of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, and an Administration Officer in the Presidential Villa, Abubakar Maikano, inside the Aso Rock, considered one of the safest places in the Africa’s biggest economy.. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed the development…

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74 Foreign passengers abscond from Nigeria’s quarantine centres

Dawood Rabiu

  ECOWAS Heads of State and Government had fixed the cost of COVID-19 testing, whether PCR or otherwise, at $50 at all Points of Entry with effect from May 17, 2021.   The Nigerian Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has said some returning foreign passengers have absconded from the country’s isolation centres, which is a violation of the mandatory quarantine requirement under the advisory earlier issued by Nigeria. Though the Chairman of the PSC on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who confirmed this during…

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