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Nigeria, Monday, experienced new wave of COVID-19 infections after recording 201 from 11 states. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed this via its official Twitter “On the 14th of December 2020, 201 new confirmed cases were recorded in Nigeria. “The 201 new cases are reported from 11 states- Kaduna (74), Lagos (53), Katsina (40), Rivers (11), Plateau (9), Kwara (6), Bauchi (2), Ogun (2), Taraba (2), Edo (1), and Sokoto (1).” On the caseloads, it stated “Till date, 73,374 cases have been confirmed, 66,314 cases have been discharged and 1,197 deaths have been recorded in 36 states and the Federal…

Joe Biden of Democratic Party, Monday, secured overwhelming 302 votes in the Electoral College from battlegrounds to emerge US President and Kamala Harris as the Vice President. His closest rival, President Donald Trump of Republican Party polled 232 votes from the college to finally take a bow out of the coveted office, after a first-term shot at it. All of the election’s most closely contested battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia cast their votes for Biden. Established in the US Constitution in 1787, the Electoral College is an archaic institution that – after Trump won in 2016…

An 18-year-old student of Government Science School, Kankara in Katsina State, has narrated how he escaped from bandits who kidnapped hundreds of his colleagues last Friday. Osama Aminu Maale said 520 students were abducted when the armed bandits stormed the school on Friday night. “There were a total of 520 of us that were taken by the gunmen from the school,” he told AFP on the phone. “After they took us away we stopped inside the bus where they made the older students take a headcount. We counted 520,” he said. The hostages were split into groups before Maale and…

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has clarified that the union’s rejection of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Management System (IPPIS) has nothing to do with its current strike. Dr Christian Opata, who is the Chairman of ASUU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka chapter, said this on Monday while briefing newsmen on the nationwide action. He said the briefing was to correct the “misinformation” in a national daily, where it was alleged that the union embarked on its action because of IPPIS. According to him, ASUU went on strike because Federal Government failed to honour the 2009 agreement and Memorandum…

In the ongoing votes by Electoral College, the United States President-elect Joe Biden is leading by 156 to 123 votes scored by the outgoing President Donald Trump. Trump of Republican Party is trailing Biden of Democratic Party in the ongoing voting for the next US President billed for official inauguration on January 20, 2021. In the just-concluded November 3 elections, Biden won by more than 77 million votes, the highest ever for any US President to have scored in a record-time election while Trump got more than 71 million in popular votes. Of the 270 electoral votes needed for one…

“My husband is a womanizer; he sleeps with church members,’’ a 49-year-old evangelist told an Igando Customary Court on Monday in Lagos. Mrs. Chinwe Ekwe spoke while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Pastor Paul Ekwe, who had accused her of planning to kill him. Chinwe said that her husband was molesting women both single and married. “I care for him both physical and spiritual but he still chose to be flirting around with different women. “He even brought a married woman home as wife and chased me out of our matrimonial home,’’ she said. Chinwe said…

A University of Uyo lecturer standing trial for alleged involvement in electoral fraud during the 2019 general polls was, Monday, granted bail by Akwa Ibom State High Court. The presiding Judge, Justice Archibong Archibong granted Professor Ignatius Uduk, admitting the accused/applicant to bail in the sum of N500,000 with a surety in the like sum. Archibong said the surety must present evidence of ownership of landed property, and a letter of identification from a prominent citizen of Akwa Ibom state who is working or doing business within the state. He also noted that the surety must reside within the jurisdiction…

Econet Global is staging a comeback to the Nigeria with the establishment of a $100 million data centre facility in Lagos. The Founder and Executive Chairman of Econet Global Limited, Strive Masiyiwa said Africa Data Centre has commenced the construction of what it says ‘will be Nigeria’s biggest data centre.’ The London-based Zimbabwean billionaire who made this known via his official Facebook account asserted that COVID-19 cannot stop the next phase of technology in Africa. Mr. Masiyiwa said, “A few years ago, ADC was just a single facility in Nairobi, Kenya. It was not a company, but as my team…

In line with COVID-19 guidelines, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has made a big breakthrough with the discharge of 172 persons from four states in the country on Sunday. “Our discharges today include 74 community recoveries in Kaduna State, 49 in Lagos State, 29 in Abia State and 20 in Plateau State managed in line with guidelines,” the centre stated in its Twitter handle. This is as Nigeria recorded 418 new COVID-19 and three deaths from 16 states including Federal Capital Territory, NCDC has confirmed. “On the 13th of December 2020, 418 new confirmed cases and 3 deaths were recorded…

Plan by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a full investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by terrorist group, Boko Haram and the security forces has jolted the Nigerian Army. This is as the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda said she would seek full investigations into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Nigeria, as well as during the Ukraine conflict. In a statement on Friday her office, Bensouda said ICC had completed a preliminary examination and found a “reasonable basis to believe” that Boko Haram and its splinter…