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By Akanimo Sampson Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State says Nigeria’s economy will take a dramatic turn for the better when the Ibom Deep Seaport comes on stream. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor has accordingly lauded the Federal Government over moves to ensure the speedy realisation of the deep seaport project. He also commended the Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi, and all the relevant federal regulatory agencies for working tirelessly with the state government to actualise a vision that will transform the economic fortunes of the entire country. Emmanuel also commended the Technical Committee on the Realisation of Ibom…

Nigeria has on Thursday recorded 350 new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with the confirmed cases hitting 11,516. Announcing the new cases via its official twitter handle, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) indicated the breakdown of the new cases per state thus; “Lagos-102; Ogun-34; FCT-29; Borno-26; Kaduna-23; Rivers-21; Ebonyi-17; Kwara -16; Katsina-14; Edo-10; Delta-10; Kano-10; Bauchi-10; Bayelsa-9; Imo-8; Plateau-4; Ondo-3; Nasarawa-2; Gombe-1; Oyo-1.” It said, “On the 4th of June 2020, 350 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. “No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. “Till date, 11516…

New charges have been announced against the four of the sacked police officers present at the death of African American, George Floyd in Minneapolis. The charge against Derek Chauvin has been elevated to second-degree murder, court documents show. The other three officers, previously uncharged, face counts of aiding and abetting murder. Floyd’s death has sparked huge protests across the US against racism and the police killings of black Americans. The vast majority of demonstrations over the past eight days have been peaceful, but some have turned violent and curfews have been imposed in a number of cities. Announcing the new…

The Federal Government on Wednesday announced that schools in the country would officially reopen in phases starting on July 13, 2020 with university final-year students, SS3 students and primary school pupils. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha has revealed that schools will be reopened on July 13, 2020 to enable final year, SSCE, and Primary Six students take their exams. This announcement came today in the meeting held in Abuja on a daily COVID-19 briefing. Boss Mustapha on Monday said schools remain closed until further evaluations but on Wednesday…

By: Akanimo Sampson Rivers State wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari’s party, is coming alive again after it suffered a major political setback in the 2019 elections. The inner-circle actors of the opposition party in Rivers State that is dominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have started to regroup to enable them to plan better for the 2023 elections. The upbeat in APC is coming as some of its front chieftains and loyalists of Transportation Minister, Chibuike Amaechi, are currently grabbing juicy federal appointments slated for the big oil and gas state. Elated party insider…

A man who raped a two-year and 9-month-old baby to death is still in shock as the court handed him death by hanging. A Kaduna State High Court at Dogarawa Sabon Gari Zaria which convicted one Usman Shehu Bashir of Dogarawa area handed him the judgment on Wednesday. Delivering judgment, Justice Kabir Dabo said the death sentence was under section 221 of the penal code, Kaduna state law 1999 as amended. “The convict has confessionally confirmed the occurrence of the offence, as well, his written statements also confirmed. By these two confessional statements, the Court passed the judgment,” the judge…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees Tuesday that he was sticking with his decision not to take down incendiary posts in which President Donald Trump appeared to call for violence against protesters. In a staff-wide call that Facebook employees described as both tense and awkward, Zuckerberg sought to explain to frustrated employees why the company was standing by its decision and why he did not think the president’s posts ran afoul of the social media giant’s policies. While Facebook has had to deal with a variety of issues in recent years, from misinformation to privacy concerns, few topics have ignited…

Pope Francis has drawn the world attention to racism and exclusion in any form as ‘twin sin,’ harping on the essence for people to desist from them. Francis, in the world in his Twitter handle, said he views with “great concern” the social unrest sweeping the United States, calling racism intolerable and the recent violence “self-destructive and self-defeating.” “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form,” he tweeted at the Vatican in Rome on Wednesday. The leader of the Catholic Church said he would pray for George Floyd and all those…

Amidst growing rape cases, Dr. Ahmad Lawani, the Senate President, has harped on the need for the introduction of stiffer penalties in Nigeria’s criminal and penal code that would serve as a deterrent to perpetrators of the act. Senator Lawan in his Twitter handle on Tuesday wrote “With the rising cases of rape across the country, what we need to do is to put in place stiffer penalties in Nigeria’s criminal and penal code that will serve as a deterrent to perpetrators involved in the act.” This came in the wake of rape and murder of Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a…

The Senate, Tuesday, approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s $5.513 billion external loan request to finance the revised 2020 budget. Though the Senate stood down a component of loan which the federal government said will help in the execution of its priority projects and for projects to support State Governments in stimulating their economy which has been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic on grounds of lacking requisite details, the loan request was however approved after presentation and consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts. Lenders for the federal government’s priority projects as approved by the…