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Nigeria, Sunday, recorded 91 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the country’s total infections to 1,273, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). By this, Akwa Ibom State has 12 confirmed cases of COVID-19, though six have been discharged. The NCDC, in a tweet via its official handle, said “On the 26th of April 2020, 91 new confirmed cases and five new deaths were recorded in Nigeria. “The 91 new cases are reported from sixteen states- Lagos (43), Sokoto (8), Taraba (6), Gombe (5), Ondo (3), FCT (3), Edo (3), Oyo (3), Rivers (3), Bauchi (3), Osun…

By Akanimo Sampson Worried by the crushing effect of the coronavirus crisis, a top UN functionary is busy appealing to the conscience of the developed world to rise in aid of poor countries. He has also pointed out that 1.1 billion people living in the least Developed Countries (LDCs) will be facing an eventual domestic pandemic except for the developed world urgently rise in their aid. Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) Division for Africa and Least Developed Countries, Paul Akiwumi, who disclosed this, says the COVID-19 crisis has rapidly thrown the world into uncharted…

By Akanimo Sampson There are some emerging worrisome indicators that the global recession triggered by COVID-19 might become a depression. Experts at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) are already saying, ‘’we face the real prospect that a global recession becomes a depression.’’ Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their employees broadly regarded as an essential part of the social and economic fabric of daily life worldwide, is now under threat from the unprecedented effects of the rampaging coronavirus. ILO says in this situation, controlling the pandemic, maintaining workers’ incomes and minimising the long-term costs of collapsing businesses are essential. “Much…

By: Reuben Abati People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country. I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the country’s seat of government. I am ordinarily not a superstitious person, but working in the Villa, I eventually became convinced that there must be something supernatural about power and closeness to it. I’ll start with a personal testimony. I was given an…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country has recorded 87 new coronavirus cases while the number of fatalities has reached 35. In its verified Twitter handle late Saturday night, NCDC tweets “On the 25th of April 2020, 87 new confirmed cases and one new death were recorded in Nigeria “One new state (Imo) has reported a confirmed case in the last 24 hours. “Till date, 1,182 cases have been confirmed, 222 cases have been discharged and thirty-five deaths have been recorded in 28 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The 87 new cases are reported from nine…

Two policemen who were seen fighting each other shamelessly in Ebele community, Igueben local government area of Edo State have been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force. The policemen: F/NO 41112 CPL Ozimende Aidonojie and F/NO 516384 PC Salubi Stephen were arrested, detained, and underwent internal disciplinary sanctions at the Edo State Police Command Headquarters. After undergoing trial and found guilty over the incident, they were dismissed from the force. See the tweet below;

Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, has reportedly died, according to a Hong Kong broadcast network. But a Japanese magazine is reporting that North Korea’s rocket man is in “a vegetative state” after he underwent heart surgery earlier this month is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation. This comes after the Chinese government dispatched a team including medical experts to North Korea to advise North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, on his care after he underwent a life-saving heart surgery during the Coronavirus outbreak. According to TMZ, a Hong Kong-backed news channel’s vice director who’s apparently the niece of…

The Akwa Ibom Nigeria Medical Association has raised an alarm that the Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Health doubling as the Incident Manager is contrary to the stand of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr. Dominic Ukpong is the Commissioner for Health as well as the Incident Manager of Akwa Ibom State COVID-19 Incident Management Committee. Ekem Emmanuel John, the state Public Relations Officer for NMA, who dropped the bombshell during an interview in Inspiration 105 FM, Uyo on Saturday, said Dr. Ukpong is the only Health Commissioner in the country to be appointed as the Incident Manager of the pandemic.…

The rift between Nigeria Medical Association, Akwa Ibom Chapter, and the Commissioner for Health has assumed a theatrical dimension over an accusation of playing politics on the containment of COVID-19 in the state. The state government is said to have relieved Dr. Aniekeme Uwah, the state epidemiologist of his position as a member of Akwa Ibom COVID-19 Incident Management Committee for submitting 31 coronavirus samples to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for testing against the commissioner’s wish of 10 at a time. In an interview in Inspiration 105 FM, Uyo on Saturday, Dr. Ekem Emmanuel John, the state Public Relations…

By Akanimo Sampson Political functionaries in Ebonyi State who are holding juicy offices are no longer finding their seats very comfortable because of the rampaging COVID-19. Governor Dave Umahi, who is fast becoming a controversial no-nonsense governor in Eastern Nigeria, has threatened to visit the COVID-19 sins of communities on their sons and daughters who are holding appointive offices. But, in Akwa Ibom state, the killer virus is deepening the political antagonism between President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). APC is claiming that the seeming indecisive Governor Udom Emmanuel has not been visible…