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By Akanimo Sampson The World Food Programme and UNICEF say 370 million children are missing out on school meals amid school closures due to the rampaging COVID-19. These two UN agencies are accordingly urging national governments to prevent devastating nutrition and health consequences for children. Sadly, the COVID-19 crisis is already pushing up levels of hunger among the global poor. In Nigeria, the Federal Government has said it will not endanger the lives of children by opening schools. Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, says there is no date yet for schools in the country to resume. While clarifying…

By: Israel Umoh The COVID-19 has caused a pleasant confusion between the rich and the poor, the educated and illiterate, the low and the mighty, the developed and the developing countries, the public and the private sector servants. The list goes on. And the world is swathed in a pall of confusion. At least, most countries and persons have come to the realisation that the inequality aura created by mere mortals to lord over others is vacuous. The world-renowned scientists and the superpowers are thrown into the valley of confusion owing to the illusion of discovering a vaccine to cure…

A secret cult clash between two rival gangs in Inen clan, Oruk Anam local government area of Akwa Ibom State has consumed three lives. Daily Sun gathered that the last person to have lost his life, Otobong Ben Ufenang was killed on Monday by a five-man gang and his body dismembered near the Community Primary School, Inen Ikot Etim while the first victim was lynched in Odoro Ikot at the boundary between Ukanafun and Oruk Anam local government areas. It was also gathered that another victim was murdered in Inen Ikot Obio Idang in which there was massive looting, causing…

Nigeria has recorded 195 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 1,532. This was announced by the Nigeria Disease for Disease Control on Tuesday. The NCDC also said that four new COVID-19 fatalities were recorded in the country. It said, “195 new cases of #COVID19 reported – 80 in Lagos, Kano – 38, Ogun – 15, Bauchi – 15, Borno – 11, Gombe – 10, Sokoto – nine, Edo – five, Jigawa – five, Zamfara – two, Rivers – one, Enugu – one, Delta – one, FCT – one, and Nasarawa –…

By Akanimo Sampson The massive dead fishes floating near the Atlantic coastline in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s vastly polluted oil and gas region has sparked off a worrisome row. The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) says it found no oil spills linking the dead fishes floating near the coastline in Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. But, Furoebi Akene, an environmentalist, is attributing the dead fishes littering the oil region’s coastline to discharge of toxic chemicals from the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major, Shell’s operations at Forcados oil export terminal. NOSDRA was established by the National…

Nigeria has recorded 64 new cases in four states on Monday, bringing confirmed cases to 1,337. In its Twitter handle, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said, ”On the 27th of April 2020, 64 new confirmed cases and no death was recorded in Nigeria. “No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. “Till date, 1337 cases have been confirmed, 255 cases have been discharged and 40 deaths have been recorded in 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory. “The 64 new cases are reported from five states- Lagos (34), FCT (15), Borno (11), Taraba (two), Gombe (two),”…

Madagascar, a South African country, branded as the group of least developed countries by the United Nations and a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and African Union (AU), on April 21 launched a herbal medicine believed to cure and prevent coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus disease appeared first in 2019 in Wuhan city in China. The disease was, first identified in Wuhan and Hubei, both in China early December 2019. The original cause still unknown, it remains a puzzle and an enigma for the world scientific community. Though World Health Organsiation there is no cure for COVID-19, Malagasy…

By Akanimo Sampson Like the State of Missouri in US, a coalition of Nigerian lawyers is bracing for a $200 billion legal battle with China over the killer COVID-19 pandemic. The goal is to ensure that China takes full responsibility for its alleged negligence that is causing Nigerians untold hardship and pains as the virus continues to spread in the country. The lawyers are filing a class-action suit against the Chinese government. This is coming as confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in Nigeria zoomed to 1273 with 91 new cases recorded as at 11.50 p.m on Sunday. In the meantime, for…

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians 2. I will start by commending you all for the resilience and patriotism that you have shown in our collective fight against the biggest health challenge of our generation. 3. As of yesterday, 26th April 2020, some 3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded globally with about 900,000 recoveries. Unfortunately, some 200,000 people…

By Akanimo Sampson The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has welcomed the Call to Action by garment industry to work with governments to tackle the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The industry’s employer, worker organisations, leading brands and retailers have expressed willingness to work with governments and financial institutions to tackle the devastating economic disruption and threat to livelihoods caused by the corona virus pandemic. The call to action is bringing together key stakeholders in the industry in the wake of unprecedented social and economic disruption that has resulted in the closure of factories and retail stores, illness, and widespread loss of…