The Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde, this Thursday said there is need for the state to set up an endowment fund to manage disasters in the state. Governor Makinde, stated this while inspecting the scene of the inferno that wreaked havoc on some shops at the popular Dugbe business hub, Ibadan. Speaking with newsmen at the scene of the fire outbreak, the Governor said, “at a time like this, the fire incident was the least expected, because we are battling with the coronavirus pandemic.” “We are battling with the social impact of it, as well as the economic impact…
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A trailer filled with over 50 persons has been turned back by Niger’s Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ahmed Matane. The truck had been stopped by security personnel at Gidan Kwano area when they saw people on top of the truck unable to explain their journey. The driver had explained they were coming from Lagos and heading to Kano, pleading they should be allowed to pass through as they pledged not to stop in the state. But the security had to call the Chairman of the state Task Force on COVID-19 to seek permission to allow them to…
Facts are beginning to emerge on why U.S.-based Nigerian sprinter and Olympic medalist, Blessing Oghenewreseme Okagbare’s marriage with former Super Eagles player, Jude Otegheri Ighoteghuonor crashed so early. Okagbare and Ighoteghuonor’ marriage was well celebrated in Sapele, Delta State in 2014 shortly after the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, where she emerged as double sprint champion. However, six years after they tied the knot, things have fallen apart, as the union has crumbled like a pack of cards. Okagbare was said to have filed for a divorce. Speaking with a National Newspaper correspondent from Sapele, Delta State yesterday, a…
US President Donald Trump has been heavily criticised for halting funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Philanthropist Bill Gates, a major funder of the WHO, said it was “as dangerous as it sounds”. President Trump said on Tuesday that the body had “failed in its basic duty” in its response to coronavirus. The head of the WHO said it was reviewing the cuts’ impact “to ensure our work continues uninterrupted”. “We regret the decision of the President of the United States to order a halt in the funding to the WHO,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom…
A mother of four, Mrs. Mary Joseph, was yesterday taken into custody at the Akinpelu police station after she bathed her neighbour, Jumoke Gbadebo, with hot water at Oshodi area of Lagos State. Trouble started when the attacker alleged that the victim, whose turn it was to clean the drainage and surrounding of their house, spilled filthy water and dirt into the water she was going to use to bathe her children. An eyewitness who doesn’t want her name in print, narrated what happened: “I was here bathing my daughter and I heard the woman (Mrs. Joseph) shouting. She said…
Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), Mr. Mele Kyari, said wednesday that the federal government had paid over N200 billion to the power sector towards improving electricity supply. Kyari disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Abuja shortly after a closed door meeting between the NNPC; Minister of Power, Mr. Sale Mamman, and Managing Director of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) Mr. Usman Mohammed. “Actually the federal government has made payment of over N200 billion for power in the last 23 days and this will go a long way to ensure that issues around power supply are…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wednesday advised Nigeria not to spare any resources in curbing the spread of COVID-19. IMF’s Director, Africa Department, Mr. Abebe Selassie, said during a media briefing yesterday, to unveil the ‘IMF Regional Economic Outlook for sub Saharan Africa,’ at the ongoing World Bank/IMF Virtual Spring Meetings in Washington, United States, that the Nigerian economy was among those to be hard hit by the pandemic. He urged the federal and state governments to roll out more fiscal measures to fight the virus, which has continued to spread in the country. “In the near term, no resources…
As part of measures to ensure that the masses get palliatives to cushion the effect of Covid-19, and the burden of such palliatives does not rest on the shoulders of the Oyo state governor alone,
The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered Commanding Officers across the country to step up ongoing enforcement on restrictions and social distancing amongst vehicle occupants. This comes on the back of a fourteen-day extension of the Coronovirus lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by President Muhammadu Buhari. Oyeyemi wants the officers to totally carry out the presidential directives by impounding at sight, any vehicle found to be in violation of the orders. In a statement made available by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, he said the agency…