Some coronavirus patients in Gombe State have taken to the street to protest over poor welfare provision in the state. While health officials were able to restore calm to patients at the hospital, those at the isolation centre were so wild to tame. Possibly mixed with villagers, the patients blocked a major highway in the state to ensure their grievances were clearly sent out to authorities in the state. Some of the patients eventually fled the isolation centre reportedly, while others returned at the end of the protest. A resident, who craved anonymity, told The Cable on Friday that the…
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A group known as Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC has called on governors of the five South-Eastern states in Nigeria to repatriate all almajiri children in their territory. Okechukwu Isigusoro, the President-General of the organisation, and Nnabuike Okwu, the Secretary-General also said, in a statement, that the interception of children from Kano by the Enugu COVID-19 Task Force should be investigated as well. The statement reads: “We, the Ohanaeze Youth Council, describes the interception of Kano almajiris at Enugu border by Enugu State COVID-19 Task Force as collaborative rogue operations and nefarious activities of Northern elders to export Coronavirus almajiris index…
One of the suspected killers of Mrs Funke Olakunri, the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, Adamu Adamu on Tuesday attempted to escape from the Infectious Disease Hospital where he is currently being treated for coronavirus pandemic. A police source confirmed the incident to Sahara Reporters on Wednesday in Akure. He disclosed that the suspect had been adopting different tactics in a bid to escape from the hospital. According to the police source, Adamu had already been “chained to a bed” at the facility to avoid him escaping. “We noticed that each time the suspect took permission from nurses to ease himself, he…
Two coronavirus patients have died in Lagos State, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to 30. The state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi made the disclosure on Monday via his verified Twitter handle but did not reveal details of the deceased patients. Abayomi tweeted: “#COVID19Lagos update as at 3rd of May, 2020. 39 new #COVID19 Infection confirmed in Lagos on the 3rd of May, 2020. The total number of confirmed #COVID19 cases in Lagos is now 1123. “2 additional #COVID19 related deaths were recorded, bringing the total of such deaths in Lagos to 30. “Let’s remember to…
On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss. Their loss was in the region of $4.4 billion dollars. Bear in mind that this was a conglomerate that posted a $2.6 billion profit in the corresponding quarter of 2019. The challenges that are already engulfing the oil and gas sector will continue to plague that industry for at least the rest of the year, and may reach apocalyptic levels sooner than we expect. As I write this, there are hundreds of crude…
A Benin based humanitarian and action group, Action Integrated Movement (AIM), has donated palliatives to some less privileged persons across the Benin metropolis, MERIDIAN SPY, can report. The donations were made on Wednesday in Benin by representatives of the group to some of the “poorest of the poor.” The palliatives were food items donated as relief materials to cushion the effects of hunger and partial lockdown activities currently in place in the state. Speaking shortly after the donation, the convener and founder of the group, Comr. Ogedegbe John Ehireme, said the gesture was to help mitigate sufferings among indigent persons…
The global economy is in a tailspin. IMF and the World Bank have both predicted a contraction of the global economy with developing economies likely to be worst affected. This situation is the direct result of the menace of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the energy crisis that the world faces. With many businesses and factories on lockdown, with the tourism and travel industry playing possum, the world is confronted with a demand and supply shock, and a financial and economic shock in addition to a catalytic global health crisis, the end of which no one knows. Commodity dependent countries like…
President Muhammadu Buhari will address Nigerians at 8 pm today Monday. This was made known by the Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad via a tweet on Monday. Ahmad stated: “Buhari will address the nation later today, at 8:00 pm. Television, radio, and other electronic media stations are enjoined to hook up to the network services of the NTA and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria respectively for the broadcast.”
The Government of Japan has added 14 more countries to its entry ban list. Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, said Monday that his country was adding 14 more countries as a precautionary measure to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country. Japan had initially banned entry from more than 70 other countries across the world, banning foreigners with records of visiting those countries in the past two weeks, while invalidating visas for the rest of the world. Shinzo Abe, said the additional step on the 14 countries will take effect Wednesday. The entry ban and the visa restrictions, initially…
Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2019 elections, Peter Obi, has advised circumspection towards relaxing the lockdown across different states in the country, saying that such moves if not carefully done would defeat the preventive approach to COVID-19 which the peoples of the world have adopted. In a statement released by his media office on Sunday signed by Mr. Valentine Obienyem, Obi stated that “easing the lockdown in some parts of the country at this stage is not advisable” as a greater percentage of the people had not been tested for the virus infection. He…
The King of Saudi Arabia has said it was going to relax the ongoing curfew occasioned by the rising number of coronavirus patients in the country. Saudi King, Salman bin Abdulaziz had imposed the curfew in March to curtail the spread of the virus in the kingdom. Barely a month after the introduction of the nationwide curfew, the King has ordered a partial lift on the curfew – beginning from Sunday 26, 2020 to May 13, 2020. The new directive will allow people to go out from 9 am (0600 GMT) until 5 pm daily. The holy city of Mecca,…
Senior Pastor, Omega Fire Ministry, World wide, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to allow he and his colleagues into Isolation centres to heal coronavirus patients in the country. In a viral online video seen by MERIDIAN SPY, the Edo born preacher said there were men of God gifted with the power of healing, nothing that they should be allowed into COVID-19 isolation centres to heal Nigerians who are infected with the virus. He stated that the only way to curtail the geometric increase in the number of infected patients in the country was to allow pastors…