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…
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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…
Eighty-seven new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Nigeria, bringing the total to 1182 in the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC broke the news in the early hours of Sunday morning via its verified Twitter handle. Of the 87 new cases reported, 33 were confirmed in Lagos,18 in Borno, 12 in Osun, nine in Katsina, four in Kano and Ekiti, three in Edo and Bauchi and one in Imo. 14 new patients were also discharged, bringing the total to 222 while three new deaths were confirmed, with total fatalities now 35. NCDC tweeted: “87 new cases…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 114 new COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. The agency made the disclosure on Friday night via its verified Twitter handle. The new cases were confirmed as follows:80 in Lagos,21 in Gombe,5 in FCT,2 in Zamfara,2 in Edo,1 in Ogun,1 in Oyo,1 in Kaduna, and 1 in Sokoto. Given the above breakdown, as at 11:30 pm 24th April there are 1095 confirmed cases of #COVID-19 reported in Nigeria. So far, Lagos has 657 cases, Fct 138, Kano 73, Ogun 35, Gombe 30, Katsina 21, Osun 20, Edo 19, Oyo 18, Borno 12, Kwara…
Two weeks ago, Edo State joined the number of States in Nigeria with confirmed coronavirus cases. As at today, the State has fifteen confirmed COVID-19 cases as officially confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The state government had announced that it has situated COVID-19 screening centres in different local government areas of the state. The governor, Godwin Obaseki had on Wednesday tweeted via his official handle: But findings by MERIDIAN SPY proved that the said screening was only a charade stage managed by the state government to garner public applause and accolades. Earlier today, the SSG, Osarodion…
A notorious cult leader in Ugep, Cross Rivers State, popularly known as Jboy, has been killed during a clash with his gang members. A resident of the community told Sahara Reporters that Jboy and his gang belonged to a certain cult group known as the Vikings and have been terrorising persons living in Ugep for years. The source said a power tussle between the deceased and another member known as Arikpo 007 had left many in the gang dead in recent months. He said, “It’s an internal crisis within the Vikings also known as Baggers. Few months ago, there was power tussle…
Eighty-six new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), taking Nigeria’s total infections to 627. The NCDC confirmed this late on Sunday via a statement on Twitter. According to the agency, of the 86 new cases, seventy were in Lagos, seven in FCT, three in Katsina, three in Akwa Ibom, one in Jigawa, one in Bauchi and one in Borno. One case previously reported in Kano, has been transferred to Jigawa state.Therefore, the total number of confirmed cases in Kano is 36 as at the 19th of April 2020.