Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari has called on the government to activate total lock down of the country to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease. In a tweet on Monday, she noted that it was counterproductive to isolate students and expose their parents because both would meet at home and risk spreading the deadly virus disease. She tweeted: “It is commendable that state governors have closed down schools; however, this could be counterproductive if parents are still going to work. We should not isolate students and expose their parents. Let us remember that they will meet at home. #TotalLockDown#StayAtHome.”…
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United States President, Donald Trump, has announced the approval of chloroquine for use as a treatment against the coronavirus. Chloroquine is a medication used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria is known to be sensitive to its effects. Trump said on Thursday that: “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has been so great. “They’ve gone through the approval process — it’s been approved. They took it down from many, many months to immediate. So, we’re going to be able to make that…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has said the petrol pump price in the country will now sell at its retail stations at N125 per litre from Thursday March 19. The minister of state for petroleum resources, Timipre Sylva had after the Federal Executive Council FEC meeting on Wednesday issued a directive to the Nigerian petroleum corporation to reduce the ex-coastal and ex-depot prices of PMS (petrol) to reflect current market realities as approved by the president, Muhammadu Buhari. The NNPC group managing director, Mele Kyari said in line with the directive issued by the minister, all NNPC retail stations…
Some Nigerians living in the United Kingdom UK are planning to organise series of lectures to discuss Nigeria’s democracy and sovereignty as the country marks 60 years of independence from British colonial rule. The organisers of the Nigerian Independence Day Annual Lectures NIDAL UK in a statement on Monday said it will host debates on a number of topics at Chatham House, the House of Commons and the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. The spokesperson of the association, Ayo Akinfe, stated that the lectures are targeted at building intellectual engagements, which will add to the usual fanfare of independence celebrations. “This is…
The ruling All Progressive Congress APC has postponed its National Executive Council NEC meeting indefinitely. The decision to postpone the meeting was reached after governors of the party met with the president, Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting was initially scheduled to hold on Tuesday, March 17th. Details soon.
Popular South African comedian and television host, Trevor Noah, has suspended his late-night TV program, ‘The Daily Show’ over the surge in coronavirus spread. The media personality announced on Friday that the television program would continue without live audience as from Monday the 16th of March. He said the measure has become imperative to support global efforts aimed at combating the virus. “You must have heard by now. But to do our thing, to do our part during the pandemic, the Daily Show is not going to have a live studio audience starting from Monday,” he said while addressing the…
A Chief of Staff to the deposed emir of Kano, Munir Sanusi, Dam Buram Kano has blamed the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, for the confinement of the former emir in Nasarawa. Munir had filed an affidavit in support of the suit by the deposed emir, stating that Sanusi was detained on the orders of Malami and the Kano State Attorney-General, Ibrahim Muktar, who were respondents in the suit filed by the deposed emir. He said the deposed emir had informed Habu Ahmadu, the state’s commissioner of police, of his intention to fly with his family members to Lagos but his…
The deposed emir of kano Muhammad Sanusi II is set to depart Awe Town in Nasarawa State following an Abuja High Court order to release him from confinement. Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Abuja High Court had earlier issued a ruling on Friday granting the deposed emir’s application seeking his release from confinement following his dethronement by the Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Meridian Spy confirms Sanusi’s luggage being taken out of his confinement home in Awe Town. More details soon.
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said the result of the Nigerian who had contact with the Italian, who tested positive to the virus, had returned negative. The minister disclosed this on Friday while giving an update of the deadly disease in the country. Ehanire said the patient, who was Nigeria’s second case, will soon be allowed to go home. It should be recalled that Nigeria recorded its index case of the deadly coronavirus disease in February after the Italian who flew into the country through a Turkish Airlines flight tested positive to the virus.
The Katsina Police command has confirmed the rescue of 13 corps members who were abducted by gunmen on their way to the National Youth Service Corps NYSC orientation camp at Tsafe, in Zamfara State. The Police Public Relations Officer PPRO in the state, Gamba Isah, said the corps members, who are from Ondo State, were kidnapped along Funtua-Gusau highway on March 9. The 18-seater passenger bus, which the corps members were in, was intercepted by the gunmen who took them into Doka forest along with 5 other passengers. According to Isah, the police team responded to the distress call of…
The billboard bearing the picture of the embattled APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, at the party’s secretariat has been removed. The removal was made on Wednesday night both in front and within the premises of the building, however it is unknown who ordered or carried out the action. The billboard at the secretariat in Wuse, was on Thursday seen bearing only the pictures of the president, Muhammadu Buhari even as men of the Nigerian police were seen regulating movement in and out of the premises. It should be recalled that a FCT Court had issued an interlocutory injunction suspending the…
These are depressing times – stemming from different factors of course – for a large sector of the nation. Insecurity, economy in a coma, a leadership in name only, having vanished into either, permanently AWOL in a time of serial crisis. No wonder mimic and debased forms of leadership assertiveness rush in to fill the vacuum! The latest in the stakes of such power appropriation makes one can wonder which is the more reactionary order: the so-called feudal institution, or the self-vaunting modernized governance whose apex can bring the feudal to heel quite arbitrarily, without check and without seeming consequence.…