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.
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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.…
Juventus Football Club star player, Christiano Ronaldo, has been quarantined in Portugal after his team mate, Daniele Rugani tested positive to the deadly coronavirus disease. The Portuguese footballer was at his hometown in Madeira on Wednesday to see his mother who had stroke recently when he received the news that Rugani had tested positive to the contagion. Ronaldo and Rugani had shared a dressing room when Juventus beat Inter Milan 2-0 behind closed doors. Following the news of the test, Ronaldo went into self-isolation as was an ideal medical practice to stem the spread of the virus. Rugani however said…
The police has arraigned the Director-General of the National Identity Management Commission NIMC in Imo, Ikenna Unaegbu, over an alleged rape of a two-year-old girl. According to the victim’s mother, Chinonye Obioma, the incident occurred on the 5th of February in Owerri, Imo State capital. Obioma told the court she noticed the unusual way her daughter was walking after she urinated and when she removed her pant, she noticed bruises and remains of sperm on her swollen private parts. “My daughter went into the office twice with biscuits and groundnuts, only to come out from the director’s office the third…
The Cameroon Health Ministry has confirmed its first case of coronavirus in the country. The case involves a 58-year-old French citizen who flew into the capital Yaounde on the 24th of February. The health ministry confirms the patient is being quarantined while measures are being taken by the government to contain potential risks of the virus spreading. Cameroon joins the list of African countries to record cases of the deadly coronavirus.
Tunisia has confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, the health ministry said on Monday. Tunisia’s Health Minister, Abdelatif el-Maki, said this at a news conference in Tunis, the country’s capital. He explained that the patient is a 40-year-old Tunisian man who had returned from Italy.
Former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Chief Executive Officer of Bioresources Institute of Nigeria, Prof. Maurice Iwu, said a cure for the deadly coronavirus has been discovered by his team. Iwu stated this on Monday at Abuja where he led his team of researchers to brief the Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Ogbonnaya Onu and the Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire. He said that the institute had identified and patented the possible Coronavirus treatment in 2015 and now needs the Federal Government’s support to translate the compound into a drug for the treatment of the…
Saudi Arabia authorities have confirmed the first case of Coronavirus in the Kingdom. According to a report by Saudi Gazette,the infected person citizen who came from Iran via Bahrain. Details later!
A regional minister in Lombardy, the Italian region most affected by the novel coronavirus outbreak, has tested positive for the virus. The Lombardy region said in a statement on Monday that the contagion concerns Alessandro Mattinzoli, 60, who serves as Commissioner for Economic Development. The Lombardy region said in a statement on Monday that the contagion concerns Alessandro Mattinzoli, 60, who serves as Commissioner for Economic Development. Earlier, Lombardy President, Attilio Fontana, said he would self-quarantine after a member of his staff tested positive for the virus. NAN