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.
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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.…
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.