Latest News in Nigeria Today Friday 28th February 2020
These are the Latest News in Nigeria Today on Friday 28th February 2020 .
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US professor charged with hiding link to China on NASA-funded project
US authorities on Thursday charged a professor at a university in Tennessee with fraud and false statements, saying he hid his link to a Chinese institution while taking funding from NASA. In the latest case related to US efforts to halt alleged unauthorized technology transfers to China, the Justice Department said Anming Hu hid hisRead More
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FIFA confirms loan restriction from July
FIFA has announced its proposed restrictions on international loan transfers will come into effect in July 2020, pending approval from the FIFA Council. The Football Stakeholders Committee has endorsed the introduction of international loan limits for players aged 22 and over. Clubs will be allowed a maximum of eight in and out from 2020-21, withRead More
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Nigeria confirms coronavirus case, first in sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria on Friday announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa. The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan earlier this week, Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement on Twitter. “The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managedRead More
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Bullets and defiance: Inside Guinea’s opposition stronghold
Mamadou Diallo was meant to meet his best friend to watch the Champions League after evening prayers. Twenty minutes before their rendezvous, he received a phone call. His friend, also called Mamadou, had been shot dead. It was a November evening in 2018 in Wanindara, a northern suburb of Guinea’s capital Conakry and flashpoint for theRead More
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‘No one cares’: Locked-in Wuhan residents adapt to find food
The lockdown of Guo Jing’s neighbourhood in Wuhan –- the city at the heart of China’s new coronavirus epidemic –- came suddenly and without warning. Unable to go out, the 29-year-old is now sealed inside her compound where she has to depend on online group-buying services to get food. “Living for at least another monthRead More
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FIFA reject plans for La Liga and Premier League to stage games abroad
?La Liga and the Premier League have both been dealt a setback in their plans to stage games overseas, after the FIFA voiced their opposition to the idea. Hosting Spanish top flight matches abroad has been the subject of much discussion since the idea was proposed by Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu last year. The ?PremierRead More
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Fleeing the bombs, Syrians set up camp underground
In a field dotted with olive trees in embattled northwestern Syria, Shamseddeen Darra steps down into the gloomy underground shelter he and his family now call home. After fleeing a deadly offensive by government forces on their home region of Idlib, they found nowhere else to go. Beyond rolling hills in the village of Taltuna,Read More
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E2%80%95developer/ Virus game ‘Plague’ app pulled in China ?Developer
A popular game that allows players to create a virus and spread it worldwide has been pulled from Apple’s App Store in China, its developer said, as the country battles a real-life epidemic. Users based in China could not download “Plague Inc” on Friday after the cyberspace watchdog ordered its removal over “illegal” content, UK-basedRead More
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E2%81%A0-who/ Beware: Coronavirus can spread through telephone, tables, desks ?— WHO
By Gabriel Olawale World Health Organization has called for the promotion of regular and thorough hand-washing hygiene saying coronavirus (COVID-19) can be contacted when someone infected coughs or exhales. The global health body said that people can contract the virus if droplets of infected fluid fell on nearby surfaces and objects such as desks, tablesRead More
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The ‘double life’ of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel
As the men wearing long black coats approached, Shmuel, a lapsed member of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, lowered his head to avoid being recognised. Like those moving towards him on the Jerusalem sidewalk, Shmuel is part of a community known in Hebrew as Haredi. But Shmuel, who is his late 30s and asked that hisRead More
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