The Nation Newspaper Today Headline Thursday 30th April 2020
The Nation Newspaper Today Headline and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 30/04/20
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COVID-19: Police prosecute 20 violators of lockdown order in Ilorin
Agency Reporter An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday convicted 20 violators of the stay-at-home order aimed at containing the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Kwara State Government imposed a total lockdown order on residents as a way of preventing the spread of the pandemic …
Man, 25, dies of COVID-19 related disease in Lagos- Commissioner
Agency Reporter The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has announced another COVID-19 related death, involving a 25-year-old male patient. Abayomi, through his Twitter handle on Thursday, said the deceased at the time of admission at the state isolation facility was in a state of severe breathlessness. “We regret to announce additional …
BREAKING: Former Borno Gov. passes on
From Duku Joel, Maiduguri Former Civilian Governor of Borno, Mohammed Goni has passed on. Gov. Goni according to some impeccable sources died Wednesday night at a private hospital in Maiduguri after a brief illness. He served as governor of the state during the Second Republic, between 1979 to 1983. There is no official statement …
China says it has no interest in meddling in U.S. election
China has no interest in interfering in the U.S. presidential election, it said on Thursday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Beijing would try to make him lose his re-election bid in November. “The U.S. presidential election is an internal affair, we have no interest in interfering in it,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman …
COVID-19: Ekiti Assembly to resume plenary May 4
Agency Reporter Ekiti House of Assembly is to resume legislative activities on Monday, May 4, after weeks of indefinite suspension as result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The resumption date is contained in a statement signed by the Chairman, House Committee on Media and Publicity, Mrs Yemisi Ayokunle and made available to newsmen …
Nigeria records 196 new COVID-19 cases as total number of infections now 1,728
Agency Reporter The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Wednesday confirmed 196 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 1,728. The NCDC also said that the virus claimed the lives of 11 patients, bringing the total number of deaths to 51. …
Shell cuts dividend for first time since 1940s as oil demand collapses
Agency Reporter Royal Dutch Shell RDSa cuts its dividend for the first time in 80 years and suspended the next tranche of its share buyback programme following the collapse in global oil demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said this in a statement issued on Thursday in London. “Given …
COVID-19: Katsina slashes 2020 budget by 30 percent
Augustine Okezie, Katsina The Katsina state government have slashed the 2020 budget of N240b by 30 percent in line with the present economic realities presented by the ravaging global pandemic otherwise called COVID-19. The state commissioner of Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Faruk Lawal Jobe told newsmen in Katsina on Thursday at the end …
Lagos records 87 news COVID-19 cases, discharges 49
Lagos State on Thursday confirmed 87 new coronavirus cases. Lagos Commissioner for Health Professor Akin Abayomi made this known in a Tweet. He further said that 49 patients have bee discharged after testing negative for COVID-19 twice. He said “87 new #COVID19 cases were confirmed in Lagos on April 29, 2020. “The good news is …
South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg dies
Denis Goldberg, a veteran of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement who spent more than two decades in prison for resisting racist rule, has died at the age of 87. A Jewish member of the Communist Party, Goldberg was the only white person to be sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 at the famous Rivonia trials, at …
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