Breaking News in Nigeria Today Thursday 21st May 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Thursday 21st May 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Wike: 60% Rivers’ coronavirus cases are oil workers
… accuses Abuja politicians of plotting state of emergency Governor Nyesom Wike has stated that oil workers coming from rigs have so far contributed 60 per cent to the coronavirus cases recorded in the state. That was even as the state government accused some Abuja based politicians of plotting the imposition of a state of emergeny in the state. Wike, who disclosed this yesterday when the Management Team of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt, recalled that recently, the Nigeria…
EFCC vows to go after ‘smear campaign’ sponsors
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has accused some unnamed politically-exposed persons of sponsoring a “smear campaign” against its Acting Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, through social media platforms. Accordingly, the commission has vowed to deal with the perpetrators of the act, whom it claimed to have identified. A statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Dele Oyewale, read: “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, has been drawn to the antics of some few elements in the social media, employing desperate antics…
Planned school feeding exposes APC govt’s failure –ADC
The African Democratic Congress yesterday said that the plan to feed school children when the schools are not in session has exposed the failure of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government. ADC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yemi Kolapo, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop allocating the nation’s scarce resources to unproductive, resource-draining projects, all in the name of welfare. The party queried the rationale behind such spending at a time temporary increases in spending should be targeted at containing the spread of COVID-19…
ASUU flays Ngige, AGF’s comments on strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday lashed out at the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, describing his statement that lecturers who are currently on strike are sitting at home playing Ludo, as reckless and uncharitable. ASUU expressed this in a release signed by the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator of the Union, Prof. Ade Adejumo, where he said that in a clime of responsible governance and leadership, the government would be making moves to meet the demands of the union to get the strike suspended rather than…
‘How SARS shot my cousin during prayer’
•Family demands victim’s treatment, justice A lady, Fatimah Babashehu Liman, has narrated how officials of the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) shot and abandoned her cousin, Mr. Sadiq Ibrahim Abubakar, to his fate. Liman wrote on her Facebook wall that the SARS men attached to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, on Monday, about 1pm, jumped over the fence and entered her aunt’s house at Gwarinpa, Abuja, and started shooting. She said: “Sadiq was performing ablution for Zuhr prayers and when he sighted one of the officers shooting, he…
Facebook posts: Ebonyi community leaders arrested for cleric’s torture
Police said yesterday they had arrested 10 people in connection with the alleged torture of a 30-yearold cleric, Oko Chukwu Obeni, at Amasiri in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. This came up as the Human Rights Defenders (HURIDE) and the National Human Rights and Commission (NHRC) called for probe of the torture, describing is as inhuman treatment, degrading and obnoxious act. Obeni was said to have made some posts on his Facebook wall against some leaders of the community, including the Chairman of Afikpo North Local Government…
Three kidnappers arrested, eight victims rescued in Niger
Police said yesterday they arrested three kidnappers and rescued eight of their victims in the Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Wasiu Abiodun, paraded the suspects at the Police Headquarters in Minna. Abiodun said the incidents, which occurred at two different locations in the Lapai Local Government Area, left two victims dead. According to him, the police received information on May 10, about midnight that suspected kidnappers had invaded Kpada community in the Lapai Local Government Area. The PPRO said three…
Gombe discharges 91 patients
Gombe State Task Force on COVID-19 said yesterday it discharged 91 patients from its isolation centres after testing negative twice. The Chairman of the task force, Prof. Idris Mohammed, stated this in Gombe while updating journalists on the situation of the pandemic in the state. According to him, the state only has 11 active cases on admission at its isolation centres, while there are 31 other positive cases spread across its communities, yet to be identified and evacuated. The 31 people were among those intercepted at the state entry points,…
Zamfara: Eight doctors test positive, 30 in isolation
Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) said yesterday that eight doctors had tested positive for coronavirus in Zamfara State. The state NMA Vice-Chairman, Dr. Mannir Bature, made the disclosure during an interview with journalists in Gusau, the state capital. He said: “Out of about 80 confirmed cases recorded so far in the state, 10 per cent are doctors who came in contact with the virus in the line of duty while trying to save lives, especially at emergencies. “We are, however, happy to note that out of the number, 60 per cent…
N6m scam: Bureau-de-Change operator bags seven years jail
Justice Mallong Peter of the Federal High Court, Kaduna State yesterday sentenced a man, Sadiq Mustapha, to seven years imprisonment without option of fine. The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna Zonal Office, for obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N6,100,000 and operating an illegal bureau de change. The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said Mustapha was arraigned on December 2, 2019, on a two-count charge, bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and operating a bureau de change without authorisation by…
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