Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Thursday 21st May 2020

Sahara Reporters Latest News Today Thursday 21st May 2020

Sahara Reporters Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 21/05/20

BREAKING: Nigeria Records 284 New COVID-19 Cases

Nigeria has recorded 284 new Coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 6677.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control disclosed this in a tweet on Wednesday.
It said, “284 new cases of ‪#COVID19‬; 199 in Lagos, 26 in Rivers, 19 in Oyo, 8 in FCT, 8 in Borno, 7 in Plateau, 6 in Jigawa, 5 in Kano, 2 in Abia, 1 in Ekiti, 1 in Delta, 1 in Kwara and 1 in Taraba.

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“6677 cases of ‪#COVID19‬ in Nigeria, discharged: 1840, deaths: 200.”284 new cases of #COVID19;199-Lagos26-Rivers19-Oyo8-FCT8-Borno7-Plateau6-Jigawa5-Kano2-Abia1-Ekiti1-Delta1-Kwara1-Taraba6677 cases of #COVID19 in NigeriaDischarged: 1840Deaths: 200 pic.twitter.com/awxMgfp7U5— NCDC (@NCDCgov) May 20, 2020

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Governor Wike Alleges Plot To Declare State Of Emergency In Rivers

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The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that there were plans by some persons to cause breakdown of law and order so as to force the declaration of a state of emergency in the state.
In a statement by Paulinus Nsirim, Commissioner for Information and Communications in the state, the Rivers Government alleged that these persons attempted to declare state of emergency in the state since 2015 but did not succeed because of God’s intervention.
The statement said the same persons did everything within their powers to ensure that the 2019 governorship election results were not announced but also failed.

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State

It reads, “These persons whose attempts to declare state of emergency in the state since 2015 have never succeeded because of God’s intervention.
“They did everything within their powers to ensure that the 2019 governorship election results were not announced but also failed.
“As the build up for the 2023 elections and jostle for presidential and vice-presidential tickets is gathering momentum, they want to use COVID-19 to create a crisis as if the state is at war with the Federal Government.
“They have decided to create unnecessary tension as if indigenes of Ahoada, Eleme and Port Harcourt are fighting with Northerners not to carry out their legitimate businesses.
“Throughout this COVID-19 pandemic, states like Enugu, Lagos, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Edo and Kaduna have been intercepting lorries carrying human beings instead of foodstuffs.
“This is the same thing that the Rivers State Government is doing to protect the state from COVID-19.
“Here in Rivers State, instead of supporting our efforts, these Abuja politicians are busy looking for a state of emergency because they want to acquire power.
“We are alarmed at these hideous plots against our state. Rivers State has never fought a war with strangers or neighbours.
“Our fight against COVID-19 is to protect the lives of everyone living and doing business in the state.
“We are aware that some shameless politicians are playing politics with COVID-19.
“After their clandestine meetings, they have voted huge sums of money to entice and recruit gullible persons to carry out their plan.”
“All patriotic Rivers State indigenes are hereby placed on alert to resist the devilish plans of these unpatriotic elements who connive with enemies of the state to cause confusion.”

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Burundians Vote Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Voters check the electoral register posted at a primary school in Cotonou on 17 May 2020

Burundians turned out to vote on Wednesday despite the Coronavirus pandemic that has forced many countries to ban mass gatherings.
The country expelled the World Health Organisation representative in the country and three other officials for criticizing political parties for holding rallies.
The battle is between the ruling party, CNDD-FDD’s, retired army general, Evariste Ndayishimiye, and the main opposition challenger, Agathon Rwasa, as well as five others.

Voters check the electoral register posted at a primary school in Cotonou on 17 May 2020

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“The voting is really taking place smoothly and I voted for change but I am pessimistic about the counting of votes,” a voter, who did not wish to be named, told Reuters.
Chairman of the country’s electoral commission, Pierre Claver Kazihise, called for people to come out and vote peacefully saying, “We call on Burundians to vote in massive numbers and vote peacefully. We need good elections.”
The United Nations and the Africa Union harbour doubts as well, saying they were, “concerned about reports of intimidation and violent clashes between supporters of opposing sides”.
If the election turns out to be uneventful, it would be the first peaceful democratic transition in the Central African territory, according to the news agency.
Not many international observers were allowed to monitor proceedings however, following demands that they be quarantined.
Burundi has recorded 42 positive COVID-19 cases and one death from 633 tests.

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Lagos Discharges 17 COVID-19 Patients

The Lagos State Ministry of Health on Wednesday said 17 COVID-19 patients have been discharged after testing negative twice consecutively.
The ministry disclosed this on its verified Twitter handle, @LSMOH.
It said the discharged patients were six females and 11 males, stating that seven of the affected persons were released from Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, six from LUTH Isolation Centre and four from Gbagada Isolation Centre.

The tweet reads, “17 ‪#COVID19Lagos‬ patients; 6 females and 11 males, all Nigerians have been discharged from our Yaba, Gbagada and LUTH isolation facilities to reunite with the society.
“The patients; 7 from Mainland Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, 6 from LUTH and 4 from Gbagada Isolation Centres were discharged having fully recovered and tested negative to ‪#COVID19‬ in two consecutive readings.”
This brings to 649 the total number of discharged cases in Lagos.
#COVID19Lagos UpdateBreaking! *ï¸âƒ£17 #COVID19Lagos patients; 6 females & 11 males, all Nigerians have been discharged from our Yaba, Gbagada & LUTH Isolation facilities to reunite with the society@jidesanwoolu@followlasg@DigiCommsNG@NCDCgov@WHONigeria@LUTHofficial@WHO pic.twitter.com/KEWGZ8N4dk— LSMOH (@LSMOH) May 20, 2020

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Ondo Doctors Suspend Proposed Strike, Give Government More Time To Clear Outstanding Salaries

Doctors at the University of Medical Science Teaching Hospital in Ondo State have suspended plans to embark on a strike over the non-payment of their salary arrears.The doctors accused the state government of using “divide and rule” tactics by owing some of them three months wages while others were being owned four to six months salaries.
SaharaReporters gathered that the decision to suspend the strike was made known at the end of an “emergency congress” by the doctors on Wednesday.
Shittu Abiola, Acting President of the Association of Resident Doctors in the state, hinted that the state government had met some of their demands hence the decision to call off the planned strike.

Abiola said government had paid them their accumulated arrears for 2019 as part of its readiness to clear all outstanding salaries of doctors.
He said, “Today, we rose from our congress with the following resolutions: That the intended industrial action be suspended for now.
“That our salaries henceforth be made regular and paid as at and when due, with May 2020 salary paid on or before 7th June 2020.
“That the new hazard allowance for health workers (50 per cent of basic salary) be paid at the end of May as promised at the meeting with the Head of Service (HoS) on April 30, 2020.
“Immediate reconciliation and payment of the salaries of the newly employed medical officers who resumed in March but were excluded from March and April remunerations.
“That September 2019 arrears and January 2020 shortfall be paid on or before July 31, 2020.”

APC Deputy Chairman Accuses Party Leadership Of Violating Guidelines Ahead Of Ondo, Edo Primary Elections

Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (North), Lawal Shuaibu, has accused the party’s leadership of flouting guidelines ahead of the governorship primaries in Ondo and Edo states.
Shuaibu disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said the process towards the two elections was shrouded in secrecy, which was in violation of the constitution of the party.

The statement reads, “With regards to Ondo and Edo primary elections, there is already absence of transparency.
“The regulations issued that will guide the processes are already in violation of Article 20 (v) on page 76 of the APC constitution as amended where only the National Executive Committee is the only organ that shall approve such guidelines and regulations which includes the mode of nominating our candidates.
“I am crying for APC inside me!”

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National Human Rights Commission Investigates Killing of UniJos Student By Nigerian Army

The National Human Rights Commission said it had launched an investigation into the gruesome killing of a young University of Jos undergraduate, Rinji Peter Bala, allegedly by security operatives along Zaria Road, Jos, Plateau State.
The Commission described the killing of Rinji as inhuman and a gross violation of his right to life as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended and other international human rights instruments to which Nigeria was a party.
In a statement on Wednesday, Executive Secretary of NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, said he had directed the Jos office of the Commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the killing of the young man with a veiw to bringing the perpetrators to book.

He appealed to the members of the public to remain calm and vowed that all those involved in the destardly act will be fished out and brought book.
The statement reads, “This is in line with the commission’s mandate of monitoring and investigating all alleged cases of human rights violations in the country and seek appropriate redress and remedies for victims.
“At the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown, the NHRC has been working with relevant CSOs and members of the public in monitoring and documenting human rights violations by law enforcement agencies. Between 31st March and 4th May 2020, the commission documented a total of 209 rights violations bordering on extra-judicial killings, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment.”

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“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”
– Frantz Fanon

“On April 29, 1945, Italians found the executed dictator Benito Mussolini strung up like a prosciutto in a Milan square, his mutilated body the proof that his tyranny had ended. Four days earlier, Italian partisans, fighting alone and with Allied forces, had triumphed over the last Nazi German and Italian Fascist strongholds
Italy was not the only country to have an armed anti-Fascist movement during World War Two. Across Europe, Resistance fighters organized to defeat Nazi occupiers and their homegrown collaborators. Yet the Italian Resistance (active September 1943-April 1945) developed in the face of over twenty years of dictatorship. Its moral and political importance for Italians was such that it was deemed the very foundation of the new Republic that rose from the war’s ashes.”
Ruth Ben – Ghiat, a professor of History at New York University in May 2015, had published in Huffpost this rendition of History as it related to the end of a dictator and collaborator with the invaders of Italy. On April 28, 1945, day before, Benito Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, Nicola Bombacci, founder of Italian Communist Party and an ally of Mussolini, and Alessandro Pavolini, a journalist, essayist and lawyer had been captured and shot by partisans near Lake Como. Their bodies were taken to Piazzale Loreto Square in Milan and hung upside down from the roof of an Esso petrol station, located between Corso Buenos Aires and Viale Andrea Doria. Achille Starace was joined to them in the evening of April 29, 1945 after a short trial.

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The way the Fulani hegemonists anchored by Mohammed Buhari under the auspices of All Progressive Congress (APC) are trying to run over other Ethnic Nations in Nigeria through acts of ethnic cleansing using the Nigerian Armed Forces, The Nigeria Police Force, State Security Agencies and other instruments of State as well as tacit support for Fulani herdsmen’s serial acts of murder, rape, arson is not unprecedented in History. It happened before and it is happening again.
It happened under Adolf Hitler in Germany under the auspices of National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI). Just as Mohammadu Buhari and his racist party leaders in APC are planning to use RUGA to create space for Fulanimen that are never autochthonous to any part of Nigeria, Hitler and his NAZI party used “Lebensraum,” a German word meaning “living space” as official policy to invade other lands beginning with Poland on September 1, 1939.
After the occupation of Poland in 1939, in swift successions, Denmark fell in April1940, Norway fell also in April 1940. It was Belgium’s turn in May 1940. Within the same month of May 1940, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France fell to Hitler and Germany. In April 1941, it was the turn of Yugoslavia and Greece respectively. The German invasion and military occupation of Italy was between September 1943 and April 1945,
After the occupation of Aso Rock in 2015 by Fulani hegemonists led by Mohammadu Buhari, coordinated attacks and destruction were visted on ancestral lands of the Tiv, Igala, Jukun, Tangale, Kataf, Terawa, Waja, Kumo, Bolewa, Baju, Bakhulu, Tula, Cham, Lunguda, Dadiya, Banbuka, Karekare, Savawa, Wariawa, Zulawa, Vergam, Ankwei, Angas, Jawara (Jarauci), Birom, Mumuye, Mango, Eggen, Igala and many more.
These have been extended to the Yorùbá homesteads in Kwara, Kogi, Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos States. The Alaigbo have had their own shares in Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia States. The Edo Nation is living in perpetual fear of the Fulaniman protected and enabled by the Nigeria Armed Forces, the Police and the State Security Agencies. The Ijaw Nation has remained in perpetual war waged against them by the Fulaniman and the Nigerian State.
As Hitler and his racist army piled up victories across Europe, creating the so – called “Lebensraum”, the “living space” for the Germans like Buhari is using the Nigeria Armed Forces to create RUGA among other methods, patriotic citizens of the invaded lands began to organize resistance as it has begun, albeit more lackadaisically, across the geographical delineation called Nigeria. The resistance against the Fulani domination of the Yorùbá Nation, and other ethnic Nations in Nigeria has just started. It would blossom in the coming months.
As it happened in Luxembourg and Poland, where the Germanization of institutions, power control centers, frontal cultural wars were unleashed against the owners of the land, it is happening in Yorùbá land too. Our Customs are populated by foreigners in Fulanimen and their Hausa tools. They control our Immigration and allow who they want to cross into our land. They control the Police and the Security Agencies. They are installing Emirs across our Yorùbá Nation.
Their collaborators from the Bourdilon Heights anchored by Bola Ahmed Tinubu and their sentries across Yorùbá Nation are further empowering the Fulani Emirs in our land, giving them the control of our waterways in Lagos State by appointing one of them as Commissioner in charge. They believe that they have the Yorùbá Nation by the jugular. They believe they are not touchable. They believe they could toy with not just our Yorùbá Nation and our people, they are confident they could play numbers with our freedom, our liberty, our destiny. But as it happened in Luxembourg, Poland and elsewhere, their days are numbered.
There was the Greek National Resistance in Greece. The first resistance groups started appearing a few months after the beginning of the occupation of Greece, such as the Grivas Military Organization, founded in June 1941. There was “Freedom”, led by Colonel Dimitrios Psarros, founded in July 1941. Also, “Supreme Committee of Cretan Struggle” (AEAK) was founded in June 1941. With membership of 1.8 million in 1944, the National Liberation Front became prominent.
The Armia Krajowa (AK) or Home Army was the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland. It eventually absorbed most other Polish underground forces. Its allegiance was to the Polish government-in-exile, and it constituted the armed wing of what became known as the “Polish Underground State”. They manufactured their own weapons and increased their reach, going after collaborators and the leaders of Army of occupation.
There was La Résistance in France which consisted of the Gaullist Movement anchored by Charles De Gaulle and National Council of Resistance (CNR) which was a conglomerate of leaders of all separate and fragmented Resistance organizations gathered and coordinated by Jean Moulin. De Gaulle who had opposed his former boss, Marshall Phillippe Petain for collaborating with Adolf Hitler as the head of Vichy Regime, was sentenced for treason in absentia. He escaped to North Africa to raise an Army against the collaborators and the invaders of his fatherland.
In Norway there was Milorg which started out as a small sabotage unit and ended up building a full military force in time for the liberation. There was also Company Linge, a special operations unit that specialized in coastal insertions and combat. Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Resistance work included intelligence gathering, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, espionage, transport of goods imported to the country, release of Norwegian prisoners and escort for citizens fleeing the border to neutral Sweden.
In Yugoslavia we had the royalist Chetniks and the more enduring Partisans who were ideological communists. The first communist military resistance unit, the Sisak Brigade, was established in the Brezovica Forest near Sisak (in today’s Croatia), on 22 June 1941, the day Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was the origin of the group eventually led by Josef Tito that liberated Yugoslavia and ruled it afterwards.
In Luxembourg, there were twelve Resistance Movements recorded by History. The most prominent of them include Lëtzebuerger Scouten (LS), Lëtzeburger Patriote Liga (“Luxembourgish Patriot League”, LPL), PI-Men, Formation des Patriotes indépendants luxembourgeois (“Formation of independent Luxembourgish patriots”) and Lëtzeburger Freihétsbewegong (“Luxembourgish Freedom Movement”, LFB). The activities of the Resistance, as described in a Gestapo report from 1941, consisted of “illegal” meetings, propaganda activities, printing flyers, procuring weapons and explosives, supporting family members of arrested persons, organising illegal emigration and joining other countries’ armed forces
Within Belgium, resistance was fragmented between many separate organizations, divided by region and political stances. The resistance included both men and women from both Walloon and Flemish parts of the country. Aside from sabotage of military infrastructure in the country and assassinations of collaborators, these groups also published large numbers of underground newspapers.
There were three large groups in Belgium: “Groep G” as an example from an organisation which was stimulated by the British sabotage service; “De Partizanen” as the armed branch from the Kommunistische Partij van België (KPB), the communist party and the “Geheime Leger” or secret army as exponent from resistance led by former Belgian military personnel.
The Italian resistance movement, Resistenza italiana or just la Resistenza, is an umbrella term for Italian resistance groups during World War II. It was opposed to the forces of Nazi Germany as well as Nazi Germany’s puppet state local regime, the Italian Social Republic, especially following the German invasion and military occupation of Italy between September 1943 and April 1945, though the resistance to the Fascist Italian government began even prior to World War II. Known as partisans, or partigiani, the brutal conflict they took part in is referred to as the Italian Liberation War (when referring to the part they took in the Italian Campaign against the Nazi Germans and the Axis).
In all these synoptic rendition of resistance movements, it should be clear to all, that in no single situation was there a one hundred percent agreement. A just cause would raise its own soldiers that would fight its battles, regardless of the shenanigans of the champions of the status quo. The conditions of subjugation are catalyst variables to the germination and sustenance of resistance, in whatever format. Nigeria has entered the fray.
This generation, in the words of Frantz Fanon in his book, “The Wretched Of The Earth,” has discovered its own mission, which is to be free and guarantee freedom, liberty as well as self determination for the coming generation. For this generation, there are only two choices in this regard – betray this mission or fulfill it. We, the Káãro Oòjíire, dare not forget that we are the inheritors of a spectacular socio – political engineering that created a democratic monarchy that has bequeathed to the World the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the State but from the hand of God and man himself.
Destination is Oòduà Republic.
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.”. John F. Kennedy, Jan. 20, 1960.
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Bauchi Government Lifts Ban On Religious Gathering To Celebrate Eid-di- Fitri

Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed, has relaxed the ban on religious gatherings to enable Muslims celebrate the annual Eid-di- Fitri.
The ban was put in place since April in order to control the spread of the virus.
Announcing the decision on Wednesday, Mohammed said the relaxation on religious gatherings would be in place for two weeks with certain conditions that religious organisations must follow.

He stressed that religious leaders must ensure strict compliance with the use of face masks by members, provision of hand sanitiser and running water as well as observing physical distancing at worship centres.
“This decision will be taken by you because the total decision of the lockdown was taken by you. We are just suggesting as a government and on behalf of the government, I am suggesting that as from Thursday, we should lift the lockdown, even the one in Katagum, because it has been 10 days and of course the whole state.
“People will go about their normal businesses, pray on Friday and Eid if we agree on context and character so that people will go to Eid, but we will need the support of our royal fathers so that there will be no such celebrations,” he added.
Bauchi has so far recorded 224 cases of COVID-19.

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BREAKING: Inspector-General Of Police, Adamu, Makes U-turn, Exempts Doctors, Journalists, Others From Curfew

The Police Inspector-General (IGP), Mohammed Adamu

Mohammed Adamu, Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, has exempted doctors, journalists, fire fighters among other essential workers from adhering to the curfew put in place to stop the spread of Coronavirus in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT.Adamu had on Tuesday contrary to a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari ordered police commands not to exempt anybody, including workers on essential duties, when enforcing the ban on interstate movements and curfew.His order led to the arrest of more than 50 doctors on Tuesday evening, leading to a sit-at-home action by the doctors to protest their treatment by the police.

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In a series of tweets on Wednesday however, Adamu said all essential service workers will now be exempted from enforcement of the curfew.It reads, “Following unending inquiries on the status of essential workers in respect of the due enforcement of the national curfew and inter-state movement restriction orders emplaced by the Federal Government, it has become necessary to clear all ambiguity on the position of the Nigeria Police Force especially as it relates to persons on essential duties.”The Force wishes to state that it is not oblivious of the sensitive, indispensable, patriotic and frontline role of the nation’s workforce that falls within the category of essential service providers particularly as it relates to efforts to curtail and contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BREAKING: Nigeria Records 284 New COVID-19 Cases

Governor Wike Alleges Plot To Declare State Of Emergency In Rivers

Burundians Vote Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

Lagos Discharges 17 COVID-19 Patients

Ondo Doctors Suspend Proposed Strike, Give Government More Time To Clear Outstanding Salaries

APC Deputy Chairman Accuses Party Leadership Of Violating Guidelines Ahead Of Ondo, Edo Primary Elections

National Human Rights Commission Investigates Killing of UniJos Student By Nigerian Army

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Bauchi Government Lifts Ban On Religious Gathering To Celebrate Eid-di- Fitri

BREAKING: Inspector-General Of Police, Adamu, Makes U-turn, Exempts Doctors, Journalists, Others From Curfew