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The Oyo State Government has discharged 15 COVID-19 patients after testing negative twice for the virus. This was disclosed on Saturday by Governor Seyi Makinde, who is also the Chairman of the COVID-19 Task Force. Following this incident, the number of discharged cases in the state stands at 112 while the total number of fatalities in the state is seven. Governor Makinde noted that the COVID-19 confirmation tests carried conducted on 16 persons turned out positive. According to him, the cases are from Ibadan South West (11), Ibadan North West (2), Ido (1), Oluyole (1) and Ibadan North (1) Local Government Areas. Meanwhile, the total number of confirmed cases in Oyo is 334. “Fifteen confirmed COVID-19 cases have received their second NEGATIVE test results and have been discharged. This brings the number of discharged cases in Oyo State to 112. “Also, the COVID-19 confirmation tests for sixteen suspected cases came back POSITIVE. The cases are from Ibadan South West (11), Ibadan North W...

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As other top leagues in Europe are joining the German Bundesliga to resume, France’s Ligue 1 being the only one of Europe’s top five major leagues to cancel its season because of the coronavirus crisis may be embroiled in litigation. President of Lyon’s Olympique Lyonnais club, Jean-Michel Aulas, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of the authority, has decided to seek justice. On Thursday, the 71-year-old officially asked the Council of State, France’s highest administrative court, to overrule Ligue 1’s decision to terminate the current campaign. “It was absurd to call the league off while other leagues reserved the right not to. Germany is already playing again, Spain will next week,” Aulas fumed at the hearing. “It’s the league which took the decision and can take the decision to resume… I’m shocked that we’re here debating whether we can play or not.” Aulas revealed that he has had talks with the European Clubs Association and that “the procedure proposed by UEFA is the ...

By Nwafor Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari is not in charge of Nigeria, said Prof Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, on Thursday. Soyinka was reacting to the letter written to Buhari by the former military governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar(retd), wherein he advised Buhari to change his mode of appointments, noting that his skewed appointments into offices of the Federal Government, favouring some and frustrating others, would bring ruin and destruction to the country. However, this is not the first time Soyinka is condemning Buhari’s actions and administrative modus operandi, since Mr President assumed office in 2015. Recall that the literary giant, had on April 2, 2020, criticised President Buhari’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the president had been conspicuously absent as the virus gained a foothold across the country. More so, Soyinka, had on March 30, 2020, described movement restriction imposed on two states of the federation by President Muhammadu ...

El-Rufai Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has reacted to claims that some state governors are reducing the number of COVID-19 samples sent to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The governor said such claim might be “partly right”. The governor was responding to a tweet by one Jibrin Ibrahim who picked holes in the COVID-19 numbers released by NCDC every evening. Ibrahim insinuated that state governors might be reducing the number of samples sent to NCDC so they can record low numbers and hasten return to normal activities. Source https://www.independent.ng/el-rufai-opens-up-on-fake-covid-19-case-across-nigeria/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

So many people complained of the total lockdown of schools, places of worship and companies throughout the country. Covid-19 cases are growing rapidly day after day in Nigeria. Finally, it was circulated on social media that on July 20, the federal government will reopen Schools across the country. The news about the circulation of schools resuming on July 20 was discredited by the Federal government. The false report states that the Federal Ministry of Education announced on 20th July the reopening date of schools throughout the country. On Thursday evening 4 June, the Ministry of Education issued a clarification that rumours were not credible.  The Department also stated that no official date for school reappointment has yet been set nationally. The ministry promised Nigerians that the progress of the school restart would be properly told in due course.  After the outbreak of the deadline COVID-19 pandemic the Federal Government ordered that all schools in the country be shu...

A 38-year-old man has been arraigned before a Makurdi Chief Magistrate court for allegedly raping his seven-month-old daughter. The father, named Mr. Simon Emeka, is alleged to have raped daughter Prosper Emeka starting from when she was only 3 months old. When the case came up in court on Friday, June 5,  prosecuting police officer, Sergeant Friday Kanshio told the court that on June 1st, 2020, one Ms. Josephine Habba of No. 34 Modern Market Road Makurdi reported the matter at the Nigerian Police Force ‘D’ Division, Makurdi. Kanshio said Habba had complained that on the same date, she went to Jestic Hospital in Makurdi with her daughter for treatment and heard one Mrs Favour Emeka crying and telling a nurse that her seven months old baby girl named Prosper Emeka was raped by her husband, Simon Emeka. It was alleged that the accused had been raping the baby since she was three months old. Kanshio said during police investigation, the suspect was arrested for committing the crime wh...