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The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has warned Nigerians to take responsibility in the next phase of the lockdown relaxation. Ehanire stated this on Tuesday, while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 daily briefing. The Minister emphasised the importance of adhering strictly to all health protocols, so that COVID-19 “does not spike or bounce off, as it has been observed in many countries where lockdown was relaxed.” On Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari  lifted the ban on religious gatherings  and announced new curfew time. Buhari also approved  new working hours for civil servants  and banks. Nigeria currently has 10,578 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Source: https://dailypost.ng/2020/06/02/covid-19-fg-warns-nigerians-about-next-phase-of-eased-lockdown/ share this story with friends:

Fishermen chat while they meet halfway on a pier as they offload crates towards inland ahead of a cyclonic storm that may hit the North Maharashtra and Gujarat coast, at the Madh fishing village, in the north-western coast of Mumbai on June 2, 2020. INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP At least 100,000 people, including some coronavirus patients, were being moved to safer locations according to officials Tuesday, as India’s west coast braced for a cyclone, the first such storm to threaten Mumbai in more than 70 years. Authorities in India’s financial capital, which is struggling to contain the pandemic, evacuated nearly 150 COVID-19 patients from a recently built field hospital to a facility with a concrete roof as a precautionary measure, officials said. The chief minister of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said people living in flimsy homes near the shore were being moved to safer places before Cyclone Nisarga makes its scheduled landfall on Wednesday afternoon or evening. “Sl...

President Buhari President  Muhammadu Buhari  has taken to Twitter to react to rape and murder of late UNIBEN student, Uwa Omozuwa. Buhari, in his tweet, sent his deepest condolences to the family of the deceased and he assured that the perpetrators of the evil act will be brought to justice. In his words; “I would like to offer my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Uwaila Omozuwa. I expect the Nigeria Police Force to speedily and diligently investigate this case and ensure that all the culprits responsible for this barbaric act are brought to justice.“ Read Also:  Death Of Vera Uwaila: IGP Directs Force-CID To Take Over Investigations See his tweet below: I would like to offer my deepest condolences to the family and friends of Uwaila Omozuwa. I expect the Nigeria Police Force to speedily and diligently investigate this case and ensure that all the culprits responsible for this barbaric act are brought to justice. — Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) June 2, 2020 ...

The gentle criticism highlights growing concern in the GOP about the president's inflammatory response to the unrest across the country. Sen. Ben Sasse said he is "against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop." | Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images Senate Republicans offered rare criticism of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after protesters outside the White House were cleared out with tear gas the day before so the president could pose for photos in front of a historic church. "It was painful to watch peaceful protesters be subjected to tear gas in order for the president to go across the street to a church that I believe he’s attended only once," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). "I thought that the president came across as unsympathetic and as insensitive to the rights of people to peaceful protest." “ There is a fundamental — a constitutional — right to protest, and I’m against clearing out a...

By George Smith 20:15, 2 JUN 2020 Ross Barkley (on the ball) is sporting a new look. (Photo by Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images) look. (Photo by Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images) Chelsea have stepped up their preparations for the Premier League's return later this month by being allowed to start contact training. The Blues returned to their Cobham training base almost a fortnight ago as they were granted permission to start training again following the coronavirus shutdown. Initially, players were forced to train in a group of no more than five people and maintain the strict social distancing rules that have been set out by the Government. But following the Premier League's announcement about the campaign getting back under way on June 17, training sessions have been allowed to become just that little bit more intensive, with contact training now allowed, meaning Frank Lampard now has a much greater sense of what sort of state his players are in, both fitness wi...

By Peter Duru All progressives Congress, APC, stalwart and former Benue state Focal Person of the National Social Investment Programme, Mr. Terhide Utaan has tendered a public apology to Governor Samuel Ortom and asked for forgiveness over his alleged uncharitable public utterances and conduct against the Governor in the build to the 2019 general elections. The APC House of Representatives candidate for Makurdi/Guma federal constituency in the last general election had in the days before the National Assembly election in 2019 granted a press briefing where he allegedly made comments that slighted the governor who is his close relation. In an open letter of apology dated May 26, 2020 addressed to the Governor and seen by Vanguard, Mr. Utaan regretted his conduct and promised not to repeat such in the future. Part of the letter read, “sequel to our meeting penultimate Sunday whence you expressed very strong reservations about my conduct while serving in your government and the circumstan...