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President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has been asked to withdraw the posthumous presidential pardon he gave to late Professor Ambrose Alli, first civilian Governor of Bendel State as he lacks moral authority to issue pardons to victims of his then repressive military government. Nigeria’s rights group, the Civil Empowerment & Rule of Law Support Initiative, CERLSI made the demand in …

Even when Nigeria is nowhere close to getting out of the wood in its battle against the novel coronavirus, the nation’s governors appeared to have let down their guards just so soon because of religious considerations, thereby putting the lives of thousands of citizens at risk. Because of the Easter Celebration, a host of Nigerian states have ordered partial or …

Nigeria’s tally of COVID-19 infections on Friday evening increased to 305 from 288 announced on Thursday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According to the new data released by NCDC, 17 new cases were recorded in seven states: Lagos. Katsina, FCT, Niger, Kaduna, Anambra and Ondo. Two states, Anambra and Niger, reported their first confirmed cases of the virus since …

The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, on Friday afternoon, joined other Muslims at the Bauchi central mosque for Jumat prayers, alongside other top government officials. Mr Mohammed arrived the mosque located at the emir’s palace about 24 hours after he tested negative for COVID-19, an ailment that kept him in isolation for more than 14 days. Mr Mohammed, about two …

The worldwide death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 100,000 amid about 1.6 million cases and more than 368,000 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. Italy has registered the highest number of COVID-19 deaths, more than 18,000 as of Friday, while the United States has reported the majority of confirmed infections, nearly half a million. However, the …

The leadership of the House of Representatives has expressed displeasure over the inhuman treatment meted out on some Nigerians by the Chinese authorities in Beijing. The Speaker of the House, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila expressed the displeasure at a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian on Friday in Abuja. Gbajabiamila said that the inhuman treatment on Nigerians in …

Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent cluster of cases linked to the Nigerian community in Guangzhou sparked the alleged discrimination …

 WHO, SGF, NMA, caution against suspending restriction There are strong indications that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), may extend the lockdown order in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory. This came after the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, spoke at Friday’s edition of the committee’s daily …

Google and Apple unveiled a joint initiative Friday to develop a coronavirus smartphone “contact tracing” tool that could potentially alert people when they have crossed paths with an infected person. The move brings together the largest mobile operating systems in an effort to use smartphone location technology to track and potentially contain the global COVID-19 outbreak. The move would allow …

…’We’ll rather die here than return home‘ …as requests for evacuation rise to 2,000 With only a few deaths from coronavirus cases in Nigeria, the country ranks among the nations with the lowest causality figures in the world. But despite the appreciable management of the pandemic in the country, many Nigerians based in badly hit European and American countries have …