President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the death of retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Adolphus Karibi-Whyte. Justice Karibi-Whyte died on Friday at the age of 88 years in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The President, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, noted that Justice Karibi-Whyte served Nigeria with his wisdom, knowledge and experience all through his life as a scholar and a law man. President Buhari, while commiserating with the family of the deceased, the government and people of Rivers State, as well as his professional colleagues, commended his legacies to…
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LAST week, I focused on the media and Post-COVID-19 realities for the obvious reasons of being a journalist and a stakeholder very concerned about the survival of our industry. It’s indeed a trying time for the media sector, which though plays a crucial role in the development of any society, does not get as much support and understanding from those who should be interested in how well we are doing. With the economic the situation in the country, further complicated by the Coronavirus pandemic, many media organizations are barely surviving and there is no guarantee of how long they can…
GIVEN that Nigeria had not been exposed to this magnitude of disablement by a pandemic till now, it is not surprising that many unexpected hiccups had occurred in the management of the lockdown by the police. Hence, not many people were surprised when the police mistook terrorizing citizens as indispensable to keeping order during lockdown. But the new report after six weeks of lockdown of police harassment of frontline medical workers in Lagos is one matter that should not have happened, not after reports by human rights groups of unnecessary violation of human rights in the guise of enforcing lockdown…
Following the shrinking fiscal space that resulted from the outbreak of Covid-19, the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has said African governments would need about $154 billion to close the fiscal gap created by the pandemic this year. Adesina, who was Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, has equally disclosed that the debt stock of all African countries would rise from $1.8 trillion in 2019 to $2.1 trillion by the end of 2020, amounting to 16.66% increase. The ADB president reeled off these figures during an interview with Ms.…
The federal government is actively considering models to gradually reopen the economy following the easing of lockdown and closure of businesses in the last eight weeks. This comes after the submission of a proposal to reopen the economy to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and her counterpart in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo. The proposal consists of different options and models to reopen the economy, we learnt. Our checks also revealed among others, the federal government believes that Nigeria should be prepared to deal with Covid-19…
Amid the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed thousands of lives worldwide, crippled businesses, and caused massive disruption to daily living, including religious worship, with the closure of mosques and churches, the Islamic faithful will quietly offer prayers and supplications today to celebrate this year’s Eid-el-fitr. Also called the “Festival of Breaking the Fast”, Eid-el-fitr marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting in the holy month of Ramadan. Today’s celebration would be devoid of the fanfare, fellowship, and ceremonial visits usually associated with Eid-el-fitr. This is due to the social/physical distancing and other containment measures introduced by governments…
Have you heard any of these statements before? They did not even give me any medication yet they said I had COVID-19. What they treated me for was malaria. Patients at isolation centres in Nigeria are eating, drinking and dancing while patients in other countries are on ventilators. If indeed there is coronavirus disease in Nigeria, how come the death toll is so low? As soon as they say they have discharged 20 patients, they announce 20 new cases. Is this not a ploy by government officials to steal money? And so on. Today, I will tease out some easy-to-use…
President Trump on Friday announced that houses of worship would now be considered “essential services”. He noted that the new Centers for Disease Control guidance will classify houses of worship as “essential,” as he called on governors to allow them to open “right now” after being closed during the coronavirus lockdowns in the US. Trump announced the policy for churches, synagogues and mosques, during a short briefing at the White House – adding that he would “override” the governors if they refuse to do so. “The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places…
Two persons suspected to be COVID-19 positive have been reported dead in Calabar, Cross River State capital. One patient, a nurse reportedly died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) while the other died at an undisclosed location in Calabar South local government area. DAILY POST gathered that the nurse who was a staff of the UCTH, presented symptoms of COVID 19 on Wednesday in the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital. A Medical Doctor who pleaded anonymity said he was attending a training workshop organized by the Cross River State Government in the Management of COVID-19 when…
Nigeria has recorded a breakthrough in the battle against coronavirus. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has successfully validated the first phase of the viral Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) extraction which would enable local production of cheap testing kits for COVID-19. On Thursday, the validation occurred in the laboratory of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) in Abuja. Prof. Alex Akpa, NABDA Director-General, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the success was important to the African continent. He said the development “shall enable us to massively produce test kits so that more people would be tested for COVID-19,…