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Post Date : July 27, 2021

Secondary school pupil drowns in Kwara River

A junior secondary school pupil in Ilorin, Kwara State drowned yesterday in Gbagba River in the capital city. The deceased, whose identity could not be ascertained as at press time, was said to have gone to the river with his friends to swim. An eyewitness account said other students fled immediately after they discovered that their friend had drowned. A witness, who identified himself as Mutiu said: “We saw no fewer than six of the Gbagba Secondary School students at the river; suddenly we heard loud screaming, upon rushing down, we discovered that one of the students had drowned in the river. “Before we could rescue him, he had already died and we saw wounds on his head which suggested that the deceased hit his head against the rock.” Kwara Police spokesman, Ajayi Okasanmi could not confirm the incident even as he said that someone called to inform him about the incident in the afternoon. According to him, no official report had been made on the incident. He, however, promised that the police will get to the root of the unfortunate incident.

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

CBN retains benchmark interest rate at 11.5%

retain the monetary policy rate (MPR) at 11.5 percent. At its last meeting, the committee members also voted to retain MPR at 11.5 percent – the rate it had been since September 2020. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the apex bank, announced the committee’s decision on Tuesday at the end of a two-day meeting at the CBN headquarters in Abuja. “The MPC made the decision to hold all policy parameters constant. Committee thus decided by a unanimous vote to retain monetary policy rate at 11.5%,” Emefiele said. “MPC voted to retain asymmetric corridor +100 -700 basis points. It also voted to retain cash reserve ratio at 27.5% and retain liquidity ratio at 30%.” The action of the CBN monetary policy committee is in line with the recommendation of the IMF. In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) released on Tuesday, IMF advised central banks to look through transitory inflation pressures and avoid tightening until there is more clarity on underlying price dynamics. “Clear communication from central banks on the outlook for monetary policy will be key to shaping inflation expectations and safeguarding against premature tightening of financial conditions,” IMF said. The Washington-based institution projected growth of 2.5 percent for Nigeria in 2021 on the slow rollout of vaccines.

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

Passengers Who Abscond From Quarantine Risk Prosecution, FG Warns

File photo of passengers at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja following the resumption of international flights on September 7, 2020. Photo: Sodiq Adelakun/ Channels Television. The Federal Government has vowed to sanction returning passengers who abscond from quarantine facilities, including possible prosecution of such individuals. Addressing a news conference in Abuja, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, believed such persons constitute a major risk to the country’s health system. He raised concerns over reports from port health officials that some passengers from high risks countries have continued to abscond from facilities where they were quarantined. “The Federal Ministry of Health Point of Entry (PoE) pillar of the COVID-19 response has been continuously monitoring passenger arrivals especially from high-risk countries like India, Turkey, and Brazil. “This process has been an arduous one given that port health staff have continued to report a trend of abscondment by quarantined passengers, an act detrimental to our pandemic response and public health safety,” the minister said on Monday. He added, “I entreat all persons to comply with our port health staff or risk facing sanctions, including prosecution. Non-compliance with their directives constitutes a risk to national health security and will be handled with commensurate severity.” Osagie noted that the world has witnessed an increase in reported cases of COVID-19 across a significant number of countries, due to the high transmissibility of the Delta Variant. He explained that the threat included importation from countries that were popular travel destinations for Nigerians, including the United Kingdom, United States, UAE, France, and Turkey, which have a high incidence of the virulent strain. Push For Vaccine Sufficiency The minister decried that COVID-19 treatment bed occupancy was also recording an increase given the established emergence of a third wave. In preparation, he hinted that the government has taken steps to urgently scale up and enhance local oxygen capacity even before oxygen consumption increases. According to Osagie, Nigeria is a well-traversed country and is susceptible to further importation of the virus, especially when there is clear evidence that the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has begun across the African continent. “Nigeria is at increased risk if we continue to neglect public health protocols placed at points of entry, which are our first line of defence and a critical point of concern,” he warned. The minister stated that Nigeria has invested directly and strategically in ensuring oxygen availability to avert unforeseen incidence of oxygen insufficiency for COVID-19 patients in the country. On the push for COVID-19 vaccine sufficiency, he said the country was expecting over 29 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines purchased by the government through the African Union AVATT facility; as well as over four million Moderna and almost 700,000 AstraZeneca vaccines through the COVAX facility from bilateral donations from the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom, with Pfizer and Sinopharm from both bilateral agreements and through the COVAX facility. “Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is a one-dose vaccine, will be advantageous for our context with weak Civil Registration Vital Statistics (CRVS) and a nomadic population. “We expect to take delivery of these vaccines within this third quarter with the Johnson & Johnson expected this August,” Osagie hinted.

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

BBNaija S6: Whitemoney speaks on ‘spraying’ money, cites Obi Cubana

Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye housemate, Whitemoney, has spoken on the culture of ‘spraying’ money, mentioning Obi Cubana in his explanation. Recall that Chairman of Cubana Group, Obinna Iyiegbu popularly known as Obi Cubana, broke the internet days ago due to the money rain on his mother’s burial in Oba town, Anambra State. In a discussion with some of the housemates, monitored by our correspondent, Whitemoney explained why Igbo people show off their wealth in their hometown rather than in Lagos. The conversation ensued when Whitemoney said that he cannot spray money in Lagos. He explained further, “I’m speaking for the Igbo clan; majority of the Igbo do not spend money where they hustle for money. “I’m hustling in Lagos, I won’t be balling in Lagos. If you want to know my worth, follow me to my village. An Igbo man can be living in a flat here and pay rent to landlord but he has a mansion worth billions in his home town.” In contribution, Princess said, “People that have built such mansions have probably helped a lot of their villagers and sponsored a lot of people.” Whitemoney went on to mention Igbo men that have mansions in their hometown citing Obi Cubana and the Chairman of Five Star Group, Emeka Okonkwo aka E-Money. He described E-money’s house as “Heaven that fell down and stayed in one part of Earth”. He added, “Cross (another housemate) is from Oba. If you go to Obi Cubana’s house, it’s the same thing. They are plenty”

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

JAMB withdraws result of candidates for impersonation

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the result of one Attama Lawrence Ikedichukwu for acts bordering on impersonation in the just-concluded 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja, said Investigations revealed that Mr. Lawrence had hired a professional examination taker to sit the examination on his behalf. However, his luck ran out when the Board’s post-examination processes discovered that the candidate had been impersonated in the course of the examination. “On further scrutiny, other hidden dimensions to the case were also unravelled which the candidate had admitted to in the course of perpetrating the fraudulent act,” Benjamin said. “Following Management’s consideration and approval of the recommendations of the investigators, the result of Mr. Attama Lawrence Ikedichukwu, whose examination was taken on his behalf at the University of Nigeria, MTN Library, Nsukka, Enugu State, on Tuesday, 22nd June, 2021, during the second session of the examination for that day, has been withdrawn.” According to him, no result obtained through fraudulent means would be allowed to stand. “It should be noted that the cancellation is in line with the Board’s policy of cancelling any result fraudulently obtained by any candidate even when such had been released. In addition, the perpetrator(s) will be handed over to relevant agencies for the prosecution to serve as a deterrent to other would-be infractors,” Benjamin said. “The Board wishes to remind candidates and the general public that it would painstakingly scrutinise the entire examination processes with the proviso that the results obtained through fraudulent means would be withheld and after thorough investigation, cancelled as the case may be.” Benjamin added that “In the meantime, the Board is engaged in the viewing and assessment of all CCTV footages of the examination as well as the adequacy or otherwise of the security measures put in place to forestall examination infractions. “The Board warned that the above-stated case might just be the first of the many that would be unearthed in the course of the review as many more infractions might yet come to light. Already, a top security officer who had facilitated the forgery of the Board’s admission letter is being investigated for possible culpability and subsequent prosecution,” Benjamin said.

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

Malawi President cites ‘poor internet connection’ as reason for attending conference in UK

Controversy has trailed the comments made by Lazarus Chakwera, the president of Malawi, moments before he travelled to the United Kingdom (UK) to attend the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. Although organisers of the summit allowed a small in-person event in London, the Malawian president cited “unreliable internet connection” in his country as the reason he is embarking on the trip. The conference, according to organisers, is a largely virtual summit scheduled to take off on July 28. Details on its website shows that: “The summit runs over 2 days, starting at 14:00 BST on July 28. Four thematic sessions run concurrently on our virtual program, each with an exciting roster of speakers. “On July 29, the hybrid summit – live in London and virtual starts at 10:00 BST,” the organisation said. Mr Chakwera, however, blamed poor internet connection as the reason he is attending the conference physically. “Even though the said summit is virtual, the president needs to be in the UK physically as you know internet connection in Malawi is not reliable,” Malawi’s presidential spokesperson told local journalists. The Malawian president is said to have arrived London in the early hours of Monday with his wife and daughter as part of a 10-person entourage to attend the summit. The UK rejected Malawi’s proposed 61-person entourage to participate in the summit. Mr Chakwera’s delegation, according to Malawi Times, included his wife, First Lady Monica Chakwera; daughter Violet Lillie and the President’s son-in-law Sean Kampondeni, who is State House director of communications. He said that he needed his daughter there because she would provide physical and emotional support during the trip as the First Lady was reportedly not feeling well. The president’s reason for embarking on the journey sparked outrage in Malawi and some critics accused him of “nepotism and hypocrisy.” TEXEM The summit, which will be co-hosted by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders. Nigeria’s president Buhari is among the leaders scheduled for the in-person event in London. Mr Buhari has already travelled to the UK two days before the conference commences. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, said Mr Buhari will also hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson after participating in the conference. Deliberations at the Summit will focus on: The Power of Education –A Conversation between Global Champions; Transforming Education for Girls; Financing for Impact and Recovery and; What Now? Priorities for Transforming Education in the Coming Five Years, among others. The Nigerian leader will remain in the UK for about a week after the summit for ‘medical check-up,’ his office said.

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

529 Deaths in Three Weeks — Nigeria’s Cholera Crisis Worsening

Nigeria has entered a cholera season as the number of deaths hit 529 across different states, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced. A cholera situation report published by the NCDC on its website on Tuesday stated that at least 16 states reported 14,343 suspected cases, 325 of which resulted in deaths. According to the report, some of the states are Bayelsa, Benue, Kogi, Sokoto, Gombe, Delta, Cross River, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Bauchi, Kaduna, Zamfara, Kano, Niger and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. As of July 26, 2021, the cholera death toll in Nigeria increased by over 61 per cent. In the last three weeks, the total number of deaths moved from 325 to 529. According to the report, most of the fatalities were recorded in Kaduna, Jigawa, Bauchi and Abuja. For instance, deaths in Abuja increased from two to 60 in just three weeks, Kaduna moved from five to 33 deaths, while Jigawa reported a fresh death toll of 30. Bayelsa reported 25 deaths, Benue 12, Kogi 4, Sokoto 86, Gombe one, Kebbi 1, Nasarawa 17, Plateau 21, Bauchi 42, Kano 123, Niger 10. The NCDC also reported that Nigeria has a shortage of cholera vaccines, with the agency promising to “work with relevant partners across the globe to secure vaccines”. As of July 26, only Bauchi State had access to the cholera vaccine donated by the World Health Organisation. F.I.J

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

BREAKING: New charges levelled against Igboho in Benin Republic

Ibrahim Salami, one of the lawyers representing Sunday Adeyemo, Yoruba Nation activist better known as Sunday Igboho, says a new charge was brought up against his client on Monday. Salami said Igboho came to Benin through a back channel and the judge said he might have had some criminal association while in Benin, calling for further investigation on his entrance and stay in the country. The lawyer said there were nine lawyers who represented Igboho at the Beninese court, and they were all shocked to see how the case turned out. In an interview with the BBC, Salami said if Igboho wanted to cause problems in Benin, he would have stayed longer in the country, but he was willing to leave the country less than 24 hours after coming to Benin. He said the court eventually ruled that Igboho be held in a Beninese prison until the investigation is concluded. A final judgement has not been made by the Beninese court sitting in Cotonou, but the lawyers are now seeking to bail Igboho pending the investigation. He said the case started with fighting off extradition to Nigeria, but ended as a case of Sunday Adeyemo versus the Benin Republic. More to follow…

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

BBNaija S6: Fans predict love triangles among housemates

As the action in the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye season is now in full swing, fans begin to predict love triangles among the housemates. Love triangle refers to a relationship involving three persons. It implies that each of the three people has some kind of romantic relationship with the other two. The fans took to Twitter to give their predictions, based on the actions of the housemates and their revelations during the first diary session held on Monday. The recent cuddling situation between Angel and Sammie also sparked love traingle predictions from fans. A tweep, @emekamba01, said, “Sammie is doing well in this house. Baba done dey form love triangle in day two.” Another tweep, @oluwabhayor, tweeted, “Sammy wants Angel while Saskay wants Sammy. Wahala for shine ya eye.” Referring to the diary session, @mule_the heiress said, “Sammy said he is vibing with Angel. Saskay said she is vibing with Sammy. Potential love triangles #Diarysession.” @muna_lovs wrote, “Peace said Sammy is interested in her too? Sorry sis, Angel has taken over. Asides the Angel-Sammy saga, these are other predictions from fans concerning potential love traingles among the housemates: “Love triangle Boma, Jackie B and Angel. I said it first”, @kaee84 tweeted. @onyekachiki wrote, “There will be a love triangle between Cross, Maria, and White Lion.” “Yousef, Maria and Nini; they better end up in a love triangle,” @leeannep10 said. In agreement, @Dj_synergy, wrote, “Maria, Nini and Yousef… the love triangle is complete. Zeeworld way” “Yousef will be in a love triangle. He’s a bad boy,” @fummybae tweeted. “Saga will end up in a love triangle,” @pagnaah predicted.

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Post Date : July 27, 2021

BBNaija S6: Peace emerges first Head of House

Peace has emerged as the first Head of House for the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye season. She was made the HOH after winning the Head of House games on Monday evening. With this new position, she is free from eviction, gets to stay in the Head of House room, and choose a deputy to assist her in her roles. After her announcement as the Head of House, Peace chose Yousef as her deputy. The Head of House games, which used to be played for 90 seconds, was reduced to 70 seconds this season. Each housemate was given 70 seconds to finish the course of the board game, where they have to throw a dice and start the game once the dice reveals number 6. The aim of this game of luck is to get the farthest within the time limit. The housemate who finishes the course, or goes the farthest, wins and becomes the Head of House. The first housemate to start the Head of House game was Yerins, who didn’t make it far into the game. However, Peace was able to go the farthest, earning her the title of the very first Head of House for the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eye season.

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