Nigerian Police To Pay N15m For Killing Shiite Members
Bilyaminu Abubakar Faska were alleged to have been killed by the police on July 22, 2019 while on a peaceful protest to demand the freedom of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja.
Justice Taiwo also ordered the National Hospital, Abuja, to immediately release the three corpses in its morgue.
While granting reliefs A and C of the applicants, the judge said each of the applicants must be paid N5m as compensation for the killings.
The Inspector-General of Police is the 1st respondent while the medical directors of National Hospital, Abuja, and Asokoro District Hospital are both 2nd respondent in the separate charges.
While the bodies of Shehu, Musa and Faska were alleged to have been deposited at National Hospital, Abuja, the body of a fourth victim, Askari Hassan, was said to have been kept in Asokoro District Hospital.
The applicants, who are said to be brothers of the deceased in the suit, are Ibrahim Abdullahi, Ahmad Musa, Yusuf Faska and Said Haruna respectively.
Covid19: Osun state confirms 10 new cases in 24 hours
The Government of the State of Osun on Sunday confirmed 10 new Covid-19 cases in the State. The new cases are from contact tracing of previous cases in Osogbo and Ilesa. This is even as the government has cautioned residents and citizens against spreading false information, saying contrary to the rumour making the rounds, there were no fresh cases in any of the hospitals in the state. The State’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, made these known through a press statement in Osogbo on Sunday. He revealed that with the latest development, the number of confirmed cases in the State has risen to 116, while the State now has 64 active cases. On the rumour, the Commissioner said: “When our Health workers contracted the virus, we reported it. We treated them and they are now back to their beats. To the best of my knowledge, we do not have any fresh case or cases in any of our hospitals. All confirmed cases are being treated in the state isolation centres. The only case we had in one of our hospitals was that of a patient who later died even before his result came out. “Immediately after the incident, we decontaminated the hospital and the hospital management continued with their operations thereafter. So, I don’t know where the false information about two new cases emanated from. But wherever it came from, I say emphatically that it is false. “We must collectively join hands with the government to contain the spread of the virus. Spreading false information will not aid our fight against the spread of the virus. “With the latest development, the number of our active cases as at today, Sunday , June 28, is 64. We have 116 confirmed cases, out of which the State has successfully treated and discharged 47 patients while five deaths have been recorded,” Dr. Isamotu added.
FG To Begin Process Of Recruiting 774,000 Nigerians Tomorrow
The Federal Govt has commenced the process that will lead to the earlier announced recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians. On Monday, the federal government will inaugurate the various committees in all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The inauguration would be done in Abuja by the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by his spokesman, Olua Davidson. It said the committees would be in charge of “selecting the 1,000 persons per Local Government Area in respect of the Special Public Works Programme of the Federal Government”. The 36 States and FCT committees would have 20 members each. These are the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary (the NDE State Coordinator), Three Reps of Traditional Rulers from the three Senatorial Districts (members), One Rep of the State Governor (member), Market Woman Leader (member). Also to be on the committee are State Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) or a Rep (member), State Chairman of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs or a Rep (member), State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers or a Rep (member). Others are Six Reps from three youth organisations (two each from each of the three Senatorial Districts (one male & one female) – member, One Rep from a recognized Civil Society Organisation (CSO) – (member) and Two Reps from Institutions/Stakeholders representing interests peculiar to that State (members). The statement added in line with COVID-19 guidelines, the Chairmen, Vice-Chairmen and State Coordinators of National Directorate of Employment (NDE) would join the inauguration by virtual means from their different locations.
China lockdown nearly half a million people to contain coronavirus
China has imposed a strict lockdown on nearly half a million people in a province surrounding the capital to contain a new outbreak of COVID-19.
Chinese authorities warned the outbreak was still “severe and complicated.”
After China brought COVID-19 under control, hundreds of people again got infected in Beijing and cases have emerged in neighbouring Hebei province in recent weeks.
Health officials said on Sunday that Anxin county — about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Beijing — would be “fully enclosed and controlled”, the same strict measures imposed at the height of the pandemic in the city of Wuhan earlier this year.
Only one person from each family will be allowed to go out once a day to purchase necessities such as food and medicine, the county’s epidemic prevention task force said in a statement.
The move comes after another 14 cases of the virus were reported in the past 24 hours in Beijing.
This takes the total number of cases to 311 since mid-June, spurring the testing of millions of residents.
The outbreak was first detected in Beijing’s sprawling Xinfadi wholesale food market, which supplies much of the city’s fresh produce, sparking concerns over the safety of the food supply chain.
Nearly a third of the cases so far have been linked to one beef and mutton section in the market, where workers are being made to quarantine for a month, city officials said Sunday.
Businesses in Anxin county had supplied freshwater fish to the Xinfadi market, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Some 12 cases of the novel coronavirus were also found in the county — including 11 linked to Xinfadi, the state-run Global Times reported.
The new cases in Beijing have prompted fears of a resurgence of the virus in China.
The capital has mass-tested wholesale market workers, restaurant workers, residents of medium and high-risk neighbourhoods and delivery couriers over the past two weeks.
At a press conference on Sunday, officials said 8.3 million samples have been collected so far, of which 7.7 million have already been tested.
Testing has now expanded to include all employees of the city’s beauty parlours and hair salons, the Global Times said.
Beijing city official Xu Hejian told reporters Sunday that “the epidemic situation in the capital is severe and complicated,” warning that the city needed to continue tracing the spread of the virus.
City officials have urged people not to leave Beijing, closed schools again and locked down dozens of residential compounds to stamp out the virus
But Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiology expert at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week the new outbreak had been “brought under control”, and officials lifted a weeks-long lockdown imposed on seven Beijing communities on Friday.
The justice ’ s death is coming exactly a week after the state lost the President of the Customary Court of Appeal , Justice Ibrahim Shaibu Atadoga, after a brief illness. The Kogi State Government on its website said Ajanah was born in 1956 to the family of MJ Fari Ajanah in Okene local government area . He studied law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria . Ajanah set up his private firm , Nasiru Ajanah & Co in Okene , where he practised law between 1985 and 1989. He served in various capacities such as chairman , Kabba disturbance tribunal , Kogi , ( 1994); chairman , election petitions tribunal in Adamawa state ( 1998); member of the governing council of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( 1999 and 2006) and chairman , panel on Murtala Mohammed international airport fire incident ( 2000) . Ajanah, whose remains will be buried in Abuja on Sunday , served as chairman , election petitions tribunal in Akwa Ibom state ( 2007) and chairman , election tribunal petitions in Rivers state ( 2008) .
The remains of former Oyo Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi have been laid to rest. He was buried at his Oluyole residence while hundred of associates, friends and supporters were waiting the body at the Senator Ishiaq Abiola Ajimobi Centra Mosque, Oke Ado. A close source to the family confirmed he had been interred. The burial, which was only attended by only his wife, children as well as very close associates, held around 10am. The decoy, the family source added, was to control the massive crowd already awaiting the remains of the corpse as well as allow for easier crowd control. Details shortly…
Poverty Runs In My Generation, I Escaped It By Whiskers – Hushpuppi
Arrested Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass, aka Hushpuppi, said his affluent lifestyle came after he and his family live in abject poverty that claimed the life of his elder sister, who passed away due to typhoid fever. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Police authority in a raid dubbed Fox Hunt 2 carried out on June 10, arrested Hushpuppi and 12 other members of his crew, including Olalekan Ponle, aka Woodberry, for allegedly defrauding 1,926,400 persons from different parts of the world, fraud amounting to 1.6 billion dirham (N168bn) perpetrated by the gang. In a video released on its official Twitter handle on Thursday, the DPF police said a special team had been tracking the suspect and his gang’s activities on social media for about four months. The police said 13 luxury cars, estimated at 35 million dirham (N3.7bn) were recovered from the house, where the suspects were arrested. But explaining his ‘rise to fame’ in a viral video he made in May 2018 when he had a heated exchange of words with acclaimed human rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, who at the time asked the anti-graft body, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to investigate and prosecute the internet socialite’s source of wealth, Hushpuppi detailed his purported journey from poverty to luxury. In the video which lasted for 14 minutes, Hushpuppi recounted how his sister died of typhoid fever in a General Hospital in Lagos because his parents couldn’t afford to pay the hospital fees, adding that poverty had been having a field day in his family, spanning several generations before his parents, who also wallowed in poverty. The arrested socialite has lived outside Nigeria for nearly 10 years and was reported to be living in Malaysia before moving to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he lives in luxury without anyone knowing what he specifically does for a living. Explaining that he was the only one in his generation to escape poverty by whiskers, he said: ‘‘You have to be able to tell me why my parents have to suffer so much and they can’t be proud of N1, 000 that has been given to them by the Federal Government. My mother is from the Niger Delta part of Nigeria where Nigeria’s oil comes from. She has never benefitted one dollar from the Niger Delta, the oil-producing part of Nigeria where she comes from and she is over 60 years old.”
Singer , Peter Okoye, has narrated how he and his wife , daughter as well as two domestic staff tested positive for COVID – 19 and recovered after a few weeks. Making the revelation in a video posted via his Twitter handle on Saturday, Okoye said , ” For the past three weeks, I have been ill and most people didn ’ t even know what was wrong with me . I kept it to myself. It has been three weeks of hell for me and my family. “ I had COVID 19 for about three weeks and it happened to me. “ I was sick and I tested positive. “ It ’ s been hell for this family in this house. Not just me. Even two of my domestic staff. “ After a week, my daughter caught the virus as well. It was sad that when she caught it, the doctor insisted that she has to be self – isolated in her own room but my wife did something very courageous . She said no .
“ I was sick and I was being self -isolated in my guest room . I couldn’ t even see my sick daughter and I was feeling so bad . I felt so bad because I felt that I am the one who actually brought the virus to the house. It was so bad that I had to be calling her on video, checking on her. “ The next day , my wife did something very courageous . She picked our daughter from her room , held her and took her to the master bedroom and she called me and she started crying . I asked her what happened and she said I cannot live this girl alone . I would rather be infected and be with her. “ Five or six days later , my daughter was pronounced negative . When she was pronounced negative , we knew it wasn ’ t going to end there . The next day, Lola became positive. It has been hell but we had a bad experience. “ The reason I came out to say this is to encourage a lot of people concerning this whole social distancing, getting used to sanitising your hands , disinfecting your environment , wearing your face mask , and all that. “ I just want to tell everybody that this COVID 19 is real . Don’ t take it for granted. “ I am happy to announce that my wife , myself , our daughter , and two of our domestic staff all of us are now negative . ”
First vaccinations begin in Africa for COVID-19 trial
Africa’s first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received injections, while officials said the continent of 1.3 billion people cannot be left behind.
The large-scale trial of the vaccine developed at the University of Oxford in Britain is being conducted in South Africa, Britain and Brazil. South Africa has nearly one-third of Africa’s confirmed cases with more than 106,000, including more than 2,100 deaths. The country late Tuesday reported its biggest one-day death toll of 111.
“I feel a little bit scared but I want to know what is going on with this vaccine so that I can tell my friends and others what is going on with the study,” one of the vaccine trial volunteers, Junior Mhlongo, said in Johannesburg.
The African continent now has nearly 325,000 cases as countries loosen restrictions under economic pressure from citizens who say they have to feed their families. Shortages of testing materials and medical supplies remain a problem as Africa could become the world’s next hot spot.
The pandemic was delayed in Africa “but is picking up speed very quickly,” the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief John Nkengasong said Wednesday, with a steep increase in the number of cases and deaths.
“Unless we act now, Africa is at risk of being left behind on the global vaccine,” he warned a continental discussion and urged that local manufacturing and scientific expertise play a key role.
Cameroon, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa all have highly developed clinical trial capabilities, said Salim Abdool Karim, chair of South Africa’s ministerial advisory committee for COVID-19.
Many other sub-Saharan African countries also have clinical trial capacity, said Daniel Bausch, director of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team.
“We’re not only needing but capable of participating” as the world races for a vaccine, South Africa’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
African leaders have been outspoken about the continent being elbowed out in the intense global competition for medical supplies in this pandemic, as well as what the World Health Organization’s Africa chief, Matshidiso Moeti, called the “distortion of the global market for key items.”
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged that the initial supply of any COVID-19 vaccine be deployed where it’s most needed, rather than based on the “ability to pay.”
Tedros also announced that as of this week, all 54 of Africa’s countries now have the lab capacity to test for the coronavirus.
In February, just two African nations could test for the virus. The continent’s first virus case was reported on Feb. 14.
Gov Okowa’s daughter tests positive for Coronavirus
Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Friday, confirmed that one of his daughters tested positive for Coronavirus.
The governor added that he and his wife, Edith, are now self-isolating for the next 14 days.
He disclosed this on his official Instagram page with the caption; ”Earlier today, Edith and I received the news that one of our daughters has tested positive for #COVID19. ”
“Hence, in-line with the laid out procedures, we are both going into isolation for the next 14-days. We will continue to keep you all updated.” he wrote
Delta state currently has 715 confirmed cases of COVID-19
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