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UBA brings Contactless Banking for Customers’ Safety

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The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group has disclosed its preparedness to enhance contactless banking across Africa for the safety of its customers. The bank pointed out that with the coronavirus which necessitates social distancing, there is need to ramp up banking channels that would ensure less physical contact by its customers. The Group Head, Digital Banking, UBA, Mr. Sampson Aneke, revealed this during a virtual media parley which had the Chairman, Mr. Tony Elumelu in attendance. Aneke said the recent upgrade of UBA app offers customers seamless means to…

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COVID-19 is a scam – Professor Cyril Otoohhiaus

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Cyril Otoohhiaus, Professor of Genetics and Animal Breeding, has described the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a scam orchestrated by the Western world to generate trillions of dollars at the detriment of Africans and other parts of the world. The lecturer at Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, stated this yesterday at the Government House, Lokoja, while delivering lecture on the pandemic at the instance of Governor Yahaya Bello. According to him, coronavirus is not a living thing as claimed by the World Health Organisation (WHO).He said the virus was created in…

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Oyakhilome’s TV sanctioned in UK over 5G/COVID-19 claims

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Loveworld Limited, operators of LoveWorld, a religious cable channel, has been sanctioned by the Office of Communications, the regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom, for airing “unsubstantiated claims linking the coronavirus pandemic to 5G technology”. The television network owned by the Founder of Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, was also penalised for feeding viewers with the claim that coronavirus is a ‘global cover-up’. In a statement on Monday published on its website, Ofcom stated that the caution followed an investigation into the matter. The statement read…

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Decision to consider infectious disease bill is in line with Constitution – Reps

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In a statement yesterday by the House of Representatives spokesperson, Benjamin Kalu, Reps insists that the decision to consider the infectious disease bill was in line with the dictates of the 1999 Constitution. The reps expressed dismay over reports by a section of the media that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had ordered the house to suspend consideration of the controversial bill. The house described such report as not only misleading but a wilful or malicious misinterpretation of the decision of the court in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/463/2020 on…

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Lagos Governor gives conditions to reopen churches, mosques, others

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Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Governor of Lagos State, has said government officials will be visiting churches, mosques, companies to evaluate their preparedness to fully reopen. According to him, social distancing and hygiene will be prerequisites to reopening religious places of worship in the state. Sanwo-Olu stated these at a briefing on Sunday after the State Security Council meeting at the Lagos House, Marina. He noted that with the size of the state’s economy and numbers of businesses operating in its domain, the government could not afford to keep people and businesses…

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Shareholders reaping gains of Access Bank post-merger

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Shareholders of Access Bank Plc, have started reaping the gains barely one year of its post-merger with erstwhile Diamond Bank Plc, which has made the Bank to be the largest in the country by total assets as well as largest in Africa by customer base. The stellar financial performance of the Bank in just one year post- merger for the financial year ended December 31, 2019 is a signal of the gains of the synergy towards achieving its five- year strategic objectives. Specifically, Access Bank in the full year of…

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COVID-19: Three Dubai returnees test positive

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Out of the 256 Nigerians recently evacuated from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Nigeria, three have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, stated this on Twitter. “3 of the returnees recently evacuated from Dubai have tested positive for COVID-19 infection following COVID-19 test conducted on them. “Those affected have been admitted to Lagos COVID-19 care centre for appropriate treatment protocols. “LSMOH will continue to adhere strictly to quarantine protocols and enforce necessary precautionary measures so as to contain the spread of COVID-19…

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Nigerian appointed in Sierra Leone as head of Covid-19 Task Force

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A Nigerian, Dr. Laoluwa Adejayan, has been appointed as the head of Covid-19 Task Force in Sierra Leone. Announcing Adejayan’s appointment, the Sierra Leonean authorities said he had been adjudged as the best foreign medical practitioner in the country in recent years. Following the appointment, the Sierra Leonean government increased his salary to $20,000 per month, a 100 per cent increase. Adejayan, a graduate of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, had reportedly served in Bayelsa State after his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) before   transferring his services to the…

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FG halts footing hotel, feeding bills of Nigerian returnees quarantined

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Federal Government has said the second batch of Nigerians that would be evacuated from other countries would pay for their own hotel accommodation and feeding while in quarantine. The Federal Government has been footing the bills for the accommodation and feeding of the batch of over 600 Nigerians evacuated from other countries and currently in quarantine in different hotels in Lagos and Abuja. The spokesman, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, said other returning Nigerians would pay for their own hotel accommodation and feeding while in quarantine. He stated,…

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Diezani’s property donated to Lagos Govt by EFCC as isolation centre

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A property forfeited by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, has been handed over by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday to the Lagos State government for use as an isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. The property consisting of six flats of three bedrooms and a boys’ quarter was forfeited by Allison-Madueke following an order of the Federal High in 2017. Speaking during the handover ceremony, the Lagos Zonal Head of the EFCC, Mohammed Rabo stated that the gesture was part of the commission’s social responsibility efforts…

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