Covid-19: Usain Bolt quarantines after virus test as global deaths pass 800,000

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World’s fastest man, sprint king Usain Bolt, has announced Monday that he is self-quarantining after being tested for COVID-19, as countries around the world again tightened lockdown measures. Bolt, who did not confirm if he had received a result, spoke as governments around the world are tightening lockdowns once more, with well over 24 million people infected globally, 800,000 killed, and a vaccine still elusive. His announcement also came as researchers in Hong Kong identified what they said was the first confirmed case worldwide of COVID-19 reinfection, raising questions about…

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Boko Haram: Mailafia declines police invitation, secures injunction

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Dr Obadiah Mailafia, former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, on Monday failed to honour the invitation by the police in Abuja. Mailafia’s lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, who addressed a press conference in Jos on Monday, faulted the police invitation, saying he “find the service of the letter of invitation on Dr Mailafia by the Nigerian Police Force through the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Criminal Investigation Department, strange and alien to our extant laws and procedure.” The police had last week invited  Mailafia to appear at the…

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Lagos commissioner for health contracts COVID-19

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Prof. Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Commissioner for Health has contacted the coronavirus. Commissioner for Information, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, in a statement, said there is no big deal about the COVID-19 status of the state Commissioner for Health. Omotosho said he was not aware if Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu would go for another COVID-19 test. He said, “Apparently, he (the governor) does not see it as a direct issue of concern; this is not the first time someone who works with him will contract COVID-19. This should not be any big deal;…

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Court sentenced lovers to community service after faking kidnap

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A lady, Mary Idris, 20 and her loverboy, Victor Olawusi, 18 have been sentenced to two weeks community service by a chief magistrate court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State for faking kidnap. The chief magistrate, Adefunke Anoma, sentencing Olawusi and Idris on Monday, directed the Ekiti State judiciary’s chief security officer to supervise them during the service. Anoma also recommended counseling exercise for two weeks for the two convicts, to be supervised by the court’s Registrar. The police prosecutor, Monica Ikebulo, told the court that on August 9, 2020,…

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FG: International flight operators that board COVID-19 patient will pay $3,500 fine

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Dr. Sani Aliyu, the National Coordinator of the Taskforce on COVID-19 has warned all international flight operators that any airline that boards COVID-19 patient will be made to pay a fine of $3,500. Aliyu said this during a briefing of the Taskforce that, for the international flights, there would be an additional 10, 000 tests to be conducted daily. “All travellers coming into the country will continue to observe the old quarantine protocol that we currently have. We will be continuing with the process of requesting for a negative PCR…

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“Why we don’t want Gov. El Rufai as speaker at NBA Conference”

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A petition believed to have been signed by Silas Joseph Onu Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, Ph.D., one of the Conveners of the Nigerian Bar Association’s 2020 conference reads: REQUEST TO WITHDRAW THE OFFER OF PLATFORM AT THE 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION TO MALLAM NASIR EL-RUFAI We are a collective of lawyers enrolled to practice in Nigeria and have duly subscribed for our Practicing Fees in 2020. We have learnt that the TCCP under your leadership has chosen to invite Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State,…

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Elderman Nathaniel Folarin Coker For Burial 28 August

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The remains of the late Baba Eto of Lagos, Chief Nathaniel Folarin Coker, who died on 12th August, 2020 at the age of 97 would be committed to mother earth on Friday 28th August, 2020 at 11am. According to the burial arrangements released on behalf of the family by his son, Folorunsho Folarin-Coker, the Christian wake keep for the late Barrister, Pioneer Lagos State Civil Servant, Public Servant, Educationist and Patriot to the core will hold on Thursday 27th August by 4:30pm. All obsequies are scheduled to be streamed live…

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Bayern Munich wins Champions League 6th time

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Bayern Munich won the European Cup for the sixth time on Sunday as Kingsley Coman’s goal gave them a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in an engrossing Champions League final in Lisbon, completing a fantastic season for the German giants and leaving their opponents still searching for the trophy they covet more than anything. It was often a dicey final between the teams before Coman appeared at the back post to head in Joshua Kimmich’s inviting 59th-minute cross and wrap up a treble for a team who had already won…

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Suspected serial killer re-arrested

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Suspected serial killer, Sunday Shodipe based in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Sunday Shodipe, has been re-arrested by members of the Nigerian Police, after he escaped from custody. The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, commended the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, and his team for re-arresting the suspect. The IG also warned the state police command against complacency in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba. The statement read partly, “The Nigeria Police Force, Oyo State Police Command, has re-arrested the notorious…

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Woman dumps newborn in toilet for being a boy

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‌ Franca Udokwu, a 30-year-old woman from Ogidi, in the Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State has been arrested by the police on Saturday for allegedly throwing her newborn baby boy into the toilet. A resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said she had been complaining to some people that she did not like the sex of her baby. “I learnt she went for a scan some weeks ago and was told that her baby was a boy; whereas, she was expecting a baby girl. “Those close to…

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