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EHIME ALEX, Lagos  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has reported 86 new cases of coronavirus, the highest daily report Nigeria has recorded. It also reported that Akwa Ibom and Borno States recorded first deaths of the coronavirus. These reports were made known on its official website as well...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the latest attacks by bandits in Katsina State in three local government areas that left 47 persons dead. The President’s reaction on the incident was contained in a statement by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on Media &...

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo says the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa has risen to over 20,000. The UN’s health agency gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Sunday. “Over 20,000 COVID-19 cases and 1,000 associated deaths...

Britain says it is not considering lifting the lockdown imposed almost four weeks ago to control the coronavirus outbreak given “deeply worrying” increases in the death toll. A senior minister said Sunday according to Reuters’ report. The country is at or near the peak of a health crisis in...

By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (fondly called ‘IBB’), has extolled the virtues of the late Abba Kyari, describing him as a very dedicated, conscientious, forthright, roundly qualified, astute and patriotic servant of Nigeria. Kyari, who was Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu...

From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State has recorded  the first death from a COVID-19  patient who tested positive two weeks ago. The deceased, who is a retired Anesthetic Nurse, died on admission  at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital  (UMTH) on Saturday, making the first COVID-19 death also to be ...

From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria. Mr Edward Kallon, has called for urgent efforts to decongest Internally displaced persons (IDPs) camps in Nigeria in the face of recent fire outbreaks and COVID-19 pandemic. Kallon, who made the call on Sunday, expressed...

Life is a mystery, a bewilderment. From unconsciousness to unconsciousness, from the womb to the grave, one did not know when his own life started, when he entered into the womb; nor when his life will end, when he will enter into the grave. The person you see today,...

TO MY FRIEND, MALLAM ABBA KYARI Mallam Abba Kyari, who died on 17th April, 2020, at the age of 67 from complications caused by the Coronavirus, was a true Nigerian patriot. My loyal friend and compatriot for the last 42 years – and latterly my Chief-of-Staff – he never...

By TOM CHIAHEMEN and DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday received several messages of condolences from foreign and national leaders over the death of Abba Kyari, his late Chief of Staff. The President received telephone calls from President Nana Akuffo-Ado of Ghana and President Muhammadou Youssoufou...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has expressed shock over the death of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, who passed on Friday, April 17, 2020, saying it was a national tragedy. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  Former Military Administrator of old Plateau State, Air Commodore Dan Suleiman (retd) has lost his wife, Marie, who passed on in an Abuja hospital on Tuesday at the age of 75. In a statement to NATIONAL ACCORD on Saturday, the son of the deceased, Mr Daniel...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, as a man of accomplishment whose death due to the raging coronavirus pandemic should not be in vain. Tinubu’s condolence message was contained in a...

There are strong fears that the  fight to eradicate polio from Africa could become an early casualty of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw funding to the World Health Organization, the international body said. Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, hasn’t had a reported case of the virus...

By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, late Mallam Abba Kyari, was buried at the Gudu cemetery in Abuja this morning according to Muslim rites. The remains of Mallam Kyari, had arrived  Airport Abuja from Lagos early in the morning while funeral prayers were held...

EHIME ALEX, Lagos  All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has congratulated a Lagos stalwart of the party, Alhaji Mutiu Are, on his 61st birthday. In a congratulatory letter to Are dated April 17, his birthday, and released by Tinubu’s media office, the APC’s national leader and former Lagos...

By abiodun KOMOLAFE “Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on a hand-to-mouth basis, and for the networks of their dependants. If people cannot eat, they will not obey a lockdown, nor is there any reason, practical or moral, for them to do so.” – Alex Broadbent, ‘Lockdown...

China, on Saturday, ordered that anyone in Wuhan working in certain service-related jobs must take a coronavirus test if they want to leave the city. The order comes after the central city, where the coronavirus emerged late last year, lifted a 70-day lockdown that all but ended the epidemic...

The Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Malam Bashir Ahmed, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, late Abba Kyari, as one of the most misunderstood persons in the history of Nigeria. The Presidency had in the early hours of Saturday announced the death of Abba...

By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with Action Against Hunger (AAH), has  organized a two-day training workshop for journalists on safety Reporting  of COVID-19  pandemic  in healthy emergencies in Borno state . The workshop was the first of its kind to be organized...