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NCDC

The NCDC dropped the ball yesterday, should we all be worried?

Yesterday, the NCDC didn’t release official figures for Coronavirus cases till well after midnight on 20th. Since Nigeria started monitoring the Coronavirus crisis, the NCDC has never missed an update. This anomaly, is cause for worry. Nigerians everywhere have had an eventful weekend. First on Friday, the federal government announced unceremoniously via several of its... Read More

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Abba Kyari, Coronavirus, NCDC

Internally displaced persons

Internally displaced persons still matter during the Coronavirus lock down

There has been much talk about the effect the Coronavirus pandemic and the eventual lock down of basic services it has necessitated will affect the global economy. Already in the United States of America, 22 million people have applied for unemployment benefits, a number that is more than half the entire population of Canada. Things... Read More

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IDP, Internally Displaced Persons

lock down

Nigeria’s lock down has been extended, who will bear the consequences?

At 7pm on Monday, the 14th of April 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari addressed the nation for the second time since the Coronavirus pandemic spread to Nigeria. Both addresses were to announce a preventive measure to slow the spread of the virus within the country. Like other countries across the world, Nigeria has chosen to embrace... Read More

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Lock down, Palliative

Lock down

#Covid19: The lock down will be extended if you people dont learn to behave yourselves

If the rumours are true, the presidency, under advice from the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is considering extending the mandated lock down in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states, the three states in the nation with the highest cases of the Coronavirus. Lagos state is on track... Read More

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PDP

PDP witchhunting Chinese doctors is the kind of idiocy Nigerians have to deal with

Yesterday, a chartered Air Peace flight made a 14 hour journey from Beijing to Lagos. Their precious cargo, 15 Chinese doctors who were at the forefront of China’s fight against the Coronavirus. They were brought to Lagos at the invitation of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and the National Centre For Disease Control (NCDC)... Read More

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China Coronavirus, PDP

These opinions from celebrities are awful you would beg God to send the flood

Who knew that the arrest of Funke Akindele-Bello for breaking social distancing guidelines would send a ripple through the Nigerian celebrity establishment like an earthquake? Akindele-Bello is a national treasure, a comedic sweetheart whom we have watched weather through the trenches of the film industry and become a star, so it’s only natural that people... Read More

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AK Makun, Burna boy, Free Funke Akindele, Funke Akinde-Bello, Nigerian celebrities and their awful opinions, toke makinwa

Atiku

Atiku has strong words for Buhari’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic

In case you haven’t heard, former vice president Atiku Abubakar released an open letter to President Buhari last night. This was a letter everyone should have expected, considering Atiku’s own family was one of the first to be affected by the pandemic. There are conflicting reports on how exactly former vice-president Atiku’s son contracted the... Read More

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atiku abubakar, Open Letter, president buhari

extortion

Extortion at Covid19 checkpoints, is anyone really surprised?

As many Nigerians predicted, the mounted check points deployed by the Nigerian Police Force as a primary measure to ensure Nigerians in Lagos and Abuja adhere to the Covid19 checkpoints have been converted to extortion centres. This is the reality of being Nigerian, having nothing but for fear and disdain for law enforcement agents who... Read More

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Chris Oyakhilome

#Covid19: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome & the gospel of conspiracy theories

Last weekend, a video surfaced on social media of a sermon Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, the general overseer of Nigerian mega church Believers Love World, preaching a sermon about the Coronavirus. However, his sermon wasn’t an exhortation of his congregation or an admonition about social distancing can help flatten the curve and protect the elderly and... Read More

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5G, Chris Oyakhilome, conspiracy theories, Coronavirus

Wild animals

#Covid19: Wild animal consumption was just banned in China, should Nigeria follow suit?

Yesterday, the Chinese city of Shenzen became the first in the People’s Republic to ban wild animal consumption. China is notorious for its consumption of wild animals as part of an exotic cuisine. Like Nigeria, much of this exotic cuisine was introduced into Chinese culture thanks to years of extreme famine and government oppression that... Read More

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Bushmeat, nigeria, Shenzen, wild animals

Ganduje

Ganduje is prepared to flout the law to keep his emirs

After months of deliberations the Federal Courts have ruled in the civil case brought before it about the legitimacy of the chiefdoms of Bichi, Gaya, Rano and Karaye in Kano state. These chiefdoms created by Kano state governor Abdullahi ‘Gandollars’ Ganduje, are considered an attempt to weaken the power of the Kano emirate headed by... Read More

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emir, emirates, Ganduje

Luxury vehicles

Luxury vehicles; that’s where Nigeria’s senate priorities lie during #COVID19

In case you were wondering what stringent measures the Nigerian House of Representatives have initiated in light of the global pandemic that has begun to spread in Nigeria, look no further. They have taken it upon themselves, to go ahead with their plan to purchase 400 luxury vehicles for themselves as ‘official’ cars. Reports from... Read More

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Tecno

Excellent images shot with the TECNO CAMON 12 featured on National Geographic, leading photography magazine

Whether you know photography or not, you must have heard of National Geographic. It’s a leading photography magazine in the world! So how good would a mobile photographic work be to be featured in such a top magazine? Well, that answer is simple. That mobile photographic work has to be TECNO Camon 12 good. And... Read More

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Abba Kyari

Abba Kyari has the coronavirus yet Nigerian politicians refuse to hear word

How did we manage to vote so many incompetent callous people into places of political power. Across the three arms of government, from the executive, judiciary and legislature, the Coronavirus epidemic is proving the Nigerian political elite is callous and heartless, even to themselves. Yesterday it was announced that the Chief of Staff Mallam Abba... Read More

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Abba Kyari, Buhari, Coronavirus, Ikpeazu

Oil Marketer

Should Nigerian oil marketers be punished for hoarding fuel in Corona times?

Last week, the federal government announced, in line with crashing oil prices, that it was lowering the financial peg for fuel prices in the country by N20, bringing it down from N145 to N125. It made logical sense that the government would reduce prices, considering it was spending millions of dollars in subsidies to keep... Read More

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fuel scarcity, nigeria, oil marketers

Coronavirus

Former VP Atiku Abubakar’s son has the Coronavirus, people this is not a drill

Last night, the last person anyone would have expected to be personally affected by the spread of the Coronavirus gave a statement via Twitter. Former vice-president Atiku Abubakar has been one of the country’s foremost statesmen and has been proactive about the Coronavirus pandemic, advising citizens to self-isolate and practice social distancing and pressuring the... Read More

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atiku abubakar, Coronavirus

Coronavirus won’t stop COZA from holding Sunday service, and maybe it’s time to push the panic button?

As the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirms 10 new cases of COVID-19, Nigerians are slowly coming to grips with this newly-hatched global pandemic. Although a little too late, the federal government has shut down international airports (Enugu, Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja and Lagos), effective since midnight and with the exception of ”emergency and essential... Read More

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Coronavirus won't stop COZA from holding Sunday service, COZA Coronavirus, Pastor Fatoyinbo Coronavirus

Yahoo Boys

Yahoo boys are evolving: Love scams are out, fake news is in

From Naira Marley to President Buhari, everyone has been talking about online fraud and how intertwined with Nigeria’s public image it has become. To be fair, this generalization around Yahoo Boys is one that we have earned, as many Nigerians, at home and in the diaspora engage in fraud, using a diverse spectrum of methods... Read More

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Political espionage, political propaganda, twitter.

EndHomophobiaInNigeria

In the wake of #EndHomophobiaInNigeria, here’s a way to keep up the pressure

Last week, reports of the murder of a young Nigerian man from Imo state surfaced on the internet. The reports were based on a confessional video shared of two men who confessed to luring and murdering the person in question, motivated by their hatred for his sexuality. This is the first recorded death in 2020... Read More

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Pandemic

How do you handle a global pandemic? Combine forces with Twitter

Today, the Nigerian government just announced that its third potential Covid-19 patient, a person who showed symptoms in Enugu state, in Eastern Nigeria is negative. #COVID19Nigeria The laboratory result of the patient in Enugu suspected to have #COVID19 is NEGATIVE It is important to wait for confirmation from NCDC before spreading information on social media.... Read More

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Abule Ado

The tragedy at Abule Ado is a reminder that nothing insulates you from Nigeria

Yesterday, Lagosians woke up to a gas explosion at Abule Ado in Festac Town. In the era of the Coronavirus, a preventable disaster like this was unexpected and unanticipated. 15 lives were lost, including a family of 4 and many had their properties irreparably damaged. Among the victims of the explosion were the students and... Read More

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Abule Ado, gas pipeline, nigeria, Nigerian Navy, pipeline explosion, Tarkwa Bay

Oil

As Russia & Saudi Arabia fight over oil prices, a poorly prepared Nigeria will suffer

Over the last few years, Nigerians have lived in fear of fluctuating oil prices. Despite the efforts of successive governments to diversify the Nigerian economy and wean citizens and governments at the federal, state and local government levels off their dependency on revenue gained from the sale of Nigeria’s oil, (including drastic measures like the... Read More

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crude oil, nnpc, Oil

Corona virus

We cannot sacrifice poor people in our fight to curb the Coronavirus pandemic

Yesterday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it was upgrading its classification of the Coronavirus as a pandemic. It has spread to over 60 countries, touching lives in every continent and has infected more than 100,000 people. The disease has had an outsize impact in Europe, especially in Italy where 12,000 people have been infected... Read More

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Maryam Augie-Abdulmumin: Child education – An obligation, not an option

Children all over the world and especially in Nigeria, no matter their social status, socio-economic situation, circumstance or location have the absolute right to be part of a society that provides access to quality education that gives them a chance at being a positive index for developmental growth The challenge according to the United Nations... Read More

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Child education in Nigeria, Maryam Augie-Abdulmumin

#EndHomophobiaInNigeria is sweeping through the internet and ignoring it makes you complicit

For 24 hours, Twitter has been abuzz with #EndHomophobiaInNigeria – a reaction to a gay man murdered in Imo which paints a dark side of queer hook up culture. Trigger warning, but his killers have confessed to the murder in a grainy clip that has gone viral, and LGBTQ Nigerians and allies have come together... Read More

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#EndHomophobiaInNigeria, Gay man murdered in Imo

Coronavirus

Nigeria is doing everything right with its response to the Coronavirus

On Monday, July 9th, the Federal Ministry of Health announced that the country had recorded its second case of Coronavirus, approximately 10 days after it announced its first case. The first case, an Italian who had returned from a vacation in his home country, was quarantined when he was found and has currently been discharged... Read More

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Nigeria

Maybe something good will come out of the Nigerian Premier League tragedy last weekend

Last weekend, during a routine Nigerian Premier League match between the Nassarawa United team and Katsina United, a Nassarawa United player Chineme Martins suffered a concussion while fielding a tackle from an opposing player. That tackle, while fairly dangerous, would end up taking Chineme’s life, helped along by incompetence from many parties. Chineme Martins was... Read More

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Chineme Martins, death, football, injury, nff

I am Generation Equality: #EachForEqual, RED | For Africa C.O.O. Bukonla Adebakin sends special #IWD message

I am Generation Equality; EachForEqual The topic of equality is so vast and so broad, attempting to tackle it successfully deters most people. We have triumphed so far by tackling equality in small tranches, addressing the issues that directly affect us even though sometimes our triumphs are used as justification for the suppression of others.... Read More

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Bukonla Adebakin sends special #IWD message

South-South

The South-South finally joins the regional security force bandwagon

Since 2015, Nigeria has struggled with increasing insecurity. It has worsened as clashes between herdsmen and farmers led to several deaths, kidnappers and bandits have terrorized major highways across the country and police brutality has led to loss of lives in every state. In response to the violence, regional governors have taken matters into their... Read More

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South-South Mend

Ebola

Ebola is finally history for the Democratic Republic of Congo

In the mass hysteria of the Coronavirus and the West’s confusion as to how the virus has not infiltrated Africa when it has wreaked mass havoc in Asia, Europe and the Americas, its easy to forget that Africa has been dealing with its own epidemics, most of which used as an excuse to indulge in... Read More

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Congo, Ebola, WHO

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