By Simon Kolawole On January 18, 2020, when I first read of the new coronavirus on the BBC website, my heart missed a beat because of what China means to the world. The headline was: “New virus in China ‘will have infected hundreds’.” And these were the opening paragraphs: “The number of people already infected […]
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Banji Ayoola Chairman of Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr David Irimagha has inaugurated a fact-finding committee to unravel the cause of recent death of fishes in large numbers on the shores and waterways of the area. The committee is to probe the immediate and remote causes of the incidence; proffer a realistic […]
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investigates cause of fishes’ massive death By Banji Ayoola Rivers State Government has cautioned fishing communities against harvesting, eating or selling dead fishes found floating along Bonny and Andoni shores in the state. Simultaneously, government promised to carry out full scale investigation to unravel the actual cause of the sudden death, in large numbers, of […]
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By Victor Emmanuel Uwah Oftentimes, one sits in shameful contemplation of what the present time will be remembered for by posterity. Shameful because, with the Fulfilment of the Second Coming of Christ last century, one would have expected the promised Thousand-Year Reign of Peace to set in in its full splendour. The general goodwill, love, […]
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Kyari A Crucial Gatekeeper To The Presidency, Treated Everyone Equally –Buhari He Worked With Passion, Integrity Of A Patriot –NGF Presidential Aide’s Passage Depressing, Saddening –PDP His Death Should Remind Nigerians That COVID-19 Is Real –Atiku His Departure Should Not Be In Vain –Tinubu No One Is Immune From Coronavirus –Ohanaeze Ndigbo He Was A […]
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Lagos state government has confirmed that President Muhammad Buhari’s former chief of staff Abba Kyari died at First Cardiology Consultants in Ikoyi. It said in a statement by the State’s commissioner of Health, Dr Akin Abayomi on Saturday that: “Following enquiries on the passing away of the Chief of Staff to the President of the […]
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Individuals who were not properly kitted at the burial of Abba Kyari, the former chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Saturday have been isolated, said Mohammed Kawu, the acting secretary of Health and Human Services Secretariat, FCT Administration. Kyari died of coronavirus on Friday at the First Cardiology Consultants in Lagos. […]
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Many Nigerians including top politicians, have reacted to the death of Abba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. Kyari died while receiving treatment for coronavirus at a private hospital in Lagos. According to a presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, funeral arrangements for the deceased will “be announced soon.” It is recalled that on March […]
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Healthcare workers dressed in protective gear collect samples from drivers at a drive-through testing point for the COVID-19 disease at the University Hospital in Burgos on April 18, 2020. – The death toll from the coronavirus in Spain, the country hit hardest by the pandemic after the United States and Italy, moved past 20,000, the […]
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Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo has condoled with President Muhammadu Buhari over the death of his Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, who died on Friday of Coronavirus infection. In a letter to Buhari on the incident, Obasanjo said: “I received the news of the demise of Alhaji Abba Kyari, your Chief of Staff, over Friday […]
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