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NIGERIA has r e c o r d e d more than 500 COVID-19 cases in daily figure for the third time on Friday as the government struggles to deal with a new and more infectious variant of the virus. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said figures on Saturday morning showed another 590 cases were reported. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that on July 28, some 535 cases were reported; on July 29, 558 were registered and on July 30, 590 cases were logged, which is now the highest daily increase in the country since March 4, 2021, when 708 cases were registered. According to the NCDC, the number of cases is rising, so is the country’s testing capacity since the peak of the first wave last year. The NCDC said the new daily tally of 558 on Thursday has now been overtaken by Friday‘s 590 cases and these have raised the total infections in the country to 173,411. It said the country also registered eight new deaths from COVID-19-related complications on Friday, keeping the death toll at 2,148. The NCDC stated that the 590 additional infections were across registered across 17 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). According to it, Friday’s figure was higher when compared to the 558 cases reported 24 hours earlier and ranks highest daily tally since March 4 when 708 cases were reported. The public health agency said Lagos State reported 306 new infections; Akwa Ibom, 54 more cases; Katsina, Oyo and Rivers had 40, 39 and 26 fresh infections, respectively. Other states were Niger-23, Gombe-19, Ogun- 16, Ekiti-15, the FCT-10, Nasarawa- 10, Delta-9, Bayelsa and Plateau-5 each, Imo-4, Ebonyi and Jigawa-3 each and Kano-1. The NCDC said Friday’s report includes cases reported for Niger State on July 28 (12) and July 29 (11). It noted cases reported for Delta State on July 10 was (1), July 11 (1), July 13 (3) and July 29 (4) It added that zero case was reported in Ondo and Osun states. The agency said that 48 people have recovered and were discharged from various isolation centres in the country on Friday. It added that till date, 164,978 recoveries have been recorded nationwide in 36 states and the FCT. The NCDC said a multi- sectoral national Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), activated at Level 2, continues to coordinate the national response activities. The public health agency noted that the country had also tested more than 2.4 million samples for the virus out of the country’s roughly 200 million population. The agency added that the country’s active cases stood at over 5,000. NAN quoted the agency as saying that it would continue to monitor all variants closely, paying particular attention to the impact on hospitalisation and deaths which would help the country to understand the protective effects of vaccines. It said it was important for Nigerians to wear masks indoors to curb the COVID-19 Delta variant, especially when “you don’t know everyone’s vaccination status.” It added that vaccinated people should still wear facemasks, given the incredibly fast transmission of the Delta Variant and its unique severity. It noted that vaccines alone won’t stop community transmission. “Nigerians need to use masks consistently, be in ventilated spaces even if they were vaccinated. “People cannot feel safe just because they have been vaccinated. They still need to protect themselves,” it stated. |
Nigeria’s liabilities to the World Bank and the African Development Bank rose from $7.14bn to $14.25bn between June 30, 2015 and March 31, 2021, data obtained from the Debt Management Office have shown. This means that the commitment of the banks to the country rose by $7.11bn within the period under review. This represents an increase of 98.48 per cent. As of June 30, 2015, the Federal Government had borrowed a total sum of $6.19bn from the World Bank. A breakdown of the group’s portfolio in the country shows that a greater part of the loans was obtained from the International Development Association, an arm of the World Bank that specialises in giving concessional loans to poor and fragile countries. The IDA commitment to Nigeria amounted to $6.09bn. Another member of the group, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, had a commitment of $94.80m in the country. Similarly, at the same time, the AfDB commitment to the country stood at $946.52m, comprising loans from various internal bodies such as the African Development Bank ($350m) and African Development Fund ($596.53m). By March 31, 2021, the Federal Government’s debt to the World Bank had risen to $11.51bn, reflecting a $5.32bn or 86 per cent increase. This debt portfolio included loans of $11.10bn and $410.23m from the International Development Association and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development respectively. With a commitment of $11.51bn, the World Bank is responsible for 35.02 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign portfolio of $32.86bn as of March 31. At the same period, the Federal Government acquired $1.59bn from the AfDB, $0.21m from Africa Growing Together Fund and $942.51m from ADF. This brought the AfDB’s commitment to the country to $2.74bn, representing 8.3 per cent of the country’s total external debt. Most of the loans from the World Bank and the AfDB were tied to a programme or infrastructure project. On December 14 2020, for instance, the World Bank approved a $1.5bn loan to Nigeria, earmarked for two projects: Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme and The State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability Programme. On June 27, 2018, the bank approved a loan of $775m for the following projects: Fiscal Governance and Institutions Project, Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project – Additional Financing, Nigeria Polio Eradication Support Project Additional Financing, Nigeria Electrification Project and the State Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability scheme. On March 23, 2017, the bank approved a $200m credit for the implementation of the Agro-Processing, Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project and Nigeria, while $150m credit was offered for Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification Project on April 14 same year. On June 7, 2016, the bank approved a $1.1bn credit as additional finance to fund the following projects: State Education Program Investment Project, Community and Social Development, Nigeria Youth Employment and Social Support, State Health Investment Project, Third National Fadama Development Project, NG-Polio Eradication Support Project and the National Social Safety Nets Project. One of the loans approved by the Board of Directors of the AfDB to the Nigerian government is a financing package comprising $150m ADB loan, $100m ADF loan and the £5m RWSSI Grant Facility, to finance the Inclusive Basic Service Delivery and Livelihood Empowerment Integrated Programme on December 14, 2016. Also in 2016 but on December 16, another loan was approved, which was a financing package of $100m, comprising $80m loan and $20m equity for the rehabilitation of the Kainji and Jebba hydro plants. On December 3, 2018, the Board of Directors of the AfDB approved a $150m sovereign loan to finance the Nigeria Electrification Project. Another loan was approved on April 24, 2019, which was a $70m loan for a road project in Nigeria’s Southeastern Ebonyi State with the bank providing $40m and its co-financier, AGTF, contributing $30m. On June 5, 2020, a $288.5m loan was approved to help Nigeria tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate its impact on people and businesses. As of March 31 2021, 54.26 per cent of the country’s external debt portfolio belonged to multilateral organisations including the International Monetary Fund ($3.48bn), Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa ($5.88m), European Development Fund ($51.33m) and Islamic Development Bank ($29.72m) and $223.28m from International Fund for Agricultural Development. Bilateral debts make up $4.18bn or 12.73 per cent of the country’s external debt exposure. Nigeria’s is currently indebted to the following bilateral agencies: Export Import Bank of China, with a portfolio of $3.40bn; the Exim Bank of India, with a portfolio of $34.95m; the Agence Française de Développement, with a portfolio of $486.6m; the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with a portfolio of $74.6m; and Germany, with a portfolio of $183.7m. Commercial loans now comprise 32.47 per cent of the country’s external debt exposure, with a value of $10.67bn. These loans include $10.36bn Eurobonds, and $300bn Diaspora Bond, through which the Federal Government borrowed from Nigerians living abroad. On the other hand, as of June 30 2015, Eurobond was the only commercial loan available and it constituted 14.54 per cent of the country’s external debt exposure with a value of $1.5bn. Meanwhile, multilateral sources constituted 70.11 per cent of the country’s external debt exposure at the stated period while bilateral sources made up 15.35 per cent of the country’s total foreign debt exposure of $10.32bn. Financial experts have continually condemned the huge borrowings of the Federal Government, noting that the country’s rapidly growing debt profile is detrimental to the economy. The President of the AfDB, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, had during the virtual launch of the African Economic Outlook 2021 described debts owed by African countries including Nigeria as unsustainable. Adesina had said, “The issue of debt is so fundamental because it’s like you are running up a hill but you have a bag full of sand on your back; you can’t go far. The amount of debt that we have is not sustainable. “The amount of debt that we have right now is about 70 to 75 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product. It used to be sustainable, but what is even more alarming is the structure of the debt, where the debt right now is largely in the hands of commercial creditors, almost $337bn in terms of high creditors and those that are the private creditors without any type of securitisation for it.” |
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Many passengers have been left stranded at the Bauchi-Kano road after flood washed away the road linking Bauchi and Kano States in Ningi local government area of Bauchi State. According to an eyewitness, the flood followed a downpour that lasted for several hours from Thursday night to Friday morning leading to the collapse of the road which links Bauchi – Jigawa – Kano states. Two persons have also been reported missing after their car was carried away by the flood at Malka village in Ningi local government area of Bauchi State. Vanguard learned that travellers were taking the difficult option of plying a rice farm by the roadside on foot with their luggages. Danburam of Ningi Emirate in Ningi, Alhaji Yusuf Yunusa Danyaya, who expressed sadness at the ill-fated flooding, said that people were still trapped in the debris. “People can no longer travel to Bauchi from Ningi likewise people from Bauchi cannot travel to Ningi or to Kano state from here because the road is gone. After the bridge linking the roads broke, part of the road, about 30 meters, was washed away by the flood and a pit was created there. The road has been broken into two. It was a serious flood. “As of now, there is a car inside (debris); a golf car. There is no way it can be removed at the moment. Two women inside the golf got drowned but the remaining people were rescued. One of them had been on top of tree, it wasn’t long that he was rescued. “There was a trailer that carried over 400 animals, sheep and goats, but unfortunately, about 250 of them died. Another victim said he had 160 and all of them died. There is no way cars will drive past the place, travellers are just stranded. There are trailers, buses and small cars, all stranded” he said. |
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Top Nigerian athletes, Blessing Okagbare, and Grace Nwokocha, have qualified for the semi-final of the women’s 100m at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Okagbare finished top in Heat 6 in a time of 11.05 (-0.1) seconds while United Kingdom’s Asha Phillips finished second in 11.31 seconds and Bahamian athlete Tynia Gaither came third in 11.34 seconds. This is Okagbare’s third consecutive Olympics semi-final and the fourth appearance in the Olympics, The PUNCH reports. On her part, Grace Nwokocha finished third with a new Personal Best of 11.00 seconds to qualify for the semi-final. World no. 1 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the heat with 10.84s with Switzerland’s Ajia Del Fonte placing 2nd with 10.91s. Okagbare is an Olympic and World Championship medallist. She is the women’s Commonwealth Games record holder and current African record holder in 200m.
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Nigeria may just never get better again and this is actually not a case of spilling the 'hate beans' or spreading pessimism around, it is just about as true as it sounds. Even though a portion of the blame has to be extended to the people in power, a larger portion of it has to come to us, 'the governed. Now this is the reality; From the people in power, to the elites, the middle class, the poor and the average individual, everyone just wants to take advantage of each other and this portrays the average Nigerian as selfish and greedy; how sad! When something goes wrong in the country and it tends to affect a large chunk of the society, what you hear from sane people will make you doubt their sanity. Comments like ''So far it didn't affect me and my family, I am fine''; no empathy whatsoever. An average Nigerian is not willing to follow due process, we enjoy cutting corners and always in a constant hurry to nowhere, it's appalling. From those that jump queues, to those that eat and trash stuff on the road, we forget that little repugnant gestures such as this go a long way. Yes! we moan that the system is twisted, true! But those twists are from the government parastatals, the private companies, and sadly even our homes. There are people who take their time to clean inside their houses, pack the dirt inside a nylon bag and come to the major road to drop it. There are even people that eat groundnuts inside a car and toss it on the road; what can be worse than that? Worse still, an average Nigerian wants to oppress another. You see them shouting about oppression, and the minute they have a chance, they start to oppress others. Even with the current ban in Lagos at the moment, people that have cars are insulting those that don't; they keep saying we should go and hustle so we can buy cars and complaining about the ban. All we are saying is simple! Before you open your mouth to criticize the country, you should know that a country is made up of the people in it. Look at yourself as an individual, impact positively on your immediate environment and it starts getting better from there.
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US lawmakers stop $875m arms sale to Nigeria over human rights violations . . Some United States lawmakers have halted the planned sale of arms worth $875 million to Nigeria over concerns about the President Muhammadu Buhari’s-led government’s human rights record. . But security sources have said the Federal Government was not bothered by the stance of the US lawmakers saying Nigeria had complied with all necessary agreement indices reached on government-to-government basis with the US. . . A report in Foreign Policy, said Senate foreign relations committee comprising both Democrats and Republicans have delayed clearing a proposed sale of 12 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters and accompanying defence systems to the Nigerian military. . According to the report, the lawmakers’ opposition was based on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s perceived human rights abuse and the #Endsars protests of 2020 that ended in crisis and banditry. . . The report said the proposed arms sale included 28 helicopter engines produced by GE Aviation, 14 military-grade aircraft navigation systems made by Honeywell, and 2,000 advanced precision kill weapon systems—laser-guided rocket munitions. . . The report said behind-the-scenes controversy over the proposed arms sale illustrates a broader debate among Washington policymakers over how to balance national security with human rights objectives. . . According to the report, despite the battle against Boko Haram insurgents, western governments and international human rights organisations are being critical of the Buhari-led administration over the Twitter ban, systemic corruption issues, and the invasion of Lekki tollgate by soldiers during the #EndSARS protest in October 2020. #news
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A report by the Ogun State Government that N7.389billion had been spent on roads in the last six months has come under scrutiny, as a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olumide Aderinokun, asked for details of the expenses. DAILY POST reported earlier that the Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Akeem Adesina, told the Ogun State House of Assembly that the money was expended in constructing and renovating roads across the three senatorial districts of the State. But Aderinokun challenged the Abiodun government to give a detailed account of the N7.389billion. The 2019 House of Representative candidate said he could not see the impact of the money on the roads in the six local governments in Ogun Central. Aderinokun said, “I followed closely the remarks of Engr. Akeem Adesina (SA to Governor Dapo Abiodun) and Engr. Gbenga Akintola (General Manager, Ogun State Public Works Agency) during the 2021 Budget Performance Assessment at the House of Assembly on Tuesday. “They claimed roads across the three Senatorial Districts in the state have been touched with N7.3 billion spent between January and June 2021.” The Akinruyiwa of Owu Kingdom decried the poor state of roads in Ifo, Ewekoro, Abeokuta North, Obafemi-Owode and Odeda Local Government Areas. “They said they spent billions of naira on roads, but people in those areas find it difficult to see the constructed or rehabilitated roads. “There are many major roads in my senatorial district that are in dire need of repair, but there are no signs of the government’s commitment to work on them. “A good example is the road in Mowe Market. I’m sure the government has been notified. See how the Obantoko and Lafenwa to Rounder roads look like at a time like this when it is raining. “The government should give a detailed account of how they have made the roads better with the stated expenses. “Governance is for the people and not for a section because of political beliefs,” Aderinokun said in a statement made available to DAILY POST by his media aide, Taiye Taiwo, on Wednesday. |
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has honoured three policemen who died in the course of their duties in the state with N30 million.Sanwo-Olu, represented by his Chief of Staff, Tayo Ayinde, honoured the late policemen on Tuesday.https://theeagleonline.com.ng/sanwo-olu-honours-three-dead-policemen-with-n30m/
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A 30 years old ghannian woman Gentrix wekesa,has come online to lament over her family issues. The 30 years old woman who already had 10 children said her husband has refused family despite having a job. The woman disclosed that her husband whose name wasn't mentioned is so determined on having 22 children. Wekesa said he gave birth almost every year..when reoorting the news to newsmen she said"my husband and I has been married 15years now with 10 kids and my husband is keen on having 12 more children".. |
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An indian family has killed a teenage girl for putting on jeans wear.... According to reports the 17 years old Neha paswan was beaten to death in uttar Pradesh,india. Narrating the incident, the deceased’s mum, Shakuntala Devi Paswan told BBC Hindi a gang of fundamentalist men including Neha’s grandfather and uncles killed her daughter with sticks. Lamenting his daughter’s death, Neha’s construction worker dad Amarnath, who lives in another town, said he worked hard so Neha and his other children could go to school only for him to return to see that she has been murdered. Lamenting his daughter’s death, Neha’s construction worker dad Amarnath, who lives in another town, said he worked hard so Neha and his other children could go to school only for him to return to see that she has been murdered. According to Neha’s mum, Shakuntala, after observing a day-long fast, Neha came downstairs wearing a pair of jeans. Her grandfather took issue with her choice of outfit but Neha told him the item was made to be worn and she would wear it. Soon after, the violence began and Neha was brutally attacked by 10 men wielding sticks, says report. Naija News learnt the suspects after they were done, disposed off the evidence in an attempt to cover up their heinous crime. Shakuntala said they claimed Neha was taken to the hospital but she was prevented from going to the hospital with her daughter. She isn’t sure Neha was eventually taken to the hospital. Neha’s mum said: “They wouldn’t let me accompany them so I alerted my relatives who went to the district hospital looking for her but couldn’t find her.” Neha was found the next morning hanging from a bridge by her mother. Four people have been arrested and questioned by police as investigations continue, including Neha’s granddad and two uncles. Neha was often pressured for attending school and wearing modern clothing by her traditionalist extended family. Neha’s death has triggered new conversations about the treatment of women by men in India Gender activist Rolly Shivhare told the BBC: “It’s shocking that in the 21st Century, we are killing and assaulting girls for wearing jeans or talking on a mobile phone.”
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Chelsea vs Bournemouth goaless at half time |
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Recall that president bihari travelled to lonfon,united kingdom on monday 26th july 2021 for a summit. According to reports by saharaReporters president buhari was not sighted in abuja house where he usually stays anytime he visits united kingdom. Saharareporters learnt that buhari didn't show up at the abuja house because of nigerian protesters who has already stormed the place waiting for buhari arrival so they can continue with the #harrasbuharioutoflondon#protest |
Chelsea has rached an agreement with Fulham goalkepper,Marcus bartinelli the shot stopper agreed to join the European champions on a free transfer deal.according to skysports the out-of-contract goalkeeper will undergo his medical today at stamford bridge ahead of a summer move from fulham |
Chelsea will be playing their second pre-season match against Bournemouth today at the Bournemouth stadium.and the match is going to be brocasted live and free on the Chelsea app(the 5th stand).. |
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Go go naija ...... We can still do something |
These people are just committing unescessary fouls... |
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Australia 55 Nigeria 49 In the 3rd quarter |
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Did they actually sew the school uniform or it was given to them by the school authority..... Rubbish upon nonsense |
As far as am concerned no Manchester united will ever win a trophy this season...... Congratulations to jorginjo and emerson and the whole Italy team..... |
No manchester united player will win a trophy this season...... |
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