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Nigeria recorded its highest daily toll on Thursday with 681 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in 17 states.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on its official Twitter handle.

The centre said that as of June 11, Nigeria recorded a total of 14,554 cases with five deaths.


The agency said that no new state had reported a case in the last 24 hours.

NCDC said Lagos State reported more than half of the new cases with 345 infections with Rivers to state a distant second with 51 new cases.

Other states with new infections include Ogun (48), Gombe (47), Oyo (36), Imo (31), Delta (28), Kano (23), Bauchi (18), Edo (12), Katsina (12), Kaduna (9), Anambra (7), Jigawa (5), Kebbi (4), Ondo (4), and Nasarawa (1).

The NCDC said that till date, 14,554 cases have been confirmed, 9673 active cases 4,494 cases have been treated and discharged and 387 deaths have been recorded in 35 states and the Federal Capital Territory.


NAN reports that the health agency will commence the usage of the GeneXpert machines to test for COVID-19 cases beginning from June 14.

“We are ready to do that GeneXpert lab in locations and will start functioning on June 14,” the body said.

NAN reports that GeneXpert machines, manufactured by the US-based firm, Cepheid, is one of the most widely-used TB diagnostic tools globally.

Nigeria currently has at least 400 GeneXpert instruments deployed in 399 health facilities across the country meant for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis.


NCDC said that with the challenge of limited kits for COVID-19 testing in the country, some of these machines in each state will be re-configured for COVID-19 testing.

“Each of the GeneXpert instruments in the country has 4-testing modules with a testing capacity of about 24 samples per day.

There are also available in the country two mobile laboratories equipped with two GeneXpert instruments each.

“These will be deployed as needed to support COVID-19 testing surge in target states,” NCDC stated.


The agency stated that it has been working hard over the last two weeks to distribute the cartridges to the first seven centres to train them to make sure they are ready and on June 14 they will start testing.

The NCDC, however, decried the poor turnout of test samples from the states across the country.

The body stated that though the available laboratories could test up to 10,000 samples per day, they were only working at about 10 to 20 per cent of their capacity.

“The labs are there, the samples are not coming in as sufficiently as we want. We have this weekend for every state to push harder,” it stated.

The Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, has expressed concern over the incessant killings in the country calling on the leadership to rise to the occasion to save lives and property.

The Arewa group noted that it was unfortunate that those saddled with the responsibility of protecting citizens’ lives and properties no longer do so.

The President of the group, Isah Abubakar, in a statement, explained that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has witnessed the killings of thousands of Nigerians more than any other government in the history of the country.

The statement alleged that “The government of President Mohammed Buhari has witnessed the killings of thousands of Nigerians more than any other government in the history of this country, this categorically means that the President Buhari-led administration is one of the most irresponsible governments in our history.”

For the progress and security of the country, the President must learn to let go of irresponsible people in his government, adding that the Service chiefs must be relieved of their appointments and Ministers should be reshuffled.

It explained that President Buhari must learn how to hire and fire anybody in his cabinet that fails to perform, recalling that security topped Buhari’s agenda during 2015 campaigns, but that the security situation is worse than it used to be.

“It’s a fact that President Buhari has failed his citizens from all parts of the nation and northerners are highly disappointed in his leadership,” the statement opined.

The statement noted that President Buhari can still make a change if he adheres strictly to the good counsel of the people by doing the needful.

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The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) has taken over the prosecution of the alleged Taraba State kidnap kingpin, Mr. Bala Hamisu, popularly called Wadume and 19 others from the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mr. Mohammed Adamu.

The IG had on February 3, 2020, dragged Wadume and his co-defendants among whom are two police officers and 10 soldiers before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on a 16-count criminal charge bordering on terrorism, murder, kidnapping and illegal arms.

When the case came up yesterday before Justice Binta Nyako, only six out of the 20 defendants, including Wadume, were present in court.

However, a lawyer in the office of the AGF, Mr. Labaran Magaji, who announced appearance for the prosecution, informed the court that the AGF took over the case and received the case file from the police on Tuesday.

Magaji accordingly requested an adjournment to enable him work towards bringing all the defendants to court at the next adjournment.

“The AGF office applied to take over the prosecution of the criminal charge. We were handed over the file yesterday (Tuesday). The case has about 20 defendants, but only six defendants are present in court.

“In the circumstances, we shall be asking for a short adjournment for the purpose of bringing all the suspects named in the

charge. “The prosecution shall do the needful to ensure that the case takes off immediately”, he said.

Defence lawyers that were present in court did not oppose the request for adjournment.

Justice Nyako in a short ruling adjourned the matter to June 8, 2020. Nyako had ordered the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, to release 10 army officers for the ongoing criminal prosecution.

The 10 officers were charged alongside Wadume and others.

Justice Nyako made the order for the soldiers to be produced, after the prosecuting lawyer, Mr. Simon Lough, told the court that the army authorities ‘snubbed’ the letter by the police requesting the 10 defendants to be produced for arraignment.

He had told the court that the police authorities had written the Chief of Army Staff asking for the soldiers since January 2020 but that they failed to comply.

The prosecution added that, “Sections 89 and 159 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, empower my lord to compel the Chief of Army Staff to produce the 2nd to the 11th defendants for prosecution.

“On the basis of the provisions, we, therefore, urge my lord to issue an order to the Chief of Army Staff to produce the defendants for arraignment.”

The soldiers among the defendants are Captain Tijjani Balarabe; Staff Sgt. David Isaiah; Sgt. Ibrahim Mohammed; Corporal Bartholomew Obanye; Private Mohammed Nura; Lance Corporal Okorozie Gideon; Corporal Markus Michael; L/Corporal Nvenaweimoeimi Akpagra; Staff Sgt. Abdullahi Adamu, and Private Ebele Emmanuel.

The other 10 defendants are: Wadume, ASP Aondona Iorbee; Inspector Aliyu Dadje; Auwalu Bala, aka Omo Razor; Uba Bala (aka Uba Belu); Ahmad Suleiman (aka Dan Ball); Bashir Waziri, (aka Baba runs); Zubairu Abdullahi (aka Basho); Hafizu Bala (aka Maiwelder); and Rayyanu Abdul.

They were charged for the killing of three policemen and two civilians attached to the Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team, who had gone to Ibi, Taraba State, to arrest the kidnap kingpin.

Five other police officers were injured in the attack by soldiers from Battalion 93, Takum, led by Capt Balarabe, on August 6, 2019.

The attack led to the escape of the kidnap kingpin who was later re-arrested at a village in Kano.

I have returned to PDP in Ekiti to make it stronger, Segun Oni replies Fayose

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, has assured another former governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that his mission in the party is to encourage teamwork and build fellowship among members for a verile party.

Fayose, through his media aide, Lere Olayinka, had said there won’t be red carpet reception for the former governor on his return to the party, advising him to go for his registration at the ward level.

“Fayose didn’t say Oni is not welcome in PDP and don’t forget membership of a political party is optional. What he said was that if you are coming back to the party after leaving for about six years, there won’t be red carpet reception. Like when he went and came back in 2012, there was no red carpet reception for him then. Fayose said whoever that is coming should quietly go and register in his or her ward which is the normal thing to do,” he had said.

But Oni, through a statement by the Director General of his group, Atunse Ekiti Movement, Dr Ifeoluwa Arowosoge, described Oni’s return to the opposition party whose platform he was elected governor in 2007 as home-coming

According to Arowosoge, his quest was to join hands with other leaders to reposition the party ahead of future elections especially the 2022 governorship poll.

“Mr Segun Oni and his numerous supporters are committed to building an inclusive party that would work to protect the interest of all its members. Teamwork and fellowship building would be the hallmarks of our engagements, interactions and participation in all activities of the party.

“We are all excited to be back home to join hands with our compatriots in the strengthening and repositioning of our great party, the PDP, in its quest for good governance in Ekiti State.

“Our return to the party was motivated by selfless considerations and the numerous calls by concerned Ekiti indigenes, home and abroad, on our political leader, Segun Oni, to deploy his forthright and honest leadership in advancing the good of the party

You Are Not Welcomed in PDP, Fayose Tells Oni

Chuks Okocha in Abuja

The former Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has stated that former Governor of the state, Mr. Segun Oni, is not welcome to the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), “because he is a paperweight.”

Fayose stated this yesterday while reacting to a declaration letter dated May 24, 2020, which was addressed to the PDP Caretaker Committee by Oni, who is a former deputy national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), indicating his interest to return to the PDP.

Oni’s decision to return to the PDP seems to have reawakened the longtime rift between the two former governors, Fayose and Oni respectively, as Fayose flagrantly discarded the Oni’s intentions owing to “his political irrelevance.”

Describing Oni and his group as paperweights, Fayose, who forwarded the Oni’s letter to the official PDP WhatsApp platform, said Oni and his group are not welcomed in PDP.

Fayose said: “Majority of these Oni’s fellow returnees is nothing but known or no ‘weight’, whose names are simply to fill the gaps in desperation for recognition. They are not welcome.”

Meanwhile, Oni’s intentions to return to PDP has been described as a welcome development by majority of the party members, especially those in Senator Biodun Olujimi’s camp, stressing that Oni’s political clout is needed to further compliment the progressive efforts of Olujimi and other leaders who are poised to reposition the party.

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Some gunmen have kidnapped the Ekiti State Commissioner for Agriculture, Folorunso Olabode.

A councillor and leader in Ilejemeje Local Government Area of the state, Olatunji Omotosho, who was with him was shot dead on the spot.

SaharaReporters gathered that the incident took place between Isan and Iludun-Ekiti area of the state.

Isan is the hometown of Governor Kayode Fayemi.

A security source, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said they were attacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen

BREAKING: Supreme Court nullifies the election of Emeka Ihedioha, declares Sen Hope Uzodinma as the winner of the March 19 Governorship Election in I'm state

Uche Nwosu Withdraws Case Against Ihedioha’s Election At Supreme Court by AuthenticNG: 3:02pm


The Action Alliance’s governorship candidate in the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Imo State, Uche Nwosu, on Tuesday, withdrew the appeal he filed against the election of Governor Emeka Ihedioha.

Nwosu is a son-in-law to the immediate-past governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, who was elected to the Senate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 general election in the state.

On Tuesday, Nwosu’s lawyer, Mr. Solomon Umoh (SAN), told the seven-man panel of the Supreme Court led by Justice Tanko Muhammad, that the decision to withdraw the appeal challenging the outcome of the last governorship election in Imo State was based on the judgment of the apex court delivered on December 20, 2019.

The referenced judgment of the Supreme Court was on a case marked SC. 1384/2019, which had declared that Nwosu was not validly nominated as a candidate of the AA to participate in the March 9, 2019 governorship poll, thus lacked the locus standi to file any case in connection with the election.

Announcing the decision to withdraw the appeal on Tuesday, Umoh said, “Based on the judgment of this court in appeal SC. 1384/2019 delivered on December 20, 2019, and subsequently, on my advice to my client, we have decided to withdraw this appeal.”

Responding, counsel for respondents to the appeal, including Governor Emeka Ihedioha, who won the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, urged the court to dismiss the appeal having been withdrawn.

Ruling, the seven-man panel unanimously dismissed the appeal

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Buhari is economic, political illiterate! He lacks the capacity to govern Nigeria – Junaid Mohammed

Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the capacity to govern Nigeria.

Mohammed, in a chat with DAILY POST, described Buhari as a political and an economic illiterate, who lacks the capacity to manage the affairs of the country.

While claiming that Buhari was sick, incompetent and dishonest, he warned that the country was on the verge of implosion.

The staunch critic of the APC-led Federal Government also warned that Nigeria was in a “dire situation.”

According to him, “The situation Nigeria finds itself now is critical, we are in a very dire situation and people should be aware of it, anything can happen the country can implode, the National Assembly is on the way to imploding, the two parties are close to imploding so one should be very careful, this is not time for joke.

“The crisis in the National Assembly is a reflection of the crisis in the country at large.

“The entire political system in the country has broken down and there is a number of reasons for this, one we don’t have a President, and Buhari being our president is a joke, he is a political illiterate, an economic illiterate, he’s sick, incompetent and he’s not honest.”

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Attorney General Clears Saraki on “Offa” Robbery Case (See Letter)


Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s federal attorney general, has written to the Nigerian Police stating that there was no evidence that linked Senate President Bukola Saraki and Kwara State Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed to the string of bankrobberies that left 31 persons dead in Offa, Kwara State, in April.

In a letter written signed by U. E. Mohammed, director of public prosecution of the federation and addressed to Idris Ibrahim, the inspector general of police, there was no evidence in the interim report on the matter and his office could not establish a nexus between Saraki, Ahmed, and the suspects.AG saraki malami Saraki

Mohammed, however, advised the police to carry out a further investigation as it concerns the senator and governor.
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“For the senate president and the Kwara state governor, this office is unable to establish from the evidence in the interim report a nexus between the alleged offence and the suspects. Hence, it it in our advice that further and thorough investigation in this regard be carried out,” Mohammed said.

“Areas to be covered include but not limited to the following;

“i. Establish whether the planning and the execution of the robbery attack of the 5th April 2018 at Offa was carried out at their instance, knowledge or approval.

“ii. Whether the weapons used for the robbery attack aforementioned were supplied by either the senate president, Bukola Saraki or the governor of Kwara state, Abdulfatai Ahmed.
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“iii. And any other area or areas that may assist in establishing a prima facie case of aiding and abetting crime, or accessory after the fact.”

On Monday, the police asked Saraki to appear at the office of intelligence response team (IRT) office in Abuja over the robbery incident.

Saraki, however, replied the police, accusing the force of politicising their investigation.

The senate president did not honour the summons but the police have vowed to do its best in making him comply with the directiv