Nigerian music legend Tony Allen passes on

Renowned Nigerian drummer Tony Allen has passed on. The co-founder of Afrobeat died in Paris on Thursday aged 79. Allen was the drummer and musical director of music band of Fela Kuti and Africa 70. “Without Tony Allen, there would be no afrobeat”, Fela once said. His manager Eric Trosset told NPR radio that he died of heart attack. Trosse in a Facebook post said: “Your eyes saw what most couldn’t see…as you used to say: ‘There is no end’”. UK musician, Brian Eno had declared that Allen was “perhaps…

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Kidnappers gang-rape female student of UNIPORT, then butcher her to death

A criminal gang which kidnapped three students of the University of Port Harcourt(UNIPORT), on 7 April, gang-raped the female among them. They then went further to butcher her to death, as well as kill the other two students. The female student was identified as Joy Adoki. The other students were Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba. Police put all the three bodies in bags and later deposited them in the mortuary. The police were able to crack the kidnapping after the arrest on 30 April of the chief suspect, called Friday…

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Mauritius extends lockdown to June 1

Mauritius on Friday announced the extension of its lockdown until June 1, even as coronavirus cases appeared to plateau in the island nation where the number of victims has not changed in five days. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth asked the population of the Indian ocean Island for “a little more patience, to avoid any risk of a second wave” as he extended confinement measures that have been in place since March 20 — among the first in Africa. Mauritius — a popular tourist hotspot — initially had the highest number…

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Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread-police

Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, the country’s police chief said late on Friday, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital Kuala Lumpur. Over 700 migrants were taken into custody, including young children and ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, during Friday’s raid in a downtown area where thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers live, rights groups had said. The operation was aimed at preventing undocumented migrants from travelling to other areas amid movement curbs imposed to…

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How to pull Nigeria from the brink

On Monday, April 27, 2020, British oil and gas giant, BP, became the latest in a growing number of energy firms to declare a massive quarterly loss. Their loss was in the region of $4.4 billion dollars. Bear in mind that this was a conglomerate that posted a $2.6 billion profit in the corresponding quarter of 2019. The challenges that are already engulfing the oil and gas sector will continue to plague that industry for at least the rest of the year, and may reach apocalyptic levels sooner than we…

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