Month: May 2020

COVID-19: Cloth Mask, the beauty and the DANGERS

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By Larry Dada The world has come to place where humanity is not alien to tragedies: be it from environmental catastrophe, to social wars and even the nearest form of pandemic outbreak. In all cases, people are attacked, economies are shut and at extreme cases lives are lost. The recent outbreak of novel corona virus called COVID-19 in Wuhan City of China has spread with a deadly speed that many nations cannot control. Over 170 nations have recorded confirmed cases ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands, within four mouths…

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Nigerian music legend Tony Allen passes on

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Okowa Salutes Workers, Pledges Improved Welfare

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  As workers in Nigeria and across the globe mark Labour Day on May 1, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has felicitated with those in the state and commended them for their support and contributions to the growth and development of the state.   In a message to the workers, Okowa said that “Stop the Pandemic at Work”, the theme of this year’s commemoration of the Day, was strikingly apt, especially with the global fight against the Coronavirus disease otherwise known as COVID-19. He said that like the global community,…

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Set Up Covid-19 Testing Centre In Warri, IMG Tells Okowa

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  The Isoko Monitoring Group (IMG) has applauded the establishment of a Covid-19 testing centre at Asaba by Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, canvassing the need to set up a centre at Warri. The group, in a statement by it’s Spokesman, Dr. Kingsley Oroh, said: “IMG issued a press statement on 24th April, 2020 where IMG stated that the practice of transporting samples of COVID-19 patients from Delta to Edo State for testing was inappropriate, totally unacceptable and therefore implored the government to step up its fight against the…

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May Day :  You Are Partners In Progress, Dependable, Diligent, Oborevwori Tells Workers

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  The Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori has felicitated with  Nigerian workers on the occasion of the  Labour Day Celebration, imploring them to observe the safety health protocol of regular hand washing with soap, use of alcohol-based hand sanitiser, social/ physical distancing and the use of face mask. In a Press Statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Dennis Otu, the Speaker, while specifically congratulating all workers in Delta State, said that  this year Workers’ Day was  being marked under a very difficult…

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DELTA ASSEMBLY RESUMES PLENARY, PASSES TWO BILLS

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  The Delta State House of Assembly has passed two bills on resumption of plenary after a compulsory six weeks break over the Coronavirus pandemic. The bills are the Delta State Fiscal Responsibility Amendment   Bill and the Delta State Public Procurement Bill 2020. The  House at plenary on Thursday, April 30, 2020  also received a letter from the State Governor, Senator  Ifeanyi Okowa which contained a bill for a law establishing the Delta State Internal Revenue Service and its Board. Opening debate on the Delta State Fiscal Responsibility Amendment…

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