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[Daily Trust] As thousands of refugees from troubled Cameroon English speaking region troop into Taraba State, Governor Darius Ishaku has inaugurated a committee to halt the influx. from AllAfrica News: Nigeria via NEWS

[Daily Trust] One week after the Supreme Court reserved ruling in the application for the review of the judgement which disqualified the governorship and other candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections, there is relative calm in the state. from AllAfrica News: Nigeria via NEWS

[Daily Trust] Troops currently fighting Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State and environs were engaged in fierce battle with Boko Haram militants during which over 40 soldiers were killed while several others sustained injuries. from AllAfrica News: Nigeria via NEWS

[Daily Trust] The Federal government through the Ministry of Works and Housing has handed over a rehabilitated and reconstructed 2 kilometer road to the Kaduna Polytechnic. from AllAfrica News: Nigeria via NEWS

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] London -Diseases like tuberculosis and malaria largely ravage low-income countries, with the situation made worse by poor nutrition and sanitation via LATEST NEWS

[IPS] Sydney and Kuala Lumpur -The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is hard to predict as events are still unfolding, and estimates vary dramatically. UNCTAD estimates lost output in the order of US$1 trillion, just over a third of Bloomberg's expectation of US$2.7 trillion in losses. The OECD expects global economic growth to halve from already anaemic levels. via LATEST NEWS

[DW] Boko Haram has launched its deadliest assault yet against troops in Chad. In a separate attack, the militant group killed at least 50 Nigerian soldiers in an ambush in eastern Borno state. via LATEST NEWS

[IPS] Nairobi, Kenya -Many soldiers have seen first-hand the horrors of war and, terrifying though it often was, they knew who they were fighting, and could recognise their enemy. via LATEST NEWS

[African Arguments] Abdirashid Janan's arrest suggested justice might soon be served. His escape shows how far away it remains. via LATEST NEWS

[ISS] Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia's new alliance must complement existing structures and not exacerbate distrust and undermine integration. via LATEST NEWS

[CPJ] New York -Authorities in Niger should immediately release journalist Kaka Touda Mamane Goni and halt legal proceedings against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. via LATEST NEWS

  The most powerful person in Aso Rock, Abba Kyari; who is the chief of staff to the president, has tested positive to Covid19. No government official can reach President Buhari without him. There is a ripe suspicion that the kitchen cabinet might have been infected. Likewise in Europe, the most powerful person, Angela Merkel the chancellor of Germany, has been quarantined. While Trump and Boris Johnson took the same path in trying to ignore the pandemic, their governments are in deep crises of the damages and exposures their neglect has caused the citizens. As I type, the fear of corona virus is the beginning of real wisdom as governments are now banning even churches and mosques from gathering. The Nigerian federal ministry of health has announced 42 cases so far. And even the mass of working people who have hitherto doubted our thieving class so far, are now more wary and precautionary over their immediate safety without relying on the failed health institutions. People se

A woman based in Abuja but on a trip to Ondo State has been isolated at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo Town, after showing symptoms of Coronavirus.  Her blood sample has been collected for testing but the result is yet to be out, according to findings by SaharaReporters.  The patient was taken to the hospital after coughing severely and developing high fever.  Recall that SaharaReporters had last Wednesday reported how a man named David, who came into Nigeria from Maryland, United States of America, and suspected of having Coronavirus, was placed under strict observation at the same hospital in Ondo Town.  The man fell ill shortly after arriving Ondo to see his family.  The result of the man's blood sample however, returned negative, quelling initial fears created.  So far, no case of the deadly virus had been recorded in Ondo State.  However, Nigeria now has 44 confirmed cases of Coronavirus with one confirmed death.  Two of the confi

  At least 10 soldiers that responded to an attack by bandits in Galadima Kogo Village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State have been declared missing days after the team suffered a heavy casualty in an ambush.  According to findings by SaharaReporters, the soldiers from a forward operation base received a distress call of bandits shooting sporadically at a village located on the outskirts of Galadima Kogo on the night of March 15, 2020.  See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Boko Haram Terrorists Ambush Nigerian Soldiers In Borno, Kill 45 0 Comments 8 Hours Ago The team consisting of soldiers, mobile policemen and vigilantes arrived at the location to discover the community sacked and with an unspecified number of cows carted away and some persons abducted by the bandits. After conducting a clearance operation, the team went in pursuit of the bandits supported by one NAF helicopter.  While the helicopter went for refuelling, the team reportedly ran into an amb

  The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has finally added Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, and Bala Mohammed, Governor of Bauchi State, to its real-time count of confirmed cases of persons infected with Coronavirus in Nigeria. SaharaReporters had on Monday exclusively reported that Kyari was infected with the virus as his test result came out positive but the NCDC refused to confirm it. Similarly, Mohammed’s result came out positive on Tuesday with a release from the state government informing the public about it.  In a post on the official Twitter handle of the NCDC, the agency stayed silent on the cases and simply said one case was confirmed in Abuja and another in Bauchi. “Two new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Nigeria: one in FCT and one in Bauchi.  "The cases have travel history to Germany and the UK,” the NCDC tweeted. With the addition of the two, the total confirmed cases in the country hit 44.  For a breakdown of case

Ope Saraki in court Ope Saraki in court Google   The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a former Senior Special Assistant to Kwara State governor on Sustainable Development Goals, Ope Saraki, on a money laundering charge. Arraigned before Justice Babangana Ashigar of Federal High Court, Ilorin, Kwara State, on March 24, Saraki, a cousin to immediate-past President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki,  was alleged to have received a cash payment of N11.1m from one Kunle Adimula, an employee of Kwara State Government, in February 2019. The sum, according to EFCC, “exceeded the cash payable to an individual and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 and 16 of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 (as amended) and punishable under Section 16 of the same Act.” While the prosecuting counsel, Sesan Ola, pushed for prompt commencement of the trial in order to enable the prosecution to call its witnesses and prove its case, the defence coun

  The Lagos State Market Leaders and Traders' Association has resolved to closing all markets, showrooms and stores in the city from Friday. The decision was hinged on the increasing number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The state chapter of the association in a notice jointly signed by Comrade Christopher Okpala, President; and Comrade Okey Enwuru, Secretary; said that the association was also concerned and worried about the dire economic crisis the pandemic had thrown the world into, adding that it hopes things normalises soon. The association said that after due consultations and deliberations with markets leaders, it will be deploying a “life first” approach. The association enjoined all residents of the states to stock foodstuffs in their houses as markets would be closed for seven days. Traders are ordered to stay at home during this period and ensure they abide by preventive measures advised by the state government. “We advise all

  The announcement of a N20 reduction in the price of Petroleum Motor Spirit has received mixed reactions across the country. For the petroleum industry, which will feel the wider impact, it has come as a big break for the downstream marketers in the country. Taking a deeper look at the recent announcement by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the policy gains is subject to the government retaining a free market by setting gasoline pump prices in line with prevailing global oil prices. Despite this policy move, an immediate boost to product sales volumes in H1, 2020 is not likely due to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic, which will affect social, religious and economic activities in major cities such as Lagos. In context, there are indications that there will be increased petroleum importation activities by marketers, following the recent official figures that shows Lagos accounting for 20 per cent and 55 per cent of national gasoline consumption respectively

  Graphic details have emerged on how Boko Haram terrorists ambushed and killed more than 50 military personnel including top commanders during an attack in Borno State on Saturday. The military personnel were on their way to Alagarno Forest, Borno, to decimate a Boko Haram camp when the incident occurred. Among those killed in the ambush are Major Dominic, the second in command of 120 Battalion at Goniri, an Artillery Major, Air Liaison Officer, a Flight Lieutenant and an Airforce Officer.  See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Boko Haram Terrorists Ambush Nigerian Soldiers In Borno, Kill 45 0 Comments 8 Hours Ago Intelligence reports exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters shows that the military personnel on the mission code-named Operation Ayiso Tamonuma, were ambushed shortly after they departed Harbour Area close to Gorgi in Borno. The insurgents attacked the rear convoy where the Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher and Sink Yellowbucket Truck loader with soldiers were pos

Bayo Oluwasanmi Bayo Oluwasanmi   With the exception of President Nelson Mandela who received treatment and care in his own country until he passed away, no African president received medical treatment in their own countries. Once African presidents assumed power, they become tyrannical tin gods to be revered, worshipped, and addressed as “His Excellency.” They turn their citizens into paupers at best, and serfs at worst. They become untouchable and invincible. Public institutions such as hospitals are not suitable or standard enough for them to receive medical treatment. Having turned their hospitals into abattoirs, they make overseas hospitals their permanent medical centres where they receive treatment. The list of African presidents who died while receiving treatment in overseas reads like a page lifted from the diary of a funeral home. 1. After 26 years in office, President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea at age 62 passed away in a US hospital while undergoing cardiac tre

Fredrick Nwabufo Fredrick Nwabufo   Dear Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, I have not come gloat over your affliction by Coronavirus (COVID-19); I have come to sympathise with you and to wish you strength as you pull through this deadly infection. But I will not express my sympathies without some censuring. Really, I believe coronavirus is an inevitable doom. It has been suggested by some health experts that the disease could spread to as much as 60 per cent of the world’s population – if it spirals out of control. “The coronavirus epidemic could spread to about two-thirds of the world’s population if it cannot be controlled,’’ reports The Guardian UK quoting Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist. We can only do what we can not to get infected. But this virus has shown itself to be indiscriminate of race, class or gender. It could be any of us today or tomorrow. None is impregnable to this lethal enemy. Top politicians, celebrities, and di

Megarachne . Megarachne was a predatory freshwater arthropod of the order of eurypterids, often called sea scorpions. Two fossil specimens of the genus have been discovered, in San Luis, Argentina, in deposits of Late Carboniferous age from the Gzhelian stage. Megarachne ("great spider") was initially misidentified as a spider. With a body length of 54 cm (1.77 ft), it was a medium-sized eurypterid, similar to others within the Mycteropoidea, a rare group known primarily from South Africa and Scotland. The mycteropoids evolved a specialized method of feeding referred to as sweep-feeding, raking through the substrate of riverbeds to capture and eat smaller invertebrates. Due to their fragmentary fossil record and similarities between the genera, Megarachne and two other members of its family, Mycterops and Woodwardopterus, have been hypothesized to represent different developmental stages of a single genus.

Megarachne . Megarachne was a predatory freshwater arthropod of the order of eurypterids, often called sea scorpions. Two fossil specimens of the genus have been discovered, in San Luis, Argentina, in deposits of Late Carboniferous age from the Gzhelian stage. Megarachne ("great spider") was initially misidentified as a spider. With a body length of 54 cm (1.77 ft), it was a medium-sized eurypterid, similar to others within the Mycteropoidea, a rare group known primarily from South Africa and Scotland. The mycteropoids evolved a specialized method of feeding referred to as sweep-feeding, raking through the substrate of riverbeds to capture and eat smaller invertebrates. Due to their fragmentary fossil record and similarities between the genera, Megarachne and two other members of its family, Mycterops and Woodwardopterus, have been hypothesized to represent different developmental stages of a single genus.