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COVID-19: Nigerian Doctors Guild React As Facebook, Others Delete Video Of African Doctor Who Made COVID-19 Cure Claims

The Guild of Medical Directors of Nigeria has reacted to the viral video of Dr Stella Immanuel on using hydroxylchloroquine to cure COVID-19. Immanuel in the video that has gone viral on the Internet, claimed that she had treated over 350 COVID-19 patients using hydroxylchloroquine. She also claimed that the drug could be used to […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2BDoUSW via EDUPEDIA

Former Pension Reform Chairman, Maina, Released From Prison Custody

Abdulrasheed Maina Ex-Chairman of the now scrapped Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, standing trail for misappropriating N2bn of pension funds, has been released from the Kuje prison in Abuja. This was confirmed by one of his lawyers, Ademola Adedipe, according to a report by PUNCH. Maina had been in detention since November 2019 following […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/30TvJZm via EDUPEDIA

Drop False Charges Against El-Zakzaky, Shiites Tell Buhari, El-Rufai

Ibraheem-El-Zakzaky Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria popularly known as Shiites have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, to drop all false charges against their leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and release him immediately. The group described the continued detention of the cleric and his wife, Zeenat, as flagrant violation of […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2P6tmgi via EDUPEDIA

I Am Not A Beneficiary Of NDDC Contracts, Justice Dimgba Says

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court has said that he did not get any contract from the Niger Delta Development Commission contrary to the media reports. Justice Dimgba in a letter to the Chief Justice of the Federal High Court noted that the road project linked to him was executed in his hometown […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2BIPhag via EDUPEDIA

Local Government Elections To Hold In Ondo August 22

The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission has fixed August 22, 2020 for local government elections in the state. Yomi Dinakin, ODIEC Chairman, made the announcement in Akure, the state capital, on Tuesday. The commission had previously fixed December 18, 2018 and April 18, 2020 for the exercise but postponed it due to some factors including […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/30U1Ac9 via EDUPEDIA

How To Kill Businesses In Nigeria: The Police Example By Amuda Mosigbodi

One of the things that Nigeria has come to be notorious for is the endemic corruption that pervades every sector in the country. These maladies are the reasons for the continued migration of a good number of the population to other climes. It is bad enough that the situation of things in the country is […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2P3Jcbp via EDUPEDIA

Niger Delta Students Storm NDDC Headquarters, Demand Payment Of Two Years Allowances Of Foreign Students

Nigerian students under the aegis of the Niger Delta Students Union Government have asked the Niger Delta Development Commission to begin payment of allowances to students studying abroad under the scholarship programme of the commission. The students made the demand when they staged a protest to the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/39zLKHL via EDUPEDIA

Ondo Students Deny Endorsing Governor Akeredolu For Second Term In Office, Urge Police To Arrest Impostors

Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu Ahead of the governorship election in Ondo State, students in public tertiary institutions across the state on Tuesday denied endorsing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for re-election into office. The Independent National Electoral Commission had fixed the state’s governorship election for October 10, 2020. Speaking through Students Union Government Presidents in the four […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/307JsMP via EDUPEDIA

Ondo Election Will Be A Replay Of 2016, Says Akeredolu

Ahead of the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who is also the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, has said the exercise would be a replay of what happened in the 2016 election, which he won. Akeredolu said that even though he would be facing Mr Eyitayo Jegede, candidate of […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3g8VJGr via EDUPEDIA

CBN Advised To Stop Forcing Banks To Give Out Loans

The Central Bank of Nigeria has been advised to stop coercing deposit money banks to keep giving out loans. Agusto & Co said in its 2020 banking report that forcing DMB’s to grow their borrowing will encourage ‘weaker risk management practices. The indigenous rating firm said a further slowdown in economic activities or a total […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3fc8tuu via EDUPEDIA

CAN Calls For Genuine Intervention In Southern Kaduna Killings, Says Government Must Redeem Its Image Now

CAN President The Christian Association of Nigeria has called on the Nigerian Government to begin a genuine intervention in putting an end to the incessant killings in Southern Kaduna. The umbrella Christian body in the country chided the government for allowing the killings to continue through its inaction. President of CAN, Samson Ayokunle, in a […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3f7ZGty via EDUPEDIA

Court Jails Ex-Air Force Chief, AVM Mamu, Over Corruption

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of Air Vice Marshal Alkali Mohammadu Mamu. Mamu, a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian Air Force Holding Company and Air Force Commanding, Training Command, was pronounced guilty by the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja. This followed the appellate court’s reversal of his […] Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3g9g91P via EDUPEDIA

Botswana: BTTA Selects National Team Squad

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone — The Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) this weekend hosted round four of the final national team selection process in Gaborone. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/3g7fTk9 via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/39Bmcd2 via EDUPEDIA

Kenya: Former AFC Leopards Coach Fired By Yanga After Equating Fans to ‘Dogs and Monkeys’

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Former AFC Leopards head coach Luc Eymael has been fired by Tanzanian giants Yanga SC after a classless rant calling the club’s fans ‘stupid and uneducated’ following a poor run this season where they finished second in the standings. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/2P1nuET via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/2Dajzmv via EDUPEDIA

Kenya/Tanzania: Former Leopards Coach Eymael Fired By Yanga for ‘Racist’ Rant

[Nairobi News] Former AFC Leopards coach Luc Eymael has been shown the door by Tanzanian giants Yanga SC for his outlandish post-match comments in the team solitary goal win over Lipuli in their last match of the league played on Sunday afternoon at the Samora Stadium in Iringa. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/2CNeGjE via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3jIwsoG via EDUPEDIA

Kenya: Olunga Shines Brightest Among Kenyans Stars Abroad With a Hat Trick

[Nairobi News] Kenyan striker Michael Olunga continued with his great form as he grabbed a hat trick in Kashiwa Reysol’s 5-1 thrashing of Vegalta Sendai in the Japanese top-tier match at the Sankyo Frontier on Sunday afternoon. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/2CKtJur via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/32YNhWw via EDUPEDIA

Kenya: Timbe Set to Return to China After Reading Loan Spell Ends

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Harambee Stars winger Ayub Timbe has announced he will return to his Chinese club Beijing Renhe after his six-month loan stint with English Championship side Reading FC ended. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/3jWhlrY via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/30SPq3l via EDUPEDIA

Kenya: Kenyans Abroad – Olunga Tops Japan League Golden Boot Hunt, Oduor Saves Barnsley

[Capital FM] Nairobi — Michael Olunga continued with his rich vein of form in the Japanese J-1 league scoring a hattrick as his side Kashiwa Reysol thrashed Vegalta Sendai 5-1 to take his season tally to eight and sitting top of the goal scorer’s chart. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/2D9UQic via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3hF45G4 via EDUPEDIA

Kenya: Meet Eugene Asike, the Footballer and Fashionista

[Nairobi News] Tusker FC defender Eugene Asike has lately been causing a buzz on the social media with his stylish photos that reveal a side that many did not know about him – his fine sense of fashion. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/3hNMUSZ via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3jTiX5R via EDUPEDIA

Rwanda: What Next for Dusabemungu After Announcing Retirement?

[New Times] After announcing his retirement from international Cricket, former captain of the men’s national cricket team Eric Hirwa Dusabemungu has revealed that he is going into coaching. from AllAfrica News: Sport https://ift.tt/2BFdtdA via SportWorld Source from EDUPEDIA247https://ift.tt/3jKzdG7 via EDUPEDIA