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The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has advised the Nigerian government that immunisation is the only measure to curb the spread of COVID-19 and not another lockdown as the country deals with a second wave of the disease.  The NANNM President, Abdulrafiu Adeniji, in an interview with SaharaReporters, stated this, adding that while lockdown was a “mere means of breaking the chain of transmission, it is not a holistic measure.”  Talks of another lockdown in Nigeria have been generating controversies in some quarters amid the fresh surge of COVID-19 cases. But speaking with SaharaReporters on Tuesday, Adeniji described lockdown as a mere step to break the chain of transmission of the disease, noting that a holistic measure such as immunisation was necessary.  He said, “The only measure is immunisation. If immunisation is not there, then we have to break the chain of transmission’ lockdown is just a mere step to break the chain of transmission....

A female pastor, Mrs Rachael Alabi, on Wednesday told a Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan, Oyo State to dissolve her nine-year-old marriage to her husband, Pastor Segun Alabi, because he was allegedly making efforts to use her for ritual purposes. SaharaReporters gathered that Rachael made the submission before Chief Ademola Odunade, the court’s President, saying that her life was under serious threat due to her husband’s desperation to acquire spiritual powers to perform miracles. She added that she barely survived the last attempt allegedly made by her husband to use her for ritual purposes after he had used voodoo on her. “I never knew that Pastor Segun combined ‘fetish doctoring’ (dabbled in the occult along) with evangelism, else, I would have stayed away from him. “As soon as I got into his house as a wife, I noticed that I started becoming slimmer and losing blood to the extent that my bones became so visible to any onlooker. “All Segun kept telling me was th...

Nigerian rapper, Usman Umar, also known as SojaBoy, and America’s Lisa Hamme have been having problems in their relationship for more than six months and are now officially getting divorced. According to InTouch, Usman confirmed he had sent Lisa divorce papers. He said, “Lisa and I are no longer together, she was served papers last week and she doesn’t want to accept it.” He added that his lawyer tried to communicate with Lisa, but she “cut the call.” Usman, 30, also said that his life had improved since breaking up with Lisa, describing how “happy” he was “without the drama.” Also, in a post on Instagram, the rapper thanked God for setting him free as he said he was either brainwashed or charmed by his estranged wife. He wrote, “Is either I was brainwashed or I was charmed by this woman, look at my mum and brother’s faces, they were all not happy but I keep on going. Thanks to almighty for setting ME free (sic).” Lisa and Usman’s relationship began on the Internet, where...

Two Nigerians have been arrested alongside a woman, in Bengaluru, India, after they were found with 3,000 ecstasy pills and cocaine.  The two Nigerians, one of which is Emmanuel Micheal, was also suspected to be in possession of fake international passports.  The trio was arrested on drug peddling charges received from the Netherlands and Ethiopia through postal parcel service for distribution.  In a statement released by the Central Agency, a team of Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB), officials had arrested Ramla Shedafa Nancy and Emmanuel Michael when they arrived to collect the parcels at the Foreign Post Office last Friday.  According to the statement, a total of 3,000 yellow and grey-coloured ecstasy pills, weighing 610 gm were hidden in table cloth layers in the parcels. The NCB team also recovered 235 grams of cocaine concealed in the inner walls of a corrugated box from another parcel. MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine), commonly known as ecs...

The Egyptian Immigration Service on Monday has detained 59 Nigerians travelling to the United Arab Emirates at the Cairo International Airport. SaharaReporters gathered that the passengers had boarded an EgyptAir flight from Lagos to Dubai, which would have a stopover at the Cairo airport.  One of the passengers told SaharaReporters that they were stopped from booking hotels and confined to a particular area in the airport and that all they were told was that it was for “security reasons”. He said they were exposed to COVID-19 risks and extreme weather conditions. He said, “Our plan was to take a trip from Lagos to Dubai with a stopover in Egypt and we are being held with no reasonable explanation; we have children, women and men here who have had to sleep on the floor and chairs. “EgyptAir started their shoddy service delivery from Lagos by delaying flights for 75minutes, little did I know our ordeal had just begun. We got to Egypt at 9:20pm on Tuesday and we were aske...