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There was pandemonium at the Kaduna custodial centre on Tuesday morning which left two officers of the centre injured, witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES. According to sources at the Nigeria Correctional Service, the inmates, around 11.30 a.m, protested their continued detention following a suggestion by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, that the centres should be decongested nationwide to avoid the spread of raging Coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The sources, who do not want to be named, told PREMIUM TIMES that the inmates had thrown stones and other dangerous items at the officials of the service who were on duty and who had attempted to calm them down. Minister’s appeal for decongestion Following what he described as the outcome of the Presidential Task Force meeting on COVID-19, Mr Aregbesola, last week, called for the quick decongestion of correctional centres in Nigeria to avert the spread of the dangerous disease. According to a statement signed by the ministry’s...

The Nigerian government has announced four new cases of COVID-19 in the country. This brings the total number of cases so far confirmed on Tuesday to eight. Four cases were earlier confirmed Tuesday morning. The total number of confirmed cases in the country is now 139 at the time of this report. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said of the four new cases reported in Nigeria, three are in the FCT and one in Lagos. The public health agency said “as at 08:00 pm 31st March there are 139 confirmed cases of COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Nine have been discharged with two deaths.” Of the eight new cases reported on Tuesday, so far, three are in Osun, three are in the FCT, one in Lagos and one in Ogun State. Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently. It said all new cases have mild to moderate symptoms and are currently receiving care. Details A breakdown of cases by states show that Lagos is ...

More than half of all American adults have prayed for the end of the coronavirus outbreak, a poll by the Pew Research Center has found. The figure includes 86% of Americans who say they pray daily and 73% of US Christians, but also a small percentage of those who wouldn't normally pray. Among those who said they never pray, 15% admitted having to turned to prayer during this time, while 24% of Americans who describe themselves as not belonging to any  religion  said they had too. Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently. However, the restrictions placed on people to curb the spread of the  coronavirus  has reduced attendance at religious services. Of those who normally attend at least once or twice a month, 59% said they have reduced their attendance in light of the coronavirus. The drop may be explained in large part by many churches and other places of worship opting to cancel commu...

Sir Tafawa Balewa In view of the Covid 19 scourge this is the time for us to look within, to pray to our God, to gather our strength and to preach love, unity and peace. However that does not mean that we should act as if all was well before the arrival of the demon called Covid in our shores. It does not mean that we should close our eyes to the bitter truths of our pitiful condition and statehood and our insufferable and seemingly insurmountable predicaments or take them off the ball. It does not mean that we should forget about our quest to break the heavy chains that have held us bound and turn our backs on the quest to liberate our people. The coronavirus has come and in God’s name and time it will go. It’s ugly and unwelcome prescence does not mean that we should close our eyes to the monumental problems of our country and lose sight of the seemingly insurmountable challenges that we as a people are facing. This is all the more so when we are saddled with a Federal Gov...

As the country prepared for social distancing and eventual lockdown over coronavirus, a Nasarawa councillor grabbed headlines by marrying two brides same day. Ibrahim Oboshi, councillor for Iwogu ward in Keana council area, and the two brides Nazira Ozegya and Rabi Akose, appeared to have planned their big day together all along.  Follow us on twitter (ajuede.com) or on Instagram (ajuedeman) for details of the global situation presently. All three names were printed on the invitation cards sent out to guests. Oboshi married Ozegya in Keana at 10am and Akoshe in Obi at 12 noon on March 28. All three posed with a single cake for photographs as a “triple”.  Despite representing his ward, Oboshi claims to be a farmer. Both brides have moved into the same home.

A few days after he appeared in a video explaining how he led his troops to repel a major Boko Haram onslaught, Olusegun Adeniyi has been redeployed. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Adeniyi spoke in the video of how Boko Haram fighters attacked his troops with 15 gun trucks and fired over a hundred rockey propelled grenades. Senior army officers told PREMIUM TIMES that that admission was an indication of how strong the Boko Haram had become contrary to official claims that they had been technically defeated. Mr Adeniyi, a major-general, has now been redeployed from the theatre command in the North-east which he headed to the army research centre in Maiduguri. Another major-general, F. Yahaya, will now lead the Boko Haram war as theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole. The Boko Haram insurgency has caused tens of thousands of deaths since 2009, mainly in Northeastern Nigeria. Read the full army statement announcing the new postings below. Nigerian Army Approves New Pos...

US President, Donald Trump, went on a tirade against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on Monday, claiming there’s ‘something wrong with her’ and insisting that she’s a ‘sick puppy’ for holding up the $1 trillion economic stimulus package for a week even though she knew Americans were in desperate need of the aid during this coronavirus pandemic.   Congress passed a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus package on Friday and Trump signed it into law shortly after to help citizens, families and businesses recover economically from financial damages incurred as a result of coronavirus pandemic as the U.S. death toll from coronavirus doubled, reaching 2,000 in the US this weekend. The president’s attack against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi comes after she launched an attack against him Sunday morning for his handling of the coronavirus crisis. Pelosi, blasted the president on Sunday for exacerbating the coronavirus crisis, she said on CNN’s State o...