British Airways is to make up to 12,000 staff redundant in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The airline has cut 94 percent of its flights and its parent company, IAG, lost almost half a billion pounds in the first three months of 2019, with much heavier losses expected. As a result, British Airways has begun…
Lagos State has recorded a new case of COVID-19 at its seaport on Tuesday. The case is an employee of APM Terminals, Apapa. A statement by the General Manager, External Relations, APMT, Daniel Odibe, said the worker last visited the port on April 16 but his COVID-19 status was confirmed on April 27. The statement…
A 24-Year-old man has been stabbed to death, just days after his father died from Coronavirus. Gomoh, who worked with the NHS, was speaking to a friend on the phone when he was stabbed “multiple times in a ferocious assault” by a group of men in masks seconds after leaving his home at 10.25 pm…
A police inspector attached to Imo State Government House was on Tuesday found dead along Avana Primary School Road, Shell Camp, Owerri, the state capital. Police sources said Inspector Haruna Kawura was strangled. It was gathered that the inspector’s body had bruises. The inspector was said to have gone out for a drink on Monday night,…
Enugu has announced a new confirmed positive case of COVID-19 in the State. The new case, coming about two weeks after the two index cases were discharged, is said to have a positive travel history. A statement by the Ministry of Health said the confirmed case reportedly traveled out of Enugu on March 28 and…
The strange deaths in Kano continued yesterday, with the passing of four prominent citizens of the state. They include a cleric, Sheik Tijjani Yola, who was also the head of Murtala Mohammed Central Mosque in the state; father of Vice-Chancellor of National Open University, NOUN, Uba Adamu; former speaker of Jigawa State House of Assembly,…
Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has confirmed the death of three COVID-19 patients in the state. Tambuwal, who made the disclosure in a statewide broadcast, according to a statement by his Special Adviser Media and Publicity, Muhammad Bello, said the deceased had underlying sicknesses, including diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure respectively. Tambuwal said: ”…
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina while speaking on This Morning programme on TVC News, disclosed that the person who leaked President Muhammadu Buhari’s draft speech hours before he delivered his address to the nation on Monday night, has been traced. According to Adesina, the version released was full of…
The Federal Government has asked a court in New York, the United States of America, to compel 10 foreign banks to release to its account details of former President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife, Patience, and the then Minister of Petroleum Resources in his administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. But Jonathan on Tuesday denied owning a foreign…
Some unknown gunmen on Tuesday attacked and killed a popular truck driver, Ojo Emmanuel, at Omi-Alafa area of Ifon in the Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. Another driver, Mr. Jelili Ajanaku, was also abducted by the gunmen at the same point early on Tuesday. It was gathered that the same gang of bandits…