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Saturday, 30 May 2020

Nigeria Records 387 New Cases Of COVID-19, Toll Now Hits 9302

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 387 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

According to a tweet from the NCDC on Friday night, Lagos State recorded 254 cases, the Federal Capital Territory recorded 29 cases, Jigawa State had 24 cases, Edo State recorded 22 cases, Oyo State recorded 15 cases, Rivers State recorded 14 cases and Kaduna State had eleven cases.

The tweet further revealed that Borno State recorded six new cases, Kano State receded three cases Plateau, Yobe, Gombe and Bauchi state had two cases each, and Ondo State recorded one case.

This brings the total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 9302 with 2697 patients discharged, and 261 deaths recorded.

Ukwulu community in Dunukofia LGA of Anambra State have cried out over the continued destruction of their farmlands and crops by cattles of Fulani herdsmen.

The leader of INRI Evangelical spiritual church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to be prayerful.

Ayodele said Buhari should “wake up” and take to prayer so as not to “lose another aide.”

The clergyman, who made the call in his latest prophecy, also warned the new Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari to be prayerful.

He said Gambari will step on toes because he wants to change things and some politicians will frame him up.

Ayodele called for prayers so as to avert another death in the Presidential Villa.

He said: “Buhari should wake up. He doesn’t have a grip on his government. There will be crisis in Buhari’s government, and he must be prayerful so as not to lose another special aide.

During the week, the news made the rounds that celebrity couple, Simi and Adekunle Gold, had welcomed their first child in the United States.

In light of this, many of their fans thronged to their social media handles to congratulate and celebrate the award-winning songstress who had announced that she was expecting her first child through her latest single titled, ‘Duduke’.

However, when Saturday Beats reached out to a close source to the couple who preferred anonymity, the source confirmed that Simi was currently abroad with her husband and mother but had not put to bed.

The source, while thanking fans for the congratulatory messages, noted that the couple would announce the birth of their child when it happens.

Nigerian National League side Bendel Insurance has lost their goalkeeper Umar Ahmad Jalingo who died in Gombe after a brief illness.

Before his untimely death, Umar Jalingo was hospitalized at the Federal Teaching Hospital in Gombe, where he was treated after serious illness.

And since the National League and football in general in Nigeria have been suspended due to Covid-19, Umar Jalingo had the chance to treat himself at the hospital. He later got better in the hospital in which the doctors who examined him discharged the goalkeeper on Wednesday, May 27, as his family members were happy.

Unfortunately, Umar Ahmad Jalingo died 24 hours later after failure to wake up from his sleep throwing his family and football fraternities in Nigeria into mourning. Super Eagles star gets private jet from his club to return home for late father’s burial.

Preliminary findings from investigation carried out by the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency has revealed that illegal abortion by unqualified medical practitioners has killed 200 women in Bauchi, as well as the cause of mysterious deaths in Azare and other local government areas in the northern part of the state, Daily Trust reports.

The Executive Chairman of the agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, who disclosed this yesterday at an interactive session organized by the Bauchi State Public Health Media Network, said the investigation had not been concluded on the development, but preliminary findings had revealed that the number of such deaths was about 200, adding that the number could be more at the end of the investigation.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Africa must now pay more attention to manufacturing.

He said this in an article published on American magazine, Newsweek.

The Nigerian leader advocated that increased production must top Africa’s post-coronavirus plans.

Buhari noted that what the continent needs is the vision of the global community to match Africa’s.

Assuring that Africa is positioned to play a critical role in the remolding of a post-coronavirus, he stated that he was convinced things will be different henceforth.

Buhari said Africa has seen the West transform to a service-based economy, with much of its factory production relocated primarily to Asia.

He noted that this led to the creation of home-grown consumer goods from countries such as South Korea and China that are enjoyed around the globe as widely as are their Western equivalents.

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old daughter in Lugbe area of Abuja.

The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Mr Bala Ciroma, disclosed on Friday this at a media briefing in Abuja.

Ciroma said the suspect was mentally stable and had confessed to having carnal knowledge of his daughter on several occasions.
He said that another suspect was also arrested for luring and forcefully having carnal knowledge of a six-year-old boy.

He said the suspect told the police that he committed the unnatural act with the minor while they were swimming at a river in Mpape.

The Commissioner of Police said operatives from the command, investigating a case of child trafficking on May 24, arrested a suspect for bribing police detectives with N200,000.

Forbes magazine has reversed it’s earlier rating of reality TV star, Kylie Jenner as the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.

Forbes, on Friday said that it no longer believe that her net worth was that much after reviewing a financial data released by Coty Inc, which bought a 51 per cent stake in Kylie’s Cosmetics company in November 2019.

DAILY POST recalls that Forbes had in March 2019 officially declared Kylie the youngest self-made billionaire of all time, snatching the title from Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

They reported that Jenner amassed a personal net worth of $1 billion through her range of make-up, Kylie Cosmetics.

However, Forbes has now estimated the net worth of Kylie who is now 22, at around $900 million.

The spouse of ex-Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, Kellie Chauvin has filed for divorce after her husband was arrested and charged with 3rd degree murder of George Floyd.

Kellie’s attorneys confirmed on Friday night that she is seeking the “dissolution of her marriage” to Chauvin.

“This evening, I spoke with Kellie Chauvin and her family. She is devastated by Mr. Floyd’s death and her utmost sympathy lies with his family, with his loved ones and with everyone who is grieving this tragedy. She has filed for dissolution of her marriage to Derek Chauvin,” the Sekula Law Office said in a statement Friday night.

Residents of Somolu Local Government Area of Lagos State were jolted awake on Saturday morning as fire razed the Olaleye Market in the area.

The PUNCH reports that the fire started around 3am, consuming goods and property worth billions of naira.

The cause of the fire has not been ascertained and no casualty has been recorded yet.

But officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Fire Service have arrived at the scene.

LASEMA Spokesperson, Nosa Okunbor, said, “Upon arrival at the scene, it was discovered that Olaleye Market located at Shomolu was gutted by fire.

“However, an investigation is currently ongoing to ascertain the cause of the fire.

“Lagos State Fire Service, LRU fire and the Federal Fire Service are currently battling the inferno and preventing it from spreading to residential buildings.

Nigeria's former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has sacked staff of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State, SaharaReporters has confirmed.

In a letter by its Head of Human Resources, Administration and Procurement, Olanike Ogunleye, the management of the OPL said the organisation was overwhelmed by the adverse effects of the Coronavirus pandemic and had found it hard to sustain its workforce.

The letter reads in part, "As you are aware, the current COVID-19 pandemic has had a toll on all our business significantly. This has resulted to making some difficult business decisions. Due to this situation, we regret to inform you that your employment will be put on hold till further notice.

A video circulating the social media shows the moment a lady and her friends teamed up to smash the windscreen of her lover. In the video, it could be heard that the guy cheated on the lady with some of her friends.

This warranted the lady to invite some of her friends over to deal with her guy for cheating on her with her friends.

From the video, the lady can be seen ordering her friend to break the windscreen and her friend obeyed the order to the latter.

Popular movie producer and actor, Segun Ogungbe is currently in a celebratory mood as his second wife, Wunmi Ajiboye recently gave birth to a baby boy.

Taking to Instagram, the actor shared cute photos of himself, his wife and their first son.

The couple‘s first son, Obadara also turned a year older on Saturday.

Ogungbe captioned the post;

“How exciting I am, to have another bouncing baby boy to the Ogungbe’s family.

AN Ondo State High Court has sentenced one Pastor Kolawole Samson to death by hanging for the murder of Ayo Olaniyi in Okeigbo council area of the state four years ago.

Delivering judgement, the trial judge, Justice Ademola Bola held that Pastor Kolawole was guilty of inflicting injury on the deceased’s head with a cutlass at Gberinlegi Village, via Okeigbo, which later led to his death at the hospital.

The state Attorney General and Justice Commissioner represented by two government counsel Mr Olusegun Akeredolu and Mrs Omotola Ologun, had told the court that the accused had on 3rd of March, 2016, inflicted deep cut injury on the head of the deceased.

They said that the injury was inflicted on him when he went to hunt for frogs with three other friends at a fish pond owned by the convict.

Arsenal defender, David Luiz’s possible new club has been revealed.

Luiz is expected to leave the Gunners this summer once his current deal expires on June 30.

The Brazilian centre-back joined the North London club last summer from Chelsea for £8million.

However, the 33-year-old has now confirmed he has held talks with Benfica president, Luís Filipe Vieira, over a ‘dream’ return to the Portuguese giant.

“I have already spoken with Benfica president, Vieira, about the return,” Luiz told Record in Portugal.

“When, I do not know, but it will happen, it will, if Vieira allows me and if the fans want me to come back.

As part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda to reduce the unemployment rate in the country, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has said that the Federal Government has agreed to pay N20,000 to unemployed youths to maintain public and social infrastructures in the country.

The proposed initiative will have youths engaging in the clearing of drainage, sweeping markets, road maintenance, traffic control, and cleaning of public infrastructures like health centres and schools.

Keyamo stated that the programme is designed to mitigate lack of job opportunities in the rural areas through a short-term engagement of 1,000 unemployed persons per local government area for a period of three months.

He went on to add that participants will be paid an allowance of N20,000 monthly and are to be recruited largely from the pool of unskilled persons resident in rural areas.

Nigerian singer, Daddy Showkey has narrated how he discovered popular social media platforms, Instagram, and Twitter.

He made this known during an Instagram live chat with comedian, Woli Arole.

He said “ I dey for my house I no even know wetin them dey call Instagram, I first go Wizkid place, he con dey tell me say Baba, you no get Instagram? I say I no get, he con dey say you go tag this one and that one.

"I no wan even know wetin dem dey call tagging. I no even know ‘Twitter’, the ‘tweeter’ wey I know na base and twitter on top sound."
He said it was an award-winning singer, Wizkid, and Kcee that both taught him how to use both applications.

The index case of COVID-19 in Kogi did not contract the disease from another state as he has not travelled recently, according to his family members, TheCable reports.

In a statement on Friday, Tai Ejibunu, obatebise of Oweland, said the patient identified as Ahmad Ejibunu, chief imam of Kabba, may have been infected in Kogi.

TheCable had reported how the state recorded its first cases of the disease who are now known to be the imam and one of his aides.

After the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the cases, the state government rejected the results, accusing NCDC of perpetrating fraud.

A General Court Martial sitting in Abuja has jailed six Nigerian Air Force personnel, who were aides to the former Chief of Defence Staff , Late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh .

The PUNCH reports that Badeh was shot dead in December 2018 by gunmen while on his way back from his farm .

The six air force personnel were on Friday awarded various sentences by the GCM which sat at the NAF Base , Bill Clinton Drive, Abuja.
According to the NAF in a release on Saturday morning by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola , the convicted personnel are ; Squadron Leader Tom Gwani , Flight Sergeant Amu David , Flight Sergeant Philemon Degema, Flight Sergeant Sabo Simon, Sergeant Mukhtar Abdullahi and Sergeant Alfred Alexander.

With the deadly Coronavirus still sweeping massively across the nation, Nigerians must be extremely careful where they travel to or else, they will be brought down by the pandemic.

Currently, Nigeria has raked in 8,915 confirmed cases of Coronavirus since February. It has been able to discharge 2,592 patients who survived the pandemic, with 259 people who died from the pandemic. Nigeria has 6,064 active cases of the virus to deal with as at Thursday, May 28.

Of this skyrocketing figures, 10 states in Nigeria play major roles in ramping up the virus. These states are dangerous to travel to right now. Some people who travelled to them in recent time came back with the virus.

The states are:

This afternoon, I commissioned the Eleyele Dam Rehabilation Project. I restated that the Ibadan urban food management project initiated by the previous admin was a courageous and bold move to ensure that we do not live the history of the floods of 26th August 2011 again.
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We flagged off the construction of Iwo Road Interchange today.

Singer, Davido’s personal assistant, Aloma blasted Afrofusion singer, Burna Boy in a live session on Instagram recently as he claimed the latter was fearful when he tracked him a while ago.

According to Aloma, himself and three other people tracked Burna Boy to a club sometime ago and when the singer was aware of their presence, he became humbled and was frightened by them. Aloma revealed that it took the intervention of Davido —who was in Atlanta at the time— for things not to get messy.

He went on to reveal that he has suggestive videos of the singer to prove that he has the singer at the back of his palms. Aloma’s lambasting Burna Boy comes days after the singer threw shades at Davido a while back.

The Federal Capital Territory Authority, FCTA, has confirmed 29 new COVID-19 cases in Abuja.

FCTA made the confirmation while disclosing that the capital city now has a total of 564 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

It also disclosed that a total of 162 patients have been discharged.

In a tweet on its official Twitter page on Saturday, FCTA wrote: “29 new cases in the FCT.

“Summary of COVID-19 FCT as at May 29th, 2020.

“Total number of confirmed cases: 564. Total number of active cases: 388

Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers said he could hardly walk after contracting the novel coronavirus in March but he has since made a full recovery.

Rodgers is the second manager to confirm he had a positive test for COVID-19 after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.

He said he showed strong symptoms and was left breathless after falling ill shortly after the Premier League season was suspended.

“I could hardly walk and it reminded me of walking up Mount Kilimanjaro,” Rodgers, who climbed the mountain for charity in 2011, said.

“We had a week off when we were supposed to play Watford and then the week after that, I started to struggle.

Monkeys 'Escape With COVID-19 Samples' After Attacking Lab Assistant

A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with a batch of coronavirus blood test samples, a report by Sky News has shown.

The bizarre incident saw the troop of primates launch their assault near Meerut Medical College in Delhi, India.

According to local media, the animals then snatched COVID-19 blood test samples that had been taken from three patients and fled.

One of the monkeys was later spotted in a tree chewing one of the sample collection kits, the Times of India reported - adding that test samples from the patients had to be taken again.

KIDDOMINANT NEW SINGLE “eWallet” FEATURING CASSPER NYOVEST IS AVAILABLE NOW

Kiddominant x Cassper Nyovest – ‘eWallet’…. Award-winning and multi-platinum selling Afrobeats producer, Kiddominant has just unlocked his debut single for the year 2020. The new dance track titled “eWallet” and featuring South African artist, Cassper Nyovest, is now available for streaming and download on major digital platforms.

This new single expresses Kiddominant’s newly created genre of South Afrobeats. It is a feel-good bop whose production soundscape is a fine blend of the burgeoning Amapiano template from South Africa and embellished with some good ole Afrobeats flavour. With the help of Cassper Nyovest, “eWallet” gives a complete African sound experience.

The new release is sequel also to the announcement of “Fall,” a track he wrote and produced for global star, Davido to be certified gold in the USA.

One Chisom Eze has allegedly killed his 19-year-old brother, Henry, during a fight over a bottle of soft drink at their place of residence on Johnson Street, Alaba area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that 21-year-old Chisom left the drink in the house and stepped out to attend to an issue, but when he returned, he discovered that Henry had taken advantage of his absence to consume the drink.

Angered by his brother’s action, Chisom was said to have grabbed a knife and stabbed Henry in the neck.

However, their sister, who allegedly witnessed the incident, raised the alarm and neighbours apprehended Chisom.

The leader of INRI Evangelical spiritual church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has warned Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to be cautious of his activities.

Ayodele warned that Oshiomhole may not be APC’s National Chairman in 2023 if he is not careful.

In his latest prophecies, the clergyman also warned APC against picking Pastor Ize Iyamu as it’s governorship candidate during the party’s upcoming primary election.

He said: ‘’If Ize Iyamu wins, Edo State will be worse than it is presently. He is not ordained to be governor but wants to be forced on the people of Edo State.

It’s indeed a sad day for the family of a 16-year-old girl identified as Tina who has lost her life days after she was hit by a stray bullet from a trigger-happy Nigerian Police Officers.

The hashtag #JusticeForTina is currently trending on social media as sympathizers are calling for justice.

According to reports, on that fateful day, the police officer aimed at a bus diver who he was trying to arrest for violating curfew and in the process mistakenly shot the unarmed teenager who happened to be nearby.

According to The Nation, the Assistant Manager, News and Current Affairs, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), channel 6, Aba, Abia State; Mrs. Chinyere Okoye has reportedly regained her freedom.

Though information about her release was still sketchy, it was learnt that she regained her freedom on Friday morning.

The Nation reporter could not confirm if the family agreed to pay the ransom demanded by her captors.

Mrs. Okoye was said to have been released on Friday after operatives of the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other police tactical units of Abia State Command of Nigeria Police Force (NPF) stormed the kidnappers den.

President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima, has accused Northern governors of turning banditry and killings in the region into business by not doing what is necessary.

Speaking with SaharaReporters, Shettima also blamed President Muhammadu Buhari for not taking definitive steps to end banditry and insurgency in the region.

He attributed the incessant killings to poor leadership in the region.

He said, “The renewed attack emanated from lack of leadership, those who are saddled with responsibilities are not serious.

“What does it take our security forces if not that everything has been politicized and some of them take it as a business that they make so much money out of it. What does it take to wipe off this banditry?

Wahala!!! Zlatan is about to disturb our speakers with another trending banger – “The Matter”.
Zanku master and lord of trends, Zlatan Ibile taps into the trending ‘Solve The Matter’ social trend as he hits the studio for a new banger. Zlatan announces a possible new single tagged ‘The Matter‘. This forthcoming song talks about the different matter Nigerians are trying to solve. He shared the snippet of ‘The Matter’ via his IG and it’s a Bang!

As produced by Mansa Jabulani, ‘The Matter’ will burst your speakers and timeline because there is really alot of matter at hand. Listen to the Snippet below as we anticipate the official release of the song

A video making the rounds on social media has captured the moment a woman bumped into her husband having lunch with his side chick at a restaurant.

The angry wife who couldn’t stand her husband with another woman landed serious slaps on his face. She asked him how he would have the guts to take a lady out while she is still alive.

She also bathed her husband with the plate of soup which he bought from the restaurant and asked him to meet her at home as she dashed out of the restaurant.

Former Governor of Ekiti, Engineer Segun Oni has assured the State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that his mission in the party is to encourage teamwork and build fellowship among members.

Oni recently dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the PDP with thousands of his supporters in the state.

In a letter signed by himself and a select group of 82 other leaders in his network across the 16 local governments in the state, he formally notified stakeholders and chapters of the party at the ward, state, and national levels of his recent return to the PDP.

One of the signatories to the letter, Dr. Ifeoluwa Arowosoge, said in a statement that the return of Engr. Oni to the PDP was a home-coming to the party that he helped to build and nurture and on whose platform he was elected governor in 2007.

Nigerian reality star and entrepreneur, Cynthia Nwadiora popularly known as Cee-C, recently took to Instagram page to share an interesting conversation she had with her stepmom about her fitness routine.

In a recent post which she shared yet another stunning photo of herself rocking an Ankara outfit, she revealed her mother expressed concern about her flat stomach.

The mother told her that she may not be able to tie wrappers if she keeps making her stomach flat. Cee-C however made it clear she had no intentions of tying wrappers.

A teenage boy has admitted to killing his ten-year-old sister in her sleep after they argued over using a computer tablet according to the Daily Mail news.

The girl, named as Luda and described by local media as smart and spirited, was hammered to death at her home in the city of Taraz, northern Kazakhstan.

She was found with a broken skull and died from horrific injuries before paramedics arrived at the scene.

According to the neighbours, the tragedy occurred after Luda and her brother Aleksey, 15, had a row in the courtyard near their house.

A neighbour who witnessed the incident said: I heard them quarreling over a tablet and saw Aleksey carrying a hammer in his hand. The girl’s head was crushed. A part of the skull fell off when paramedics lifted up her head.

An Ondo State High Court has handed a death sentence to a Pastor identified as Kolawole Samson, after he was found guilty of killing a middle aged man Ayo Olaniyi.

The deceased was attacked after he went to hunt for frogs alongside three others at a fish pond owned by Pastor Kolawole at Gberinlegi Village near Okeigbo area of Ile-Oluji/Okegbo Local Government Area of the state in March 2016.

Kolawole inflicted injuries on Olaniyi's head with a cutlass. Olaniyi died later at a hospital he was admitted in.

The prosecution attorneys argued that Kolawole’s action was contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Laws of Ondo State (2006).

Alex Kirkland
La Liga will restart on June 11, Spain's National Sports Council (CSD) has confirmed, three months after the coronavirus pandemic forced its suspension.

The announcement comes after Spain's government authorised the return of competitive sport in the country beginning June 8.

An official statement from the CSD read: "The Spanish football federation [RFEF] and La Liga have agreed, as part of the Contact Group formed together with the National Sports Council [CSD], the format of the eleven remaining matchdays to complete La Liga Santander and La Liga SmartBank [the first and second divisions]."

The first division will resume with the Seville derby between Sevilla and Real Betis on Thursday, June 11, at 10 p.m. CEST.

Yemi Alade kick starts 2020 officially with a brand new single titled “Boyz”, produced by Vtek.
Multiple award-winning African pop diva Yemi Alade releases a new song tagged “Boyz”. This brand new single is coming after the huge success of her fourth studio album “Woman of Steel“ released in 2019. The song is also a follow up to her recent output- ‘Shekere Music Video‘ featuring Grammy Award Winner Angelique Kidjo which is still topping Charts in the country and Africa.

Yemi Alade is a Nigerian Afro pop/rnb artiste, song-writer, composer, actress and entertainer. Yemi Alade is a BET Awards 2015 and 2016 nominee for Best International Act Africa. A two time nominee MOBO Awards for Best International Act 2014 and 2015, Winner MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) for Best Female 2015 and 2016.She is also a winner and nominee of other top African Awards.

“Boyz” As produced by Vtek Da Awesome is a record that appreciates the Guyz Dem (Hot Boys, 6 Pack Geng, Handsome men, Chairmen and the Beard Gand). Mama Africa is in love with y’all

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