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Nigeria’s July programmes showed higher output on key grades on Tuesday after the country reduced its production in May and June to meet an OPEC-led deal to cut output as coronavirus lockdowns weighed on fuel demand. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Friday raised June official selling prices for both Bonny Light BON-E and Qua Iboe crude oil QUA-E to dated Brent minus $1.05 per barrel. According to Reuters, the May differential for Bonny Light was dated Brent minus $3.95 per barrel and for Qua Iboe, minus $3.92. According to loading programmes showed on Tuesday the exports of Nigeria’s…

At least a total of 875 people have committed suicide during the lockdown period in Nepal to curb the spread of COVID-19. The country has been under lockdown, against the novel coronavirus disease, since March 24. According to the data compiled by the Nepal Police, the cases, across the country, increased by 16 per cent in the first month of the lockdown. A total of 482 suicide cases were filed during mid-March to mid-April in police stations across the country against 414 cases for the period between mid-February and mid-March. The data suggests that the number during the lockdown is…

With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ravaging the world currently, the global populace is being inundated with a new forced reality. Loved ones have fallen ill with some, sadly, passing away, businesses have been shut and social movement and interaction have been greatly limited. But despite all these uncertainties, MultiChoice Nigeria, operators of DStv and GOtv, has continued to operate and serve its customers during this unprecedented period. The flow of information is very essential at this time and all customers need to remain updated on the current reports and trends across the world. As Nigerians are being encouraged to…

The Presidency has denied reports in the media that a presidential directive was issued to cancel 150 memos signed by late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari. A statement by Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity urged Nigerians to ignore the reports. “The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to media reports alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled a number of memos and appointments signed off by his former Chief of Staff. “Not surprisingly, these reports have quoted unnamed sources,” he said. Buhari cancels appointments, approvals made by…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 276 confirmed new coronavirus cases in the country on Tuesday. The 276 cases announced by the Centre for Disease Control takes the total number of confirmed cases to 8344. The NCDC also announced the discharge of 74 patients from isolation centers across the country with 16 new deaths reported. Lagos state, the epicentre of the virus in Nigeria topped the number of confirmed cases with 161 new cases taking the total number of confirmed cases in Lagos alone to 3756. Nigeria announces 229 new coronavirus cases Thirty six new cases were…

Nigerian Twitter is abuzz with news of the appointment of Toni Kan as Spokesperson to the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. Wailers are insisting that Toni Kan, award winning writer, Public relations expert and media entrepreneur is an enemy of the APC and the president. But nothing could be farther from the truth. An ideas man and committed Nigerian Toni Kan has never been content to merely criticise. He is a firm believer in the fact that those who criricise must also show how the job can be done better. When he got tired of…

A man named Jesus was has been arrested for destroying a church’s antique stained glass window with a rock in North Carolina. Jesus Jose Arellano was charged with injury to real property for using a foot-long sandstone rock to hack through 6 inches of plexiglass to reach the stained glass window at Grace Moravian Church Monday night, WXII 12 reported Thursday. About 2 square feet of the 30-foot stained glass window, which dates back to 1925, was destroyed from Arellano’s vandalism, the outlet said. Cops found Arellano lurking in a nearby cemetery the next day and arrested him, the outlet…

The United States has demanded a fresh probe of the president of African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, over allegations leveled against him. Bloomberg reports that Adesina was accused by a group of unidentified whistleblowers of handing contracts to acquaintances and appointing relatives to strategic positions at the Abidjan-based lender. However, Le Monde, a French newspaper, reported that the petition was allegedly spearheaded by an elected staff member to “discredit” Adesina’s candidacy for reelection. Newsmen report that Adesina, a Nigerian, is the sole candidate for the bank’s election expected to hold in August. After the allegation, the AfDB’s board asked its…

Countries could see a “second peak” of coronavirus cases during the first wave of the pandemic if lockdown restrictions are lifted too soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO’s head of emergencies, told a briefing on Monday that the world was “right in the middle of the first wave”. He said because the disease was “still on the way up”, countries need to be aware that “the disease can jump up at any time”. “We cannot make assumptions that just because the disease is on the way down now that it’s going to keep…

Few weeks after a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has suspended the process. It hinged its decision to temporarily halt the test trial of the drug on safety concerns. This is based on a report published by Lancet, which indicated that more people are dying from the use of the drug to combat the pandemic. Announcing the decision in an online briefing on Monday, WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “As you know, more than two months ago, we initiated the Solidarity Trial, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of four…