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The US is to extend its European coronavirus travel ban to include the UK and Republic of Ireland. The ban will begin at midnight EST on Monday (04:00 GMT Tuesday), Vice-President Mike Pence announced. President Trump’s travel ban on 26 European countries, members of the Schengen free movement zone, came into force on Saturday. Mr Pence also announced that free coronavirus testing would be provided for every American. Speaking at the same news conference, President Trump said he had been tested himself and expected to get the results in the next 48 hours. The US has confirmed 51 deaths linked…

The legal status of the anti-Oshiomole arrow head and the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Victor Giadom, has been questioned. The deputy national publicity secretary of the party, Mr. Yekini Nabena, said Giadom lacks the legal right to the position he currently occupies having resigned from the National Working Committee (NWC) to contest as the running mate to Tonye Cole, the party’s governorship candidate in Rivers State during the 2019 general elections. APC’s deputy spokesman, while chatting with newsmen in Abuja on Saturday, questioned the legality of the Tuesday Emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting…

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has explained the rationale behind the appointments offered the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, by his administration. The Kaduna State Government had appointed Sanusi as the Vice Chairman of the state’s Investment Board as well as Chancellor of the State University, barely 72 hours after his dethronement as Emir of Kano. El-Rufai, while fielding questions from newsmen on Friday in Awe, Nasarawa state, when he came to visit the deposed monarch, said the Emir is a global asset that could turn around the economic fortunes of Kaduna state. The governor said the…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe zonal office on March 13, 2020 secured the conviction of Dr. Dallami Arab Rukuje and Isa Garba before Justice Abubakar Jauro of the Gombe State High Court on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, criminal misappropriation, aiding and abetting. Rukuje, the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Emergency Management Agency, GOSEMA, was accused of conspiring with Garba, the Store Officer to cart away some building materials meant to alleviate the sufferings of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in the state. The materials were provided by the Presidential Committee for the North-East Initiatives. Rather…

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced a change in the website of its ongoing recruitment scheme and has alerted citizens that application is free. In advertisement on national newspapers, NIS said the previous website indicated in its advert is no longer tenable. “Further to the recruitment advertisement published by the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB), in five national dailies on Friday 13th March 2020, the Board hereby informs that the website for the recruitment exercise has been changed to http://immigrationrecruitment.org.ng. “Consequently, the earlier website indicated in the previous publication is no longer in use and…

On-loan Wolves forward Patrick Cutrone is one of two more players at Fiorentina to test positive for coronavirus. The Italian, 22, returned to Serie A in January on an 18-month loan deal, six months after joining Wolves. On Saturday, Fiorentina confirmed that Cutrone, Argentine defender German Pezzella and physiotherapist Stefano Dainelli all had coronavirus. Serbian forward Dusan Vlahovic tested positive for the virus on Friday. In a statement the club said: “Patrick Cutrone and German Pezzella and physiotherapist Stefano Dainelli underwent tests, as they were showing some symptoms. FA Cup: Chelsea beat Liverpool to progress “All three [were] positive and are in…

Coronavirus cases in Spain have risen by 1,500 to more than 5,700, public health officials say. Spain is the worst affected country in Europe after Italy, which has more than 15,000 cases. The news comes as the Spanish government meets to declare a national state of emergency, for only the second time in its recent history. On Friday the World Health Organization (WHO) said Europe was now the “epicentre” of the pandemic. Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged countries to use aggressive measures, community mobilisation and social distancing to save lives. Several European countries have reported steep rises in…

*VP chairs first 2020 meeting of Research & Innovation council Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says in order to build local capacity to compete favourably with scientifically advanced economies, there is an urgent need to refine processes for funding research and innovation in the country. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Tuesday during the meeting of the National Research and Innovation Council held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Responding to a memo presented to the council on the need to improve funding of research and innovation in the country by Science and Technology Minister, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the Vice President said the…

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Jabi has ordered suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, pending the determination of a substantive suit. The Judge, Danlami Senchi, gave the order following an application of interlocutory injunction asking the court to suspend him, having been suspended as a member of the APC by the party in Edo State. The application was filed by an applicant, Oluwale Afolabi. Oshiomhole and APC are first and second respondents respectively. Afolabi argued the national chairman is currently suspended by the party and has not challenged the suspension.…

Operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Obi Sobenna Jude and Robert Sunday Olaoluwa, for defrauding unsuspecting members of the public, through job scam, by posing as foreigners working for American companies on the internet. The intelligence report was received and acted on by the Intelligence and Special Operations Section, ISOS, of the Kaduna zone. Upon receipt of the intel, operatives swung into action and stormed the residence of the suspects on February 29, 2020, at New GRA, Bayan Gida Yerima Gyade, Bauchi State where they were arrested. Under cross-examination, they confessed to the fact that they had been using different techniques to…