For several months, beginning August, 2019, Ripples Nigeria took on the task of ranking Nigerian governors based, among others, on policy initiatives and execution. In March, we deviated from the tradition and appraised the governors on the strength of their individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic which had gripped the world. Our regular template (Top 5, Bottom 5 ) was retained. Because the pandemic remains both a local and international threat, we are forced by existential realities to continue the use of the COVID-19 parameter as a yardstick to measure how well Nigerian governors acquitted themselves in April, 2020, in…
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Jigawa people now live in fear as mysterious deaths had claimed 100 lives in the state The Jigawa state government is however reported investigating circumstances surrounding the mysterious deaths of over 100 persons in Hadeja local government area of the state. The Special Assistant to the Local Council Chairman on Media, Sani Kakabori, who confirmed this to newsmen, said an average of ten persons mostly above the ages of fifty, have died everyday within the last ten days in the local government. Meanwhile, the State Chairman COVID 19 Task force who is also the Commissioner of health, Dr Abba Zakari…
Researchers in the United States (US) have reformulated an HIV medication that could eventually be taken once a year. According to the findings of a new study published online in the journal ‘Nature Materials,’ the idea of the new medication is to free people from needing daily pills. The work is in the early stages, having been studied in lab animals. But the goal is to create an HIV drug that can be injected annually — offering protection from infection or control of the virus in people who already have it. The researchers, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center…
Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, the late Head of State of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha has sent Nigeria a whooping sum of money. The Federal Government, on Monday, confirmed the receipt of $311m looted by the late military dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha. Ourworldgist gathers that the loot was repatriated from the United States and the Bailiwick of Jersey. The Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, said approximately $311,797,866.11 of the Abacha loot was repatriated from the US and Jersey. According to Malami,…
The unedited press release obtained from the National Pension Commission (Commission (PENCOM) has affirmed the appoitment of Alhaji Kashim Ibrahim Imam as PFA Chairman of Board. The press release reads thus: ” The National Pension Commission (Commission) wishes to inform stakeholdersin the Nigerian Pension Industry and the general public that its regulatory intervention in First Guarantee Pension Limited (the PFA), which resulted, amongother things, in the appointment of an Interim Management Committee (IMC) tosuperintend over the affairs of the PFA had been concluded. The intervention was undertaken in August 2011 based on the findings of the Routine and Special examinations…
Inspite of lockdown across the globe as occasioned by COVID-19, Togolese president Faure Gnassingbe was sworn into office over the weekend at a ceremony streamed on Facebook. The occasion which was steamed live on Facebook for 18 minutes took place in a hall in the capital Lome with the Constitutional Court judges presided over the ceremony. The President of the court administered the oath of office to Gnassingbe – his fourth consecutive term. His oath included amongst others a solemn pledge to respect and defend the constitution, to faithfully fulfill the high functions entrusted to him, to be guided only…
Amid call by Bill Gate for a clinical trial of COVID 19 vaccine in Africa, the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute has called on the African Union (AU) to support Madagascar towards marketing its newly found cure for COVID-19. A video conference meeting led by Andry Rajoelina, President of Madagascar, has been held among 10 African leaders to discuss the efficacy of the COVID Organics Medicine, which has been developed by Madagascar to treat COVID-19 patients. “We urge the African Union through its Commission on Continental Free Trade Area to seize the golden opportunity and encourage all African countries to coordinate…
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Microfinance Bank has started the payment of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) N50 billion Targeted Credit Facility,. The reserve is planned for helping families and offices seriously influenced with the guide of COVID-19. Abubakar Kure, the Managing Director of NIRSAL MFB, who propelled the dispensing on Thursday in Abuja, expressed that 3,256 people and organizations would benefit from the first tranche of disbursement. In excess of 80,000 solicitations had been gained by methods for NIRSAL, the facilitator of the plan, on fourteenth April 2020. Read Also: Breaking: CBN Declares…
You Either Stand Up Now Or You Start Learning Chinese Language by Cade Adam (1) The argument – “We they borrow to rebuild Naija” has been an effective propaganda campaign from OBJ-1999 to Buhari-2020, propagated by the party in power, and amplified by their footsoldiers – bankrolled by Chinese contractors and their Nigerians collaborators exclusively empowered to carry out the corrupt-prone rebuilding with over 60% never completed (2) In the last 21 years, PDP, APC, and their Chinese gangsters have been so good in this 419, that majority of Nigerians are unable to link it for example to; Buhari and…
Police operatives from Idimu Division in Lagos have arrested one Rasaq Babalola while his wife identified as Mama Raheem fled after they allegedly conspired and paid assassins to eliminate his neighbour, Emeka Anozie, over Covid-19 palliative during the current lockdown. P.M EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Agbo Komolafe Street, Unity Estate, Idimu area of Egbeda, Lagos, where they reside. The suspect, Rasaq, has been arrested and detained at the Police Station while efforts were being made to arrest his wife, who he said fled after the plot was foiled and the assassins had escaped. Trouble was said to…