Author Archives: Thehood

Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has directed the complete lockdown of the state for Twenty four Hours for the next two weeks starting from the 13th of April, 2020. Following the announcement of a confirmed case of the deadly Corona Virus (COVID-19) disease in Minna, the state capital. However, a window is created toContinue reading “COVID-19:Government Announces Total Lockdown Effective Monday 13th April”

The National Human Rights Commission has expressed displeasure over the alleged inhuman treatment meted out on some Nigerians by the Chinese authorities in Beijing. Mr Tony Ojukwu Executive Secretary of NHRC in a statement in Abuja stated , that the commission noted with concern the alleged inhuman treatment. He said that the information at theirContinue reading “COVID-19: NHRC condemns alleged inhuman treatment Nigerians face in China”

The attention of the Ogun State Government has been drawn to incidences of violence, alleged robberies and related crimes resurfacing in the State, especially in the Sango-Ifo axis. The Government has not only moved swiftly into action, the affected towns including but not limited to Sango, Ijoko, Ifo, among others are currently under substantial securityContinue reading “Robberies: Ogun Government On Top Of Situation, Effects Arrests”

The Nigerian Army has warned movie and skits producers to stop giving the public negative impression about Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Army through a press release signed by the  Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa warned skit makers, the press release read thus: 1. There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic hasContinue reading “Stop Depicting The Military As Brutal In Your Drama Skits – Nigerian Army”

Now, here in Nigeria, what we are witnessing can be best described as a celebration of a season of shame, as expected, no reasonable measures or steps are being taken by those in power to cushion the inherent hardship of social restriction order caused by Coronavirus pandemic ravaging the whole world. Due to shortage orContinue reading “COVID19: NOW IS THE RIGHT TIME – Tunde Dawood-Akerele (a Lagos based novelist, poet and publisher)”

Today, I will be speaking on two different issues, which is of course are battling our political ideologies as an individual and as a country, our inability to reflect on these ideologies as been making us fail yet we believe we are succeeding in our political endeavours. Don’t we think we going to get alongsideContinue reading “Our Challenges And What We Can Do As Nigerians? – By ‘Yanju Uwala”

The immediate past Governor of Ogun State and the present Senator representing Ogun Central Senatorial District, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, CON, FCA, has concluded preparations to percentage Covid 19 food Palliatives packages across Ogun State. According to the media aide of the former Governor, Mr Bola Adeyemi, ” the food packages  consisting  of rice, garri, noodles,Continue reading “COVID-19: Amosun Commences Distribution of palliative materials across Ogun State”

The Ogun State Government has rolled out a mobile application for members of the public to self-assess themselves on individual basis for the dreaded Coronavirus. The State Government had in March launched a real time concurrently updated mobile application for health workers which has been deployed to all government and private health facilities across itsContinue reading “COVID-19: Ogun Deploys Mobile App for residents’ personal Self-Assessment”

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wishes to alert the general public that cyber-criminals are taking advantage of the current “COVID-19” pandemic to defraud citizens, steal sensitive information, or gain unauthorized access to computers or mobile devices using various techniques. This trend is not peculiar to Nigeria as there has been a rise in COVID-19-related cyber criminal activitiesContinue reading “Beware of COVID-19 Cyber-attacks and Fraud – CBN warns Nigerians”