Abia Governor Ikpeazu Tests Positive To COVID-19, Goes Into Isolation

 

 

  The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has tested positive to COVID-19, and has gone into isolation.

  This was revealed in a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information, Abia State, John Kalu on Monday. The statement noted that Governor Ikpeazu had sent his sample for a COVID-19 test on May 30th and had directed members of the State Executive Council (EXCO) and the inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19 to do the same.

  According to the statement, the Governor’s first test result returned negative on Tuesday, 2nd June 2020. The Commissioner, however, said that the Abia leader did another COVID-19 test on Thursday, 4th, June 2020 with the sample returning positive.

  “As a result,” the statement added, “Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has gone into isolation, as required by relevant NCDC protocols, and he is being managed by a competent team of medical practitioners with a view to nursing him back to good health. “Consequent on the above, the Governor has directed his Deputy, Rt Hon Ude Oko Chukwu, to act on his behalf pending his full resumption of duties.”

  The statement, therefore, called on Abians to take the fight against COVID-19 serious and said the disease is real but not a death sentence. “Our state has the resources to manage patients back to good health,” the statement assured.

Over 1400 Boko Haram Terrorists Have Been Killed In The North East – Buratai

   Over 1400 Boko Haram terrorists have been neutralized in the NorthEast. This is one of the several successes recorded by the Nigerian military according to the Chief of army staff, Tukur Buratai.

  The Army Chief who has been with the troops on the frontline spoke to State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.

   General Buratai expressed joy with the morale and performance of the troops insisting that the military is determined to rid all parts of the country of terrorism and banditry.

Davido welcomes 4th child with London based lady

  Davido has allegedly welcomed a 4th child with a London based lady. According to reports, the lady -- Larissa welcomed a son in march in London.

 “She gave birth to a Baby boy since March. Her name is Larissa, a makeup artist based in London” a source said. This comes months after he welcomed his first son and third child with his Igbo fiancee, Chioma Rowland.

President Buhari nominates Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria’s candidate for World Trade Organisation’s DG election

   

  President Buhari has nominated former Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as Nigeria's candidate for the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) election coming up in 2021. 

The announcement was made on Thursday June 4, through the Nigerian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. President Buhari said in the diplomatic note that he was communicating Nigeria’s decision to withdraw the candidacy of Yonov Frederick Agah for the election and replacing him with Mrs Okonjo-Iweala. 

 Though he never revealed the reason for the withdrawal of Agah's candidature, he solicited for the support of AU member-States, as well as Permanent Missions and Embassies in Addis Ababa for Mrs Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy during the elections.

 

The letter reads in part; 

“The embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and permanent mission to the African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) presents compliments to all embassies and permanent missions in Addis Ababa and has the honour to inform that the Federal Government of Nigeria has withdrawn the candidacy of Ambassador Yonov Frederick Agah for election to the position of director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 

“Nigeria is therefore pleased to request the support of esteemed AU member states as well as permanent missions and embassies in Addis Ababa in favour of the candidacy of Okonjo-Iweala.”

 Mr Agah is currently one of the four deputy directors-general of the WTO. He was first appointed deputy director-general October 1, 2013 and reappointed for a second four-year term on October 1, 2017. His tenure runs out on October 1, 2021.

Brazil overtakes Italy as country with third-highest Coronavirus deaths; Toll tops 34,000

 

  Brazil has overtaken Italy as the country with the third-highest Coronavirus death toll after a daily record of 1,473 fatalities took its total tally to more than 34,000.

   The figure published by Brazil’s health ministry on Thursday night showed that only the United States and the United Kingdom have registered more deaths from the disease.   The official number of infections rose to nearly 615,000, the second-largest caseload in the world, behind the US.