Good morning my fellow Nigerians.
According to reports gathered so far, here are some of the breaking news we we have in Nigeria this morning morning, today being Sunday 21st of June 2020.https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-1883810847636355&output=html&h=316&slotname=8228856220&adk=3740527632&adf=3872947312&w=379&fwrn=7&lmt=1592729982&rafmt=11&psa=1&guci=2.2.0.0.2.2.0.0&format=379×316&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-af.feednews.com%2Fnews%2Fdetail%2Fa6f0b0387e84ee01cbbedaf084449595%3Fclient%3Dnews%26country%3Dng%26features%3D34359738287%26lang%3Den%26language%3Den%26low_perf%3Dfalse%26mode%3Dbody%26swdp%3D411%26uid%3D59ea195a14c73245908b3459860979f93f145498&flash=0&wgl=1&adsid=NT&dt=1592729982825&bpp=20&bdt=2729&idt=22&shv=r20200610&cbv=r20190131&ptt=9&saldr=aa&abxe=1&cookie=ID%3D5ff6075fb796208a-22325510c3a500fc%3AT%3D1592729563%3ART%3D1592729563%3AS%3DALNI_MaoyvGV57HYAwQA-gcPquDhWp6hTQ&crv=1&prev_fmts=0x0&nras=1&correlator=3671458678165&frm=20&pv=1&ga_vid=2035454856.1592729477&ga_sid=1592729982&ga_hid=1451484007&ga_fc=0&iag=0&icsg=2632447&dssz=13&mdo=0&mso=0&rplot=4&u_tz=60&u_his=1&u_java=0&u_h=892&u_w=412&u_ah=892&u_aw=412&u_cd=24&u_nplug=0&u_nmime=0&adx=16&ady=472&biw=412&bih=719&scr_x=0&scr_y=226&eid=42530493%2C42530495%2C26835106&oid=3&pvsid=1080096577340210&pem=714&rx=0&eae=0&fc=1924&brdim=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C412%2C0%2C412%2C719%2C412%2C719&vis=1&rsz=%7C%7CoEe%7C&abl=CS&pfx=0&fu=8336&bc=31&ifi=1&uci=a!1&fsb=1&xpc=020fWBCpMq&p=https%3A//cdn-af.feednews.com&dtd=93
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1. Nigeria Records 661 new Covid-19 cases and 12 Deaths were recorded as well.
Following the report presented by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, on Saturday being 20th of June 2020, Nigeria recorded 661 new Covid-19 cases and 12 death cases were reported as well.
Meanwhile The country now has the total number of 19808 confirmed cases, 6718 discharged and 506 deaths so far.
According to NCDC, the 661 cases were reported from 14 states, which includes
Lagos-230
Rivers-127
Delta-83
FCT-60
Oyo-51
Edo-31
Bayelsa-27
Kaduna-25
Plateau-13
Ondo-6
Nasarawa-3
Ekiti-2
Kano-2
Borno-1.
In your own opinion, when will this coronavirus of a thing stop?
2. Jigawa State has opened its borders with other states.
According to report this morning, Jigawa State Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has announced the open of the state and other states, which have been closed since March 24 due to covid19 outbreaks, according to the NAN report.
The governor, who spoke at a press conference in Dutse on Saturday, said that traffic between the state and the rest of the state would be opened in strict measures to prevent the disease.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the reopening comes a week after the weekly open market in the state.
Already 307 out of 317 infected people have been discharged after being cured, while nine have died. “We are praying not to go back to such an uncertain time,” the governor said.
“Currently only one person is being treated [with the virus], while the others at the condominium center have recovered and been discharged. “We are also thankful to God, that in the last four days no one has been infected.
With the prayers and help of the Jigawa people, we will end it,” Badaru said. NAN said the governor said the federal government has given the state a billion naira subsidy, plus 150 trucks full of grain to distribute to the poor. But the governor said the schools would remain closed until issues finally hit the ground.
3. Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) suspends Adamawa Secretary over alleged mismanagement of N1.350m.
In accordance with reports this morning, The Adamawa Secretary of Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN), Mr Anthony Elishama, has been suspended for three months over alleged mismanagement of N1.350 million.
The association also directed the suspended scribe, to refund the amount within the period of his suspension.
Elishama was further asked to return all official properties, including vehicle and documents, to the Secretariat.
This is contained in a statement issued by Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, the state Chairman of the association, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Yola.
Mamza said that Elishama’s suspension followed the unanimous decision adopted, during the state executive meeting of the association held on Thursday.
“Mr Anthony Elishama suspension is as a result of mismanaging of funds, belonging to the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) to the tune of N1.350 million (one million three hundred and fifty thousand naira).
“The state executive of Christians Association of Nigeria expressed disappointment by the secretary’s action,” Mamza explained.
The Bishop noted that the present leadership of CAN in the state had zero tolerance to any type of financial indiscipline.
He said that the secretary’s suspension would take effect from June 20, 2020, pending the state executive committee final decision on the issue.
“The suspended Secretary must refund the money to CAN within the period of his suspension.
“He should also immediately summit all the Association’s documents and properties, including the official car at his possession, to CAN Secretariat administration,” the statement read in part.
4. Nigeria intercepts 2 Indians for illegal entry during Covid-19 pandemic.
It was reported that, Two Indian nationals have been intercepted by the Lagos Airport Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), for illegally entering into Nigeria without proper documentation.
Lagos Airport NIS Comptroller, Abdullahi Usman who confirmed this, stated that the 2 Indians were intercepted during the screening of Indian nationals that were been evacuated from Nigeria, through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos.
Usman explained that while profiling the men, it was discovered that they entered Nigeria through the land borders and had visa on arrival application approval which they failed to present to Immigration at the Seme border.
Usman further disclosed that the men had been In Cotonou, Benin Republic for a month as they had the stamp of that country dated 9th March 2020, when they left and entered Nigeria illegally as they did not present themselves for Immigration checks at the border.
4. The Nigerian Embassy staff quarters in Ghana has been demolished.
According to reports, Some portion of the staff quarters of the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana has been demolished.
The demolition exercise was said to have been carried out late Friday, although the Nigerian government has yet to react to the incident.
A source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, revealed that a businessman had claimed that the Nigerian High Commission’s staff quarters was being built on his land.
The man reportedly showed up last week with some pieces of evidence, to support his claim and began to knock down the fence surrounding the building.
According to the source, the action of the man was not opposed while the Nigerian High Commission petitioned the Ghanaian Government about it, but there was no response.
After some days later, the man was said to have returned to the premises of the staff quarters and this time, with a bulldozer and began to pull down the building.
In a bid to stop the demolition, officials contacted the police who reportedly showed up at the site when the building was almost pulled down.
It is reported that while the police allegedly allowed the man to leave the scene without reprimand or questioning, the Ghanaian authorities have yet to respond to the Nigerian High Commission about what happened.
5. ROAD FAILURE: Stereotypical design to blame — Onuesoke.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in Delta State and former governorship candidate, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has traced the causes of Nigerian road failure to stereotypical engineering design.
Onuesoke, who made the statement when Officials of Project Implementation and Evaluation, Project Monitoring, Governor’s Office, headed by Hon Raymond Edijana visited Sector A of Ughelli-Asaba Road Dualisation Project recently, said not until Nigeria engineers deviate from using one particular designs in the construction of roads in different parts of Nigeria, the country will continue to experience the problem of road failure.
He explained that the construction of a road starts from conception, planning, and design, stressing that without a good design of the road the functionality of the road may not be achieved.
Onuesoke argued that even when the construction and supervision is adequate without the design process well done, the end product in the form of a road project will not be functional.
The PDP chieftain, who is the Special Project Director of Sector A of Ughelli-Asaba Road Project observed that most of the roads in the country are designed by consultants, some of who are not within the environment of the road work, adding that this has led to a situation where preliminary studies of the environment that will help the design and construction decisions are not done.
“Consequently, they constrain their design to a particular style, which leads to poor understanding of the road environment and which subsequently leads to poor road design and construction.
“Designs that are meant for dry land areas like in the Northern part of the country for instance are equally applied to riverine areas of the Niger Delta region. Thus, if such design lasts ten years in the North, it will not last up to five years in the Nigeria Delta region because of the different environmental terrain,” Onuesoke explained.
He disclosed that for the road network to last longer and save it from early collapse, it requires good and efficient pragmatic engineering design frameworks that takes the different environmental terrain in the country into consideration.
Onuesoke advised that foreign road construction expatriates should be made to work side by side with local professional bodies that have more knowledge of the local environment, stressing that the professional bodies can even act as checks and monitors to the construction firm on road work in the country.
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