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   Nigeria will release   a list of countries that can fly into the country. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, last week made it clear that Nigeria will apply principle of reciprocity. The principle means that countries that bans flights from Nigeria will also be banned to fly to Nigeria International flights in Nigeria is meant to commence on Friday, 4th of September. Speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on Thursday, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Director-General, Captain Musa Nuhu, stated that the list of countries which carriers will be allowed into Nigeria will be announced next week. “In due course and very shortly, we will announce the protocols once the logistics are done, the protocols for the resumption and also further details on the principles of reciprocity that we mentioned will be given. “We are looking at a list and we are working on that and hopefully early next week, we will release it,” Nuhu said.

                                  “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ” ―  Marcus Garvey

       Thread See new Tweets Tweet NCDC @NCDCgov · 10h 296 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria ; Plateau-85 Enugu-46 Oyo-31 Lagos-21 Rivers-20 FCT-15 Kaduna-13 Bauchi-12 Delta-11 Ekiti-11 Akwa Ibom-7 Ebonyi-6 Kwara-5 Ogun-4 Osun-4 Gombe-3 Niger-2 53,317 confirmed 40,726 discharged 1,011 deaths

     Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia will fulfill all its obligation in Belarus if 'extremist elements' are judged to have 'crossed the line' . The Russian President said he acted after a conversation with Alexander Lukashenko, in which the incumbent president of Belarus asked if Russia would stand by its commitments to defend his country. 'I said that Russia will fulfill all its obligations,' Putin said from Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 after the overthrow of the pro-Russian government. 'But we agreed that it will not be used until the situation starts to get out of control.' Asked by reporters for the Russia-1 TV channel what 'crossing a line' would mean, Putin gave the examples of 'burning cars and looting'. Since August 9 after the presidential election which was adjudged by Belorussians  to be rigged by the president Lukashenko resulting in people coming out on the streets to protest.  Lukashenko is a pe

  Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina has been re-elected as the President of the Africa Development Bank. Adesina has been re-elected by the Board of Governors of the Bank at the ongoing AfDB’s virtual annual meeting in Abidjan on Thursday. Dr. Adesina from Nigeria is the sole candidate running in the election which will take place electronically on Thursday. Dr. Adesina was a former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria. He graduated with a Bachelors in Agricultural Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Ife, Nigeria (1981), where he was the first student to be awarded this distinction by the university. He pursued his studies at Purdue University in Indiana, He obtained his PhD (Agricultural Economics) in 1988 from Purdue where he won the Outstanding PhD Thesis for his research work.

  France’s foreign minister said on Thursday that the transition in Mali needs to be quick, but that the coup d’etat in the country would not stop French military operations targeting Islamist militants. The leaders of the military coup that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Mali on Aug. 18 have told a delegation of West African mediators that they want to stay in power for a three-year transition period, Nigeria said on Wednesday. “The transition must be done quickly, power returned to civilians and that there is a political agenda put in place to allow this country to find a political stability,” Jean-Yves Le Drian told RTL radio. Former colonial power France has some 5,100 troops in the Sahel region with a large portion operating from Mali, where it intervened in 2013 to stop an Islamist militant advance on the capital Bamako. “(The French operation) will continue,” Le Drian said. “This battle continues. The Junta say the same thing.”

        African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina on Wednesday  asked the Board of Governors of the bank to renew their trust in him for another 5 years. Mr Adesina made a case for his re-election as head of the institution, saying that he wanted to fulfil “his sense of duty and commitment.” Adesina,60, recalled that his current five-year term as head of the African Development Bank Group was marked by the implementation of five strategic priorities for the continent’s development, known as the “High 5s.” President Adesina asked the Board of Governors to renew their trust in him for the next five years. “Dear Governors, these Annual Meetings are my opportunity to offer you my services and seek a second term as President of the African Development Bank. I do so with humility. I do so with an acute sense of duty and commitment. I do so to serve Africa and our Bank,” he stated. “Five years ago, right here in Abidjan, you elected me president of the African Development Bank. It w

               “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” - Charles Dickens

             Thread See new Tweets Tweet NCDC @NCDCgov · 10h 221 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria ; Plateau-60 FCT-33 Kaduna-26 Rivers-18 Lagos-17 Enugu-9 Kwara-9 Ondo-9 Nasarawa-6 Gombe-5 Anambra-5 Delta-4 Abia-4 Imo-3 Edo-2 Ogun-2 Oyo-2 Osun-2 Bauchi-1 Kano-1 53,021 confirmed 40,281 discharged 1,010 deaths

           Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested 15 suspected internet fraudsters in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The suspects are: Sunday Okpe; Taiwo Adelagun; Obarakyo Tega; Fasuyi Oladapo; Mark Adedeji Kuju; Adelakun Kehinde Adewunmi; Temitope Gabriel Onore, Christopher Blessed and Aniche Ezenwa Francis. Others are: Abiodun Godspower Odion; Abiodun ThankGod Omoh; Raji Ayo Sheriff; Adeogun Babatunde, Olusesi Razaq Demola and Kole Adetoyinbo. The suspected internet fraudsters were arrested on August 15, 2020 at Ayo Babatunde Crescent and James Adejumo areas of Lekki, Lagos State, following intelligence received from concerned members of the public on their criminal activities. During the arrest, the suspects, who are allegedly members of Organized Cyber Criminal Syndicate Network, OCCSN, tried to destroy evidence by flushing their mobile devices into the toilet, burning some and also throwing their laptops into the nearby

      Thread See new Tweets Tweet NCDC @NCDCgov · 1h 322 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria ; Lagos-130 Bauchi-36 FCT-25 Edo-17 Bayelsa-14 Ogun-14 Oyo-14 Anambra-13 Kaduna-12 Ondo-11 Abia-10 Osun-6 Plateau-5 Kwara-5 Kano-4 Ebonyi-3 Sokoto-2 Borno-1 52,227 confirmed 38,945 discharged 1002 deaths