The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Rome, Pope Francis has called on the world to pray for Nigeria. The National Examinations Council has postponed the ongoing nationwide Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations indefinitely due to the current security challenges
The Lagos State Government has announced that private and public schools remain closed in the state due to the #EndSARS protest. The Lagos State Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, announced this on Sunday. He had earlier tweeted that only public schools remained closed in the state before giving an update that the extended closure includes private schools.
It will be recalled that Sanwo-Olu had earlier eased the 24-hour curfew on Friday to start from 6pm to 8am. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State Governor, has once again reviewed the curfew imposed on the state which was put in place to curb the civil unrest in the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests against police brutality. It will be recalled that Sanwo-Olu had eased the 24-hour curfew on Friday to start from 6pm to 8am.
The head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, Rome, Pope Francis has called on the world to pray for Nigeria. This comes after about five days of unrest that has taken lives as well as destruction to properties in many states across the country. The chaos is an aftermath of a peaceful protest against police brutality that was hijacked by hoodlums who went as far as looting businesses and burning down police stations in major states in the country.
Some Kaduna residents have attacked the office of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC), carting away seized fake and expired drugs and beverages. The affected offices include the NAFDAC warehouse belonging to the investigation and enforcement directorate, as well as the training and research institute for the northern region and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The drugs were seized from illicit drug dealers and meant for destruction.
Cristiano Ronaldo fans have criticized Lionel Messi after failing to score in Barcelona’s 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in El Clasico, Daily Star. The Argentine has not scored in the epic contest since Ronaldo left Los Blancos for Juventus in the summer of 2018.
The National Examinations Council has postponed the ongoing nationwide Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations indefinitely due to the current security challenges, occasion by the #EndSARS protests. This was contained a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division NECO, Azeez Sani, and made available to newsmen in Minna on Sunday.
A number of South-West governors and ministers are in Lagos to sympathise with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on the chaos caused by hoodlums in the state. A number of private and state-owned facilities across the state, including police stations, were plundered and vandalised by hoodlums who hijacked the #EndSARS Protests.
Business owners may have begun to count their losses after the mayhem that visited Nigeria last week even as economists warned that losses to the economy, still struggling from the effects of several weeks of lockdown occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic and downturn in the price of crude oil, are huge. President Muhammadu Buhari had, in his 2021 budget speech, asked Nigerians to prepare for a recession shortly after he painted a gloomy picture of the nation’s economy.
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