The federal government of Nigeria has announce the day that all university and polytechnic will be allowed to start operation.They have given them the resumption date of Monday, May 4, 2020 which is one month and months and two weeks from now hoping that deadly virus would have been gone before then.

On the 23 of February the federal government order tertiary institutions to be closed in order to reduce the fast spreading of the deadly virus among students.

The measure is a very hard decision to take but in order to reduce the spreading or to prevent the student and staff from the disease school have to go for one month break

An the Covid-19 break shall last for at least a month, so with this development, students and pupils are advice to stay off unnecessary gathering for the time being.

The measure is a very hard decision to take but in order to reduce the spreading or to prevent the student and staff from the disease school have to go for one month break.

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has warned that the lockdown order issued by President Buhari on Sunday March 29, might be extended if Nigerians don’t behave themselves.

The Minister disclosed this at a press conference by the Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus in Abuja on Friday April 3. Lai Mohammed urged Nigerians to observe social distancing and a good hygiene, so everyone can get back to their normal lives after the 14-day lockdown.

Lai Mohammed said;

“If we don’t behave ourselves, there is a likelihood that the lockdown will be extended, but if we behave ourselves, there might not be an extension and I hope we do so.

“If we stay at home for two weeks and we are doing everything we are supposed to do, we should be able to effectively contain the disease.

“Therefore, my appeal to Nigerians is that they should obey the directive on social distancing, personal hygiene and shun gatherings; after two weeks, we will resume our normal life.

“But if they think it is a joke, then we may have to stay at home more than the two weeks.”

A grim milestone was reached on Thursday for the coronavirus outbreak.

The number of confirmed cases around the world has now exceeded 1 million, with 51,485 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. The United States makes up a little under one-fourth of the world’s cases, with 234,462 infections and at least 5,607 deaths.

The U.S. surpassed China as the country with the most deaths as of Tuesday, but China’s official figures have been hotly disputed. Residents in Hubei province, where the virus originated, claim the country’s death toll far exceeds the government’s official tally.

The pandemic has caused major disruptions to the workforce across the U.S. because of widespread stay-at-home orders and directives for nonessential businesses to shutter. Some 93% of people in the U.S. will be under orders to stay at home by Friday.

The Labor Department reported on Thursday that workers claiming new unemployment benefits swelled to a record 6.6 million last week. Thousands of companies have begun laying off or furloughing employees, and the stock market has seen a precipitous decline since the crisis began. More than three-quarters of all hotel rooms across the country are now vacant as travel is restricted.

President Trump warned this week that the worst of the pandemic is yet to come and cautioned that the country will be in for “a very painful two weeks” as cases of COVID-19 are expected to “surge” this month. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said that if full mitigation efforts are implemented, 100,000 to 240,000 people in America are projected to die during the pandemic.

The U.S. withdrawal from Syria left Kurds at the mercy of Turkey, Russia, and Syria. Why are the Kurds still homeless? Here’s everything you need to know:

Who are the Kurds?
A tough mountain people, the Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East — after Arabs, Persians, and Turks — and have their own distinct culture and language. Nearly all are Sunni Muslims, but they have many tribes and are far from a monolithic group. Over the centuries, they have handed down their traditions through music, with bards singing folktales and stories of Kurdish feats in battle. Spread out mostly over four countries and now numbering some 30 million, the Kurds have pressed time and again for a homeland since the 19th century, only to have their hopes dashed when great powers broke their promises. Several times since the 1970s, the U.S. gave them military aid to fight a common foe, and then abandoned them, leaving thousands of Kurds to be killed and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee. As a Kurdish proverb says, the Kurds have “no friends but the mountains.”

Why don’t they have a country?
After the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, victorious Western powers agreed in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres to create a Kurdish state. But three years later, in the wheeling and dealing over the boundaries of modern Turkey, Britain and France dropped their demand for a Kurdish homeland, and Kurds were left as large minorities in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, with small minorities in the Caucasus. All the nations where Kurds now live are opposed to granting them a homeland or true autonomy — ­particularly Turkey.

How have they fared in Turkey?
For nearly a century, Turkey has oppressed the Kurds, who make up nearly a fifth of its population of 80 million. In response to Kurdish uprisings in the 1920s and ’30s, Turkish authorities banned Kurdish dress and names and severely restricted language use. It even tried to erase the Kurds’ identity by designating them “Mountain Turks.” In the 1980s, a separatist militant group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, began waging a terrorist insurgency, bombing Turkish military and police outposts. The decades-long fight has killed some 40,000 people from both sides, including many civilians.

How has the U.S. treated them?
The U.S. has frequently used the Kurds as a dispensable pawn in a game of geopolitical chess. In the 1970s, when the U.S. was allied with the pro-­Western Shah of Iran, our country funneled military aid to the Iraqi Kurds as a way to undermine the Soviet-allied Iraqi regime. But in 1975, Iran struck a deal with Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and closed the Iran-Iraq border, leaving the U.S. with no corridor to continue assistance. Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani appealed desperately to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. “Our people are being destroyed,” he said, and the U.S. had a “moral and political responsibility” to help. But the U.S. stood by as Saddam crushed their uprising. Later, after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran caused the U.S. to switch to supporting Iraq, America again did nothing as Saddam waged a vicious campaign against the Kurds, culminating in a chemical attack at Halabja. After Saddam invaded Kuwait in 1990, the U.S. led a war against him and urged the Kurds to rise up and fight. But when President George H.W. Bush decided not to topple Saddam, the Iraqi dictator ordered air attacks that killed thousands of Kurdish civilians. Only then did Bush establish no-fly zones to safeguard them.

What happened after the Iraq War?
Iraqi Kurds were able to set up a semiautonomous enclave in northern Iraq. Once the U.S. decided to invade in 2003, Kurdish peshmerga fighters fought alongside U.S. troops, and Saddam was captured and executed in 2006. Iraqi Kurdistan became formally autonomous as a federal republic, enjoying arguably the most freedom Kurds had ever had. But thanks to the rise of ISIS, they were not to be at peace. By 2014, when ISIS proclaimed a radical Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria, courageous Kurdish fighters helped spearhead the U.S. coalition against ISIS, losing 11,000 soldiers in the fierce fighting. Meanwhile in Syria, Syrian Kurds were able to take advantage of the civil war that began in 2011, winning control of key cities.

What was the most recent betrayal?
America’s NATO ally Turkey was never comfortable with U.S. support for Syrian Kurds, saying the Syrian units were just an offshoot of the PKK. To appease Turkey, the U.S. persuaded the Kurds to withdraw their heavy weapons near the Turkish border, promising that the American troops there would deter a Turkish invasion. But after a phone call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Trump abruptly agreed in early October to withdraw about 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria. Turkish tanks rolled into Syrian Kurdish lands, killing scores of fighters and civilians. Desperate to avoid a massacre, Syrian Kurds last week struck a Russian-brokered deal with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to retreat from the border area to a region further south. “If we have to choose between compromises and the genocide of our people,” said Kurdish commander Mazloum Abdi, “we will surely choose life for our people.”

Gassed at Halabja
In the worst chemical attack in modern times, Iraqi jets dropped mustard gas and nerve agents on the Kurdish town of Halabja on March 16, 1988. An estimated 5,000 people, mostly women and children, died gruesomely that day, and thousands more were injured. Birth defects and high cancer rates persist in the population to this day. The attack, the first time a government used chemical weapons against its own people, came during Saddam Hussein’s genocidal Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds, which killed some 100,000. The two men responsible, Saddam and his cousin “Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid, were hanged in 2006 and 2010, respectively, and the Iraqi High Criminal Court has recognized the Halabja massacre as an act of genocide. Kurds in Halabja say the poisoned air smelled like rotten apples, and today nearly every family in the town keeps decorated apples as a memorial to those they lost.

Today April 1st which the first 24 hours of it meant for playing pranks and hilarious jokes.Am sharing this as my April fool message to you.

Please don’t be annoyed just felt like grabbing your attention so as to put smile on your faces.

Federal Government Releases Date For Workers, Schools Ministers to Resume.

Due to the viral Pandemic disturbing the world and lots of people talking about it especially Nigerians who are in panic considering the facts either it’s te end of the world.

Could all happening now in month of Match 2020 be the sign of end of the world?

Nobody knows.

In a viral post circulating the internet which nobody is sure of, is the resumption of workers, students who are on indefinite holiday.

It’s circulating that the Federal government Releases date of May 4, 2020 for all to resume.

Is that the actual date, who knows?

According to a communique on Thursday, Echono who gave the order on behalf of the Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, also noted that all 104 Unity Schools in the country should close on or before the 26th of March, 2020 as a proactive step aimed at preventing the spread of the dreaded Coronavirus.

The deputy governor of Lagos state, Obafemi Hamzat using the official handle, tweeted: “While our wards stay at home and observe social distancing, the state ministry of education in partnership with radio and TV broadcasters has made provision for tutorial sessions in line with ensuring our current set of SS3 pupils excel at their federal exams”

And the Covid-19 break shall last for at least a month. So, with this development, students and pupils are adviced to jettison unnecessary gathering for the time being

This was confirmed by the state Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu via Twitter on Thursday.

According to Sanwo-Olu, the patients include two females and nine males.

He said “I am happy to break to you, my good people of Lagos, the news of the release today of 11 more patients from our facility in Yaba.

“They have fully recovered and have tested negative to #COVID19 and have been allowed to return home to their

“The patients include two females and nine males. Their results came out negative in two rounds of tests.

“I want to use this opportunity to, once again, thank our frontline health workers and other professionals for their service.”

Details shortly…

The Covid-19 status of 19 out of the 36 State Governors in Nigeria, is still not known.

It would be recalled, that the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, and Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, had advised his colleagues to go for the test, because of their exposure.

The Governors that are yet to make their status known, are those of Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Enugu, Zamfara, Jigawa, Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe, and Lagos States. The rest are those of Plateau, Sokoto, Yobe, Kwara, Benue, Ebonyi, Kogi, Imo, and Abia States.

However, 3 Governors have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and made their status known, using different platforms.

They are: Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, and Seyi Makinde of Oyo States.

Nigerians from across the divide had commended what the 3 Governors did,  saying that, declaring their status was a good example, and would encourage many people to go for the test.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, had reportedly written to all the Governors, to self-isolate after undergoing test for Covid-19, as a precautionary measure.
It was revealed that the results of 14 Governors who subjected themselves for the novel coronavirus test, came out negative. They are the Governors of Kebbi, Katsina, Kano, Osun, Ekiti, Edo, Bayelsa, Ogun, Ondo, Nasarawa, Niger, Cross River, Anambra, and Borno States.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State is among the Governors who are yet to make their Covid-19 status known.

The State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Ali Inname, confirmed this while fielding questions from Journalists, in Sokoto.

According to him, the Governor was only observing social distancing, as recommended by the NCDC, but not on self-isolation, as being insinuated on the social media. Inname also said that the Governor was not tested for Covid-19, because he had not shown any of its cardinal symptoms.

“One can only be tested when he has a contact with a confirmed case of coronavirus, and later begin to show its symptoms, or has the 4 cardinal symptoms. Our Governor is not showing any of these symptoms, and has been attending State businesses”, he said.

The Delta State Commissioner of Information, Charles Aniagwu, disclosed that it is not necessary for Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to subject himself to self-isolation.

Speaking, Aniagwu noted that Okowa was not at the Governors Forum meeting that prompted the call for all Governors to self-isolate.

He revealed that the Governor was only represented at the meeting.

In Lagos, the epicentre of the coronavirus crisis, the status of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is still unknown.

The Commissioner for Information, Gbenga Omotosho, said that it is a personal matter.

According to him: “Although, I have not asked him if he has done his test for Covid-19 or not, but I think the Governor does not need to do the test because other Governors are doing it. He has not shown any symptoms, so why doing it?

“There are many people who are anxious to get the test done, to ascertain the state of their health, why not give them the opportunity to do the test, instead of wasting the testing kits?” he said.

“Some members of the cabinet have done theirs sometime ago. We were not forced to do it; so it is not everyone that did it. Test is not something that should just be done for the sake of doing it, especially if someone has not travelled, or been in contact with someone who has been tested positive”, he added.

Meanwhile, out of the 43 Ministers in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari, only 4 of them had announced their status, despite their exposure to the Key Aide of Mr. President, who tested positive for the deadly virus.

Abba Kyari had attended the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, on March 18, 2020, less than 7 days before it was announced that he had tested positive for Covid-19.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed; and the Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu; are the only known Ministers that disclosed that they tested negative for the coronavirus.

However, if the remark of the Information Minister is to be relied on, all Ministers who are members of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, would have been tested for the virus, but they have not individually made their status public.

Reacting, some Senior Lawyers said that it would be “highly irresponsible” for any Governor that has had contact with a confirmed case of Covid-19, not to self-isolate or disclose his health status.

One of the Lawyers, Ernest Ojukwu, SAN, who is a Professor of Law at the Nigerian Law School, stated that, though there is no legal basis for citizens of such States to demand to know the health status of their Governors, it would be an act of irresponsibility, for such Governors to hold back their health status, as regards the coronavirus pandemic.

He added that leadership being built on trust and accountability, would be better served, if and when the citizens could trust their Leaders to be transparent in their dealings, including their health status.

Also speaking, Dr. Biodun Layonu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, noted that since self-isolation is one of the precautionary measures put out by the World Health Organisation, WHO, to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, which so far has no vaccine, it would be “highly irresponsible” for any Governor who recently visited a high-risk country, or had contact with a confirmed case of Covid-19, not to self-isolate.

According to him, as a private citizen, he has been on self-isolation in the past days, without seeing his family, and wondered why some Governors would not do so.

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China has been accused of underreporting it’s cases of Coronavirus. Photo:(Source/Courtesy).

U.S. intelligence community has argued that China has not been genuine on its total number of Coronavirus cases and deaths and noted that she had hidden the damage of the virus done to her since the outbreak by publicly underreporting the figures.

Bloomberg reported that a classified report to the White House disclosed by US officials who declared to remain anonymity revealed.

“China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete,” Two US officials said.

Johns Hopkins University data showed China has reported only 82,000 cases with 3,300 deaths since the outbreak in December 2019 compared to US’ over 189,000 cases over 4,000 deaths.

“Their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side, and I’m being nice when I say that,” Trump spoke on Wednesday at the White House on China virus figures.

US president Donald Trump said that China numbers of was on the light side. Photo:(Source/Courtesy).

While US vice President Mike Pence told CNN that US should have handled the outbreak better if China should have cooperated.

“The reality is that we could have been better off if China had been more forthcoming,” Vice President Mike Pence said.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has asked China and other countries to be honest on their outbreaks by providing relevant information that would help counter the virus. He said that US was doing so by providing the information.

“So that we can save lives depends on the ability to have confidence and information about what has actually transpired. I would urge every nation. Do your best to collect the data. Do your best to share that information,” Pompeo said.

US Secretary of state Michael Pompeo has urged countries to provide correct information about the virus. Photo:(Source/Courtesy).

Other countries suspected of public reporting are Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia and North Korea have been accused of underreporting their cases.

The office of the presidency has denied this in a tweet on Saturday, March 28. He consequently urged Nigerians to disregard the information. “Fake news peddlers have concocted a statement, purportedly issued by me, saying FG will pay N30,000 to each Nigerian with BVN, to help them stock up before an impending national lockdown. Not me. The so-called statement is hereby disclaimed,” he tweeted.

The state commissioner for police, CP Awosola Awotinde made the disclosure in Abakaliki during a joint broadcast with the state commissioner for information and state orientation, Barr Uchenna Orji, on the update on preventive measures taken by the government to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the state. The news gathered that the commissioner of police said two persons were arrested in Ikwo local government area while the remaining 7 were also arrested in Ezza South council area.

The state governor, David Umahi, had directed the commissioner of police to immediately arrest the police officers and organisers of the burial ceremonies at Ikwo and Ezza South local government area of the state.

CP Awotinde said that the police officers who supervised the burial in Ikwo local government were undergoing an orderly room trial, adding that measures have also been taken to ensure that men of the command and other security personal involved in the enforcement of government directive were civil to the public.

The presidency says it has no plans of giving Nigerians N30,000 – According to Femi Adesina, the viral news announcing payment of the money is fake – Adesina attributed the news to those he described as ‘fake news peddlers’ Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina has denied a report that he said Nigerians with bank verification number (BVN) will be given N30,000 as relief fund. According to him, the report which went viral on social media is false.