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Lagos Schools to Run Second Term for 61 Days
The Lagos State Government has clarified that second term of 2020/2021 academic session is meant to last for 61 days for public and private schools.
According to the revised calendar for 2020/2021 academic session released by the Office of the Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), the second term is slated to run from January 18 to April 30.
The mid-term break has been scheduled for March 4 and 5.
There will also be two public holidays – Good Friday on April 2 and Easter Monday on April 5.
Resumption for the third term has been scheduled for May 4, while the term is to terminate August 6.
Schools have been directed to strictly follow the time table.
In another development, the Edo State government has said that the suspension of schools’ resumption is applicable to all educational institutions in the state.
The government noted that the directive will be reviewed on February 1 when the outcome of efforts to check the spread of COVID-19 in the state will be evaluated.
Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Osarodion Ogie, said in a statement that the state government is taking drastic measures to limit the spread of the virus and protect lives and livelihoods in the state.
January 18, 2021
NYSC Gives Conditions for Admitting Corps Members into Camp
Ahead of the commencement of the 2020 Batch “B” Stream II Orientation Course on January 19, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has given conditions for admitting corps members into camps nationwide amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a series of tweets on Saturday, the agency said prospective corps members must possess a clearance certificate showing that they are not COVID-19 positive.
“The same measures adopted for the November and December 2020 Orientation Courses are going to be applied to the 2020 Batch “B” Stream II Orientation Course commencing, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, with stricter enforcement of all the safety protocols.
“The NYSC and NCDC are working closely for a successful exercise as recorded previously. Accordingly, members of the general public are advised to disregard the unbalanced and cooked-up reportage designed to deliberately create fear and panic in the minds of unsuspecting Nigerians.”
The federal government had on March 18, 2020, ordered the immediate closure of the NYSC orientation camps nationwide over COVID-19 fears.
The 2020 Batch A Stream One NYSC members arrived on the camp on March 10 and were expected to leave three weeks after.
However, the camps were reopened on November 10 after being shut for over 10 months to curb the spread of the virus.
January 18, 2021
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January 18, 2021
Yahoo Boy Arrested With Girlfriend’s Corpse In Delta
The suspect, said to be a resident of Urhuoka, Abraka in the Ethiope East Local Government Area of the state, is cooling his heels in police detention.
OPERATIVES OF THE DELTA STATE POLICE COMMAND HAVE ARRESTED A SUSPECTED INTERNET FRAUDSTER, POPULARLY CALLED YAHOO BOY, WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND’S CORPSE AFTER HE WAS CAUGHT ATTEMPTING TO DUMP THE BODY OF THE LADY, BLESSING AKPOVWOVWO, IN A BUSH.
THE SUSPECT, SAID TO BE A RESIDENT OF URHUOKA, ABRAKA IN THE ETHIOPE EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF THE STATE, IS COOLING HIS HEELS IN POLICE DETENTION.
SOURCES SAID THE SUSPECT, WHOSE IDENTITY HAS YET TO BE ASCERTAINED, WAS NABBED BY A PASSERBY ON THURSDAY EVENING, AS HE (THE SUSPECT) WAS ATTEMPTING TO DISPOSE OF THE LIFELESS BODY OF BLESSING.
IT WAS GATHERED THAT THOUGH THE LIFELESS BODY OF THE LADY WAS INTACT, SOURCES SAID SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN USED FOR RITUALS.
OTHER SOURCES CLAIMED THAT THE DECEASED WAS PREGNANT, AND IT LOOKED LIKE A CASE OF FORCED ABORTION TO GET THE FOETUS FOR RITUAL PURPOSES.
IT WAS FURTHER GATHERED THAT THE CORPSE HAD BLOOD IN HER PRIVATE PARTS.
CONFIRMING THE INCIDENT TO JOURNALISTS, THE HEAD OF UGONO-ABRAKA COMMUNITY, CHIEF SAMUEL UMUNADI, SAID HE WAS INTIMATED OF THE LADY’S MURDER BY SOME VIGILANTES LATE THURSDAY NIGHT, ADDING THAT THE SAD DEVELOPMENT HAD THROWN THE COMMUNITY INTO MOURNING.
THE POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER IN THE STATE, DSP ONOME ONOVWAKPOYEYA, COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE INCIDENT AS OF THE TIME OF FILING THIS report
January 17, 2021
Insecurity: Only God can give us victory – Femi Adesina
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said only God can ensure victory over insecurity.
Adesina said most Nigerians have failed to understand that only God can ensure victory in the area of insecurity.
He pointed out that Nigerians who refuse to pray for God’s intervention in the area of insecurity are guilty of indirectly prolonging the war against insurgency.
The presidential spokesman stated this in an article entitled, ‘The Decent for the Indecent, the Just for the Unjust’.
Adesina, however, lamented that rather than pray for troops battling insurgency, Nigerians are wailing.
He wrote, “But victory is from God alone. That is what we must realize as Nigerians. Do we ever pray for our troops in the frontlines?
“As we pray; God give me money. Give me a car. Give me a promotion. Kill my enemies, did you pray for our soldiers? Victory comes from God alone. If you don’t pray, you may be guilty of prolonging the war in North-East, North-west, North-central, and all over Nigeria.
“Yes, victory is from God alone. But do some people know? Does it ever enter into their consciousness? They only wail: ‘this insurgency war has lasted too long. The banditry has demystified our military. They are cowards. The top guns don’t even want the battle to end.
Nigeria has been confronted with the challenge of Boko Haram Insurgency, banditry, and kidnapping lately.
January 16, 2021
Wife Can’t Tell Who Impregnated Her Between Her Husband & Her Father-In-Law – Family
Wonder they say will never end. A lady has taken to courage to tell a marriage counselor about how confused she is about about the father of her unborn child. According to her, she has been sleeping with her husband father hence she can’t truly tell if her child belongs to her husband or his father.
January 16, 2021
2 Women Arrested For Pouring Hot Water On 10-year-old Maid In Anambra with (pics)

POLICE NAB TWO WOMEN FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING A 10 YEARS OLD HOUSE HELP USING HOT WATER
Victim sustained injuries all over her body and was rushed to the hospital for medical attention

It would be recalled that on the 5/1/2021 at about 1015:am, following a formal complaint of child abuse and grievous assault, police operatives attached to Oko Police Station arrested one Nneka Ayaene ‘f’ aged 34 years and Chinenye Okoh ‘f’ aged 22 years of Ndiowu town in Orumba North LGA of Anambra State.
Suspects allegedly assaulted their house help one Chidimma Nworie Ani ‘f’ aged about 10years by pouring her hot water which caused her injuries all over her body due to her inability to wait and return the bowl of water she brought for the suspects.
Meanwhile, police operatives visited the scene and rushed the victim to Best Hospital Oko for medical attention where she is presently responding to treatment.
Consequently, the suspects have been charged to magistrate court Nanka for prosecution after conclusion of investigation. Case adjourned to 10/2/2021 and suspects remanded at the Correctional Centre Onitsha.
CSP Haruna Mohammed,PPRO* Anambra State Police Command,
For-Commissioner of Police Anambra State Command.
January 16, 2021
We Have Weakened Boko Haram – Defence Headquaters
The Defence Headquarters boasted on Friday that the Boko Haram sect has been severely weakened and no longer have a stronghold in Borno State and other parts of North-East.
The Coordinator of the Defence Media Operations, John Enenche, who stated this when he featured in a Channels Television programme, Politics Today, commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for encouraging the military to take the fight to the Boko Haram insurgents.
According to him, the insurgents collected levies and taxes from the people of North-East before Buhari came to power in 2015.
The military spokesman claimed that Buhari’s administration recaptured all the hotbeds of Boko Haram insurgency in 2016.
Enenche said: “The Commander-In-Chief is right that we now have a weaker Boko Haram. Why is it so? As at 2015 before he came on board, we had a very terrible situation in the North-East whereby between 17 and 21 local government areas were under the full authority of the Boko Haram insurgents.
“What does that translate to? It translates to the fact that they had constituted authority, local administration, even up to judiciary and they were even collecting levies which we can term taxes. The people were subject to them, they sacked traditional rulers and most of them went into exile.
“So, by 2016, the whole of that place were recaptured and the governments – both the state and federal took authority. In that case, we could say that they had a stronghold and they were in full authority. But the situation is not as it were.
“Now, what we have Boko Haram and ISWAP that are weakened enemies of this country. They are moving from bush to bush, from enclave to enclave, and no longer have authority or sovereignty on any territory in the North-East and by extension, Nigeria. And of course, if there is a strong force to be contended with, why don’t they come out? They cannot come out, they keep hiding.”
January 16, 2021
Kaduna stops 160 Almajirai from 13 states, ECOWAS countries
Officials of the Kaduna State Government Task Force enforcing COVID-19 related regulations have rescued 160 almajirai among them, kids from Republics of Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin.
This revelation was contained in a statement titled, “KSG rescues 160 Almajirai,” by the Special Adviser on Media and Communication to the State Governor, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye, in Kaduna on Friday.
Adekeye said the children were mostly toddlers rescued from different locations that were neither authorised and licensed as schools nor as children homes in the state.
According to him, the locations in which the children were found were operating in violation of regulations that had ordered the closure of all schools since December 2020.
He said keeping the children in unauthorised places was also in contravention of the state Land Use regulations and inconsistent with the policy of repatriating almajirai to their states and local governments.
The governor’s aide said in the latest exercise conducted by the task force, of the 160 children rescued, the state (Kaduna) topped the list with 68 children, followed by Kebbi State with 16 while Kano and Katsina had 15 each.
Others are Nasarawa 12, Zamfara 8, FCT Abuja 2, Sokoto1, Niger 5, Kwara 4, Kogi 2, Oyo 2 while foreign countries such as Republics of Niger, Burkina Faso andBenin had 5, 3, 1 respectively
He said the children were profiled after which they would be repatriated to their states of origin while children from ECOWAS countries would be handed over to officials of Nigerian Immigration Service.
He also disclosed that so far “as part of the implementation of this policy, Kaduna State has received 1,118 children to the state who were relocated from other states.
January 16, 2021
FG hospital overwhelmed with COVID-19 emergency
• Oxygen Shortage Poses Threat In Isolation Centres
• We Need A Combination Of Various Solutions To Stop Spread —NCDC Boss
The Investigation revealed that most government hospitals in the country, especially in Lagos State, have been overwhelmed by upsurge of COVID-19 patients needing intensive care with oxygen support to survive.
The daily rise in cases and deaths in the second wave has made some persons and groups to call for another lockdown, as obtained in United Kingdom (UK) and other climes.
Also, The investigation revealed that there is alarming demand for oxygen in most public hospitals. It was reliably gathered that the second wave infection has brought about increase demand for oxygen at isolation centres across the country. Three hundred cylinders of gas is said to be used daily in Lagos isolation facilities, with a critical patient needing about six cylinders of oxygen within 24 hours.
The situation has raised so many questions than answers as to how many active isolation centres are there across the country and what is the country’s daily oxygen need for effective oxygen therapy, what efforts the Federal Government is making to increase oxygen generation in-country and what is the state of oxygen availability
the Lagos State Government and Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation brought about the Lagos Oxygen Plant within the premises of the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Yaba.
But the oxygen generator in Gwagwalada, Abuja, provided by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), can generate only four cylinders of oxygen a day, while the supply made by the Nigeria Air Force from Yola, Adamawa State, is still very far from the needed quantity.
Many wonder whether there are ongoing collaborations between government and the private sector to increase the oxygen plants or import to make up.
Reacting to the development, Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu,
“The fact is that there is no silver bullet to stop the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. We need a combination of various solutions to do this.
January 16, 2021