Media reports said a potential hunger crisis looms but officials say palliative measures will still be put in place.
Author: Sumner Shagari Sambo
Store owners often struggle to persuade people to queue in an orderly way.
The Nigerian government said it was making effort to return stranded citizens abroad as over 2,000 Nigerians are stranded in the UK alone, as it begins the evacuation of nationals willing to return home at their personal expenses. It only provided the aircrafts and sought flight clearance permission from host governments due to the current closure of airports globally.
“I now know that it was people who were trying to kill me or to reach me, but who were finding it difficult,” Jacob Zuma said on how his late son died allegedly of poison. He provided no evidence.
Rights groups secured a court injunction stopping the demolition the following day, but authorities proceeded with the forced evictions regardless, Ruth Mumbi, a human rights activist said.
“The floods and landslides have been concentrated in western Kenya and have so far killed 194 people” Eugene Wamalwa, the minister in charge of relations between the regional leadership and the national government, said.
“We are making preparations including the holding of a regional election in order to safeguard the rights of our people from chaos,” regional ruling party, TPLF said in a statement. It did not mention a date for the vote.
Gombe state information commissioner Alhassan Ibrahim Kwami insisted that the patients had “misunderstood their status” and did not require any drugs as they were asymptomatic.
“Our projected oil revenue has declined by over 80 percent,” said Ben Akabueze, head of the Budget Office in a video conference in Abuja on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization has said that the herbal tea’s effects had not been tested, and there are no published scientific studies of the potion.