COVID-19: Buhari to give new directives Thursday

Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja. The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 pandemic, has said it would submit the seventh Interim Report to President Muhammadu Buhari and waits his directives on the next phase implementation on Thursday.

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New York flight delayed as two women fight on jet bridge

Brazen moment two young 'related' women get into vicious fight on jet bridge to Delta flight in NYC and delay takeoff by 40 minutes. A Delta flight was delayed by 40 minutes at New York's LaGuardia airport on Sunday when two young women got into a ...

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Deaths, worries about assistance mount after Hurricane Laura

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press. LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — In a matter of hours last week, Hurricane Laura tore through the tire shop Layla Winbush's family started just under a year ago, reducing most of it to rubble ...

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Gardaí question hotel staff and guests as part of investigation into man's death

Gardaí investigating the death of a 26-year-old man outside a Killarney hotel at the weekend have begun interviewing staff. Darragh Sheehan was found unconscious at the Gleneagle Hotel at around 11.40pm on Saturday. Despite attempts by gardaí to ...

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Coronavirus – Africa: Covid-19 WHO Africa Update 31.08.2020

Over 1.2 million confirmed COVID19 cases on the African continent – with more than 976,000 recoveries & 29,000 deaths cumulatively. View country figures & more with the WHO African Region COVID-19 Dashboard: https://arcg.is/XvuSX. Distributed by APO ...

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Hunger is threatening to kill more people than COVID this year

The world is hurtling toward an unprecedented hunger crisis. As many as 132 million more people than previously projected could go hungry in 2020, and this year's gain may be more than triple any increase this century. The pandemic is upending food ...

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Party leaders under pressure to nominate replacement for Phil Hogan

Discussions between the three party leaders in the Coalition Government about who should be nominated as Ireland's European commissioner to replace Phil Hogan will resume on Tuesday morning, after discussions on Monday night ended without the ...

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