The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said heavy investment in education at national and sub-national levels would provide quality medical and behavioural scientists to produce vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19.

The National President of ASUU, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, said this in Abeokuta, after he led members of the association to donate 1,000 pieces of 125ml bottled hand sanitisers to the state government.

Ogunyemi led ASUU’s members from the Lagos Zone to hand over the items to the state’s Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele.

The ASUU president said what Nigeria should learn from the pandemic was that investment in education would yield immeasurable dividends.

He said, “For instance, conscious and determined investment in university education at national and sub-national levels would give our country quality medical scientists, behavioural scientists, creative scholars and other creams of informed citizens who can respond intelligently to challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic.

“To achieve better results, we believe Nigerian governments at the federal and state levels need to work with public intellectuals and patriotic trade unions like ASUU.’’

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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command on Friday, arrested one Mr Godwin Jeremiah, a bricklayer from Ikot Udota Community in Eket local government area for allegedly raping his 13- year-old daughter, Miss Emem Godwin Jeremiah.

The arrest was led by the DPO of Eket Police Division, Mr Sunday Digha with the effort of Eket Local Government Chairman’s wife, Mrs Bright Archibong and FIDA Chairman in Akwa Ibom State, Barr. Emem.

Narrating her ordeal, the JSS 1 student, who broke down in tears, said her father forcefully had sex with her mainly at night, on a daily basis.

“My father forcefully abused me sexually beginning from January 2020, this occurs almost on daily basis, irrespective of my resistance due to pains and injury I sustained from the ungodly act. first I reported the case to my step mother who confronted my father but she was beaten and this led her fleeing from my father’s house,” she narrated.

“When the incidence was becoming unbearable to me, I ran and reported to the police which led to his first arrest but due to the intervention of my aunty, who did not believe my story,he was released on bail. After his released from the police cell,I did not have any option than to return to the house and stay with my father. The matter grow from bad to worst, it was the darkest moment in my life, this time my father did not allow me to sleep,he forcefully abused me through out the night,it was coming on daily basis. Since nobody was there to help,I decided to run away from my father’s house to an unknown destination, only to find a compassionate mother, Mrs Bright Archibong, who rise to fight on my behalf”

A young house wife stabbed her husband to death in Bauchi State.

According to Facebook user, Datti Assalafiy, who shared photos of the deceased and the suspect on Saturday April 25, the incident happened in Itas-Gadau Local Government Area of the state.

The reason for the alleged murder is yet unknown.

See photos of the decease below..

As Nigeria continues to battle the Coronavirus pandemic, the Ogun State Government says it will begin enforcing the wearing of face masks in the state, as from May 1, 2020.

The state governor, Dapo Abiodun disclosed this during a press conference in the state on Friday April 24. He said offenders of the compulsory face mask order will be arrested and made to spend 14 days in an Isolation center.

“We are working against the spread of this COVID-19. As from May 1, it will be compulsory for everybody in the State to wear face masks. We deliberately delayed enforcing it so that our people can have enough time to get their own. After May 1, anyone who fails to wear a face mask will be viewed as deliberately planning to infect others and will be arrested and put in our isolation centres.

Some of our confirmed cases are immigrants coming to our State through the land borders. The peculiarity of Ogun State put us at a vulnerable position. That means that just as we have advantages, we also have some disadvantages.” he said

He added that the state has made testing booths available in border towns and highly populated areas for people, stating that the Intensive Care Unit, ICU at the 250-bed hospital at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, was ready for use, while the Molecular Laboratory for testing COVID-19 patients has been inspected by officials of the NIgeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC and the World Health Organisation, WHO.

Ogun state currently has 35 confirmed cases of COVID19.

Former Super Eagles forward, Daniel Amokachi, has revealed that he slept at the altar of Prophet T.B Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations for weeks in search of a miracle but that never came to pass.

Amokachi had flown back to the Lagos-based Synagogue Church of All Nations, while attempting to relaunch his career after suffering a protracted knee injury he sustained ahead of the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Amokachi told Brila FM on Friday that he was not healed even though he saw miracles at Synagogue.

His words ;

“I was at the church on invitation of a friend who is a member. My friend, at that time, told me about the man of God and that I could meet my miracle if I met with the Pastor.

“At first, I wasn’t giving to it, but I later agreed and flew down to Nigeria from England to see the Pastor.

“I slept by the church’s altar for several weeks to receive healing. I was not healed, but I saw lots of miracles that happened to people.”

The Imo State Police Command has arrested a man, Johnbosco Ejiogu, for stabbing his mother and then setting their home ablaze.

The incident occurred at Umudagu Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state on Friday, the command said in a statement.

State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Orlando Ikeokwu said that Ejiogu perpetrated the acts following an altercation between him and his mother.

He noted that only a swift reaction from neighbours and police prevented the suspect from killing himself and his mother in the burning house.

The statement read, “On the 24/4/2020, at about 1020 hrs, operatives of Mbieri Divisional hqtrs, while reacting to a distress call arrested the above-named suspect and rescued the above victim.

“Preliminary investigation revealed that the said Johnbosco Ejiogu stabbed his mother Pauline Ejiogu as a result of an altercation.

“He went further to lock the door behind himself and the victim, and then set the house ablaze, but they were rescued alive sequel to the swift reaction of the officers and men of the Division and the members of the neighbourhood.

“However, Both of them have been taken to the hospital for treatment, while investigation has commenced.”

Popular Policewoman, Dolapo Badmos, took to her social media page to mourn one of her colleagues who lost his life after being infected by the dreaded COVID-19.

She wrote ;

”Today would have marked your birthday but u succumbed. I know by now you must have been telling COVID19 to leave the world since it has taken you. yes I’m sure you must be telling it to take your death as the “sacrifice”! Yes..that’s the person you are! So compassionate..RIP si”

Today would have marked your birthday but u succumbed. I know by now you must have been telling COVID19 to leave the world since it has taken you. yes I'm sure you must be telling it to take your death as the "sacrifice"! Yes..that's the person you are! So compassionate..RIP sir pic.twitter.com/ikkB0iCFhj

— Dolapo Badmos (@Opetodolapo) April 24, 2020

The Nigeria Police on Friday said it has dismissed two officers who assaulted a woman in Osun State.

The police said the dismissal of the officers – Inspector Ikuesan Taiwo and Constable Abass Ibrahim – was preceded by a trial where they were found guilty of assaulting the woman.

“They have been dismissed from the Force,” the police said.

The duo attached to Iwo Division of Osun State Police Command were seen assaulting a woman at the Odo Ori Market, Iwo, Osun State, in a video in early April.

In the video, the police officers interrogated the woman on an unknown issue and soon began pulling her by the clothes she wore.

Taiwo and Ibrahim continuously flogged the woman with canes amidst pleas by sympathisers to stop the assault.

The video generated a renewed call by Nigerians for the government to restructure and re-orientate police officers who have been found culpable of illegal arrest, abuse, extortion and extrajudicial killing of Nigerians on many occasions.

Two girls from a village in Nanka, Anambra State, have accused at least 10 boys of forcefully initiating them into a cult by raping them and making them pay an initiation fee.

One of the young boy was accused by two young girls of luring them to a bush where he and his friends beat them, raped them and threatened them to pay money to them.

The girls while being questioned by older men in the community, claimed that the boy who has been caught invited them out for a drink and they went with him. However, rather than take them to a bar, he took them to a cashew plantation where other boys then came out of the bush.

They said they tried to run but the boys, who were many, overpowered them, beat them up, and blindfolded them. When asked how many the boys were, the girls guesstimated they were about 10.

They said the boys then took turns in raping them after threatening that they had guns. After raping them, the girls said they informed them that they are now members of a cult. They then threatened them to pay an initiation fee, adding that failure to do so will lead to the death of their mothers.

The girls said they promised to pay out of fear because the boys said they had guns and will not hesitate to use them.

A Nigerian man who recently tested positive for Coronavirus and is receiving treatment in a UK hospital, has appealed to Nigerians to take the pandemic seriously and follow all guidelines issued by the government to curtail the spread of the dreaded disease.

In a post shared on Twitter, the Nigerian man said this is not the time to bash the President for the lockdown order as everything is being done for the betterment of everyone.

”Nigerians this is not the time to bash the president @MBuhari on lockdown. Everything the government is doing is for the betterment of every citizen in the country. For the past 13 days I have not known food and my main concern is to survive this deadly virus.

My test just came back positive for Covid19 and i can tell you that it is real. I am being looked after by amazing staffs of the NHS and they are doing a wonderful job.

We are at war fighting an invisible enemy, everyone needs to join hands together to defeat the common enemy. Please follow all government and NCDC advice and guidelines. Hunger that has hope can never kill you. Always maintain social distancing, wash your hands and sanitise.” he tweeted

In another tweet, he expressed his fears of infecting his little baby.

” Nigerians it’s only an advice to stay safe. I will be devastated if I infect my little baby with this virus. I hard doing it intentionally talk more of infecting her because I was only worried the @MBuhari is not sharing money. This is someone’s father and it’s real.”

Nigerians this is not the time to bash the president @MBuhari on lockdown. Everything the government is doing is for the betterment of every citizen in the country. For the past 13 days I have not known food and my main concern is to survive this deadly virus. pic.twitter.com/BP5eyy7cga

— samuel N (@afri9jablog) April 23, 2020