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ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 202 1. Fellow Nigerians, 2. From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide emergency, the Federal Government started planning preventive, containment and curative measures in the event the disease hits Nigeria. 3. The whole instruments of government are now mobilized to confront what has now become both a health emergency and an economic crisis. 4. Nigeria, unfortunately, confirmed its first case on 27th February 2020. Since then, we have seen the number of confirmed cases rise slowly. 5. By the morning of March 29th, 2020, the total confirmed cases within Nigeria had risen to ninety-seven. 6. Regrettably, we also had our first fatality, a former employee of PPMC, who died on 23rd March 2020. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family in this very difficult time. We also p

Explosion rocked Akure overnight, destroyed houses and road.. In the  early hours of Saturday March 28th, a vehicle in a convoy transporting explosives to a storage facility in a neighbouring state developed a fault while in transit along the Akure Owo Road about 2km from the Akure Airport. Security personnel and other individuals transporting the ordinances noticed smoke from the vehicle. After several attempts to extinguish the resulting fire failed, the vehicle and its consignment ignited causing a massive explosion that was felt in Akure and its environs.

In what appeared to be Bomb/PipeLine Explosion rock Lagos this Morning. Multiple injuries and alot of buildings where seen destroyed as the shock of the explosion rock the alot of area around Amuwo odofin.

Tremor in country's north sends people running into the streets Italians poured out of their homes in the country's north this afternoon after an earthquake shook Tuscany amid the nation's growing coronavirus outbreak. The 2.6-magnitude quake, which struck around a mile north of Camaiore, was recorded by the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology at 2.17pm local time. It had an epicenter in the Lucca province in Tuscany and a depth of around five miles, ANSA reported. There were initially no reports of damage as a result of the tremor, though people in Camaiore and nearby Viareggio noted feeling 'vibrations from the ground'. It was also reported people across Versilia had 'poured out of their houses' when the quake struck the area this afternoon. The earthquake comes as the coronavirus death toll reached 463 in Italy, with more than 9,000 virus cases confirmed across the stricken nation. Prime minister Giuseppe Conte declared last night

A 100,000-strong squad of birds will be sent into Pakistan, which has declared an ­emergency with its biggest plague in 20 years An air force of ducks will be deployed to see off a ground invasion of locusts threatening to invade China from neighbouring Pakistan. A 100,000-strong squad will be sent into Pakistan, which has declared an emergency with its biggest plague in 20 years. A duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day, compared with chickens which can manage just 70 – and they make for more disciplined fighters. Lu Lizhi of the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China described the ducks as “biological weapons”. He added: “Ducks like to stay in a group so they are easier to manage than chickens.” A trial will take place in the coming months, after which they will be sent to Pakistan’s Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab provinces. Heavy rains in the Arabian Peninsula last year led to huge swarms which have spread into South Asia and East Africa and can eat as much in a