Four (4) previous cases have also been discharged.
This brings the total confirmed cases in Ekiti State to thirty-two (32), of which four (4) active, twenty-six (26) discharged, and two (2) deaths.
Saturday, 20 June 2020
Ekiti govt confirms 2 new cases of coronavirus
Maupay stuns Arsenal with late Brighton winner
The French striker showed coolness and class to slot in his ninth and most important goal of the season, give Albion their first league win of 2020 and cap a remarkable comeback.
Nicolas Pepe had fired the Gunners into a deserved lead with a superb curling shot with just over 20 minutes to go, but Lewis Dunk scrambled an equaliser over the line from close range to set up a barnstorming finish.
Maupay's winner was a sucker punch to the Gunners, who have now lost back-to-back games since the Premier League returned - results that surely make a late run to Champions League qualification very unlikely.
They may also have to navigate the rest of the season without goalkeeper Bernd Leno, who was stretchered off after landing awkwardly on his ankle in the first half following an aerial challenge with Maupay.
Maupay's role in the incident seemed to anger Leno's team-mates, some of whom became embroiled in a shoving match with the striker at full-time.
Leno joins defender Pablo Mari and midfielder Granit Xhaka on the sidelines, both of whom were injured in Wednesday's 3-0 loss at Manchester City.
There is no such negativity for Brighton, though. They appeared to come through the game largely unscathed and are now five points above the bottom three.
Brighton dig deep
Brighton were the first team to publicly voice opposition to games being played at neutral grounds as the debate raged last month about how the Premier League might conclude during the coronavirus pandemic.
With five of their remaining nine matches being at home, four of them against teams in the top half of the table (including Saturday's), the Seagulls need every advantage that playing on home turf brings.
But while the Amex was obviously lacking in fervent home support, this did not hamper Albion's appetite for the fight or ability to rouse themselves after a setback.
Pepe's opener was a hammer blow, especially coming at a time in the game when the league's three-month absence due to the coronavirus pandemic would have started to take its physical toll on the players.
But they dug deep and found parity through Dunk, who took advantage of some Arsenal hesitancy in their own box to poke the ball in after it had ricocheted his way.
Prior to that they had threatened rarely, with Aaron Mooy's low first-half drive their best effort.
They would have the final say, though, as Maupay gathered the ball from substitute Aaron Connelly before producing a deft, decisive finish. (BBC Football)
BREAKING: Oshiomhole’s ward executives lift suspension
Seventeen out of the 27 members of the executives of the All Progressives Congress APC in Ward 10, Etsako West local government of Edo state have lifted the suspension slammed on Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
Details later…
Brazil records 54,000 coronavirus cases in a single day
The South American country recorded more than 1,200 deaths for the fourth consecutive day bringing the total to nearly 49,000 yesterday.
It comes two months after the US reached the one million mark and just days after the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa Etienne said Brazil was a major concern.
A lack of testing in the country with a population of 209 million has led experts to suggest the real figure could be much higher.
Hours before the latest figures were revealed the World Health Organisation’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned the coronavirus pandemic was entering a ‘new and dangerous’ stage.
He said cases were rising at the same time as people are growing weary of lockdowns and governments are seeking to restart their economies.
Walter Braga Netto, the head of the office of the Brazilian president’s chief of staff, known as Casa Civil, and one of the top officials handling the crisis, has previously said it was under control in the country.
‘There is a crisis, we sympathize with bereaved families, but it is managed,’ said Braga Netto, who spoke during a webinar held by the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro.
Braga Netto said Brazil’s deaths-per-million-people figure was better than that of Belgium, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy and France. As such, the Army general said he ‘was trying to convey a message of optimism in the management of the crisis.’
Latin America’s largest country accounts for about a quarter of the roughly four million coronavirus cases in the Americas and nearly 25 per cent of the deaths, she said.
‘We are not seeing transmission slowing down’ in Brazil, Etienne said.
PAHO recommends that Brazil and other regional countries strengthen social distancing and urged that reopening of the economy be done slowly and carefully.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has long opposed social distancing measures, and many of the country’s states are re-opening for business even though the outbreak remains severe.
Some villagers in the eastern Amazon are spurning Brazilian government advice to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to keep the novel coronavirus at bay and are drinking tea of jambú, also known as the toothache plant.
Maria de Nazaré Sajes, 65, tested positive for the coronavirus and believes she fought off the symptoms by drinking the infusion of bitter leaves.
‘I made jambú tea and felt healthy again. People said: “Look at Maria, how she has recovered, she no fever or pains”,’ Maria said while she was boiling water on a gas stove in her wooden house.
Her village on the banks of a tributary of the Amazon was visited by public health workers to test inhabitants for the virus that is ravaging Brazil in the world’s second-worst outbreak after the United States.
US regulators withdrew approval this week for the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine to treat patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
It is still being prescribed in Brazil as scientists around the world are working to develop a vaccine and effective treatments.
Source: Daily Mail
POLITICS OF PERFIDY -By - Lanre Ogunjobi
Politics, from my point of view is about touching the lives of others in a quest to serve the people; using the legitimate power bestowed by the plurality of votes of a free people for the common good of the people. While retiring at the end of the day to live in peace amidst the people you have dutifully served, your name goes down in history as one who has served humanity and is remembered as one with so much honour even after death.
The above typifies the kind of leadership qualities exemplified by iconic leaders like Mahatma Ghandi, Obafemi Awolowo, Kwame Nkruma, Julius Nyerere, Ahmadu Bello, Zik of Africa as well as Mandela; among many world leaders of note in the past. They could be said to have engaged in politics of wellbeing as they catered for their people rather than their pockets.
Today, politics has taken new dimensions. Unnecessary chicanery, vindictiveness, mudslinging, character assassination, sabotage and other crooked antics that makes politics to be viewed as immoral are now rife in our society. It's an era where whoever is seen as opponent gets unwholesome treatment in the form of barefaced lies, blackmail, vindictive criticism, schism and unnecessary bad blood in order to sway the impressionable minds for the ungodly reasons of drawing sentiments from the unsuspecting public.
Since politics is a game of number, there has never been any limit to the shenanigans of such ungodly undoings of perceived opponents. It happens at different levels; intra or inter party levels, and the ultimate end is either to have an edge over the other person or to destroy in order to make an entry to political stardom and reckoning. After all, all is fair in war.
Even when these lots of wannabes who don't mean well attempt to expunge morals from politics, history is replete with men and women who stood for enduring ideals in faith, perseverance, service and forthrightness. While observing this scenario, history is rich with numerous examples of treacherous men and women who had taken such routes and their calamitous end is a lesson to those who do not wish to repeat a sordid past.
I reckon that politics shouldn't come with deliberate blindness where armchair critics, who never see anything good in any government or individuals take the centre stage. Good at criticism, but lack the moral muscle when it comes to providing better alternatives to what they criticise. They have no idea to lend a hand. They have no traceable path that inspires anyone. They have penchant for 'pull him down' syndrome which has been inimical to the development of a sane society.
My first encounter with the word, 'perfidy' was from the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in the early 80s. Chief Awolowo at a time, when recounting his travails in the course of his voyage in politics, was moved to specifically mention some people who betrayed him or tried to put him down. He described them as perfidious elements and predicted how they would end their lives. He called them "sons of perdition". Surprisingly, Chief Awolowo's prediction came to pass in the lives of such individuals before his death. Perfidy does not pay. Lying and destroying others in order to lower their esteem as well as create hatred and suspicion about people we lie against do not pay. It's like the pancreas that is cooked with food which is gulling as well as bitter.
Yes, treacherous people may gain the momentary advantage(s) they desire but they will surely pay dearly for such evils.
The end result is always a bitter one. Many people may not know but when karma comes calling, those who triumphed in evil would always experience a debilitating end while the undiscerning people around would come to sympathise.
If only we are for progress, our quest to play politics and be relevant shouldn't come with bitterness. We must always remember that for every evil we do against our fellow men to gain advantage, there's always a pay day; a time of recompense. For it's written, whatsoever we sow, we shall reap.
Like the characters in the days of Chief Awolowo, anguish, defeat and regrets are always the rewards of perfidious people especially at the twilight of their lives.
Politics cannot be dirty if men and women of noble character play it. It's these same perfidious people that corrupt our politics. Politics should be about integrity, honesty, forthrightness, conscientiousness and truth.
It is my hope that this piece will communicate to somebody; somewhere. I hope it will save someone from a calamitous end.
It's another brighly beautiful day.
LanreOgunjobi;SnrKosija @oshojokini
Nigeria records 667 new coronavirus cases
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reported the figures on its Twitter handle on Friday.
According to the NCDC, Lagos State returned 281 cases, while Abia and Oyo States had 48 and 45 infections, with the Federal Capital Territory returning 38 positive patients.
Others were Ogun, Enugu, Ondo, Plateau, Edo, Delta Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Kaduna and Kano States, which returned 37, 31, 23, 21, 19, 18, 18, 17, 17, 14 and 12 positive cases respectively.
Also on the list of states with positive results on Friday were Bauchi (9), Gombe (4), Osun (3), Benue (3), Nasarawa (3), Kwara (3), Ekiti (2) and Borno (1).
In all as at Friday night, Nigeria has had a total of 19,147 confirmed cases, 6,581 discharged and 487 deaths.
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