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COVID-19: “Can Africa Afford Lockdowns?” by Chukwuma Charles Soludo CFR

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 24, 2020 160 0

This piece summarizes my contribution to an African debate. From Johannesburg to Lagos, Cairo to Dakar, Kinshasa to Kigali, Nairobi to Accra, etc the debate on how Africa should respond to the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is raging. At an African regional policy platform, I had expressed some of these (personal) views some weeks ago […]Continue Reading

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Melinda Gates said she feared coronavirus in Africa would lead to dead being put out in street, as in Ecuador

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 24, 2020 185 0

Disclosure: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is one of Africa Check’s funders, providing 11% of our income in 2019. Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of US billionaire Bill Gates, has said the coronavirus pandemic “will make Africa have dead bodies lying on the streets”. That’s the claim in a 12 April 2020 post on […]Continue Reading

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Ugandan security personnel enforcing COVID-19 measures assault journalists

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 22, 2020 161 0

The Committee to Protect Journalists have called on Ugandan authorities to investigate security forces’ recent attacks against journalists and hold those responsible to account. Since March 19, security forces have harassed or assaulted at least six journalists in the country while enforcing restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to the journalists, who Continue Reading

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Malam Abba Kyari: a brother, friend and patriot, by Is’haq Modibbo Kawu

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 22, 2020 183 0

I have been in shock, since news broke, of the passing of Malam Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, late on Friday night, the 17th of April, that it has been difficult for me, to concentrate on literally any other thought, except the incredible life that Mal Abba lived, and the gravity of […]Continue Reading

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Re-introducing “The Lugano Report” by Edwin Madunagu

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 22, 2020 155 0

Sometime in 1999, as both the 20th century and the second millennium were drawing to a close, the Pluto Press, London, released a book with the title: “The Lugano Report” and subtitle, “On preserving capitalism in the 21st century”. The author, Susan George, who shares this name with another well-known but much younger woman, was born in […]Continue Reading

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The present and the past flu by Eric Teniola

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 10, 2020 149 0

The Coronavirus is a negative scientific invention. Until proved otherwise, the virus called SARS-COV-2 was made by scientists and escaped in a laboratory. It is a laboratory construct and a manipulated virus. It is not the product of natural evolution. The sudden and forceful spread of the virus, especially from China to Europe and then […]Continue Reading

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Gbajabiamila to propose bill that will ensure two months free electricity supply

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 4, 2020 157 0

The House of Representatives is to consider a fresh Stimulus Bill that will ensure that Nigerians get free electricity supply for two months to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Speaker Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila said the proposed Bill is to help in boosting the economy through the informal sector as the country prepares for […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria’s unhealthy healthcare in the eye of Coronavirus

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 4, 2020 174 0

By Runcie C.W. Chidebe Coronavirus (COVID-19) is here to teach us a lesson; I hope we learn. Nigeria’s healthcare is unhealthy. But instead of fixing it our rulers have been busy flying up and down to benefit from other country’s productive health system. With Coronavirus, reality is upon us. No more running overseas for medical […]Continue Reading

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Shutting down population movement will not extinguish the Coronavirus epidemics- World Health Organization

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 31, 2020 173 0

The World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned the lockdown of countries in curtailing the spread of COVID19. In a statement by the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, it said that: “We understand that countries are trying to assess when and how they will be able to ease these measures. The answer depends on […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 simplified, by Yoweri Museveni.

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 24, 2020 147 0

President Yoweri Museveni. Countrymen and Countrywomen, Greetings to you all. Today, I have come to address you on the issue of the Corona virus, abbreviated as Covid19.  They call it corona because, under the micro-scope, it looks like a crown (ekiruunga, engure).  This is a new virus but it belongs to the family of the […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: To secure IDP camps, Zulum summons UN agencies, government multi-stakeholders to Borno’s emergency response plan

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 19, 2020 152 0

…No cause for alarm To prevent spread of Coronavirus with potential for wild-fire effect at internally displaced persons’ camps, Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has convened a multi-stakeholder meeting in Maiduguri which adopted a response plan. The meeting which held today, Thursday, in Maiduguri, was attended by senior officials of the World Health Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: myths, facts and issues in Africa

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 13, 2020 199 0

Some African countries do not have testing capacity for the COVID-19. Out of 54 countries in Africa, only 37 of these countries have testing capacities for the virus. Seventeen other countries have no capacity to conduct tests for coronavirus, according to New Scientist. The publication said further that most of the reported and confirmed cases […]Continue Reading