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A massive fire has engulfed the popular Ajman market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).   According to official reports, the fire broke out at 6:30 pm on Wednesday evening August 5, in the emirate's new industrial area in Ajman, which is not too far away from Dubai.     As at press time no injuries or deaths have been recorded but properties and goods worth millions of dollars has been lost to the fire.   The fire incident in Ajman has come less than 24 hours after a huge explosion rattled Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon killing at least 100 and injuring more than 3,000 people.           In videos posted on Twitter, fire services can be seen rushing to the Ajman incident site and it took frantic work of three hours by the fire service to put off the flames. Authorities are still accessing the market area to ascertain the cause of the fire.

The Ogun state police command has arrested two suspects in connection to an alleged fake dollar fraud in Ota area of the state.   The suspects identified as Chika Kasarachi and Ifeanyi Okechuckwu, were arrested following a complaint lodged by one Omeh Chidebere Ishoke at Sango police station.   Recalling how he was lured to the suspect's hideout at Koleosho Street Anisere Sango-Ota, Ishoke said they collected the sum of N148,000 from him under the pretence of changing the money to dollar, for him to make a huge profit.      Ogun Police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi said;    "The duo are members of a syndicate who specialized in duping unsuspecting members of the public of their hard-earned money under the pretence of ‘washing’ dollars for them. “He stated further that the suspects also collected his MP3 mini speaker, valued at N68,000, but no dollar was given to him at the end. “Upon the report, the DPO of Sango Police Division, ...

The University of Nigeria hereby invites candidates who made UNN their first-choice institution in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and scored 180 and above for screening exercise. Eligible candidates are required to pay a processing fee of N2,000.00 (Two thousand Naira only) through Remita Platform at any Commercial bank.  The online registration commences on  Wednesday, August 5, 2020  and ends on  Friday, August 28, 2020. Here are the steps and process for the online registration Process Flow for Post-UTME Registration Log on to the University Website:  unn.edu.ng Click on UNN portal (Top right corner of the Website) Click Prospective Students Select Online Application Form for 2020/2021 Admission Screening Exercise Enter JAMB Registration Number Generate Invoice Proceed to bank for Payment or pay using your ATM Card Return to Portal Re-enter JAMB Registration Number Complete Date of Birth and all other blank fields Enter O/Level Sub...

A four years old boy by name Kimbe and his younger brother Becabery who is two years went to their early grave after eating porridge potatoe prepared by their mother in Kumba, a town in the Southe West Region of Cameroon. It is suspected to be a case of food poisoning as investigation is currently going on as shared by a Facebook user. Their body have been deposited in the morgue for autopsy and further investigations on the matter.

Apple is reportedly shirking extra costs on the iPhone 12 by removing power adapters and EarPods from the boxes.  For the company’s consumer drones out there, myself included, you’ll be aware of the trimmings that usually come equipped with a new phone: plug, cable and EarPods. Basically all the necessary bits to get you on your way with your new bit of kit. However, by the time this year’s new iPhone hits store shelves, don’t expect to have all the ‘extras’ at the point of purchase; nothing says saving money like forcing people to fork out additional cash just to charge their phone. According to industry insider and TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo – whose claims have been reported across a variety of outlets, such as  The Verge ,  MacRumors  and  AppleInsider  – the tech giant is planning to remove power adapters and EarPods from the iPhone 12 boxes, as well as taking the adapter out of new iPhone SE boxes later this year. This is repor...

The prestigious university of Nigeria, University of Nigeria Nsukka announces Her plans to partner with the number one Tele-communication company in Nigeria MTN in Data subsidy. This announcement was made at the School website by the department of Center for Lion Gadgets & Technology Click here for more info

It will be recalled that the UK government has given a green light on professional sport returning as from the first of June, the exact date for the Premier League is yet to be known. According to the secretary of state for digital, culture, media, and sports Oliver Dowden revealed that the government wants some of the games shown on free TV as well as the league’s broadcasters Sky Sports and BT Sports as reported by Sport Bible. He added that airing some of the fixtures on BBC or ITV can help reach a bigger audience thereby stopping them from going to the stadium on matchdays. “ We are working hard with them to try and get it back, I am aiming for mid-June ,” he told Sky News. “ The number one test is public safety. I’m hoping that we can have something a bit more ambitious with some more free-to-air matches available so people can watch from home because that would be helpful in terms of discouraging people from leaving their homes . PAY ATTENTION:  Become a mem...

University Of Nigeria Nsukka released her 2019 supplementary admission list after  JAMB conducts her 2020 examination for the admission process. This is coming four months after the school released her merit list on the month of November 2019, and also after three months of intensive lectures by the freshmen. The school is yet to conduct her 2019/2020 matriculation ceremony. Click here to download the supplementary list ii

Tired of washing your hands for 20 seconds each time? Fingers starting to prune or feel like sandpaper? Please don't stop. Take heart that while you're scrubbing, you're also killing off a host of other nasty bacteria and potentially lethal viruses that have plagued humans for centuries -- including influenza and a number of different coronaviruses. How did such a simple thing as soap and warm water -- and alcohol-based sanitizers -- obtain such power over these parasites? The answer lies in their "skin" and your scrubbing technique. Under the microscope, coronaviruses appear to be covered with pointy spires, giving them the appearance of having a crown or "corona" -- hence the name. Beneath the crown is the outer layer of the virus, which is made up of lipids, or what you and I would call fat. Now imagine that coronavirus is your butter dish, covered with buttery fat.  "You try to wash your butter dish with water alone, but that ...

The Australian state of New South Wales reported that it identified 149 new novel coronavirus cases from 8 p.m. local time Sunday until 8 p.m. local time Monday, according to a statement from the state's Department of Health. Those new patients include 107 cases related to the Ruby Princess cruise ship, authorities said. Public health officials were forced to track down nearly 2,647 people who disembarked from the ship in Sydney  following revelations that four onboard had tested positive for the virus .  A woman passenger in her 70s, who was diagnosed with Covid-19 onboard the ship, died on Tuesday morning, authorities said.  Total cases:  As of Monday, Australia had reported 1,709 cases of novel coronavirus. New South Wales has reported 818 cases, more patients than any other state or territory in Australia.  Restricting movement:  Several Australian states are implementing new restrictions on interstate travel in order to slow the virus' spre...

Hundreds of millions of people across India have been placed under lockdown until the end of the month as efforts to  halt the spread  of the  novel coronavirus  in the country intensify. Thirty of India's 37 states and union territories have enacted lockdowns, affecting some two thirds of the 1.34 billion people who live in the country. The most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, has still not announced a complete state lockdown but has implemented it across more than a dozen districts. The lockdown includes the shutdown of all non-essential services like public transport, malls and markets, among others. Residents living in 548 districts across the country -- including in major cities such as the capital New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata -- now face travel, work and  movement restrictions  until March 31. India has also essentially cut off the country to outsiders -- all 107 of the country's airport, seaport and land por...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is going to hold a phone call with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach at 8 p.m. Tokyo time, Abe's office said, as calls for both the IOC and Japanese government to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo grow louder. Abe and his ministers had previously resisted calls to either cancel or delay the Games, which are scheduled to start on July 24. But as other major sports leagues and events worldwide canceled and postponed tournaments and games, pressure has mounted for the IOC to do the same for the quadrennial competition. Abe told lawmakers Monday  that postponing the Games is a possibility, the first time he has publicly taken such a position. Japan and the IOC have faced calls to postpone the Games in recent days from several athletes and countries. The IOC said a final decision on postponement will be made within four weeks, due to the vast complexities of rescheduling a massive global sporting event like the ...

A dozen countries in the Middle East and Central Asia have reached out to the International Monetary Fund requesting financial support due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a  blog post  by the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia department director, Jihad Azour. Azour said work is ongoing to “expedite approval” of requests for assistance, especially for countries already struggling with other issues. “This challenge will be especially daunting for the region’s fragile and conflict-torn states -- such as Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen -- where the difficulty of preparing weak health systems for the outbreak could be compounded by reduced imports due to disruptions in global trade, giving rise to shortages of medical supplies and other goods and resulting in substantial price increases,” he said.  Azour did not specify all of the countries that had requested support, but said the IMF's executive board will consider a request from the Kyrgyz Republic for eme...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said that it caught 149 candidates for various examination malpractices in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination which ended on Sunday, March 22. JAMB published the names and states of the 149 candidates in its weekly bulletin obtained by our correspondent with Imo, Anambra and Enugu States topping the list with 26, 12 and 12 candidates respectively. The offences included; examination by proxy, attempt to cheat, forceful entrance, tampering with examination documents, smuggling of mobile phones into the examination halls among others. Other states on the list included; Abia, Adamawa, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kwara, Ondo, Oyo, and Osun. The board said, “Examination Infraction in the UTME is declining with the 2020 experience. However, out of the 1,945,983 million candidates who sat the examination, prima facie cases of examination misconduct have been made against the following 149 candidates. “The board has su...

      Residents of China's Hubei province -- ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic -- received good news today when government officials announced the lockdown they have been living under for the past few months will be lifted on Wednesday. For those in Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered, those restrictions are set to remain in place until April 8.  The announcement follows news that part of a popular section of China's Great Wall will be reopened to the public.  Mainland China's coronavirus cases have slowed to a trickle. On Monday, the country reported the first case in Hubei province in six days. It was among 78 additional cases reported as of the end of day Monday -- 74 of them imported.   And while nearly 82,000 people have been infected, 3,277 of whom have died, more than 73,000 have recovered. But while restrictions may be easing on the mainland, the country and its semiautonomous territories are tightening their borde...

World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned the coronavirus “pandemic is accelerating,” in a tweet on Monday. There are more than 381,000 cases of  novel coronavirus  and over 16,500 deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking figures from the World Health Organization and additional sources.  Here's a rundown of countries that reported a spike in cases in the past 24 hours: United States:  More than 100 coronavirus-related deaths reported in a single day for the first time since the outbreak began. There are over 42,600 cases in the US -- 21,689 in New York state -- and at least 540 people have died.  Canada:  A significant increase in cases reported, especially in its largest provinces of Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. On Monday, new cases spiked by nearly a third. There are at least 2,000 cases and 23 deaths nationwide. Brazil:  The ministry of health reported 1...

China's Hubei province, ground zero for the worldwide novel coronavirus pandemic, is planning to lift nearly all lockdown restrictions across the province on Wednesday, authorities announced. Similar measures will remain in place in Wuhan, the provincial capital, until April 8, authorities said on microblogging platform Weibo. The mysterious illness that turned out to be Covid-19 was first reported in Wuhan in December. Authorities responded by locking down the province and forcing millions to remain indoors.  As of the end of the day Monday, Hubei had reported 67,801 coronavirus cases and 3,160 virus-related fatalities.  However, the rate of new infections has been brought down significantly -- the province has only reported one new infection in the past six days.  Nearly 82,000 people across mainland China have been infected, 3,277 of whom have died. More than 73,000 have recovered and been discharged from hospital.

As grocery store shelves sit bare during the  coronavirus  pandemic, good Samaritans across the US are taking it upon themselves to turn "Little Free Libraries" into "Little Free Pantries."  Little Free Libraries  are public bookcases that allow for book-sharing within neighborhoods and communities. Anyone can take or leave a book. Now, many of these honor-system book cabinets are stocked with things like canned food, pasta and even toilet paper for those in need. Shelly Anderson filled a Little Free Pantry in Woodbury, Minnesota. For her, it was a chance to do something positive. "This is an uncertain time. I think being able to provide something to anyone is worth it," she said. She first heard about the idea from a friend and decided to ask her kids' elementary school about converting their Little Free Library into a free pantry. "After we got approval, we went through our pantry and found all the things that would be essential ...

  The news was not good. Not only did Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Gregoire test positive for the coronavirus after a trip to the UK, but that meant the Canadian Prime Minister would have to quarantine immediately, along with his three children. Although huddled together in historic Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Gregoire would need to be isolated from her own family. And there would be no nanny, no grandparent, no cook, no one to help.  Trudeau has effectively taken on single parenthood, while leading Canada’s effort to battle a once-in-a century pandemic. “It’s an interesting challenge to run a G7 country in this situation, he’s doing it with kids running around in the background, they’re playing Lego, keeping busy. But you know it’s no different right now from what lots of other Canadians are doing, working from home right now,” said Cameron Ahmad, the Prime Minister’s communications director. “He’s on the phone all day long, he has to print his own speech...