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Nigerians Die While Seeking Palliatives Amid Hardship

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Nigerians Die While Seeking Palliatives Amid Hardship

In the last several days, a number of Nigerians have passed away while trying to get palliatives provided by the government in the face of the country’s worsening  food crisis.

The most recent is the tragic event that occurred at Nasarawa State University in Keffi, where 23 students were admitted to the hospital and two students were confirmed deceased during the palliative care distribution.

Governor Abdullahi Sule has directed that each student at the state university in Keffi, the state capital, receive two 7.5 kg bags of rice and N5,000.

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However, the tragic event claimed the lives of two students, Grace Danladi and Rose Michael, and injured a number of others in a stampede that occurred prior to the kids receiving the palliatives.

According to an official statement, the palliatives were scheduled to be distributed in the school’s convocation stadium, but before that could happen, several students overcame the security on the ground, starting a rush that left the students dead or injured as they carried the food items away.

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State responded by stating that the two students’ deaths were not the consequence of carelessness on the part of the administration.

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The governor made the statement when he appeared as a guest on Channel’s Television.

I his words, “It’s not something that happened on the part of negligence by the government.

“It’s very unfortunate that it happened but it had nothing to do with any planning, it has nothing to do with any negligence. We have been to eight places.

“It was the last place, which would have been the ninth institution that we went to. So, all these other places that we went, everything went so smoothly.

He claimed that there was no planning behind the chaos, but rather worry among some students who believed their names were being replaced by the institution’s Students’ Union Government.

“We are very sad that two students died. We are talking with the families. So, for somebody to politicise it? It’s unfortunate that we are in a country where everybody looks at a tragedy and politicizes it,” he added.

There have been numerous reports about Nigerians dying in search of palliatives accross the nation.

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Royal Couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Lands In Nigeria

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Royal Couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Lands In Nigeria

On Friday morning, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle landed in Nigeria to begin their 72-hour visit.

The couple took a British Airways aircraft and arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

The Daily Mail claims that the flight, which arrived at around five in the morning, was delayed due to a sick pilot.

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Yesterday, the Duchess of Sussex took a plane to Heathrow to meet her husband at the airport’s private Windsor Suite.

Harry and Meghan are traveling to Nigeria together for the first time.

Other passengers were pulled over as they were led into a waiting van that had been completely darkened.

 

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Stop Creating More Taxes And Provide Solution to End Hunger – Primate Ayodele To Tinubu

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Primate Elijah Ayodele, the leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, urged President Bola Tinubu not to continue imposing taxes on Nigerians and come up with ways to put an end to the country’s hunger on Friday.

Primate Ayodele stated that it is inappropriate to raise the Value Added Tax, stamp tax, and cybersecurity charge at a time when Nigeria is still experiencing severe economic hardship that has left common people impoverished.

He ordered the government to evaluate its policies and make them more people-friendly because there is so much hardship in the nation and the government should be focused on making sure that Nigerians have better days, according to a statement signed by his media assistant, Osho Oluwatosin.

He said:

’Increasing VAT, stamp duty, implementing cybersecurity levy at this time is not proper.Nigeria may not understand all of these and the government in power may not even understand too but the fact remains that the government must review their policies very well.

‘’These policies will only lead to more hardship for the people, the prices of food commodities will skyrocket and even the salary increase will still lead to more hardship if these policies continue.’’

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Primate Ayodele urged the governor of the CBN to carefully review any measures that would provide long-term challenges for the government and have an impact on Nigerian banks.

He claimed that the nation as a whole will be impacted by the present policies, which are too severe.

‘’The CBN governor must look at all these policies that will create problems for the future of the government, they must review them clinically and all of these will affect banks. If all these policies still continue, Nigerians will not find it easy.

‘’What Nigerians need now is how they will survive and eat their three square meal. What is going on now will affect every small scale industry and big men. A lot of people surrounding the president are deceiving him,” he added.

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Shock as Man Comes Out Alive After Being Buried In Coffin For 23 Hours

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Shock as Man Comes Out Alive After Being Buried In Coffin For 23 Hours

In a widely shared video, Young C, a Nigerian man who took on the challenge of being buried alive for a full day inside a coffin, claims to still be alive.

Starting the challenge on Wednesday, the skitmaker was buried for the entire day in a wooden casket furnished with two lightbulbs, a hand fan, bed linens, a pillow, and a power bank camera.

Young C used his YouTube page to live-stream his time spent underground.

The comedian confirmed his survival on Thursday in a post on his Instagram account, panting.

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“I am still fine, I am okay. A lot of you might think something has happened, but nothing has happened, I am fine.

“My problem is just that I have run out of water, I might be forced to drink this (my urine). Guys, I am fine”.

Young C said in a previous update that he had been buried for more than eight hours and was feeling physically uncomfortable, sweating a lot.

He released a video from inside the casket demonstrating that his light and camera were still operational and vowed to finish the challenge.

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