Oba Adeyeye  Enitan Ogunwusi , Ojaja II. MINING CONTROVERSY, A LAUGHABLE ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS THE SACRED THRONE OF OONI OF IFE The Ile-Oodua Palace of the Ooni of Ife is not unaware of a video being circulated by practitioners of jungle journalism on the social media through which several claims against the respected monarch were made in respect to the destructions of farmlands. In the said video, a group of people led by someone who claimed to have come from Ibadan to farm on the land were mobilized to report the activities of some Chinese nationals alleged to have been sent by the Ooni who according them had been paid a large sum of money. To set the record straight the followings herein represent our necessary response; 1. While it is unfortunate that some supposed Omoluabis as known of descendants of Oduduwa globally would allow themselves to be used against their own source and heritage, it is equally pathetic to realize the damage being currently done by the malicious video espec

                                                                                                                                              Ahmaud Arbery According to  The New York Times , Arbery was running through a suburban neighborhood of ranch houses in a small coastal Georgia city when he passed a man standing in his front yard, who would eventually tell the cops thatMrArbery resembled a suspect in a string of break-ins. According to a police report, the 64-year-old man,  Gregory McMichael , retrieved his son,  Travis McMichael , 34, and they grabbed their weapons — a .357 magnum revolver and a shotgun. The two white men hopped into a truck and started following Arbery, who is Black. “Stop, stop,” they shouted at Arbery, “we want to talk to you.” Not too long after they began chasing Arbery, there was a struggle over the shotgun and Arbery was shot at least twice and killed. Nobody has yet to be charged or arrested in association with the February 23 killing. The president of t

                                                          Image - Gettyimages The city set up interim morgues. Hospitals used refrigerated tractor trailers to store multiple bodies, Crematoriums have been backed up and Funeral directors across the city have run out of space. Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood on Wednesday after a funeral home overpowered by the coronavirus death used rented trucks to store dozens of bodies on ice. A passerby complained about the smell, officials said. The Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, went to the scene on Wednesday evening. He told the Daily News, “While this situation is under investigation, we should not have what we have right now, with trucks lining the streets filled with bodies.” He said “it was people who walked by who saw some leakage and detected an odor coming from a truck”.

                              President Muhammadu Buhari Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday extended the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and   The Federal Capital Territory ,  Abuja by a week to stop COVID -19 Community Spread. “The lockdown in the FCT, Lagos & Ogun States shall subsist remain in place until these new ones come into effect on Saturday, 2nd May 2020 at 9 am,” Buhari said in his nationwide broadcast. There will be a national curfew from 8 pm to 6 am.  In addition, he said that the situation in Kano State required total lockdown.

                                   Image Courtesy- Omni Matryx / Pixabay   Governors of the 36 States of the federation on Wednesday “unanimously” agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks to damp the spread of  coronavirus from State to State.  The governors, operating under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), reached the agreement after receiving briefing from the Governors of Lagos, Bauchi, Oyo and Ogun States who shared their experiences and lessons from the fight against COVID-19.  A n official statement issued  by the NGF chairman and governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, at the end of the sixth COVID-19 teleconference meeting said only essential services would be permitted.  State governors called for the decentralization of the COVID-19 response as the best chance of nipping the spread of the virus in communities with over 25 States now affected by the spread of the virus and increasing evidence

                    Gov. Kemp  The Georgia Department of Public Health now reports there are 20,166 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the state. 3,885 people remain hospitalized and the death toll in the state has risen to 818. The numbers were released Tuesday at 7 p.m. The most cases, with 2,206, are in Fulton County, followed by Dekalb County with 1,563 and Dougherty with 1,456. Meanwhile, Kemp joined his fellow Republican governors from South Carolina and Tennessee in announcing partial openings this week.  But many local leaders across the state said that they were  caught off guard  by Kemp's announcement, with some calling the decision "reckless" and "irresponsible" as they advised residents to continue sheltering in place.