Nigerian-born British professional boxer, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua better known as Anthony Joshua has declared that he is coming towards the end of his boxing career.
The heavyweight champion hinted that he will have a maximum of “five years left” in the sport before retiring.
The 31-year-old world heavyweight champion could be approaching the most significant period of his career, with ongoing negotiations about two massive unification fights against Tyson Fury in 2021.
Since making his pro debut in 2013, Joshua has become a two-time champion, having regained his WBA, IBF and WBO titles in a 2019 rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr before defending them with a knockout win over Kubrat Pulev last month.
“This isn’t the start of my career. I’m coming towards the end of my career,” Joshua told Sky Sports News.
“I’m not someone who lives in the moment and thinks that everything is just like for now. I’m always planning ahead so I’m coming towards the end of my career.
“Five years left and that’s basically an Olympic cycle. I’ve got an Olympic cycle and a little bit more left, so when you see the next Olympics happen is when I’ll be coming to the end of my career and the next generation will be coming through.”
Fury turned professional in 2008, nearly five years before Joshua, who recently suggested that his British rival should also be thinking about hanging up his gloves.
“Fury has been professional much longer than me. He should be looking to retire soon,” Joshua had told Sky Sports.
“If he wants to cement his legacy, I’m here and ready. I’ve built myself into this position.”
But the 32-year-old Fury told Sky Sports last year that he wanted a lengthy world title reign like Wladimir Klitschko.
“Klitschko did it until he was 40,” said Fury who ended the Ukrainian’s dominance with a points win in 2015.
Workers at the National Identity Management Commission have embarked on a strike action.
The notice of strike was signed by the President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, NIMC branch, Lucky Michael, and its Secretary, Odia Victor.
“All members at the local government offices and special centres are advised to stay away from their various centres as task force and implementation committees would be on parade to ensure total compliance to the directive.”
The Nigerian Communications Commission had last month asked all telecoms firms to disconnect the SIM cards of all persons who have not integrated their National Identity Numbers with their phone lines by the end of January.
Currently, over 100 million Nigerians have yet to do so which has caused huge crowds to gather at the various offices of NIMC in breach of the COVID-19 protocol.
According to a communiqué issued at the end of the congress meeting of the ACCSN, NIMC branch, the strike had become necessary due to the exposure of staff to COVID-19 risks, lack of personal protective equipment, irregularities in promotion and poor funding.
They also asked to be paid overtime and given enough tools to work with.
The congress noted that, “Staff members were infected with COVID-19 and adequate measures have not been taken to curtail the spread. The meeting resolved that safety of staff should be prioritised. Furthermore the office environment should be fumigated immediately.
“The congress agreed that the NIMC staff salary structure approved by the Federal Government vide Presidential assent be implemented in the personnel appropriation of the 2021 annual budget effective January 2021.
“That the lopsided and irregular promotion done in 2017 and 2020 be reviewed, regularised and gazetted in accordance with public service rules.”
Meanwhile, thousands of Nigerians applying for the National Identification Number (NIN) have been locked outside of the offices of the National Identity Management Commission following the strike embarked on by NIMC staff.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned Nigerians against the sale of their National Identity Number (NIN) for monetary benefits.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that there has been a surge in the number of Nigerians registering for their NIN since the government announced in December 2020 that any mobile phone subscriber without a NIN will have their SIM cards blocked in a matter of weeks.
In a statement on Thursday, January 7, 2021, the EFCC has warned that some fraudulent individuals are cashing in on the ongoing exercise to induce enrollees to sell their NIN.
The anti-graft agency said the buyers are also selling the NIN to other buyers who are likely to use it for criminal means.
The agency said it is illegal for Nigerians to sell their NIN, and that they stand the risk of indirect liability for any criminal activity linked to their NIN.
“In other words, they (Nigerians) risk arrest and prosecution for any act of criminality linked to their NIN whether or not they are directly responsible for such crimes,” the agency said
EFCC appealed to Nigerians to report anyone seeking to buy their NIN to law enforcement agencies.
Millions of Nigerians are desperate to acquire their NIN before the February 9 deadline set by the government last year.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja charged National Commission for Persons with Disabilities to play its roles adequately in the realisation of the government objective of lifting 100million Nigerians out of poverty.
Speaking when he received members of the newly established body at the State House, President Buhari said,” I am enjoining you as a team of the commission, to realize that your work forms a critical aspect in achieving the objective of our Administration to removing 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. I am therefore looking forward to commissioning projects and programmes of high impact to the disabled community in line with this vision.
“Your appointments were no mistake as you were all selected after careful evaluation and assessment of your good conduct and contribution to the society and the disabled community in Nigeria.
“The task before you is enormous. You must work diligently towards ensuring that Government is able to touch the lives of our fellow citizens with special needs despite our limited resources.”
He assured that his administration will continue to give effect to treaties that give inclusivity to persons with disabilities:
“Nigeria is a signatory and a state party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which seeks to promote the inclusion of persons with special needs in all development efforts globally. Under my leadership, Government shall continue to give effect to all global, regional and sub-regional treaties that seek to improve the lives of our disadvantaged citizens.”
The President expressed joy that the Commission was finally in place having been an issue during his campaigns:
”In December 2014, during my campaign for the President of this country under our great party, I met with the Community of Persons with Special Needs who showed unalloyed loyalty and support for our party and my candidature in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital. I recall that the most pressing and priority request from the Community was the passage of the Disability Bill and the subsequent presidential assent which I promised them I shall do. I am happy to have fulfilled that promise.”
He commended some governors who had enacted laws on disability and enjoined others who had not to do the needful.
“I thank the Governors of Plateau, Lagos and Nasarawa States for enacting disability laws and establishing Disability Rights Commissions in their states, I am calling on Governors of Yobe, Kano and Kogi States, to implement their laws while those states that are yet to do so should take necessary action to enable Federal Government efforts have the desired impact at the subnational levels,” Senior Presidential Media Aide, Garba Shehu, quoted President Buhari as saying.
In her remarks, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, who led the team, said she has continued to receive words from persons with disabilities, local and non-governmental organisations, and the international community commending the President for the establishment of the Commission.
She requested the President to direct that public buildings like airports , motor parks and schools be made accessible to persons with disabilities in Nigeria although it has been captured in the Act.
She also requested for technologies to aid the persons with disabilities in their educational pursuits.
The Minister added that her Ministry had ensured that persons with disabilities had access to palliatives from her Ministry and are also included in its social investment programmes.
R-L: President Muhammadu Buhari, Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State at the State House, Abuja.
Addressing State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting, the governor said that he updated the president on the progress so far made in the ongoing reconstruction of the state.
The reconstruction was as a result of the destruction and damages caused by the #EndSARS protests in the state in October, 2020.
According to him, the state government is already resuscitating small scale businesses through the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.
“It is a work in progress. We are carefully taking a proper study to know what we need to do, taking our time to get it right but we have started something.
“Some businesses that were affected, some people having their shops looted or burnt or something. We have been able to directly begin to support such businesses, especially on a micro, small level using the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund.
“They have started intervening and supporting some of these small businesses, giving them grants, giving them soft loans and making sure that they can come back together very quickly.
“The bigger, larger items around infrastructure, around transportation, they will take a fairly long time.
“We are talking about a period that is still under three months. So, its still a working document that we are doing right now and we also have to be very creative on how we raise the finance.
“We didn’t have money anywhere, you know it was toward the end of a financial year and we are just starting another year.”
According to the governor, to be able to complete the rebuilding process, the state government will need more support from both the public and private sectors.
“So, to be able to make budgetary provisions for these things and be able to raise required funding, both support from the private sector and also from the public sector before we can begin to reconstruct some of those huge infrastructures.
“But we have them all focused and will be tackling them. But the low hanging ones, like I said, are the small businesses that we have started supporting so that people can get back to life very quickly,” he said.
On the second wave of COVID-19, the governor stressed the need for Nigerians to take full personal responsibility because of the threat of the pandemic.
He added that the Lagos State government had already commenced the building of oxygen tents and plants to help reduce the number of casualties.
“One of the things we have realised is that a lot more people require oxygen attention, they need additional breathing aid, so we have started building what we call oxygen tents, we are building about ten of such facilities, we have commissioned about four or five of them.
“We are also building proper oxygen plants, additional to oxygen plants in the state so that we can meet the respiratory requirements,” he said.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for President Donald Trump’s removal.
Both Democrats said the president incited an “insurrection” against the country.
Schumer said that if Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet do not move to invoke the 25th Amendment, Congress should reconvene to impeach Trump.
Pelosi said Congress “may be prepared” to impeach him.
A mob spurred by the president’s election conspiracy theories overran the Capitol as Congress counted Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blows a kiss to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as he and Senator Mitch McConnell arrive for a joint session to certify the 2020 election results, inside the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.
The top Democrats in Congress called for President Donald Trump’s removal Thursday, a day after a mob spurred by the president overran the Capitol as lawmakers tallied President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential win.
Both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called on Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s Cabinet to remove the president from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. Both said they could move forward with impeachment if the vice president and secretaries do not act.
In a statement earlier Thursday, Schumer said Congress “should reconvene to impeach the president” if Pence and the Cabinet do not invoke the 25th Amendment. Pelosi said lawmakers “may be prepared” to take the step if executive branch officials do not try to remove him. She added that the move would have “overwhelming” support within her caucus.
Both Democratic leaders said Trump could endanger the country even in the two weeks he has left in office.
“Each and every one of those days is a threat to democracy,” Schumer told reporters Thursday afternoon outside his New York City office. “The quickest and most effective way to remove this president from office is to invoke the 25 Amendment.”
Schumer and Pelosi said Trump incited an “insurrection” against the country. The speaker added that “any day can be a horror show for America” as long as Trump remains in office.
Biden will become president on Jan. 20 after Trump for months spouted conspiracy theories that widespread election fraud cost him a second term in office. More lawmakers have warned that another two weeks of Trump’s presidency could further erode American democracy or lead to more loss of life after four people died during the Capitol attack Wednesday.
Vice President Mike Pence presides over a Joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 Electoral College results after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol earlier in the day on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on January 6, 2020.
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More than 100 lawmakers have called for the president’s removal through the 25th Amendment, impeachment or resignation, according to an NBC News tally. Only one of them — Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — is a Republican.
Congress adjourned for at least the rest of the week after it counted Biden’s electoral victory early Thursday. It is unclear if either chamber would return in time to vote to remove the president in the 13 days before the inauguration. While Schumer’s Democrats will control the Senate in coming weeks after Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff of Georgia take office, Republicans will hold the chamber until they are sworn in.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has weighed in on whether to expel the president after the Capitol breach. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Schumer’s statement.
Biden also said Thursday that he would not address the question of invoking the 25th Amendment.
Under the 25th Amendment, Vice President Mike Pence and a majority of the Cabinet can remove Trump. The president could contest the move. Congress would then need to vote with a two-thirds majority to push him out of office.
Informal staff discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment have taken place in the White House, NBC News reported. It is unclear whether the talks have gone up to Cabinet secretaries or Pence.
The Democratic-held House impeached Trump in December 2019 in part because the president pushed Ukraine to investigate the Biden family during the presidential campaign. The GOP-controlled Senate voted against removing him from office last year. Among Republicans, only Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah voted to convict the president.
House Democrats drafted articles of impeachment after the breach of the Capitol. In a statement after she drew up articles on Wednesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said Trump “should be impeached and removed from office for his open sedition” after what she called a “coup attempt.”
It is unclear whether the Senate would have the two-thirds support needed to remove Trump from office now. Some of his GOP allies started to distance themselves from him after he helped to fuel the attack on the Capitol.
“All I can say is count me out. Enough is enough,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on the Senate floor after the government regained control of the Capitol.
Several of the president’s top aides – including his national security adviser Robert O’Brien, as well as deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell – are also reportedly considering leaving the administration.
Reports of their departure followed in the hours after a violent mob breached the halls of Congress, mounting an insurrection after the president repeatedly and falsely insisted to his supporters that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from them, as a joint session of Congress convened to formally count Electoral College votes to certify Joe Biden’s election.
White House staff and officials now are mulling their resignation in the wake of the chaos, just 14 days from the president-elect’s swearing-in ceremony.
“I was honored to serve in the Trump administration and proud of the policies we enacted,” Ms Matthews said in a statement. “I was deeply disturbed by what I saw today. I’ll be stepping down from my role, effective immediately. Our nation needs a peaceful transfer of power.”
Lawmakers were forced into recess and ordered to shelter in place and evacuate, as pro-Trump rioters breached the Capitol and broke into chambers and offices. Capitol Police shot one woman, who was pronounced dead at nearby hospital. At least three other people died due to medical emergencies, according to police.
Law enforcement recovered two pipe bombs, as well as a cooler full of molotov cocktails, according to Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee. Police have arrested at least 52 people, mostly for curfew violations, as of Tuesday night.
In remarks from Delaware on Tuesday afternoon, the president-elect urged the president to “fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege.”
“It’s not a protest – it’s insurrection,” he said. “The world’s watching. I am genuinely shocked and sad that our nation, so long the beacon of light and hope for democracy, has come to such a dark moment.”
Moments later, the president posted a pre-taped message to his social media, falsely insisting that the election was “stolen” from his supporters and that he won “in a landslide” before telling rioters to “go home now.”
“We have to have peace, we have to have law and order, we have to respect our great people in law and order,” he said. “This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people.”
Twitter has suspended the president’s account for 12 hours for “repeated and severe violations” of its civic integrity policy.
Both chambers of Congress reconvened at 8pm on Tuesday to debate and vote on objections to electoral vote counts.
Vice President Mike Pence, who has dismissed the president’s calls to unilaterally reject electoral votes, condemned the “unprecedented violence and vandalism” at the Capitol as he returned to the dais and as workers cleaned up the mess in its wake.
“We’ve never been deterred before, and we’ll be not deterred today,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor. “They tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed.”
Members of Congress reconvened Wednesday night to continue the process of certifying November’s presidential election results.
The joint session of Congress was suspended Wednesday afternoon after a sea of protesters swarmed Capitol Hill and stormed the U.S. Capitol building on the heels of a rally by President Donald Trump. During the rally, Trump had incited his supporters with unfounded allegations of vote fraud and urged them to march on the Capitol to “cheer on” members of Congress who had intended to challenge the election results from a number states where Trump lost.
Photos and video from the scene showed protesters breaking windows, posing on the House and Senate floors, and taking over Congressional offices. At least one woman was shot and killed during the chaos, according to news reports.
Lawmakers were forced to flee the Capitol building, but reconvened just after 8 p.m. When the session resumed, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky called the protesters “unhinged,” and said Congress would not “bow to lawlessness or intimidation.”
“They tried to disrupt our democracy. They failed,” he said. “Now we’re going to finish exactly what we started.”
Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called Wednesday “one of the darkest days in recent American history,” and a day that that will “live forever in infamy.” The people who burst into the Capitol were not protesters, he said, but rioters, goons, and domestic terrorists. And he said Trump deserves the blame for inciting them.
“This will be a stain on our country, not so easily washed away,” Schumer said, “the final, terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States, undoubtably our worst.”
Virginia state troopers, the National Guard, and riot police had to be deployed late afternoon to clear protesters from the Capitol grounds. But many protesters remained even after a 6 p.m. curfew imposed by Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser.
The violence ensued shortly after Trump’s rally nearby. During the rally, Trump ranted that November’s election was a “disgrace,” and he continued to spin baseless conspiracy theories about how the election was stolen from him. He vowed that, “We will never give up. We will never concede.”
After riling up his supporters, Trump did little to calm things down once things got out of hand.
He did not condemn the protesters, even after they stormed the Capitol. Instead, he urged them to be peaceful, and tweeted his support for Capitol police and law enforcement.
It took hours before Trump finally released a short video urging protesters to go home. But even then, he coddled rather than condemned them, saying that he loved them, and that they were “very special.” He also continued to egg them on with allegations that the election was stolen, that he won in a landslide, and “everyone knows it.”
“But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order,” Trump said. “We love you. You’re very special. . . . I know how you feel.”
While Trump was tweeting, Biden appeared on television calling for the mob to disperse.
“This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end. Now,” he said. “I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.”
The words of a president matter, Biden said. At best, they can inspire. At worst, they can incite violence, he said, urging Trump to try to calm his supporters.
“I call on President Trump, go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the constitution and demand an end to this siege,” Biden said.
The chaos erupted just as a cadre of Trump’s most ardent backers in the U.S. House and Senate began a last-ditch effort to object to November’s presidential election. They had intended to use Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to formally object to the Electoral College votes in a series of states Trump lost, the latest effort to cast doubt and overturn the election based on unfounded allegations of fraud trumpeted by Trump and his allies.
The effort had virtually no chance of success, as every Democrat and many Republicans were expected to reject the challenges. But that it would happen at all shows just how firm a grip Trump still has on the Republican Party, even as his time in the White House nears its end.
Trump voiced his support for the effort during his rally.
“I’m going to be watching,” Trump said, “because history is going to be made. We’re going to see whether or not we have great and courageous leaders, or whether or not we have leaders who should be ashamed of themselves throughout history, throughout eternity, they’ll be ashamed.”
Trump vowed to “primary the hell out of” Republicans who don’t fight for him, and he urged his crowd to march to the Capitol to “cheer on” members of Congress who had intended to challenge the vote counts.
“Today we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections, but whether or not they stand strong for our country,” Trump told the crowd, adding that, “our country has been under siege for a long time.”
The session started peacefully just after 1 p.m. when members of Congress counted the certificate of votes for both Alabama and Alaska — two states that voted for Trump. When it came time to certify the votes in Arizona, where Biden narrowly won by just over 10,000 votes, Representative Paul Gossar (R-Ariz) stood to object to counting the ballots from his state. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas formally joined the objection in writing, sending the two chambers to debate the measure separately.
McConnell, who has long urged his members not to object to the Electoral College votes, decried the objection to the Arizona votes, and spoke against heading down a “poisonous path where only the winners of elections accept the results.” It would be wrong, he said, to disenfranchise voters and to declare the Senate a “national board of elections on steroids.”
The country can’t keep driving apart into two tribes with separate facts, he said.
Every election has some irregularities, McConnell said, adding that he supports “strong, state-led voting reforms.” The 2020 pandemic voting procedures shouldn’t be the new norm.
But, he said, “nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election. Nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence.”
During debate in the Senate, Cruz denied that he was trying to set aside the election results. Rather, he said, he was trying to find a way to ensure for concerned Americans that November’s votes were legitimate. He called for an election commission to conduct a ten-day emergency audit of the results in the states where Trump and his allies have alleged fraud.
“What does it say to the nearly half of the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote, not even to consider the claims of illegality and fraud in this election,” Cruz said, while acknowledging that if Democrats stick together, “Joe Biden will almost certainly be certified as the next president of the United States.”
The protestors stormed the Capitol soon after Cruz finished speaking. The hearings were suspended, but they were expected to resume Wednesday night.
Trump and his allies have been riling up his supporters for two months now, alleging that the November election was stolen from him due to fraud in several states, including Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Election officials who have reviewed the results in those states say they’ve found no evidence of fraud or large numbers of illegal votes.
Trump continued to repeat a litany of disproven conspiracies during his rally on Wednesday, including allegations that voting machines stole votes, that large numbers of dead people and ineligible felons cast ballots, and that “tens of thousands of illegitimate votes” were counted.
“Our election was so corrupt, that in the history of this country we’ve never seen anything like it,” Trump told the crowd, that chanted “Fight for Trump.”
Trump also leaned heavily on Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday, claiming — incorrectly — that Pence has unilateral authority to reject electors certified by states in which he claims that his victory was stolen. During the rally, Trump repeatedly called on Pence to send the electors back to the states, so he could remain president and his supports at the rally would be “the happiest people.”
“Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country,” Trump told the crowd.
Pence announced Wednesday afternoon that he would not accede to President Trump’s demand that he reject slates of electors submitted by battleground states.
“It’s is my considered judgment,” he said, “that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.”
One Obehi Ogbeh, an alleged escapee from the White House prison yard in Edo State, Southsouth Nigeria has been re-arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer disclosed this to journalists in Abeokuta, the state capital.
He explained that Ogbeh was arrested in the Agbado area of the state on Tuesday, January 5 after he was reported by residents of the area who saw him walking aimlessly.
According to Oyeyemi, Ogbeh confessed that he relocated to the Agbado area in order to avoid being re-arrested.
“The prisoner was arrested following an information received by policemen at Agbado divisional headquarters that a middle aged man was seen around Angulis area of Agbado and that his look and conduct is suspicious,” he said.
“Upon the information, the DPO Agbado division, CSP Kehinde Kuranga, detailed his detectives to the area where the man was apprehended.”
“He was properly interrogated and confessed to the detectives that he was an inmate of white house prison in Edo State and that he was set free by hoodlums who attacked the prison yard during the Endsars protest,” Oyeyemi stated.
Meanwhile, Edward Ajogun, Ogun State Commissioner of Police, has directed that the suspect be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further profiling
It was reported that about 2,000 inmates escaped from prison facilities in Edo State on October 19, 2020, when hoodlums invaded the facilities during the ENDSARS protest.
The University of Lagos on Wednesday lost another professor to COVID-19.
The deceased, Prof. Duro Ajeyalemi, who is a former Dean of the Faculty of Education in UNILAG, died at the isolation centre of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Wednesday morning.
His death was the third recorded by the university from the pandemic in nine days.
The institution had earlier lost two professors to the virus that had killed 1,319 people in the country as of Tuesday night.
Nigeria’s first professor of Criminology, Femi Odekunle, died from COVID-19 complications on December 29 last year while the university’s former Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe, passed away on Sunday.
The UNILAG Deputy Vice-Chancellor in charge of Development Services, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, who confirmed Ajeyalemi’s death to journalists, said the institution’s management was again shocked to receive the news of the death of another “great scholar.”
She said: “It is true Prof. Ajeyalemi is dead. We are still in shock. Nigerians should know that COVID-19 is real and they should please use masks appropriately.”
She urged Nigerians to desist from partying, saying the violation of COVID-19 rules through social gathering has increased the cases nationwide.
“Nigerians should know that social parties can wait. We must wear our masks and avoid crowded spaces. We must also sanitise properly. COVID-19 is real and we must be properly guided,” the deputy vice-chancellor added.
