Arsenal to sell players to fund the transfer fee for an existing flop

It was rare to see Arsenal spend any serious money in the transfer market, so the longer that trend continued meant the eventual huge signing would be under even more pressure.

You expect to see the club sign a ready made superstar when they break their transfer record, but Nicolas Pepe looked more like a highly rated project than someone ready to lead the team.

They claim that Arsenal agreed a deal for a club record £72m to actually sign him, only that money was to be paid across five installments.

They’ve been hit in recent weeks by the whole Coronavirus situation, and that means they need to find a way to raise some money to pay for that.

It’s suggested that as many as six players may have to go to raise those funds, and it really is a nightmare situation for Mikel Arteta.

Essentially he may be forced to lose some members of his squad just to keep a player who was signed before he arrived, and surely this will reduce his options to improve his team too.

It’s likely other clubs will be in similar financial positions, but this hasn’t worked out well for Arsenal at all

A Yobe State Assembly Member Who Tested Positive Of COVID-19 Has Refused Isolation

Member of Yobe State House of Assembly who is suspected to have tested positive for COVID-19 has allegedly refused to be isolated at the state isolation facility.

The member was rushed to the General Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital and was admitted at the amenity ward of the hospital.

His sample according to a source was taken and later confirmed to have tested positive but he refused to go to the isolation facility which is also located at the same hospital.

“It was a running battle between us and the member of the State House of Assembly to move to the isolation center and he refused,” the source disclosed.

The patients at the amenity ward where he was admitted at the hospital have been evacuated and the wing deserted.

According to reports, the action of the member irked the health workers at the hospital and they refused to attend to him in the last two days.

It is also not clear whether the hospital is considering the amenity ward as an Isolation center..

Black Axe Cult Leader Terrorizing Ikorodu Lagos Residents Arrested

Black Axe Cult Leader Terrorizing Ikorodu Lagos Residents Arrested

A notorious cultists simply identified as Mukaila m aka Actor, a leader of the black axe cult group terrorizing residents of Ikorodu Lagos has been arrested.

According to police investigation, Actor and his group members have been robbing, molesting and terrorizing residents of Adamo, Itele, Maya and Igode area of Ikorodu since the lockdown started.

The suspect was arrested at his home where a Pump Action Gun, 55 live cartridges, a locally made axe and assorted charms were recovered.

One of his boys was also arrested during the raid.

Nigeria government finally reveals drug used for treating COVID-19 patients.

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has revealed the drug used in treating COVID-19 patients in Nigeria.

Ehanire during a press briefing on Tuesday said Nigeria has started using Remdesivir.

Remdesivir is an antiretroviral drug, in managing COVID-19 patients.

“We have been using that (Remdesivir); we have tried that in Lagos too,” he said.

“So, we have tried the antiretroviral drug to see what effect it has.”

He added that Nigeria has moved from disease importation to community spread.

Recall that the US had approved emergency use of Remdesivir, for treatment of the disease.

The US National Institute of Health had said the drug proved effective against the new coronavirus disease.

Meanwhile, Nigeria has so far recorded 2802 cases while 93 persons have died from the coronavirus infection.

Nigerians Warn to Reorganize Yourselves Or Risk Another Lockdown – NCDC DG, Chikwe Ihekweazu

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Director-general, Chikwe Ihekweazu has said the government may issue another lockdown if Nigerians do not reorganize themselves.

Speaking at the presidential task force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday, Chikwe stated that if there is an explosion of COVID-19 cases in the country, the lockdown will be re-issued.

He said

“It is not the guidelines per se, it is the thinking behind it. How do we want to manage the risk of explosion and transmission? Today, we might forgive a little bite because it is the first day,” he said.“We will have infection because of what happened today, no doubt about that. But how can we learn from the mistakes of today into tomorrow, next tomorrow so by Friday hopefully we have normalised some of these things.“Yes, we knew today would be a problem because for the first time, people were let out of their homes but now they are out and we have seen the sunlight again, the challenge for us as a society is how do we now organise ourselves to mitigate these risks and limit transmission?“We might have a few extra infection today and tomorrow but what we don’t want is an explosion of new infections. If we do have that infection, there will be almost no choice left for the leadership of the country than to ask all of us to go back into our homes. So for the benefit of coming out to reopen parts of the economy, there is a price to pay which is to reorganise ourselves to do this safely.”

COVID-19 patients in Gombe stage protest, block highway

Some COVID-19 patients at the Kwadon Isolation Centre, Yamaltu Deba Local Government Area of Gombe State, have reportedly blocked the popular Gombe/Biu Road.

The patients were said to be protesting against government's negligence, inadequate food and medical attention in the isolation centre.

A resident of the community, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said,

“Yes, they have left the isolation center and are presently destroying people’s properties on the main highway. It’s so sad, what could have led these patients into protesting against the government? I think government is not being truthful.”

Also LIB reached out to the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Mary Malum, who confirmed the incident and said nomalcy has been restored to the area. She said it was just a minor issue.

''The area is calm now. There is no problem. It was a minor something, not serious. They have all gone back in. They have been taken back into the Isolation center where they were before'' she said.

Gombe State currently has 96 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

BREAKING: Nigeria records 148 new COVID-19 cases, total now 2950.

Confirmed cases of coronavirus have increased to 2,950 in Nigeria, NEW DIRECT reports.

This is after 148 new infections were recorded in the country on Tuesday.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle.

Of the new cases, 43 are in Lagos, 32 are in Kano, while 14 are in Zamfara.

148 new cases of #COVID19:

43-Lagos
32-Kano
14-Zamfara
10-FCT
9-Katsina
7-Taraba
6-Borno
6-Ogun
5-Oyo
3-Edo
3-Kaduna
3-Bauchi
2-Adamawa
2-Gombe
1-Plateau
1-Sokoto
1-Kebbi

2950 confirmed cases of #COVID19 in Nigeria
Discharged: 481
Deaths: 98