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OYO PMAN URGES NIGERIANS TO OBEY GOVERNMENT'S DIRECTIVES ON COVID-19, APPEALS FOR INCLUSION IN PALLIATIVES

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TAIWO OMOTUNDE   THE GOVERNING BODY OF PERFORMING MUSICIANS EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (PMAN), OYO STATE CHAPTER, HAS ENJOINED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO DISPLAY MATURITY BY OBEYING GOVERNMENT'S MEASURES TO CURB THE SPREAD OF COVID19.   GOVERNOR, OYO STATE PMAN, COMRADE TAIWO OMOTUNDE, WHO MADE THIS KNOWN IN A STATEMENT DISCLOSED HIS FAITH IN GOD THAT THE PANDEMIC PERIOD WOULD BE SOON OVER.   HE HOWEVER CALLED ON OYO STATE GOVERNOR, ENGINEER SEYI MAKINDE TO  CONSIDER THE  MUSICIANS IN THE STATE AS BENEFICIARIES OF PALLIATIVES MEASURE AS THEY ARE BECOMING MOST VULNERABLE NOW.  COMRADE OMOTUNDE FURTHER  SAID THAT DESPITE THE HARDSHIP THAT MUSICIANS ARE PRESENTLY FACING, THEY ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC.

Coronavirus: I'll fight Tyson Fury behind close doors even if it means losing $8m from gate fees - Anthony Joshua says

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Heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, has revealed that he wouldn't mind fighting heavyweight rival Tyson Fury behind closed doors due to the Coronavirus pandemic as Tyson Fury might have retired from the sport by the time sports activities possibly returns fully in 2021.                                                                                                                                                                  The British rivals, who hold the four heavyweight world titles between them, were supposed to meet in December after Joshua defends against cha...

FG can’t provide free electricity, it’s propaganda - Transmission Company of Nigeria

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Managing director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Usman Mohammed has said that the federal government cannot provide free electricity to Nigerians. Speaking on Thursday April 16, the head of the agency owned by the federal government said the proposal for "free electricity" is mere propaganda. Usman said;  “There is this information that went round that power is going to be free. I don’t know where that information came from.  “But I can tell you that there is nothing like power is going to be free because the federal government cannot make power free. The federal government does not own the power. “In the electricity industry, apart from transmission, which is just the transporter, all the other chains do not belong to the federal government. So, I cannot understand how somebody will concoct that information. “But these are some of the people involved in propaganda who brand information that is very unnecessary, to be hon...