January 13, 2021 – National Infinity Magazine

Trump makes history, impeached barely 1wk to end of tenure

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Jide Ige

With one week left of his dramatic tenure as President of the United States, Donald John Trump has been impeached by the American House of Representatives. The embattled Trump on Wednesday became the first US president to be impeached for a second time, when a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives voted to charge him with inciting last week’s attack on the US Capitol. One week before Trump is to leave office, a total of 232 lawmakers, including 10 Republicans who broke with the president, voted to impeach the…

Again, COVID-19 claims another billionaire

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

Again, COVID-19 struck the circle of the high and mighty in the society as it claimed renowned businessman and society top shot, Boluwatife Akin-Olugbade. The 64-year-old patriarch of the society and Aare Ona Kakanfo of Owu Kingdom, reportedly died today, Wednesday, January 13, 2021, after a brief illness traced to complications from COVID-19. The late foremost corporate lawyer was reported to have fallen ill, after returning from a wedding ceremony on December 26, where he had served as chairman of the reception. He was rushed to Paelon Memorial Hospital, Ikeja.…

Unilag, Uniben announce resumption dates

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

Authorities of the University of Lagos have approved January 25 as the resumption date for academic activities just as the University of Benin announced January 30 as its own resumption date. Head of the Media Unit of the university, Mrs Olufadeke Akinleye, said the institution would commence online classes on the announced date due to the second wave of COVID-19. The Federal Government had approved January 18 for schools to reopen across the country. But branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities had said that varsities were not ready for reopening.…

Ex-Lagos MILAD dies of COVID-19

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Jide Ige

A onetime military administrator of Lagos and Imo States and a staunch member of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu has died. The retired senior Naval officer, according to family sources, died as a result of complication arising from coronavirus disease. The source said Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu had been on admission as a result of COVID-19 infections and died early on Wednesday. Kanu was appointed the first military governor of Imo State, Nigeria in March 1976 during the military regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo after it…

COVID-19 not connected to strange deaths in our family -Orisabunmi’s nephew

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Yemi Thomas, Entertainment Editor

A nephew to the late Nollywood actress, Folakemi Aremu popularly known as Orisabunmi, has dispelled the rumour going around that she died of COVID-19 complications. Tunde Onishola, son to the late Kwara Falcons Basketball Club Technical Director, Steve Onishola, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Ilorin that the multiple deaths were “just a coincidence’’. Onishola said neither his father, Steve; Orisabunmi and his younger sister, Janet Ademola died of COVID-19 related circumstance. NAN recalls that Onishola died in Ilorin on Thursday, January 7, barely 24 hours after…

ASUU not sincere, we are ready to resume -Vice-Chancellors

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Jide Ige

Vice-Chancellors of some federal and state universities in Nigeria have expressed readiness to reopen schools. Though the Academic Staff Union of Universities had said that varsities were not ready for reopening, the VCs said they had planned to reopen their institutions as directed by the Federal Government. One of the VCs of a federal university in the South-West told our correspondent that it was wrong for ASUU to claim that there were no guidelines for reopening varsities. Apart from the scare arising from the second wave of COVID-19, another VC…