latest COVID-19 statistics as of August 25, 2020.
Nigeria on Tuesday recorded 252 new cases of the novel
coronavirus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease
Control.
The health agency, in a late-night tweet, put the total number
of cases in the country at 52,800, with 1,007 dead and more than
39,000 persons discharged.
Plateau topped the list of states with new cases with 50, while
Enugu ranked second with 35.
Other states with new cases include Rivers-27,
Lagos-26, FCT-18, Kaduna-18, Ekiti-10, Kano-10, Taraba-9,
Anambra-8, Edo-8, Oyo-8, Delta-7, Ogun-6, Abia-5, Bayelsa-5,
Ebonyi-1, and Osun-1.
According to data from the NCDC, the country has tested 383,130
samples.
252 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;
Plateau-50 Enugu-35 Rivers-27 Lagos-26 FCT-18 Kaduna-18 Ekiti-10
Kano-10 Taraba-9 Anambra-8 Edo-8 Oyo-8 Delta-7 Ogun-6 Abia-5
Bayelsa-5 Ebonyi-1 Osun-152,800 confirmed 39,964 discharged 1,007 deaths
pic.twitter.com/Yb8gLJXMDw— NCDC (@NCDCgov) August 25, 2020
Global Update
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 813,733 people
worldwide since the outbreak emerged in China last December,
according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100
GMT on Tuesday.
At least 23,689,860 cases have been registered. Of these, at
least 15,098,600 are now considered recovered.
The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national
authorities and information from the World Health Organization
(WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of
infections.
Many countries are testing only symptomatic or the most serious
cases.
On Monday, 4,252 new deaths and 222,172 new cases were recorded
worldwide. Based on latest reports, the countries with the most new
deaths were India with 848, followed by Brazil with 565 and the
United States with 450.
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The United States remains the worst-hit country with 177,284
fatalities from 5,741,088 cases. At least 2,020,774 people have
been declared recovered.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 115,309
deaths from 3,622,861 cases, Mexico with 60,800 deaths from 563,705
cases, India with 58,390 deaths from 3,167,323 cases, and the
United Kingdom with 41,433 deaths from 326,614 cases.
The country with the highest number of deaths compared to its
population is Belgium with 86 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants,
followed by Peru with 84, Spain 62, the United Kingdom 61, and
Italy 59.
China — excluding Hong Kong and Macau — has to date declared
84,981 cases, including 4,634 deaths and 79,961 recoveries.
Latin America and the Caribbean overall reported 261,078 deaths
from 6,782,464 cases, Europe 213,414 deaths from 3,761,932
infections and the United States and Canada 186,398 deaths from
5,866,206 cases.
Asia has recorded 89,480 deaths from 4,631,874 cases, the Middle
East 34,812 deaths from 1,423,053 cases, Africa 27,990 deaths from
1,196,539 cases, and Oceania 561 deaths from 27,800 cases.
As a result of corrections by national authorities or late
publication of data, the figures updated over the past 24 hours may
not correspond exactly to the previous day’s tallies.
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of Justice
Malami: I need No Power to Supervise EFCC
The Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister
of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has said that the office of the
AGF does not need the tinkering of the current Economic and
Financial Crime (Establishment) Act 2004 to enable him regulate the
Institution and could therefore not, in any ways, seek to sponsor
any bill for “more powers to control the commission”.
Malami in a statement issued by his Special Assistant
on Media, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu,
on Tuesday 25th August 2020 , said he requires no
additional powers to effectively regulate agencies under his
supervision.
The statement read: “it is trite to say that by virtue of the
extant laws of the land as well as rules and legislations governing
the conduct of the governmental operations, the Attorney-General of
the Federation has
indisputable statutory powers to regulte the operations of the
commissions without recourse to any additional legislations.
“Section 43 of the EFCC Act has made it abundantly clear that
“the Attorney General of the Federation may make rules or
regulations with respect to the exercise of any of the
duties, functions or powers of the Commission
under this Act”.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice believes in the doctrines of
separation of powers as an epitome character of the
democratic administration and could
not therefore meddle into the affairs of legislature for
megalomaniac sake”.
“It is a global practice in democratic societies that the
legislature may at their discretion and as deem fit, spearhead the
amendment of existing legislations in order to accommodate certain
exigencies occasioned by contemporary realities and the
need to improve performance to achieve best practices without any
prompting from external organs of the government.
“At the moment, the priority of the Office of the
Attorney-General of
the Federation and Minister of Justice is to see to the effective
execution of its statutory mandates of supervising all the
parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Justice in a way that
make them function in the best interest of the general public,
which constitutional responsibility he is engaged by
President Muhammadu Buhari to discharge”.
Modupe Ogundoro
Deputy Director
25th August, 2020