Reality TV show Ultimate Love to end a week earlier than scheduled due to fears over the spread of coronavirus

The remaining love guests as the Ultimate Love contestants are called are still not aware of what’s happening in the outside world.

Broadcast on MultiChoice’s DSTV and GOtv, the first edition of Ultimate Love which kicked off on Sunday, February 9 and was supposed to run for eight weeks has been cut short by one week.

The organisers in their announcement on Tuesday, March 24 said the show has been cut due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. 

“Whilst we know the show has garnered appreciable fans and viewers across Africa, it has become pertinent for us to join the ongoing efforts by the government and global public health officials to flatten the curve against the coronavirus,” part of the announcement read. 

 

The final voting will now be open from Wednesday, March 25 and end on Friday, March 27. 

Since it emerged in Wuhan, China, the whole world has had to deal with the spread of the coronavirus. Nigeria’s index case was confirmed in late February and since then, more than 40 cases have been confirmed. 

The remaining love guests as the Ultimate Love contestants are called are still not aware of what’s happening in the outside world

A source at MultiChoice had told Pulse that the organisers were going to meet to decide on the next course of action which was to cut the show by a week. 

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Boko Haram attack kills nearly 100 Chadian troops

Boko Haram jihadists have killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers in a seven-hour attack on an island army base, in their deadliest assault yet on the country's armed forces

 

President Idriss Deby told Chad television he travelled to the scene of the attack on Tuesday to pay tribute to the 92 dead soldiers, saying it was the first time so many troops had been lost.

The attack early Monday morning in Boma, Lac province, is part of an expanding jihadist campaign in the vast, marshy Lake Chad area, where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria converge.

Boko Haram launched an insurgency in Nigeria in 2009 before beginning incursions in its neighbouring countries to the east.

"We lost 92 of our soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers," in the attack in Boma, the president said. "It's the first time we have lost so many men," he said.

The attack on soldiers on the Boma peninsula lasted at least seven hours, and reinforcements sent to help became bogged down and were also targeted, several military sources told AFP. "The camp is on an island where the ways in were controlled by Boko Haram fighters, they were able to leave as they wanted and without being forced out by the army," one security official said. "The enemy has hit at our defences hard in this zone," the senior officer said.

One military official said army vehicles were destroyed, including armoured vehicles, and captured military arms were carried off in speedboats by Boko Haram. The base was taken by surprise by the 5:00 am attack, the official said. Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks in recent months on the islands of the Lake Chad basin where it takes advantage of the vast terrain to launch assaults.

Boko Haram's insurgency has killed 36,000 people and displaced nearly two million in northeastern Nigeria since it began, according to the UN. Since 2015, countries in the region have cooperated in the Multinational Joint Force, a regional coalition engaged around Lake Chad with the help of local residents formed into vigilante groups. But the regional militaries are struggling to cope with the jihadist insurgency.

In Cameroon, violence increased in 2019 and early 2020. In Cameroon's Far North, 275 people were killed by jihadist attacks in 2019, most of them civilians, according to a report published by Amnesty International in December. In Niger, 174 soldiers were killed in three attacks in January and December.

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Welcome to Cassius Ukwugbe's Blog: Buhari tests negative for coronavirus, Abba Kyari ...: Kyari recently returned from Germany, a high-risk country, and attended meetings with the president. Kyari was recently in Germa...

Buhari tests negative for coronavirus, Abba Kyari positive

Kyari recently returned from Germany, a high-risk country, and attended meetings with the president.

Kyari was recently in Germany, which has recorded nearly 30,000 cases, for a meeting with officials of multinational conglomerate company, Siemens.

The meeting took place on March 9, 2020, with the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, also in attendance. Upon return, Kyari failed to self-isolate himself, as directed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for returnees from high-risk countries.

The president's chief of staff attended the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) meeting which took place on March 17. The meeting was presided by President Buhari and also had Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in attendance.

According to several media reports on Tuesday, March 24, Kyari has tested positive to the virus. TheCable reports that he took the test based on medical advice and is not exhibiting symptoms. He has now been isolated for medical care.

President Buhari was tested as a precaution, the report said, but he tested negative. The presidency is yet to issue a statement on Kyari's status, but the NCDC announced a new case in the FCT late on Monday, March 23.

Nigeria has recorded 40 positive cases in six states - Lagos (28), FCT (7), Ogun (2), Ekiti (1), Oyo (1), and Edo (1).

Two of the cases have recovered and been discharged, while the nation's first coronavirus death was announced on Monday.

Source: Pulse News