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Nigeria braces as coronavirus hits mega city Lagos LAGOS - Nigeria's economic hub Lagos confirmed a case of new coronavirus on Friday, stirring memories of the fears sparked six years ago when West Africa's Ebola epidemic hit the chaotic megacity of 20 million. The health minister said the first confirmed case of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa was an Italian citizen who had returned from Milan earlier this week. "The patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms," Ehanire said, adding that the patient was being treated at a hospital for infectious diseases in Lagos. The low number of cases so far across Africa, which has close economic ties with China, the epicentre of the deadly outbreak, has puzzled health specialists. Prior to the case in Nigeria, there had been just two cases on the continent -- in Egypt and Algeria. - Vulnerable country - Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with some 190 million people, is viewed as one o

Ganduje bans ‘Almajiri’ beggars in Kano The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has announced a ban on street begging by children also known as Almajiris. Abba Anwar, Ganduje’s spokesman, disclosed this in a statement issued to elmakarado.blog on Tuesday. According to the statement, the effort was to fully consolidate the free and compulsory primary and secondary schools education in the state. Anwar noted in the statement that the decision was meant to integrate the Almajiri system into the policy and address the lingering problem of street begging. Ganduje warned that Almajiri teachers must accept the new approach put in place by the state government. The statement said: “If almijiri teacher thinks he cannot accept the new policy he has to leave the state. “When Almajiri are caught begging, it is not only that beggar is caught, but his parents or guardians. Such parents or guardians would be taken to court to face the wrath of the law.” According to the st

ABOUT THE 48 LAWS OF POWER The 48 Laws of Power (1998) is a non-fiction book by American author Robert Greene . The book is a bestselle r, selling over 1.2 million copies in the United States,and is popular with prison inmates and celebrities. Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history. The 48 Laws of Power has sold over 1.2 million copies in the United States and has been translated into 24 languages. Fast Company called the book a "mega cult classic", and The Los Angeles Times noted that The 48 Laws of Power turned Greene into a "cult hero with the hip-hop set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike". The 48 Laws of Power has been reported to be much requested in American prison libraries, and has been studied as a first-year text in some US colleges. Rapper 50 Cent stated that he relate