Reset Button24042020 Willy Thomas

The last few weeks have been a season of unfolding and bizzare corruption scandals in Nigeria. Started with the country's anti-corruption Czar, a story of the hunter now hunted plus the marvelous stories of how money meant for the development of the country's oil rich Niger Delta region end up in private pockets.

The phenomenon world wide now is that every patient who goes to hospital for any treatment is first suspected as a Covid 19 case until otherwise proven says Dr Olusola Talabi, Abeokut-based clinicals physician and neurosurgeon.

Raabia Hawa, former Kenyan radio show host now environmentalist responded to an SOS posted on Facebook that a sea turtle that was washed ashore on Victoria Island Lagos was on offer for sale on the main highway. Vendors were offering the turtle for $150 or 60,000 naira.

South African eco journalist and executive director of the African Pangolin Working Group Alexis Kriel says the efficacy of Pangolin scales in Traditional Chinese Medicine lacks scientific evidence. Kriel says the demand by the huge population of China will drive Pangolins to execution. Cover photo. Pangolin Poachers in DRC Congo supply chinese restaurants.

The Chairman of the African Pangolin Working Group in South Africa Professor Raymond Jansen says until China clarifies if the grade A protection accorded pangolins is for all eight species in the world, then its not celebration time yet for Pangolins.

The residents of one of the high density communities in Abeokuta, Ogun state sharing border with Lagos have issued a catalogue of problems they want the state government to solve as soon as possible. They include repair of roads and provision of water.