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Get Vaccinated and Stay Alive, Edo Govt Advises Residents as COVID-19 Deaths Rise to 26
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow As Edo State recorded additional four deaths on Tuesday, bringing COVID-19 deaths to 26, the state government has enjoined residents to embrace COVID-19 vaccination in order to reduce the rise in the number of infections and deaths in the state. Giving an update […] More
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Edo SSG Loses Elder Brother to COVID-19
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Secretary to Edo State Government, SSG Osarodion Ogie has lost his elder brother, John Ogie to COVID-19. The late Ogie, according to a statement by the state chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP died of the dreaded virus Monday September 6, […] More
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COVID-19 Surge: Rivers May Re-impose Lockdown
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has warned that the state government would re-impose the suspended COVID-19 lockdown if residents of the state fail to adhere to COVID-19 protocols. The governor, in a broadcast on Monday said daily figures released from the NCDC on […] More
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Buhari Calls for Collective War against COVID-19 and Bad Economy
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday in Abuja, called for joint global efforts to tackle COVID-19 and the consequent dwindling effects on national economies which would require a global framework to resuscitate and ameliorate the burden on the people. Femi Adesina, special adviser, media and […] More
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in Big Story, EnTELLtainmentEffects of COVID-19 on Nigerian Music Industry
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow From Miracle Oyedeji [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] One great lesson we all learned from the 2020 coronavirus-induced lockdown is that no country, lifestyle, or industry is impervious as far as the global pandemic is concerned. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the propinquity between global […] More
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Edo Govt Deploys Untrained Teachers to Classrooms As Striking NUT Defies NIC Order
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] …Schools Disregard COVID-19 Protocols. Four days after reopening of educational Institutions in Edo State, the defiant striking primary school teachers have contnued to shun the classrooms in spite of all manner of armtwistig tactics employed by the state government. The teachers, under […] More
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COVID-19 Law: FCTA Arrests 100, Closes Wuse Market and UTC
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are bracing up for a total compliance with the COVID-19 guidelines or risk going to jail. The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, began the enforcement on Monday with modest results. An initial 100 violators were […] More
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in Big Story, HealthXtra, NewsWHO Begins Probe of China over Origin of COVID-19
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] The World Health Organization, WHO, Friday, in Wuhan, started the probe of China on its alleged complicity in the origin of COVID-19. The WHO China mission completed the required two weeks quarantine in a Wuhan hotel Thursday and started its assignment Friday […] More
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COVID-19: Transporters in Edo Directed not to Pick Passengers without Nose Mask
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] Members of the Edo State chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) may henceforth not pick passengers not wearing nose masks, as part of measures to check the spread of the second wave of coronavirus (COVID-19). A directive to […] More
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FG Welcomes New COVID-19 Research Group’s Drug Report
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Monday, welcomed the report of IVERCOVID Research Group, a team of home and overseas-based Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the efficacy of Ivermectin, a drug used in the treatment of river blindness, in the management of COVID-19 […] More
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Adodo, Labour Leader, Ex-Commissioner, is Dead
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] The General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, (ISSSAN), Didì Adodo is dead. A former General Secretary of the United Labour Congress, (ULC) Adodo also served as commissioner for establishment and special duties in Edo State during […] More
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NCDC Warns of Spread of Covid-19
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow [responsivevoice] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has warned of the consequences of Nigerians being indifferent to the consistent spread of covid-19 since December 2020. A statement by the agency has, therefore, put out an advisory on how to contain the spread. […] More