A medical test like never before. Spectacle of social distancing. Venue was the fenced-up compound directly opposite NIMR itself at Yaba. It was a drive-through exercise with three stops beginning with gauging of temperature; a short interview including confirmation of data already supplied online while registering. You are then told to expect a mail in…
We Were Not Invited to Inspect Consignment of Rice to Oyo State – Adeyeye, NAFDAC DG
As the Oyo State consignment of rice from the Federal Government as part of palliatives to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown remains enmeshed in controversy, the Director-General of the Nigeria Agency for Food, Drugs and Administration Control, NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye has said the agency was not in a position to explain what went…
Senate Approves Buhari’s N850 Billion Loan Request
President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking domestic and foreign loans to bridge the liquidity crisis caused by the COVID-19 crisis in the 2020 budget. The National Assembly resumed plenary today after a five-week COVID-19 recess and the Senate immediately approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for N850 billion loan to fund shortfalls in the 2020 budget. Ahmed…
Covid-19: Wike to Pull Down Business Houses, Expel Vagrants and Almajiris
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said that he would not hesitate to pull down business houses in Port Harcourt where he declared an indefinite total lockdown. In a broadcast he made on Monday, the governor declared a 24-hour curfew on some parts of Port Harcourt, and said landlords in the affected areas…
Ize-Iyamu Intervenes in Mass-Production, Free Distribution of Face Masks
As many are convicted for violating order One of the front-runners jostling for the ticket of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, ahead of the September 19, 2020 governorship election In Edo state, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has commissioned local tailors who would mass-produce face masks that would be distributed free to the people of the state.…
Rivers’ First Covid-19 Casualty
Rivers State recorded its first casualty in the Covid-19 war Thursday, April 23, when an armed member of the Rivers State Task Force on Covid-19 shot dead a policewoman, who intervened to save the destruction of wares of some roadside traders in Eneka, Obio/Akpo Local Government Area of the state. It was the first casualty…
COVID-19: Governors Want Another 14-day Inter State Lockdown
Governors of the 36 States of the federation on Wednesday agreed to the implementation of an inter-State lockdown in the country over the next two weeks. This they believe will mitigate the spread of the pandemic COVID-19 virus from State to State. The governors, operating under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), reached…
FG Bans International, State Movement of COVID-19 Patients
The Federal Government has declared all persons who are diagnosed with COVID-19 to henceforth be treated in the state where the diagnosis was made except there is a medical indication to the contrary. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed these at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 updates in Abuja.According to the minister,…
Nigeria Police Lose Senior Officer to COVID-19 in Edo
As the state records two new cases The Nigeria Police Force has lost one of its senior officers to the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. Francis Adie Bissong, a deputy commissioner of police, was until his death the Deputy Commissioner, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, (SCID) in the office of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone…
COVID-19: Danger Looms in Kano
Fear has gripped the residents of Kano, a state Governor Abdullahi Ganduje says is the most populated in Nigeria, after Lagos. As at Tuesday night the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, confirmed that Kano State’s COVID-19 cases had ballooned to 73 with additional 14 new cases. Kano recorded the first case on April 11.…
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