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Respite has come the way of residents of Ekiti State as the Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Monday flagged off the distribution of food items to cushion the effects of the curfew imposed on the state to contain the spread of COVID-19. Fayemi stressed that the relief materials packaged in sacks will be distributed to the vulnerable segment of the population as a gesture to make life easier for them. The Governor emphasized that the vulnerable segment of the population include the poor, the aged, the physically challenged, the unemployed adding that the project is being powered by the Ekiti…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Mr. Alex A. Okoh has appealed to Nigerians to adhere strictly to the guidelines provided by the health authorities against contracting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. Donating 300 bags of assorted food items to the less-privileged on behalf of the Bureau as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Dutse- Alhaji, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja on Monday, April 6, 2020, Okoh said the responsibility to end the pandemic rests on all Nigerians and not only the government. He urged them to imbibe the…
By Kazeem Qudus, IBADAN Kwara state has joined the League of States that have confirmed cases of Coronavirus codenamed COVID-19 with two cases. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Monday night announced six (6) new cases in Kwara, Edo, Rivers, and FCT. “Six new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 2 in Kwara, 2 in Edo, 1 in Rivers and 1 in the FCT “As at 09:30 pm 6th April there are 238 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Thirty-five have been discharged with five deaths,” tweets @NCDCgov read. Find the breakdown of cases by state below:…
Oyo State Government says it has concluded arrangements to fumigate markets spread across the state. Prof. Temitope Alonge, Acting Chairman of the state COVID-19 Task Force, said in a statement that the exact date of the exercise would be communicated through the heads of markets. According to him, the decontamination would be carried out using experts from the University of Ibadan. Alonge revealed that Oyo State had recorded another positive case of COVID-19, bringing the total number of positive cases in the state to nine. He said that the confirmed latest case was a close contact of the second confirmed…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained the circumstances of the reported COVID-19 infected individual at an apartment in the NNPC Estate in the Garki area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT. NNPC dismissed the insinuation of a mass outbreak of Coronavirus infection in the facility, saying the National Oil Company was aware of all the actions taken by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to tackle the singular case, which for now, has remained an isolated incident. The corporation explained that the said case, involving a non-member of staff of the corporation, had to do with…
Nigeria has recorded five new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total confirmed cases to 214. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, tweeting @NCDCgov states: “Five new cases of #COVID19 have been reported in Nigeria: 3 in Bauchi and 2 in the FCT. “As at 10:10 pm 4th April, there are 214 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. Twenty-five have been discharged with two deaths. “As at 10:10 pm 4th April, there are 214 confirmed cases, 25 discharged, 4 deaths.” The breakdown of cases by states: Lagos- 109 FCT- 43 Osun- 20 Oyo- 9 Akwa Ibom- 5 Ogun-…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has inaugurated online training for Coronavirus (COVID-19) responders amid increasing lockdowns in Africa. The UN’s health agency made this known on its regional official twitter account @WHOAFRO on Saturday. “WHO launches online training for COVID-19 responders. “This is to better train health workers, increase public health education and make communities safer.’’ On the COVID-19 update, the UN health agency said the number of cases continued to rise on the African continent with 7,246 reported cumulative cases. “There have been 269 associated deaths and 662 recoveries reported.’’ The agency…
The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force has announced that the state has recorded another positive case of COVID-19, bringing to nine, the total of positive cases in the state. A statement by the Acting Chairman of the Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force, Prof Temitope Alonge, on behalf the State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, which was made available in Ibadan on Saturday, confirmed that the latest case is a close contact of the second confirmed case who subsequently developed symptoms. The statement indicated that the patient has been moved to one of the isolation centres in the state, while activities at…
The Ogun Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said on Saturday that it had penetrated the riverine areas of the state, to ensure full compliance with the lockdown order to check the spread of Coronavirus. The Public Relations Officer of the Command, Dyke Ogbonnaya, said this in a statement he issued in Abeokuta. Ogbonnaya said that the NSCDC had maintained constant surveillance around the riverine areas which had always been considered as difficult terrain to access. He explained that the corps had to travel and access the areas through canoes. “All major river border areas are…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ondo State Command says it has deployed no fewer than 500 personnel around the borders of the state following the government’s decision to close them. Mr Rotimi Adeleye, State Sector Commander of FRSC, made the disclosure while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on telephone in Akure on Saturday. NAN reports that the state government had on Thursday ordered the closure of all roads linking the state as part of measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the state. Adeleye said that officers and men deployed to the boundaries of the…