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Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has disclosed that the state may record an upsurge in the number of coronavirus cases. Ganduje explained that the upsurge will be due to the establishment of additional testing centres in the state. The governor made the remark at a press conference of the state task force on COVID-19 at the Government House on Friday. Ganduje disclosed his administration’s plans to set up additional testing centres in the 36 far distant Local Government Areas in the state. He also assured that his government would ensure that COVID-19 is defeated in the state. According to…
A former Nigerian lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has reacted to the revelations made by some discharged Coronavirus patients. It was reported earlier that media mogul, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, had revealed that every drug they were given while in isolation were malaria medications. This was after Dokpesi, the founder of DAAR Communications, owners of African Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM, was discharged earlier in the week. He declared that he was confused. Many other recovered patients, including the Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed, and a former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, all made similar revelations. But in a tweet on…
The Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance (CACOBAG) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intensify efforts to secure the release of the abducted Chibok girl, Leah Sharibu, and others still in captivity. CACOBAG chairman Toyin Raheem, in a statement in Lagos on Friday, said that Sharibu’s freedom would be a “great gift to Nigerians by the Federal Government”. He noted that Sharibu was among the 110 schoolgirls abducted on February 19, 2018 and had marked her 15th and 16th birthdays in captivity. Raheem said: “As the first campaign Chairman of the Action Team Against Conscription and Kidnap, we join the…
The Oyo state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Kehinde Ayoola has died at the age of 55. Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde, confirmed his death while speaking with Governor’s office correspondents on Thursday in Ibadan. Ayoola was the speaker of the State House of Assembly in 1999 during the tenure of former Gov. Lam Adesina. (NAN)
An American pilot identified as Joyce Lin, on Tuesday, died while traveling to deliver COVID-19 rapid test kit to Indonesia. According to CNN, the 40-year old died when her plane malfunctioned. She was on her way to deliver Covid-19 rapid test kits to a remote Indonesian village. Officials said the incident occurred after Lin took off in a Kodiak aircraft at the airport in Sentani Papua province. The missionary who has been working with the Mission Aviation Fellowship, MAF, serving as a pilot and an information technology specialist, reported an emergency minutes after takeoff. The aircraft fell into Lake Sentani,…
Shehu Sani, former Kaduna lawmaker has reacted to the recent killings by bandits in Kajuru Local government area of Kaduna State. Our reporter on Wednesday reported that bandits killed eight people in a fresh attack in Gonan Rogo, Kufana District, Kajuru Local Government area of Kaduna State. The attack happened after 17 people were on Tuesday killed in the same village. Reacting, Sani on his Twitter page, described the massacre as a condemnable crime. He mentioned that bandits posed an immediate and lethal danger to the people of the North West despite the coronavirus pandemic. His tweet read: “The massacre…
The Senator representing Ogun West Senatorial District, Sen. Tolu Odebiyi has debunked the allegations by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS) that he has refused to openly condemn the killings and harassment at the border areas of the State by men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS). The students’ bodies had on Wednesday accused Odebiyi of being insensitive to the incessant killing of his constituents, allegedly by men of the NCS. They described the Nigerian lawmaker as being “passive and dormant”. But, in a swift reaction, Senator Odebiyi described the…
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Kaduna State chapter, has observed that in spite of the incessant attacks on Kajuru communities, there is no commitment by the authority concerned towards seeking lasting solutions to wanton destruction of lives and properties in the area. CAN said, “Apparently, the honesty and commitment towards seeking lasting solutions to wanton destructions of lives are lacking, resorting to the usual propaganda.” The State CAN chairman, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, in a press statement issued in Kaduna Thursday and made available to us, observed that “no responsible government anywhere will act as if nothing was happening…
An Administrative Staff at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, who tested positive for the coronavirus last week, has been discharged from the Ikenne Isolation Centre. We reported last week that two workers of the FMC Abeokuta, a nurse, and administrative staff, tested positive for coronavirus. But, in a statement by the hospital’s spokesperson, Segun Orisajo, on Wednesday, the administrative staff was said to have tested negative twice. Orisajo told our reporter that “as at this period, the results of the samples of the nurse are also being awaited; the nurse is in high spirits.” We learned that there was wild…
United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 950 Nigerian children under the age of five could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months. UNICEF said this could be as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that has disrupted routine services and threatened to weaken the health system. UNICEF, in a statement, explained that globally, 6,000 additional children under five could die every day. It said the estimate is based on an analysis by researchers from the John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, newly published in The Lancet Global Health Journal. Henrietta Fore, UNICEF…