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The Bayelsa State Taskforce on COVID-19 on Monday said that the 140 blood samples sent to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) approved laboratory in Edo, have all tested negative. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Co-Chairman of the state’s Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Inodu Apoku, who disclosed made the disclosure at a news conference in Yenagoa, said that the samples were taken between March and April. He explained that surveillance was ongoing in the eight local government areas of the state. Apoku, who is also the Permanent Secretary in the state’s Ministry of Health, announced…
The Police Command in Oyo State has decried the incessant cases of false distress calls by residents in different parts of the state. A statement issued on Monday in Ibadan by the state command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, appealed to residents to desist from making false distress calls as they were distractions. Fadeyi said the Oyo State Police Command was conscious, capable, ready and willing to carry out its constitutional responsibilities of protecting lives and properties, maintaining the law and order as well as other extant laws in the state. He said that the state Commissioner of Police,…
Some students of the University of Ilorin have organized palliatives for about 200 members, who were unable to go home during the lockdown against the COVID-19. Mr Okoko Wisdom, the President of the University of Ilorin Students’ Union, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that food items, worth N100,000, were distributed to the students who were stranded in school. The palliative items include foodstuff like spaghetti, noodles, oil, and tomatoes. Wisdom said the gesture was a combined effort of some students to assist their fellow comrades, who were unable to go home. “The goal is to ease…
Three corps members serving in Oyo State have developed a semi-automated handwashing device with soap dispenser and underground draining system to aid in curtailing the spread of coronavirus pandemic. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the trio – Victor Afolabi, Victor Ogunmoye and Olamide Adeyanju – developed the device with sponsorship by the Oyo State office of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Speaking at the commissioning in Ibadan on Monday, Oyo State NYSC Coordinator, Mrs Grace Ogbuogebe, said the device was in response to NYSC Director -General’s challenge to corps members to be innovative in the fight…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has published the 2019 provisional matriculation list of admitted candidates on the official website of the board. The board disclosed this in its weekly bulletin made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. The board also advised candidates who were yet to accept their offers of admission on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) to do so or risk forfeiting the admission. According to the board, the list of fully-admitted candidates in all the tertiary institutions in the country is hereby published on the JAMB Website. “For ease…
The Oyo State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has commended the prompt response of Gov. Seyi Makinde to the recent inferno at the Dugbe market in Ibadan. The commendation was contained in a statement jointly signed by the council’s Chairman, Ademola Babalola, and Secretary, Sola Oladapo, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ibadan. The union lauded Makinde on his visit to the section of the market gutted by fire while instituting a special endowment fund to cater for all forms of disasters in the state. It also sought the intervention of…
The Airlines Operators of Nigeria (AON) has appealed to the Federal Government for immediate access to the N50 billion COVID-19 Intervention Fund with the Central Bank of Nigeria at a five per cent interest rate. Capt. Nogie Meggison, the AON Chairman, made the appeal in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday. Meggison said it was part of the association’s plan to ensure the survival of the sector, once the COVID-19 pandemic was over and economic activities resumed. He said: “We appreciate the CBN’s approval of N1.1 trillion stimulus and the recent N50 billion COVID-19 Intervention Fund to jumpstart the…
The Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society (NIDS), has advocated for people to wear an alternative face mask to prevent Coronavirus spread while preserving the N95 mask for frontline workers. Prof. Dimie Ogoina, President of NIDS made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Monday in Abuja. “To preserve medical masks for use by healthcare workers in the face of global scarcity, surgical masks and respirators such as N95 masks should be reserved for healthcare workers and those caring for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients. “NCDC recently released an advisory on the use of masks by members…
Mr Jean-Claude Brou, President of the ECOWAS Commission has sympathized with President Muhammadu Buhari over the death of his Chief of Staff, Mr Abba Kyari. Brou in a condolence letter in Abuja described the death of Kyari as a loss to Nigeria and the ECOWAS sub-region. “I received the sad news of the demise of Alhaji Abba Kyari, your Chief of Staff, due to complications caused by the Coronavirus. “We at ECOWAS feel your pain as Alhaji Kyari was a loyal friend and compatriot of yours for the last 42 years. “His death is very shocking and it is a painful…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday thanked the many callers who condoled with him, the Kyari family and the nation, following the death of his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. The President made his feelings known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Monday. The President expressed appreciation for their letters of condolence, adherence to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) guidelines to prevent the spread of Coronavirus pandemic, including maintaining social distancing and staying at home, even as they mourned the deceased. “By heeding the calls to avoid…