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The Management, National Hospital Abuja (NHA), has denied allegations that its nurses protested over lack of protective equipment after a suspected COVID-19 patient was rushed to its intensive care unit. Dr Tayo Haastrup, hospital’s spokesperson made this known in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. “The allegation is, to say the least, false and malicious and is completely unfair to management and staff of the hospital, who are doing everything to contribute to the management and control of the current COVID-19 pandemic.” According to him, the hospital is one of the tertiary health facilities in the FCT that has been…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, presided over the meeting of the Economic Sustainability Committee(ESC) set up to address the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Muhammadu Buhari had on March 30, set up the committee to develop a clear economic sustainability plan to run through 2023. The meeting is the third for the committee after it was inaugurated by the vice president on April 2. The committee was tasked with identifying fiscal and monetary measures to enhance oil and non-oil revenues in order to fund the plan, develop a stimulus package and come…
The five mobile courts reactivated to try violators of the lockdown order in the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday convicted no fewer than 20 violators. Mr Ikharo Attah, Chairman, FCT Movement Restrictions Enforcement Team, announced this in Abuja while giving an update on the level of compliance with the regulations put in place to control the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. Attah explained that the convicts were fined between N1,000 and N5,000, adding that those with vehicles would only get them back after the lockdown had been lifted, with the likelihood of paying for demurrage. He disclosed that the enforcement…
Sen. Kola Balogun (PDP-Oyo South) has described as unfortunate the fire which engulfed a section of the popular Dugbe market on Wednesday. A statement signed by his media aide, Rotimi Johnson, and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Ibadan, also quoted the federal lawmaker as pledging a N1million donation to victims. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that no fewer than 19 shops and a water factory were affected in the incident. The statement said that Balogun’s delegation led by Omilabu Gandhi also visited the scene of the incident alongside Mr Slaku Lugard, the Zonal Coordinator of the National…
Nigeria has recorded 35 new cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), bringing the total confirmed cases to 442 as at Thursday night. According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, tweeted that the new cases are recorded in Lagos, FCT, Kano and Oyo States. The tweet @NCDCgov reads: “Thirty-five new cases of #COVID19 have been reported as follows: 19 in Lagos9 in FCT5 in Kano2 in Oyo “As at 10:20 pm 16th April there are 442 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 152 have been discharged with 13 deaths. “As at 10:20 pm 16th April, number of states with confirmed cases…
The police on Thursday said they had arrested four suspects over the murder of Mrs Funke Olakurin, daughter of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Leader of the PAN-Yoruba Social Cultural Organisation, Afenifere. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. He said the suspects were arrested on April 4 during a follow-up action on a case of high profile armed robbery and kidnap that occurred in Ogun. Mba said the arrest came after months of efforts by the police to apprehend the killers of Olakurin. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that Olakurin…
Ms Ronke Onadeko, a downstream petroleum industry expert, has advised the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), to review its policy on fuel pricing modulation in the country. Onadeko gave the advice at a virtual workshop for journalists on the oil sector reforms in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Agency had adopted a monthly pricing modulation style that reflected the global oil market fundamental to determine the price of products in the country. She said the agency should have a short, medium and long term plan of pricing modulation of petroleum products to ensure transparency…
The final performance results in revenue collection by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for the first quarter(Q1, 2020) has been released, which revealed that the Service posted a new collection record of 15% increase for the quarter under review compared to the Q1,2019. The 15% increase in Q1, 2020 is a first in the FIRS first quarter collection history since its inception in colonial times. This is attributed to widespread policy reforms and institutional re-organization initiated by the Executive Chairman, Mr. Muhammad Nami, since assuming office in December, 2019. Traditionally, Q1 collection results have been notoriously low as a…
LAGOS – Rich and influential Nigerians as well as state and local governments and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) have been urged to borrow a leaf from the strategy deployed by the Zinox Group and Konga to reach and deliver much-needed succour to poor and needy families across Nigeria as the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic bites harder. This was the view of the founder, Stanbic Bank, Atedo Peterside. Peterside, who doubles as the Chairman, Anap Foundation COVID-19 Think-Tank, made this suggestion when he spoke as a guest on a televised interview on Africa Independent Television (AIT) on Wednesday. The Rivers-born…
By Beauty John, LAFIA Nasarawa State House of Assembly has ordered the immediate arrest of the Media Aide to the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Aliyu Ahmed Tijjani for alleging that the state government has given the lawmakers the sum of N11 billion as a palliative for their constituents to cushion the effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was taken in an emergency setting by the assembly in Lafia recently. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Hon. Mohammed Omadefu, who raised the issue at the sitting said that “media aides to the SSG are circulating reports on social media…