GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike on Friday disclosed that the Rivers State Government has commenced documentation to sue Federal Government for “unilateral” withdrawal of N11Billion from the Federation Accounts for the Nigerian Police. Wike, during update briefing on the state of Rivers battle with Covid-19 and sundry national issues also declared compulsory use of face mask in public places while lamenting that Rivers confirmed cases on the pandemic would not have been as much if security operatives were not aiding breach of the state’s closed borders. He maintained that Rivers would sustain her restrictions at containing the virus and that his administration’s…
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The Bishop on the Niger, the Rt Rev. Dr Owen Nwokolo, has said that the unprecedented outbreak of the Corona virus now rocking the entire world and its apparent intractable management is an evidence of God’s omnipotent supremacy over creation. According to the bishop, that the pandemic has since its upsurge defiled all known medical and technological breakthroughs is enough to prove the supremacy of God’s power and knowledge over man’s. Making the exposition in an interview in his office at the Episcopal House, Ozalla Road, Onitsha, Bishop Nwokolo said that if a single virus could so jolt the entire…
The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has donated food items, drugs and antiseptic products worth over N20 million to Anglican Churches in Anambra State as COVID -19 intervention package for the members. The materials included 630 10-kg bag of rice, 630 cartons of noddles, 7,500 pieces of face masks, 30,000 pieces of hand gloves,30 cartons of paracetamol drug, hand sanitizers among others. The donation was made at the Bishop’s Court, Diocese on the Niger, Ozalla Road, Onitsha, by the former Economic Adviser of the state, Prof. Stella Okunna who represented the donor. She explained that the gesture…
The Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital (DASH), Lafia, Nasarawa, has taken delivery of medical equipment to strengthen the state in the fight against COVID-19. Dr Hassan Ikrama, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of DASH, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lafia. He said that the 110-bed isolation centre in the hospital had been properly equipped. “We have 10 rooms with one bed each as well as another unit with 100 beds for 100 persons, bringing the capacity to 110, in preparedness for any increase in the number of infected persons. “All…
The Association of Progressive Nigerians has appealed to the Central Bank to withdraw old and tattered naira notes from circulation as the country is battling COVID- 19 pandemic. The group made the appeal in a statement it issued in Lagos on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the statement was jointly signed by Alhaji Mohammed Bello, the group’s president and Mr Oluwole Aina, its general secretary. The group said the appeal became necessary as the continued recirculation of old, tattered naira notes, which had passed several hands, might lead to further spread of the pandemic. “We hereby…
The Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) says Mr Gebe Ebong, a health worker with Wuse General Hospital, Abuja who died on April 24, did not die of coronavirus. FCT Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr Tony Ogunleye, said this while responding to a question on the cause of the death of the nurse in Abuja. Ogunleye told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that Dr Mohammed Kawu, Acting Secretary Health and Human Services Secretariat FCT, confirmed that the nurse did not die of COVID-19. He, however, said that Kawu did not disclose the cause of the death of the nurse…
RIVERS State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has blamed the increasing number of COVID-19 patients in the state on sabotage of the state’s borders by security agencies. Wike, who ordered compulsory use of face masks in public to check the spread of the pandemic, said following border sabotage, the state has so far recorded 13 confirmed cases of the pandemic comprising nine males and four females. Speaking in Port Harcourt, the state capital, the governor insisted that the sabotage was frustrating the efforts of his administration to check the spread of the virus. He said the government had so far convicted 188…
Mr Olugbenga Adeyanju has assumed duty as the new Adamawa Police Commissioner. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, the state Police Public Relations Officer said this in a statement in Yola. Nguroje said that Adeyanju took over from Mr Audu Madaki who was redeployed to Force headquarters, Abuja. ”The Police Command in Adamawa wishes to inform members of the public that the newly posted Commissioner of Police, Mr Olugbenga Adeyanju, has assumed duty. ” Adeyanju was recently deployed to Adamawa by the Inspector General of Police Muhammed Adamu, and took over from the outgoing CP Audu Madaki. “The handing and taking over took…
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Friday spoke against the decision of the Federal Government to relax the stay-at-home order. The umbrella body of Nigerian doctors described the move as premature and can potentially expose more Nigerians to the coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. The association warns that the country could experience a bounce in the number of coronavirus cases as health workers are grappling with numerous challenges like lack for bed spaces in epicenters of the pandemic, especially Lagos, unraveled cause(s) of deaths in Kano State and delay in the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to public and private hospitals,…
The total lockdown ordered by the Federal Government in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on March 25 came as rude shock to many residents of the affected states, including Israel Adefemi. The 45-year-oldbusiness man who runs an auto sales outlet in Ogba area of Ikeja, Lagos, had lately experienced low patronage shortly after he took delivery of second hand cars,popularly called tokunbo, from Europe. To stock up food in his home as advised by the Federal Government, he went to the automated teller machine (ATM) of a bank near his house two days…