Lagos discharges 14 COVID-19 patients
Fourteen patients who were receiving treatment for coronavirus in Lagos have been discharged after recovering from the disease. The ministry of health in the state broke the news in a tweet on Monday. The tweet said six females and eight males were discharged from isolation centres at Yaba, Onikan, LUTH and Eti-Osa. READ ALSO: COVID-19: […]
Three health workers among four new COVID-19 cases in Ondo
As Akeredolu approves special allowances for health workers, bans daily market Dayo Johnson – Akure THREE health workers in Ondo State are amongst the four new cases of COVID-19 pandemic. They include a driver who carries samples to Test Centres outside the State and the two casual workers. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who disclosed this during […]
COVID-19: We now use private buildings, hotels as isolation centres ― Sanwo-Olu
By Gabriel Olawale The Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has revealed that some private buildings and hotels in the state have been converted into isolation centres to ensure that all those who tested positive to COVID-19 are adequately catered for. Disclosing this during a press briefing, Sanwo-Olu said that the idea of not making the […]
NBS poverty report gross under-estimation of reality— Experts
*Query methodology *Say COVID-19 to worsen poverty level *Poor electricity impoverishing Nigerians By Michael Eboh Economic analysts, on Monday, described the Nigerian poverty statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, as a gross under-estimation of the poverty situation in Nigeria. In an interview with Vanguard in Abuja, the economic analysts and labour leader […]
COVID-19: You’ll be quarantined if found without facemask in public — Delta Govt
By Festus Ahon – Asaba Delta Government threatened to quarantine anyone seen in public without wearing a facemask in any of the isolation centres in the State. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, who stated this while briefing newsmen after a meeting of the Technical Committee for the Prevention of Covid-19 in the […]
Presidential Task Force on COVID-19: How far as govt eases lockdown?
*Why govts, PTF, NGOs, others must provide more palliatives — Kpajie By Clifford Ndujihe & Omeiza Ajayi Established on March 10, the 12-member Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr Boss Mustapha, was saddled with the responsibility of developing and coordinating “a multi-sectoral inter-governmental approach […]
Nigeria’s unique weapon in fighting the COVID-19 war
Dr Chike Mgbeadichie Leaders all around the world have declared this period wartime and have collectively categorized coronavirus (COVID-19) the invisible enemy at war with the world. If truly this is wartime, the world should not see this period as a strange era because every nation of the world has experienced war in different forms […]
Oronsaye Report: Senior civil servants raise alarm over looming lay-off
By Victor Young Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, on Monday, condemned the decision of the Federal Government to commence merging some Ministries, Departments, and Agencies MDAs, and scrapping others. The union said the move will throw thousands of public workers into unemployment market. ASCSN, in a statement in Lagos by its Secretary-General, […]
Medical Guild says 16 Lagos doctors infected with COVID-19
By Chioma Obinna Medical doctors under the employment of Lagos State Government Monday expressed worry over-relaxation of the lockdown in the State, disclosing that 16 members of the Medical Guild have been infected with COVID-19. Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, the Chairman of the Medical Guild, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo who explained that the […]
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Delta to quarantine face mask defaulters in Isolation Centre
The Delta State Government has warned that anyone seen in public without face mask would be taken to any of the Isolation Centres in the state.
