Edo govt shuts down orphanage over poor facilities, neglect
The Edo State Government has shut down Omosefe Orphanage Home in Benin City, over poor facilities and lack of professional care-givers to attend to children in the facility. Commissioner for Social Development and Gender Issues, Hon. (Mrs.) Maria Edeko Esq. gave the order to close the facility during an unscheduled inspection of the orphanage in […]
Malaria infection, risk factor for increase COVID-19 fatality — PSN
By Chioma Obinna As the world marks this year’s World Malaria Day, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, has identified malaria infection as one risk factor that would increase the case fatality of COVID-19 even as it noted that about 97 per cent of the country’s population was at risk of malaria infection. Stating this in […]
703,506 poor Nigerians received N23.7bn from Abacha loot — Report
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Monitoring Transparency and Accountability in the Management of Returned Assets, MANTRA, project, a sub-sect of Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) programme of DFID/UKAid, Thursday, released a report that 703,506 poor Nigerians received N23.7 billion from the recovered $322.5 million Abacha Loot returned from Switzerland as at 31 December 2019 under […]
COVID-19: CSO urges Buhari on regular broadcast to Nigerians
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Following rising cases and deaths of Nigerians from the deadly Cornonavirus, COVID-19, a Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Concerned Nigerians, Thursday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari on the regular broadcast to Nigerians on situation report. This was contained in a statement signed by the Convener, CN, Deji Adeyanju, while expressing worry over […]
COVID-19: Police not responsible for petrol attendant killed in Abia — Lai Mohammed
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, says the Nigerian Police is not responsible for the alleged killing of a petrol attendant in Abia. The minister disclosed this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing on Thursday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there had been […]
COVID-19: 3 doctors test positive in Lagos
The Medical Guild says three of its members at Alimosho General Hospital and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, had tested positive for COVID-19. Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo and Dr. Ismail Ajibowo, Chairman and Secretary of the guild respectively, made this known on Thursday in Lagos on the Instagram account of the guild. Medical Guild […]
