Mr Everestus Obiyo, Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Enugu State Command, has turned back 15 Enugu-bound vehicles, mostly commercial buses, at the Enugu-Abia boundary. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Denny Iwuchukwu, said in a statement on Wednesday in Enugu that the vehicles and their occupants were turned back on Tuesday. Iwuchukwu said the commandant took the action while conducting an on-the-spot check on boundaries between Enugu and neighbouring states. He said the commandant’s action was to enforce the Federal Government’s banning of interstate movement of persons not on essential duty, to check the spread of the…
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Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), and the Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, has assured Nigerians on Tuesday said the decision to extend the lockdown was not punitive. Mustapha stated this at the PTF on COVID-19 daily press briefing in Abuja, adding that there was a need to balance between safety and economic considerations before reopening the economy. He said that judging from historical perspectives there was the need to balance between safety and economic considerations before reopening the economy, fully. “I wish to repeat that the decision is not punitive. We share…
La Liga will use a video analysis programme to help it determine if a player is likely to have infected a team mate or opponent. According to a draft protocol drawn up by the league, this will be put into use if the player tests positive for the coronavirus once the season re-starts. The protocol was sent out to clubs in Spain’s top two divisions on Monday and is an updated version of the document clubs received earlier this month. Teams in Spain’s top two divisions began training in groups of up to 10 players from Monday. La Liga president…
Prayers are answered so long the petitioner call on the Powers that Be. The Owner of the Heavens and the earth with everything it contains made a declaration to the effect that: “When My servants ask Thee (O Muhammad) concerning Me, tell them, I Am closer to them than their jugular vein, I listen to the call of the caller when he calleth on Me, let them with a will, call on Me and obey Me….” During this special Month of mercy, blessing and liberation, virtually all the conditions for Supplications to be met will be fulfilled willy-nilly. One can…
By Udo Akam-Alo, ABAKALIKI Sequel to intercession of the International Federation of Female Lawyers, FIDA, Ebonyi state chapter, a child delivered of in prison about two years ago, has been handed over to the father, Mr Amadi Onwe. The Chairperson of FIDA in Ebonyi State, Mrs Grace Iheanacho Chima, told newsmen that the child was discovered to be with his accused mother in the prison when they visited in November, 2019 and thus, decided to intercede following the permission of the Comptroller of the correctional Service centre. She noted that the child, being delivered of in prison, has no sense…
By Ayo Oye, ABUJA No fewer than 15 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Tuesday, recorded fresh cases of coronavirus codenamed Covid-19. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos recorded the highest number of 131, followed by Ogun and Plateau states with 25 and 15 cases respectively. The total number of coronavirus confirmed cases in Nigeria stand at 6,401 as at Tuesday with 1,734 patients already discharged. “226 new cases of #COVID19; 131-Lagos25-Ogun15-Plateau11-Edo7-Kaduna6-Oyo5-FCT5-Adamawa4-Jigawa4-Ebonyi4-Borno3-Nasarawa2-Bauchi2-Gombe1-Enugu1-Bayelsa “6401 cases of #COVID19 in NigeriaDischarged: 1734, Deaths: 192,” @NCDCgov tweeted.
The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development will commence the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme on Thursday May 21, 2020 in Lagos. The modified programme was flagged off in Kuje, Abuja on May 14, 2020 by the supervising Minister, Sadiya Umar Farouq who was joined by Paul Howe, Country Director of the World Food Programme which is providing Technical Support. The special Covid-19 intervention will see 37,589 beneficiaries made up of parents, guardians and care givers of primary 1-3 school children in participating schools receive Take-Home Rations. While the intervention is primarily for school children currently enrolled…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has called for the immediate review of the privatization exercise of the power sector by previous administrations. Lawan gave the charge in his concluding remarks on a motion considered on the floor during plenary on Tuesday. The motion titled: “Power Sector Recovery Plan and the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic” was sponsored by Senator Gabriel Suswam (PDP – Benue North East). The Senate President, who bemoaned what he described as the “inefficiency of Power Generating and Distribution companies” in the country, called for a review or eventual reversal of the terms of privatization. According to…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says COVID-19 patients have the right to demand that health workers including doctors, wear gloves before examining them. The agency also said that the patients had the right to demand that doctors should wash their hands before attending to them. The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this known at the daily media briefing by the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, on Tuesday in Abuja. “A patient has a right to demand that a doctor should wear gloves when attending to him or her. “If you see your nurse or doctor…
Kaduna State Government has directed the state Ministry of Finance to pay May 2020 salaries for public servants on Tuesday, six days before the usual payment date of 25th of every month. The Deputy Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe, disclosed this during a media chat she co-hosted with Gov. Nasir El-Rufai at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House on Tuesday. In a statement issued by Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye, the deputy governor said that the gesture was to enable workers to better utilise Wednesday and Thursday COVID-19 lockdown free window. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…