The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi has approved the release of 5 basic life support ambulances together with teams of medical personnel of the Corps and 30 active Close User Group lines, to the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 as part of its commitment towards facilitating prompt evacuation of Coronavirus victims from point of identification to isolation centres. In a statement by Bisi Kazeem, the Corps Public Education Officer, the approval came shortly after the request was presented to the Corps by the Country Director, United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety and Traffic Injury…
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By Harry Awurumibe, Editor ABUJA BUREAU The Presidency has reassured the government and people of Kano State of support to overcome the health challenge the state is facing. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu in a statement he issued on Wednesday said: “The President and his government are with the people of Kano State and will not let them down. “If there is reason to believe that the mortality rate in Kano due to COVID-19 is out of control, it will spell a serious development to which the best action would be for the…
By Tony Obiechina, ABUJA The Federal Government has disbursed the sum of N43,416,000,000.00 (USD120.6 million) as performance-based grants to 24 eligible States in the country. Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, disclosed this in a statement signed by Mr. Hassan Dodo, the Ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations in Abuja.The statement explained that the disbursement followed the participation of the 24 eligible States in the recent Annual Performance Assessment (APA) carried out by the Office of the Auditor General for the Federation (OAuGF) as the Independent Verification Agent (IVA) in collaboration with a third party…
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams, has said he would devote the rest of his life to charity and service to humanity. Adams, who will be 50 on Thursday (tomorrow), however, said he is dedicating this year’s birthday to God and to the memory of those that have lost their lives to the raging COVID-19 global pandemic. In a statement on Wednesday by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, the Yoruba leader said he would be focusing more on charity to the poor and the less privileged people in the society even as he promised…
By Victoria Hanson Lagos state government has discharged another 49 coronavirus (covid-19) patients. The patients – 28 females and 21 males were discharged on Wednesday from the Isolation facilities at Yaba and Onikan. Prompt News reports that the patients including a foreign national – Greek, have left the isolation facilities to reunite with the society and their families. “The patients; 18 from IDH, Yaba & 31 from Onikan Isolation Centre have fully recovered & tested negative to #COVID19 in two consecutive readings. “With this, number of patients successfully managed & discharged in Lagos is now 187 @DigiCommsNG, #LagosAgainstCOVID19, #MaskUpLagos, “@LSMOH…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Apparently impressed with the good job the First Responders in the war against the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic are doing, the Director General of Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has heaped encomium on Nigerian health workers. Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja at the daily press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 Pandemic, Dr. Ihekweazu revealed that a good number of frontline health workers have themselves been infected in the line of duty. He also disclosed that some of them who are now infected with Covid-19 virus are still working…
Following the arrest of some fake Private Guard Operatives during the Covid-19 lockdown at beats and locations within the country, the Commandant General Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu has directed that all State Commandants of the Corps should ensure and enforce the recent directive that all Private Guards in the country should sew their Private Security Identification (PSID) number on their uniforms.This number should tally with the service numbers generated during the Biometrics Data Capturing of guards. The Corps is collaborating with sister agencies like the DSS, the NPF, NIA, and the Corps supervisory ministry (Ministry…
By Tony Obiechina, AbujaFollowing the gradual easing of the COVID-19 lockdown both globally and in the country, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has resumed provision of foreign exchange to all commercial banks. In a statement by CBN Director of Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac Okorafor on Wednesday, the move is to enable parents wishing to pay schools fees and SMEs to make essential imports needed to revamp economic activities across the country. According to the statement, the Apex bank is particularly resuming the provision of over US$100million per week for both categories.The statement also disclosed that the CBN has also made…
By Amosu AdeboyeCesc Fabregas has announced that his great-grandmother has beaten coronavirus at the age of 95.Earlier this month, the midfielder said his great-grandmother had been infected with the virus along with 70% of those in her nursing home in the Barcelona town of Arenys de Mar.However, the former Arsenal and Chelsea star said on Wednesday that she has beaten the virus.”She has overcome coronavirus at 95 years of age,” Fabregas said on Twitter. “Yesterday the test came out negative!”My great-grandmother is a super heroine but none of this would have been possible had it not been for the help…
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi on Wednesday confirmed the second case of the coronavirus disease in the state barely three days after announcing the index case. Umahi, in a statewide broadcast, announced that the victim was a 27 year old man who was arrested on April 25 by policemen at Isieke junction, Abakaliki. The governor said that the victim was returning from Asaba, Delta and was accompanied by his pregnant wife and househelp. “The bus conveying them dropped at Isieke juncton as they could not continue their journey because of the curfew at that time,” he said. He said that…