Adamawa Government has discharged eight additional COVID-19 patients from its isolation centre after testing negative to the disease.Prof. Abdullahi Isa , the state’s Commissioner for Health, said this while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Yola.Isa said that the state was making progress in its efforts to contain the spread of the disease.” It is true the state government has discharged eight more COVID-19 patients from the isolation centre after they all tested negative twice to the coronavirus.” This is in line with the protocol of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).” The government had earlier discharged five, a…
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Friday graduated 126 Special Force and Combat Search and Rescue Personnel in Bauchi. The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Saddique Abubakar at the combined graduation ceremony in Bauchi, said the graduates comprised of Special Force and Combat Search Rescue Personnel for safe conduct of air operations. He said the use of Special Forces operatives by Armed Forces around the world dated back to the First World War when the Royal Naval Air Service used armoured cars to rescue drowned air crew. ”Since then, air forces around the world have deployed well trained…
Eleven COVID-19 patients were on Friday discharged from the Infectious Disease Centre (IDC) at Olodo, near Ibadan, Oyo State, after receiving their second negative test results. Prof. Temitope Alonge, the Coordinator of the Oyo State Isolation and Treatment Centres, disclosed this while discharging the patients. Alonge said the number of persons discharged was the highest at a time since the Olodo centre had been discharging patients. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the discharged patients, who are eight males and three females, have stayed at the isolation centre for between five days and two weeks. Alonge said all…
Dr Uche Olowu, outgoing Chairman of Council, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), has urged stakeholders in the banking industry to leverage on emotional intelligence to build ethical leadership in the sector. Olowu, also the 20th President of CIBN, made the call while delivering his presidential valedictory address via a webinar on Friday in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event has as its theme: ‘Ethical Leadership in Banks and Emotional Intelligence,”. “Leadership will succeed if people are emotionally engaged by priming good feelings in those they lead. “Ethical leadership influences people to exhibit right…
By Adeboye Ado The joy of residents Akungba Akoko, a university community in Akoko South Local Government Area of Ondo State, knew no bounds when concerned citizens of the town, home and abroad , donated medical and other relief items worth of three million naira to them, to lessen the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the people. The palliative which consisted of four tons of rice, several dozens of noodles, bags of table salt, face masks, clinical gloves, branded sanitisers and customised handwashing sanitary buckets, were presented to the traditional ruler, Alale of Akungba Kingdom, by representatives of the…
The Federal Government has issued a set of palliatives to help MSMEs wade through the current economic fallouts of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, these palliatives reflect the Buhari administration’s determination to support MSMEs and the priority the Federal Government places on small businesses. The palliatives are:E-Registration of MSMEs/products at 80% discounted rate over a period of six months. Zero tariffs for the first 200 micro and small businesses to register on the E-platform. Waiver on administrative charges for overdue late renewal of expired licenses of micro/small businesses products for a period of 90 days. According…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is in no position to offer economic advice to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, judging by his limited knowledge of contemporary economics, according to the Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) The group said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, that Atiku’s description of the 0.6% slash in the 2020 budget as window dressing betrayed “his shallow understanding of basic economics and his penchant for grandstanding. “For a man who was Vice President for eight years, presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, and who…
By Amosu Adeboye Nigeria defender Leon Balogun hopes he will get the chance to play in the German Bundesliga again. The centre-back spent 10 years playing for several clubs in Germany before linking up with Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion in 2018. Balogun has struggled for regular playing time at Brighton and has made just eight league appearances since his arrival at the club. The 31-year-old however joined Sky Bet Championship club on loan in January and is looking forward to playing in Germany again. “Germany is my home, I would always think about it,”Balogun was quoted by…
To mark its 21 years of groundbreaking strides in the distribution ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa, TD Africa has reached out to the less-privileged with a visit to the Modupe Cole Memorial Child Care and Treatment Home, Akoka, Yaba; where it donated food items and other essentials to the children of the institution. Meanwhile, plans have also been finalized to commemorate the 21st anniversary with a digital party in line with the on-going regime of social distancing occasioned by the COVID-19 crisis. The party, which will feature popular disc jockey, DJ Big N, will be hosted on TD Africa’s Instagram Live…
The Ekiti State Government on Friday said it has received a total N631 million from the Covid-19 Response Resource Mobilization Committee set up last month to raise and manage funds and projects to aid government’s fight against the spread of the coronavirus in the state. The government also announced the arrival of its molecular laboratory for covid-19 test in Ado-Ekiti, just as it announced that it has discharged four Covid-19 patients after their second test turned negative. It also confirmed another four positive cases among the people in the State quarantine centre. The four discharged were part of the five…