Imo governor, Sen Hope Uzodinma, on Monday disclosed that his administration saves N2 billion every month from the wage bill of the state workers and pensioners. He attributed this to the payments of salaries and pensions using the Bank Verification Number (BVN) records which uniquely tied each worker to a distinct bank account. The governor, in a statewide broadcast in Owerri, said the savings was as a result of comprehensive review of the state’s civil service and payment structure with a view to fishing out ghost workers. This, he said, had been put in place by his administration, a measure…
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Over 100,000 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Spain, the Spanish Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Services said on Monday. According to the daily figures published by the ministry, 100,875 patients have beaten the virus, an increase of 2,144 over the last 24 hours. Up to 23,521 people have died from the coronavirus in Spain, the ministry said, adding that it registered 331 deaths in the 24-hour period until 9.00 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Sunday. Meanwhile, 1,831 new cases of COVID-19 were detected by PCR tests, which discover if the coronavirus is active in the body,…
A health surveillance and investigation team has found the 24-year-old man who went into hiding after testing positive for COVID-19. Dr Salisu Kwaya-Bura, the Commissioner for Health in Borno, made this known on Monday. The commissioner, who is also the Secretary of the Borno State High-Powered Team on COVID-19, said that the patient was found in a critical state in his family house in Gwange Area of Maiduguri. “The patient was moved on a stretcher and is now on a ventilator in an isolation centre in Maiduguri. “Health workers are doing everything humanly possible to revive the patient. “Also, a contact tracing and surveillance…
Rafael Nadal says he is very pessimistic about the possibility of tennis returning to normal any time soon because of the new coronavirus pandemic that shut down the sport last month. Professional tennis has been suspended until the end of July, at the earliest, and the Spaniard said on Sunday that serious problems stand in the way of a resumption. “From my point of view, I’m very pessimistic that the circuit can resume normal activity,” the world number two said in an online chat organised by the Spanish Tennis Federation. “In tennis, you need to travel every week, stay in…
The Akwa Ibom Commissioner for Works, Mr Ephraim Inyangeyen, has said that no Commissioner in the state tested positive of the novel coronavirus as insinuated in the social media. In a statement in Uyo on Monday, Inyangeyen said that all the Commissioners in the State executive council are in good health conditions. He challenged the originators of such rumour to name the commissioners suspected or confirmed to have been down with COVID-19 and the location where they are taking treatment. According to him, the executive members have been working to help the state COVID-19 Committee to prevent spread of the…
Dr Olisa Agbakoba, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has urged the Federal Government to consider adopting local measures to combat the ravaging Coronavirus disease (COVID-19 ) pandemic. Agbakoba gave the advice in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday. He said such advice became inevitable because the dreaded Coronavirus disease had exposed the fragility of the public health system of many countries including Nigeria. He said: “The global pandemic has precipitated fundamental disruptions that will change the ways in which many things are done the world forever, and Nigeria is…
Britain is `turning the tide’ in its fight to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus but must continue social distancing measures to avoid a second peak of infections. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday in his first speech since returning to work after his own infection with the virus. Johnson urged the public not to `throw away all the effort and sacrifice’ and risk a second peak by lifting Britain’s near lockdown too early. “And yet it is also true that we are making progress with fewer hospital admissions, fewer COVID-19 patients in ICU and real signs now…
Following the directive by Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo, public and civil servants on Grade Level (GL) 13 and above on Monday reported for work at the state secretariat. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that Makinde on March 25, ordered the shut down of the secretariat for two weeks from March 27. The closure was further extended by one week from April 20 to and April 27. The governor who chaired the state COVID-19 task force on Saturday directed the category of the civil servants to resume at their respective duty posts on Monday. A NAN correspondent who monitored…
The Kaduna State Government says, wearing of face masks will be enforced as a critical public health measure, to reduce the transmission of Coronavirus (COVID-19).This is contained in a statement signed by Muyiwa Adekeye, the Senior Assistant to the Governor on Media and Communications, in Kaduna.According to the statement, all persons who venture out of their homes for whatever reason must wear face masks and observe social distancing everywhere they go, in markets and in authorised vehicles.It also stated that government was making efforts to provide face masks for the poor and vulnerable residents, and appealed to everyone who could…
The Speaker, Kano State House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdulazeez Garba-Gafasa has called on the state government to urgently constitute a committee of professionals to investigate the reported mass deaths in the state. This was contained in a statement by Alhaji Ali Bala, Director Press to the Assembly and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Monday in Kano. The statement said the speaker made the call shortly after going round some graveyards in the state to find out the truth of the reported mass death. According to Garba-Gafasa, the call is necessary to ascertain the causes of…