The Bayero University, Kano is to establish a Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing centre to check the spread of the pandemic, its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Yahuza Bello, has said. Bello, who is the Chairman of the COVID-19 Fund Rising Committee in the state, said that the centre would have a capacity to test 180 samples daily. He spoke on Sunday in Kano when the Kano State Taskforce Committee on COVID-19 briefed the press. Bello decried the upsurge in the pandemic, saying that all was being done to stem the tide. Earlier, Dr Tijjani Hussaini, the Coordinator of the Taskforce on COVID-19, had…
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As the world battles the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Africa has recorded 9,106 COVID-19 recoveries from its 30,329 confirmed cases in 52 African countries. Data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), shows that as at 9 a.m. East Africa Time on April 26, the continent had recorded 1, 374 COVID-19 deaths. The breakdown of the cases by regions, reveal that the Northern Africa region with 12,479 cases has the highest confirmed COVID-19 cases; Western region 7,373; Southern 4, 698; Eastern 3,127 and Central 2,652 cases. Recoveries of COVID-19 patients by regions, shows that the Northern Africa…
After 42 days of strict coronavirus lockdown measures, children in Spain were allowed, out again from Sunday, under certain conditions. Children under the age of 14 can now go out for one hour a day with one of their parents. Scooters, roller skates and skateboards are allowed, but they cannot venture more than one kilometre beyond their home. Many families put face masks on their children as they stepped out for the first time in many weeks. “We are experiencing this day with a mixture of emotion and fear,’’ said Carmen, the mother of two young daughters in central Madrid.…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it had received 13 Nigerians that arrived from Lome, Togo at Seme-Krake joint border post. The Spokesman, NIS, Mr Sunday James who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said that the returnees were technicians that went to install Industrial Machines in Togo. According to James, the 13 returnees have been handed over to officials of the Ministry of Health in Lagos for medical test. “Also for isolation in line with NCDC directives on medical procedures for new arrivals into the country to curtail the spread of Corona Virus,” he said. James…
The Police Force Headquarters on Sunday announced the arrest of three suspects in connection with the kidnap and murder of a Catholic Seminarian, Nnadi Michael of the Catholic Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kaduna State. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. The criminal gang had, on Jan. 9, stormed the Catholic Seminary and kidnapped four seminarians, murdered one of them and released the remaining three on Jan. 31 after collecting ransom. The remains of the murdered Seminarian was found in the bush where it was abandoned. Mba said the suspects…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to the 36 state governors urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors from the state to invest in and improve public healthcare facilities and access to quality education.” SERAP said: “Given the rising number of deaths in Kano state reportedly linked to COVID-19, your state and other state governors now have to show leadership, transparency and accountability, if you are to effectively and satisfactorily…
Journalists and allied media professionals of Igede origin from Benue State have cried out over the gruesome murder of a 19-year-old girl, Miss Joy Okom Adole, allegedly by a Lagos couple that hired her as a housemaid.The group under the auspices of Association of Igede Media Professionals (AIMPs) described the incident as the height of bestiality and has accordingly, in a petition, charged the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to step into the matter and bring the perpetrators to book immediately without let or hindrance.The petition signed by its President, Mr Egena Ode, and made available to newsmen…
Barely days to the end of a four-week lockdown declared by President Muhammadu Buhari to stem the spread of the coronavirus disease in Nigeria, I’ve seen a few number of “pots and pan protests” on various social media platforms. This left me with some questions, amongst which is why a few Nigerians would choose to protest in the face of a pandemic that has shaken the very foundations of advanced healthcare systems in developed countries of the world. I also wondered why some other desperate few felt the need to trend online by politicising the COVID-19 situation through unwarranted criticisms of government…
Barely three months after the murder of a kidnapped Catholic Seminarian, Nnadi Michael of the Catholic Good Shepherd Major Seminary at Gonin Gora, Kakau in Chikun LGA of Kaduna State, Police Operatives have arrested a deadly criminal gang responsible for the death. Recall that, on January 9, 2020, the criminal gang stormed the Catholic Seminary and kidnapped four (4) seminarians, murdered one of them in cold blood and released the remaining three on 31st January, 2020, having obtained a ransom. The remains of the fourth Seminarian were found in a bush where abandoned. The suspects: Tukur Usman ‘m’ aged 37, father of…
Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, disclosed on Saturday, that no fewer than 120,000 households and groups will benefit from the palliatives being planned by the state. Governor Makinde, who addressed newsmen at the end of a meeting of the state’s Covid-19 Task Force, said that 90,000 households identified as poorest of the poor andanother 30,000 vulnerable households across Oyo State will benefit from the palliatives. According to him, the said palliatives would help incushioning the harsh economic effects of the novel coronavirus in the state. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, also quoted the…