Traders whose shops were affected by the fire outbreak that occured last week Sunday at a local market in the Oba-nla area of Akure in Ondo State have continued to count their losses. The traders lost food items, clothes, electrical materials among others to the fire. Some of the traders also lost cash to the fire incident aside goods. SaharaReporters gathered that at least 25 shops and five houses were affected by the fire incident while goods worth millions of naira were also destroyed. Efforts by some residents of the area to stop the fire from spreading to residential houses…
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The federal government says it is considering the concession of 10 highways to generate investments and provide jobs. Babatunde Fashola (pictured), the minister of works and housing, told the joint senate and house committee on Wednesday that the estimated impact of the concession is N163.32 billion and 22,000 jobs. There are 35,000 federal highways in the country. NAN reports that the meeting was organised to deliberate on the public-private partnership on road and infrastructure with the ministry of works and housing and the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC). The minister listed the roads being considered for the concession as Benin-Asaba,…
The Plateau Government said on Wednesday that 29 of its health workers had contracted the coronavirus. Commissioner for Health, Dr Nimkong Lar, made the disclosure at a press briefing in Jos. According to the commissioner, the state has recorded 198 confirmed cases with 114 discharged and five deaths. “Update on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says Plateau has 168 confirmed cases but results released now confirms we have 198 cases,’’ he said. Lar said the state had closed down a private hospital for two weeks, following its exposure to two COVID-19 patients, who were managed for other health conditions. He…
Ahead of the Edo State Governorship Primary Election scheduled for Monday 22nd June, 2020 and an Appeal schedule for Wednesday 24th June, 2020, the National Leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) has appointed llawyer, Dr. Kayode Ajulo into the Primary Election Appeal Committee as its secretary. Other members of the committee include Prof. Mustapha Bello (Chairman), Hon. Umar Ahmed, Nasiru Ibrahim Junju and Hon. Rasaq Mahmud Bamu. It was learnt the Abuja based lawywer, Ajulo, was considered by the leadership of the APC to be a member of the Appeal Committee, based on his impressive record as a former National…
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have called off the bluff of the federal government who had threatened to invoke the ‘no work no pay rule’ rule if the union continues with its strike. The NARD president, Aliyu Sokomba, described the government’s threat as “empty and the biggest joke of the century”, adding that the doctors are not intimidated and will go on with the strike until their demands are met. The government threatened to invoke the rule on Tuesday, a day after the NARD, the association of certified doctors undergoing residency to become consultants, began an indefinite strike over the…
By Balogun Damilola Ondo State confirms three deaths and Eight new cases of #COVID19 today. This was made known to the public by Oluyemi Fasipe, a youth advocate and a social media influencer in Ondo State. https://twitter.com/YemieFASH/status/1273317693840637961?s=19 Ondo State now has a total of 89 confirmed cases and 14 fatalities of COVID19.
Troops of the Army Super Camp 11 located at Gamboru in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State have rescued 32 captives comprising of 16 women and 16 children from the captivity of Boko Haram during a clearance operation conducted on Kusumu and Warshele Villages in the early hours of June 14, 2020. It was gathered that the troops discovered that the located sites were being used by Boko Haram terrorists as their logistics base. It was further gathered that 13 of the criminal elements were neutralized during an encounter with Boko Haram elements in the clearance operation. Moreso,…
The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, South Africa chapter, Dr Taiye Abe, is dead. He was aged 65. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in a statement on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said he received the news of Abe’s death with sadness. Buhari sympathised with the family, friends, and colleagues of the deceased, and urged them to take heart, praying that God will comfort them at this time of sorrow. “We will not relent in working towards that goal,” the President said. He urged members of the APC in South…
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. The drug is part of the world’s biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus. It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth. Had the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000…
An All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Ondo State, Chief Olayide Owolabi Adelami on Wednesday said he was on a rescue mission to salvage the state. He said under his watch, the financial autonomy of the local government would be granted expressly. mission to salvage the state. He said under his watch, the financial autonomy of the local government would be granted expressly. He disclosed this at the National Secretariat of the party shortly after some concerned Ondo State indigines under the aegis of Ondo Rescue Group picked the expression of interest and nomination forms on his behalf from the…