Amid the rising number of cases and the refusal of some persons who test positive for COVID-19 to go to isolation centres, many states have said they will continue to treat the infected patients at isolation centres rather than resort to home treatment option. They noted that getting persons who had tested positive for the virus to the isolation centres remained one of their strategies to contain the spread of the deadly virus. Lagos State had on Thursday said it was considering adopting home treatment option for patients with mild symptoms, noting that it would soon release the guidelines for…
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As part of the renewed offensive to rid the North West of the Country of armed bandits and other criminal elements, the Air Component of Operation HADARIN DAJI has decimated several camps and neutralized no fewer than 135 armed bandits in massive air raids executed at several locations in Katsina and Zamfara States between 20 and 22 May 2020. The air strikes were undertaken sequel to credible Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports as well as series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions that led to the identification of the camps, which include Abu Radde Camps 1 and 2 and Dunya…
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed an executive order granting financial autonomy to states legislature and judiciary in Nigeria. He made the announcement in a tweet on Friday. He said, “Based on the power vested in me under Section 5 of the 1999 constitution (as Amended), I, today, signed into law Executive Order 10 of 2020 for the implementation of financial autonomy of state legislature and judiciary. “This administration will continue to do everything to strengthen the principles and practice of democracy and democratic governance in Nigeria.” https://twitter.com/MBuhari/status/1263891682430517254?s=20
By Damilola Balogun There is no letup in political activities in ondo state, despite the lockdown on social and political gatherings following the outbreak of coronavirus in the country. All aspirants of different portfolio’s as well as their respective parties have devised ways of engaging in politics and futhering their aspirations ahead of the Ondo State elections later in the year. In this regard, Damilola Balogun of Yemiefash.com had an aspirant for the post a councillor in Akure South ward 5, Adeniran Aiku, in an interview, and he talked on his motives for the good people of his ward…
The Defence Headquarters says soldiers on the frontline seen in a viral video insulting the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.Gen Tukur Buratai, will be subjected to observation and counselling. In a video that went viral earlier in the week, some soldiers in the Operation Lafiya Dole in Yobe State who were ambushed by terrorists were seen cursing Buratai. Narrating its own side of the story, the military headquarters said some soldiers encountered multiple Improvised Explosive Devices and Boko Haram terrorists’ ambush, eight kilometres ahead of Buni-Gari in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State on May 18, 2020. The military…
The Delta State Government has received some relief items from Presco Plc, a vegetable oils and fats producer, to help vulnerable households cushion the effects of Coronavirus outbreak in the state. Commissioner for Special Duties in the state, Mofe Pera, who received the items on behalf of the state government, said that they would ensure equitable distribution among families and individuals across various communities, who need the items the most. He added that the state government had been receiving relief items from well-meaning individuals and corporate organisations since the outbreak of the pandemic, adding that they were open to more of…
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has threatened health workers with the termination of their appointment if they proceed with planned industrial action amidst Coronavirus pandemic. Following the salary cut, the Congress of Health Workers Unions and Associations in the state threatened to go on strike. Hence, the state mandated a register to be signed by those willing to work with the government. According to a statement by Mr El-Rufai special adviser on media, Muyiwa Adekeye, he said: “Every health worker that is willing to work is required to sign the register at the Ministry of Health and the…
Mr Olise Ifeajika, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, said that establishing a mobile laboratory testing centre in Asaba has increased turnaround time for detection and treatment of Coronavirus patients in the state. Ífeajika, who spoke in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Asaba, said the state benefited immensely from having Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, a medical doctor, as governor during the pandemic. He said the noticed upsurge in confirmed cases of the pandemic in recent time in the state was due to the ramping up of testing, adding that it was good to discover and…
A 16-year old Secondary school student (names withheld) has been reunited with her parents after an Akure Family court stopped her forced marriage to an Islamic Cleric identified as Alhaji Yusuf Lateef. The court presided over by Justice Aderemi Adegoroye ordered the return of the girl to her family for proper care and education amd warned Lateef to stay away from her. Lateef was to make the teenager who was 15 in 2019 his 9th wife. It was gathered that Alhaji Lateef had approached the girl’s parents and sought her hand in marriage in 2019. Despite protest by the teenager,…
The Federal Government has disclosed that there are plans to soon reopen schools nationwide, saying, however, that this will not be done in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, made the clarification on Thursday during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 news conference in Abuja following rumours making the round the Federal Government would reopen schools in the next two weeks. The Federal Government had ordered the indefinite closure of educational institutions nationwide as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. But Nwajiuba while responding to questions from…