By Balogun Damilola The enforcement of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) dusk-to-dawn curfew ordered by the Federal Government has recorded a casualty in Edo State, with hoodlums who attacked a police headquarters, gruesomely murdering Inspector Felix Egbon. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of Edo Command, Chidi Nwabuzor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Saturday in an online statement, described the incident as quite unfortunate, but he gave an assurance that lives and property of residents of the state always be adequately protected. Nwabuzor said: “Edo State Police Command wishes to inform the general public of the attack on the operatives…
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By Balogun Damilola The Ondo State Government has said that it would give mass burial to any unclaimed corpses in all its mortuaries. It therefore issued a one month ultimatum for owners of the corpses in the morgues to collect them for burial This, it said, was to enable it decongest morgues in government hospitals. Ondo Comissioner for Health, Dr Wahab Adegbenro, who stated this in a press statement said all the morgues were congested and they would constitute Public Health hazard to residents of the State if urgent measures were not taken. Dr. Adegbenro stated that the state…
By Balogun Damilola A retired judge of the High Court of Lagos State, Justice Isiaka Isola Oluwa is dead. He was 102 years old. Justice Oluwa died in his home at Ilupeju, Lagos in the early hours of today. The Nation learnt that he will be buried at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba at 4pm, according to Islamic rites Justice Oluwa will be remembered as the judge that sentenced Lagos socialite, Alhaji Jimoh Isola, a.k.a Ejigbadero, to death for murder of a farmer, Raji Oba over land disputes, in 1975. He was born on June 23, 1918 to Lagosian parents…
By Balogun Damilola The Ogun State government has offered a life insurance policy for health workers in the state, just as it reviewed hazard allowance of doctors from 200 to 300 per cent. This was disclosed by the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, during his meeting with representatives of health workers in the state, on Friday, at his office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.. The governor said the life policy would commence as soon as the federal government kick start similar programme soonest. “I want to inform you that we have put in place life policy for our health workers. We…
By Balogun Damilola Nigeria’s virus cases have witnessed an increase of 1,354 five days after the gradual easing of lockdown in Lagos, and Abuja commenced. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday recorded 386 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 3912. The NCDC also said that 10 new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 117. YemieFash reports that this is the highest number of cases recorded in a single day in the country. NCDC said…
By Balogun Damilola President Muhammadu Buhari has lost one of his relatives, his nephew, Alhaji Mutari Dauda, to death. Alhaji Dauda was younger brother to Mallam Mamman Daura, who has been described as one of the strongest influences on President Buhari as well as on the administration. Meanwhile, President Buhari has sent condolence messages to his extended family and the entire Daura community in Katsina State over the death of Alhaji Dauda. In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, President Buhari charged the family of the deceased as well as…
By Balogun Damilola The United States cut its imports of Nigerian crude oil by 60.37 per cent to 1.93 million barrels in January this year, compared to the 4.87 million barrels bought in the same month in 2019. Latest data from the US Energy Information Administration showed that the country imported 4.85 million barrels of crude from Nigeria in December 2019, down from 6.33 million barrels in the previous month. The US has significantly reduced imports of Nigerian crude oil in the past few years as the oil produced in its shale operations is similar to the light sweet…
By Balogun Damilola The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has lamented that Kogi State never accepted the assistance rendered by its official in trying to trace COVID-19 patients in the State. NCDC DG, Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu was reacting to the misunderstanding between the body’s official and the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello. Bello had asked officials of the NCDC to leave the state after they refused his directive of going into isolation and being tested for COVID-19. The State’s Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, in a statement, wondered if NCDC officials had something to hide by refusing to be…
By Balogun Damilola Lagos State has recorded 42 new coronavirus recoveries, YemieFash reports. The state Health Ministry disclosed this on Friday evening via Twitter. It said the patients comprising 20 females and 22 males were discharged from three of its isolation centres, adding that the number of discharged patients had risen to 448. “42 more COVID-19 patients; 20 females and 22 males; all Nigerians have been discharged from our isolation facilities at Onikan, Eti-Osa (LandMark) and Lekki to reunite with the society. “The patients; 2 from Onikan, 32 from Eti-Osa (LandMark) and 8 from Lekki Isolation Centres have fully recovered and…
By Balogun Damilola The Gombe state government says 20 out of the 109 COVID-19 patients in the state have been discharged after testing negative twice. Idris Mohammed, chairman of the state task force on COVID-19, broke the news on Friday. Mohammed, who was represented by Ahmed Gana, the state commissioner for health, said that the 20 patients were discharged following a directive from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). “We are happy to inform the general public that NCDC has given us go ahead to discharge a total of 20 cases under our isolation facilities,” he said. “Ten…