By Balogun Damilola President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of former Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF). The President also approved the appointment of seven other persons, including Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, as Executive Secretary and members of the Board. The appointment, announced in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Dingyadi, would announce date for the inauguration of the board. “Pursuant to the Nigeria Police Trust Fund Establishment Act…
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By Balogun Damilola No fewer than 90,000 health workers worldwide are believed to have been infected with COVID-19, and possibly twice that, amid reports of continuing shortages of protective equipment, the International Council of Nurses, ICN, said on Wednesday. The disease has killed more than 260 nurses, it said in a statement, urging authorities to keep more accurate records to help prevent the virus from spreading among staff and patients. The Geneva-based association said a month ago that 100 nurses had died in the pandemic sparked by a novel coronavirus that emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan…
By Balogun Damilola The federal government has extended the ban imposed on local and international flights by four weeks. President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the ban on flights to check the spread of coronavirus. At the briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Wednesday, Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the federation, said after due consultation, the federal government decided to extend the flight ban by four weeks. “Tomorrow marks the last day for the enforcement of the closure of Nigeria’s airspace to flights. We have assessed the situation in the aviation industry and have come…
By Balogun Damilola The Federal Government has granted a two-month licence fee waiver for terrestrial broadcast stations in the country as part of measures to cushion the effect of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the broadcast industry. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this at a meeting with the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on Wednesday in Abuja. Mohammed informed the meeting that he had approved the request by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to grant the waiver. The minister said he also approved the distribution of protective equipment to some commumity broadcast stations across…
By Balogun Damilola Ahead of the coming governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, a group; Edo APC Youths for Justice and Development (AYOJD) has called on the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole does not give room for imposition of any preferred candidate ahead of the party primaries. The group said they been watching and monitoring activities of the party especially activities of the governorship aspirants seeking to contest against Governor Godwin Obaseki for the party’s ticket. A letter by the group addressed to Oshiomhole and signed by the group’s Coordinator,…
By Balogun Damilola Three COVID-19 patients who received treatment at the Ondo state Infectious Disease Hospital have been discharged. Donald Ojogo, commissioner for information, broke the news in a statement on Wednesday. “We are delighted to inform the good people of Ondo State that three more Corona virus patients have been discharged. This brings to six, the number of patients treated and certified okay to join their families,” the statement read. ”Those discharged today are: the first Police officer who earlier tested positive in Lagos but came to Akure out of panic, the woman from Owo and the lady who…
By Balogun Damilola The Ondo state Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, has ordered all officers at the Yaba Police station in the state to submit themselves for COVID-19 test. YemieFash reports that out of the thirteen cases of coronavirus recorded in the state, three members of the division had tested positive to the virus on Monday. The infected police officers have been admitted at the state Infectious Disease Hospital in Akure. They were said to have contracted the disease from a senior female colleague who refused to go for the test despite showing symptoms. Meanwhile, the state police spokesman,…
By Balogun Damilola Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo state, says two COVID-19 patients in the state have absconded. In a series of posts on Twitter On Wednesday, the governor said the patients may have returned to their residence. He said the state is currently managing 31 active cases, while some of the patients are residents of other parts of the country. “We have received more results from pending COVID-19 confirmation tests. The result of one suspected case came back POSITIVE, on 03/05/2020. The person is based in Ibadan,” Makinde said. “The results of five suspected cases came back POSITIVE…
By Balogun Damilola The number of coronavirus cases across the African continent has reached 49,121, with 1,956 related deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa said on Wednesday. According to the organisation’s statistics, COVID-19 has reached all 54 African countries and only nine of them have yet to register any fatalities from the disease. South Africa has the highest tally with 7,572 cases, while Egypt and Algeria follow with 7,201 and 4,838 cases, respectively. The spread of the disease appears to be on a steep trajectory, as only 15,000 cases had been recorded on the continent in mid-April. WHO…
By Balogun Damilola The Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Burutai has lost his mother, Kakah Hajja. The woman passed on Tuesday while her son was away at the front line of the war against Boko Haram and ISWAP. A reliable source in the Burutai family revealed that the late Hajja died after a brief illness at her home in Maiduguri, Borno State. It was however gathered that General Burutai received the sad news of his mother’s death with equanimity and also accepted it as the will of God. Information also gathered from the theatre commands has…