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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZWDB3u-hmx90p4CcTnHhSYYn4Kf2uc6mSs6hYJHxL90OCIH86pmJtTdN04jzoBtbCGY8Om5PymopcepdFLFAuRWlfjWsV6epwGsSHhKpn47NkWPmITClZFRV4WEL82zpNjDg_a6IL_I/s1600/085A194A-F4E6-4DBE-A392-8D6CA966A08D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="750" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOZWDB3u-hmx90p4CcTnHhSYYn4Kf2uc6mSs6hYJHxL90OCIH86pmJtTdN04jzoBtbCGY8Om5PymopcepdFLFAuRWlfjWsV6epwGsSHhKpn47NkWPmITClZFRV4WEL82zpNjDg_a6IL_I/s400/085A194A-F4E6-4DBE-A392-8D6CA966A08D.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Following the extension of the lockdown for a week by President Mohammadu Buhari, Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun has extended the total lockdown in the State for another one week.</b><br /> <br /> The governor also adjusted the relaxation window by adding three hours to the seven hours being given to the residents of the state before now.<br /> <br /> Abiodun, who said this during a broadcast held at his Oke-Mosan office in Abeokuta, while giving update on COVID 19 in the state, explained that his decision was in line with the order of the President Muhammadu Buhari.<br /> <br /> He said, “In line with Mr. President’s address to the entire nation, the lockdown is still in place. However, the lockdown will begin to be relaxed gradually and in phases from Monday, 4th May, in consideration of the peculiarity of the different States”.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “To this end, our relaxation window remains Monday, 4th May; Wednesday, 6th May; and Friday, 8th May. The new time frame will, however, now be from 7am to 5pm on those days. This will give our people ample time to conduct necessary economic activities and to get to their various homes before the commencement of the daily curfew as directed by Mr. President”, Abiodun said.<br /> <br /> “For the avoidance of doubt, the curfew is from 8pm to 6am everyday and will be strictly enforced”.<br /> <br /> ” It is obvious that no nation can survive a total lockdown of economic activities for an elongated time and therefore all we can do is to strike a balance between public health safety and economic welfare of the citizenry. No doubt, this is a fragile situation. Therefore, it is very important that all of us adhere strictly to recommendations of professionals during this delicate period, especially, and at all times, as we go about our daily economic activities”.<br /> <br /> The governor reiterated that “the use of face mask is now compulsory in public. We have procured over one million face masks that we are distributing across the State to groups such as Market Women, Artisans, Transport Unions, Law Enforcement Agencies, Civil Servants and religious groups among others. Nevertheless, everybody has a personal responsibility to procure and wear a face mask”.<br /> <br /> “The COVID-19 task force at a meeting with market leaders set up COVID-19 enforcement put committees in our various markets. These enforcement committees have been empowered to enforce physical distancing, the use of face masks and the deployment of hand washing facilities and hand sanitizers at strategic locations within our various markets”.<br /> <br /> “Let me emphasize that those handling food items must also wear hand gloves and maintain high level of personal and hand hygiene in addition to wearing face masks”.<br /> <br /> “At another meeting with transport operators, we inaugurated a joint task force of transporters and security agencies to ensure that transporters and passengers wear face masks and enforce the strict compliance of no interstate travel, except vehicles on essential services with a maximum of five persons which includes the driver. All these persons must provide proof of their connection with the vehicle and the particular service the vehicle provides”.<br /> <br /> ” We will not condone any act that could sabotage the ban on interstate travel by any of these vehicles or persons on essential services. For avoidance of doubt, there will be no interstate travels whatsoever for persons living in Ogun State and working in other states, including Lagos”.<br /> <br /> “For intrastate transport, operators are permitted to carry a maximum of half (50%) of the passenger capacity. Specifically, a taxi cab can carry only three passengers, with one in front and a maximum of 2 in the rear seat. 14 seater buses must carry no more than 7 passengers spread across the rows. Tricycle can carry a maximum of 2 passengers, whilst okada riders can carry only one passenger at a time. In all cases, drivers/riders must not only wear face masks, they must ensure that their passengers also wear. Failure to comply with these guidelines will lead to the confiscation of the vehicles or okada”.<br /> <br /> “As we go on to relax the lockdown gradually and in phases, let me state that we cannot afford a blanket lift on all aspects of our lives because of the inherent dangers”.<br /> <br /> The governor emphasised that “All educational institutions remain closed till further notice. However, students in public schools will continue their learning via Digiclass. 30% of public servants are to resume for work on the days of windows of relaxation of lockdown. Head of Service will issue circular providing details. As usual, all essential service personnel will continue to work notwithstanding the lockdown”.<br /> <br /> “All public religious gatherings remained banned. All pubs, clubs, stadia, public pools, spars, gyms, salons, etc., and indeed, any assembly of more than fifteen persons remain banned till further notice. However, restaurants may open on the approved days for take-out meals only”.<br /> <br /> “We, however, do not object to naming rites of newborns and burial rites of our deceased loved ones. But such gatherings must not be more than the prescribed 15 which includes even the officiating priests and all attendees must observe social distancing”, he added.<br /> <br /> “We have to continue to ensure that we protect public health and safety by all means possible. Consequently, we have established mobile courts where offenders will be prosecuted promptly. Let me state, that we will not shy away from visiting the full weight of the law on anyone found culpable. The punishments will be fines, community service or both”.

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2sgGaY1agfKcZbxoISnIWPvW2PDlLmPjpaNzlW6ikxYHcwehiu-30mtrsPJVxw3DXW0UnZ5imCHiuoXKRnKWolRG_NbwXosTnm8al0G70gPYCI7LJyOhyphenhyphenWu7cCvaPNPTTE_z0DfMUhY/s1600/7C5D5F0F-C4C7-4DAB-8212-F17547310F12.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="750" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw2sgGaY1agfKcZbxoISnIWPvW2PDlLmPjpaNzlW6ikxYHcwehiu-30mtrsPJVxw3DXW0UnZ5imCHiuoXKRnKWolRG_NbwXosTnm8al0G70gPYCI7LJyOhyphenhyphenWu7cCvaPNPTTE_z0DfMUhY/s400/7C5D5F0F-C4C7-4DAB-8212-F17547310F12.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Pandemonium broke out in Owode Yewa in Yewa South local government area of Ogun State when a 17-year old, Rilwan Bello was reportedly hit by stray bullets, allegedly, fired by the Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service when they raided locked – up shops in the area in search of suspected smuggled rice and other contraband goods.</b><br /> <br /> It was gathered that about 12 operatives of the NCS stormed Owode town in the morning and broke into many shops, sending unsuspecting traders scampering for safety even as the operatives carried away bags of rice, sugar among others.<br /> <br /> An eyewitness said that while the raid lasted, the operatives also shot repeatedly into the air, apparently to ward off any counter – attack or violent resistance from the people and that it was one of the stray bullets from the Operatives that struck the boy on the head.<br /> <br /> It was gathered that many people, including the traders, were also said to have sustained injuries during an ensuing stampede triggered by the gunshots being fired into the air by the NCS Operatives.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> As the confusion and tension heightened with some youths threatening violence, soldiers and policemen also hurried to the scene to help restore normalcy to the troubled Owode town, which the witness said, initially overwhelmed the NCS Operatives.<br /> <br /> The source said, Rilwan, a student at the Area Community High School, Owode, dropped to the ground and died in a pool of his blood, allegedly, following the impact of the gunshot wound.<br /> <br /> “This boy was killed this morning at Owode Idiroko by custom men. The boy’s name is Rilwan, a student at the Area community high school Owode.<br /> <br /> “He is 15 years old boy. The customs men, broke into shops, parked away bags of sugar and rice. They were shooting into the air to scare away reprisal attacks and in the process, their stray bullet hit the boy on the head,” the source said.<br /> <br /> While reacting to the incident, the Public Relations Officer, for Customs Area Controller, Ogun I Command, Abdullahi Maiwada, said the incident involved the Officers and Men of NCS Ogun I Command and Some suspected cultists, popularly known as ‘Eiye boys,’ alleging that the slain boy was a cultist.<br /> <br /> Maiwada added that the Command had, however, launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident, pledging to make the outcome of the investigation available.<br /> <br /> He said: “At about 0830hours on Friday, some group of<br /> <br /> miscreants, suspected to be cultists (popularly known as ‘eye boys’) violently confronted Officers of NCS Ogun I Command anti-smuggling Patrol Team with assorted weapons at Owode (Yewa South LGA of Ogun State).<br /> <br /> “The Team came across such hostility while peacefully<br /> <br /> performing their lawful duty with vivid arrest of smuggled 47 bags of sugar, 13 bags of rice (50 kg each) and three cartons of sugar stocked at a residence located along Owode-Idiroko Road.<br /> <br /> “In the melee that ensued, information available revealed that one among the suspected cultists died, while Officers including the team leader sustain various degree of injuries.<br /> <br /> “The name of the deceased who is popularly know among the ‘area boys’ is Owoeba. Other popular members of the notorious gang at large are Angaba, Wudor, Solomon (a.k.a K.Solo).<br /> <br /> “We wish to use this opportunity to acknowledge the timely intervention of Nigerian Army 192 Battalion Owode, Operatives of National Border Drill, Nigeria Police Force Owode.<br /> <br /> “In the same vein, we wish to recognize the patriotic Owode Youths who shunned the cultists and assisted the operatives Nigeria Customs Service to evacuate the offensive goods.<br /> <br /> “Their action is worthy of emulation as the NCS is always out to perform their duty for the common good of the entire nation.”

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCraqaMj_MpTLl6HX8LL8wD1feBb-MW8VLpRpnuGdDHvOJmysf85OufKVxYTJ8_uMkrD6mtgSSmOmgk44CkxpPkrDa-5s1Nai9helksCHp5bmhtqlWnWs5j6KMT1esW7wK2c8Y348wX8/s1600/ECF28832-FF9D-4CD6-BF7C-B9B637E67370.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="750" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuCraqaMj_MpTLl6HX8LL8wD1feBb-MW8VLpRpnuGdDHvOJmysf85OufKVxYTJ8_uMkrD6mtgSSmOmgk44CkxpPkrDa-5s1Nai9helksCHp5bmhtqlWnWs5j6KMT1esW7wK2c8Y348wX8/s400/ECF28832-FF9D-4CD6-BF7C-B9B637E67370.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Ten more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Bauchi State.</b><br /> <br /> This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 48 including 42 active cases and six recoveries.<br /> <br /> Confirming the new infections shortly after the announcement by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday night, the Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Rilwan Mohammed, said the new cases included six more Almajiri deportees from Kano State.<br /> <br /> The state governor had said 345 Almajiri children were repatriated to the state from Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, amongst others.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Speaking with our correspondent on phone, the state’s PHCDA chairman said, “We recorded 10 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bauchi State. The results were sent to me from the National Research for Veterinary Institute, Vom, Plateau State at about 11pm today (Friday).<br /> <br /> “This brings the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 48 with 42 of them active while six have already been discharged after they tested negative. All our cases are returnees except our index case.<br /> <br /> “Six more Almajiri children that were returned from Kano State are among the results we got. There are seven Almajiris that are now positive (for COVID-19) out of the 38 brought in from Kano and they are on isolation at the General Hassan Katsina Unity College, Yelwa.”

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghp3bg7dsr_bKBvDPG4exiLiWR7FjYfYRcWyCmMQDMN-wGCOi2o-a2mTOQlkjm7TXmGdMg0DDXHy9aE_h45Ni-GFHIcHMZ6SaKRmDQ9GGk6NScS5lOmDqWY0pc1ls0TJsp91O9wyTBF84/s1600/18BD0083-297D-4CB1-8D07-6A3370410284.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="750" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghp3bg7dsr_bKBvDPG4exiLiWR7FjYfYRcWyCmMQDMN-wGCOi2o-a2mTOQlkjm7TXmGdMg0DDXHy9aE_h45Ni-GFHIcHMZ6SaKRmDQ9GGk6NScS5lOmDqWY0pc1ls0TJsp91O9wyTBF84/s400/18BD0083-297D-4CB1-8D07-6A3370410284.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Sensational actress, Hilda Dokubo has averred that the decision to ease the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja despite the spike in confirmed cases of COVID-19 recorded in these states and in other parts of the country is a bad one.</b><br /> <br /> Expressing her thoughts via a video posted on her Instagram page, Dokubo noted that President Buhari must have taken the decision to ease the lockdown due to false reports about the current situation of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country.<br /> <br /> In her words: ”Who exactly is lying to the President? Who? The President has announced the easing of the lockdown on the strength of a lie. Who is lying to the President.<br /> <br /> Because on the strength of a lie, he has approved an ease and he has also approved an increase in the number of people to be tested daily to 2500. If they could not accomplish 1,500 daily, then how are they able to achieve 2,500 a day?<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The nurses and doctors and all health workers are working extremely hard, breaking themselves into pieces just to save lives and a few people are sitting in the comfort of an airconditioned room reaching an agreement that empowers only their pockets.<br /> <br /> Why make mess of peoples efforts? Why?<br /> <br /> Sometimes when I think of what people that sit in committees come up with, I wonder what runs in their veins. Blood or water? Becasue they react like people who don’t feel the pain of others. You have moved responsibility from yourself and hung it on the neck of the common masses, the same people that you are supposed to be protecting.<br /> <br /> During the lockdown, a lot of  the poor were on the streets..why? Because your palliatives did not get to them. They were out there struggling to see how they can feed off the food that you hoard at them.<br /> <br /> So the palliatives didn’t get to them, no one is empowered to carry out research so research is not going on and now, you are throwing people back into the streets, the streets that you haven’t even fumigated, you haven’t even cleaned up but you have told us that this virus is airborne and can stay airborne for 8 hours.<br /> <br /> I don’t understand. Do you even assume that everyone is stupid?<br /> <br /> Let us take for instance Lagos state. With no traffic during the lockdown, they could not trace people who had contact with those who had tested positive to the virus. So imagine now with traffic, how they will trace anyone and if someone needs help, how will the NCDC get to the person?<br /> <br /> Do we want to end up like Ghana who lifted their lockdown prematurely and ended up with all the casualties that they have. 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border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"></div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div> </div> </div> </a> <p style="margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_qKqhhpAz3/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">They have relaxed the lockdown. Your safety and life is now in your hands. Do not relax! Corona virus is not relaxing. Observe all the safety protocols. Any attempt to believe their lies.... #wearyourfacemask #watchyourself #socialdistancing #coronavirus #Godsavenigeria</a></p> <p style="color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hildadokubo/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;" target="_blank">Hilda Dokubo</a> (@hildadokubo) on <time style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2020-05-01T20:49:16+00:00">May 1, 2020 at 1:49pm PDT</time></p> </div> </blockquote> <script async="async" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Someone is lying to the President and that person needs to stop.” she said.

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COVID 19: NSCDC official, two others arrested, quarantined in Ebonyi

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39_51vd2W9PVES2i5w6D2qdFaQc7PSyC1bdNJoRErLghMCYY4VwFdJTEEtaa1HVRSdD1l43_KT426vMmCm-WoqYdg9FEo-4EedU1s8xMjMj7WkMs6URiMncc1aplDFfSHEQ7KHrKpMyU/s1600/74EDE492-6B21-46D7-9999-15002D765FBF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="620" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39_51vd2W9PVES2i5w6D2qdFaQc7PSyC1bdNJoRErLghMCYY4VwFdJTEEtaa1HVRSdD1l43_KT426vMmCm-WoqYdg9FEo-4EedU1s8xMjMj7WkMs6URiMncc1aplDFfSHEQ7KHrKpMyU/s400/74EDE492-6B21-46D7-9999-15002D765FBF.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Mr Stanley Emegha, on Friday, confirmed the arrest of an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Mbam James.</b><br /> <br /> James was attached to the Orumba-Umunze area, in Anambra State, and was allegedly smuggling two passengers on his motorcycle into the Ebonyi State.<br /> <br /> In an interview with journalists in Abakaliki, on Friday, Emegha noted that the NSCDC official was arrested by members of the Ebonyi State Neighbourhood Security Watch at Timber Shade axis of Afikpo North Local Government Area, of the state.<br /> <br /> He said, “I received a call from members of the Neighbourhood Watch at Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, that a personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, who was carrying two persons on his motorcycle coming to Abakaliki, has been arrested.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “As part of the state government’s policy that any indigene of Ebonyi State that gets to the boundary should not be sent back but should be brought to the withholding centre and be quarantined and tested for COVID-19 before he or she would be allowed to go home, so I directed that the NSCDC staff be arrested alongside the two passengers he was carrying and brought to Abakaliki.” Ooo

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COVID-19: NMA insists easing lockdown premature

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAlvkG5a2E1Oo2mJpADgZiNHNjMxa4tYGd67mPjgJRoCAERPPymwFZazLcz9zmdU5n6tHZVyTvqt-Yo6wlhbfPMx8aDUKHAzr5nnCR6N9m-CERb_9stv4FJB_sOCqpvcb4tgChRGj9zo/s1600/A2B93B84-A966-4D76-9715-0518E9E3BC9C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="738" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJAlvkG5a2E1Oo2mJpADgZiNHNjMxa4tYGd67mPjgJRoCAERPPymwFZazLcz9zmdU5n6tHZVyTvqt-Yo6wlhbfPMx8aDUKHAzr5nnCR6N9m-CERb_9stv4FJB_sOCqpvcb4tgChRGj9zo/s400/A2B93B84-A966-4D76-9715-0518E9E3BC9C.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Nigerian Medical Association has kicked against the Federal Government’s decision to ease lockdown in Lagos, Ogun, and the Federal Capital Territory effective May 4, describing it as “premature”.</b><br /> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari in a state broadcast on Monday, had announced the phased and gradual easing of the about five-week lockdown in the three places.<br /> <br /> But in a statement signed by the NMA President, Dr Francis Faduyile, in Abuja on Friday night, the association said the timing for FG’s decision was not right because the nation was still battling with inadequate Personal Protective Equipment for health workers, lack of enough bed spaces in states for infected people and rising infections across the country, amongst others.<br /> <br /> The statement read in part, “As the incidence of the COVID-19 hits the 2000th mark by this weekend, just seven days after hitting the 1000th mark, it figuratively tilts the epidemiological curve towards an upward spike.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “More so, the revelation by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control that the nation lacks bed spaces in Lagos worsens this frightening scenario.<br /> <br /> “The easing of the lockdown even in phases is very premature. Nigeria should learn from her neighbour, Ghana, where the same action produced 100 percent increase in infection rate in just a week.<br /> <br /> “Instead, the association believes that agencies of state should intensify efforts through mass enlightenment campaigns beyond current attempts to explain the dangers inherent in easing the lockdown prematurely in the face of rising infection rates; and also for the palliatives to reach the needy.<br /> <br /> “With 113 healthcare workers in Nigeria reportedly infected with COVID-19 in the course of discharging their duties, NMA reminds all doctors and healthcare workers not to let down their guards in adhering strictly to infection prevention and control protocols.”

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We are saving government millions every day — Flying Doctors

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguXz5eh5Q3X8OzRwRq81SoOOVSzRJETmrhXvl4S8pB7Pu9j42IVMJ_YTVtlaoJLlDEJtPFkTh_8ga60fTWG_wUA7ll2_WTt3NqRP0b2qcBgrXx5LiPws_4MH4K5VvBL4f-2xid1eotOU/s1600/08642A89-9F53-4911-A631-045545C12C58.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="750" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguXz5eh5Q3X8OzRwRq81SoOOVSzRJETmrhXvl4S8pB7Pu9j42IVMJ_YTVtlaoJLlDEJtPFkTh_8ga60fTWG_wUA7ll2_WTt3NqRP0b2qcBgrXx5LiPws_4MH4K5VvBL4f-2xid1eotOU/s400/08642A89-9F53-4911-A631-045545C12C58.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>As part of efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus in the country, The Flying Doctors has launched what is believed to be Nigeria’s first mobile testing booth which took place in Ota, Ogun State recently.</b><br /> <br /> The booth was designed by Investment Group; a Health care company that offers air ambulance, medical equipment supply, hospital construction, diagnostics, and retail pharmacist services through its various investments.<br /> <br /> The booth was flagged off by both the Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Engr. Noimot Oyedele and Dr. Tomi Coker, Commissioner for Health in Ota with the workers of the Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Company to develop this project.<br /> <br /> Speaking on the initiative, the founder of the Flying Doctors Healthcare,  Mrs. Ola Brown, said Ota was chosen for the project as it is an area in Ogun State that borders Lagos and is therefore deemed to be higher risk.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> According to her, “Being a company committed to the wellbeing of citizens in Ogun and Nigeria in general, personal protective equipment has been a major expense during the COVID-19 epidemic for developed and developing countries alike.<br /> <br /> “The mobile testing booth not only reduces the need for as much PPE, potentially saving millions of naira per day, but also reduces the risk of healthcare worker infections by providing a barrier between the potentially infected patient and the healthcare worker taking the sample.<br /> <br /> “The heavy-duty gloves used to take the samples are sprayed with disinfectant between samples, further preventing cross-infection.<br /> <br /> ‘it is important that we avoid the situation that occurred in Europe where according to some statistics, nearly 10 percent of healthcare workers contracted the virus. In Nigeria, we need every single healthcare worker’s health and disease-free if we w<br /> <br /> ant to stand a chance as we have far fewer healthcare workers compared to Europe. “That means we have to innovate, embrace new ideas, be agile, smarter, and do more with less”, she said.<br /> <br /> Oyedele, however, noted that Ogun State had a historical culture of innovation and said the state will continue to embrace innovative ideas and solutions in health care as well as other sectors.

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COVID-19: World Beach Games moved from 2021 to 2023

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiu5wSeJYU4bwLzENcpKrfwjY4p4sZj0KxRiaQ91nx5tHNZxOEeyrt7kQlDgDqTap-KxEzPTk0dkP25igXAYFBjNhmtp_CdsGnO9ZiRUGogW-gEaswTI2t4SPwJrthcHr7-fpUdqLddQ/s1600/C002DB58-7F65-47DC-A9A2-826CA53C4686.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="512" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpiu5wSeJYU4bwLzENcpKrfwjY4p4sZj0KxRiaQ91nx5tHNZxOEeyrt7kQlDgDqTap-KxEzPTk0dkP25igXAYFBjNhmtp_CdsGnO9ZiRUGogW-gEaswTI2t4SPwJrthcHr7-fpUdqLddQ/s400/C002DB58-7F65-47DC-A9A2-826CA53C4686.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The 2021 World Beach Games have been moved to 2023, the Association Of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) said on Friday.</b><br /> <br /> ANOC said the shift was to enable countries to have time to prepare their athletes for the rescheduled Olympics in 2021.<br /> <br /> The Olympic Games, originally scheduled to start in July this year in Tokyo, have been postponed to July 23 to Aug. 8, 2021.<br /> <br /> This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic which has infected more than 3.29 million people worldwide and killed nearly 233,000.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> ANOC had opened a bidding process to find a host for the Beach Games in January before deciding to move the event to 2023.<br /> <br /> This was done so that the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) could also prepare for the Winter Olympics in 2022.<br /> <br /> “We have a responsibility to ensure that we continue to listen to our NOCs and deliver an event that is in their best interests,” ANOC’s acting president Robin Mitchell said in a statement.<br /> <br /> “With Tokyo 2020 now scheduled for next year and then Beijing 2022 taking place just over six months later, the ANOC Executive Council has decided it would put too much pressure on NOCs to host the World Beach Games between the two Olympic Games.<br /> <br /> “Of course, the World Beach Games involves different athletes and different sports from the Olympic Games, but ultimately it is the same NOCs who have to prepare the teams.”<br /> <br /> The ANOC said it was also revising the bidding process which will be reopened next year.<br /> <br /> The 2019 Doha Beach Games had 36 events in 13 sports, including beach soccer and 4×4 beach volleyball.<br /> <br /> Spain topped the medals tally with seven gold medals, followed by Brazil and Italy.

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Kano breaks Lagos’ record of new Coronavirus infections in one day

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZVQxY31VGbRCxfZ0cDv9DmFlVbuRcyDn81Wm5WEA1az0YbEBE7nfK-d7v-jhyF7MzcxXwjYhai0yDXBoGFJyKvdY1MzSH9yXBgFcUmQxZ9_rdzdhK0lmpmgnMm07AASWSlIJ7S5YxAs6c/s1600/kano+map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="680" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZVQxY31VGbRCxfZ0cDv9DmFlVbuRcyDn81Wm5WEA1az0YbEBE7nfK-d7v-jhyF7MzcxXwjYhai0yDXBoGFJyKvdY1MzSH9yXBgFcUmQxZ9_rdzdhK0lmpmgnMm07AASWSlIJ7S5YxAs6c/s640/kano+map.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <b><br /></b><b>Kano State has broken the record set by Lagos, as it racked up 92 new cases of Coronavirus in a single day.</b><br /> <br /> Lagos previously owned that record, with 87 Coronavirus infections recorded on Wednesday, April 29.<br /> <br /> In two days, Kano has recorded a serious spike in infections, recording 172 cases, the highest by any state since the virus entered the country.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Between April 11 and May 1, the state has recorded 311 cases of Coronavirus, with three deaths and has not discharged anybody.<br /> <br /> There is fear that in the coming days more huge figures will be recorded in the ancient city, as the virus has penetrated communities in the state.<br /> <i><b><br /> How States Stand in Friday’s infections</b><br /></i><br /> <i><br /></i>92-Kano<br /> 36-FCT<br /> 30-Lagos<br /> 16-Gombe<br /> 10-Bauchi<br /> 8-Delta<br /> 6-Oyo<br /> 5-Zamfara<br /> 5-Sokoto<br /> 4-Ondo<br /> 4-Nasarawa<br /> 3-Kwara<br /> 3-Edo<br /> 3-Ekiti<br /> 3-Borno<br /> 3-Yobe<br /> 2-Adamawa<br /> 1-Niger<br /> 1-Imo<br /> 1-Ebonyi<br /> 1-Rivers<br /> 1-Enugu

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Lagos Coronavirus cases now over 1000

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxFcgUnnq19QFLr08pmrTFVjxw4yWPpH38LgqKt-KXVCJDIuA6kjUPrBkwVDDJ7W5AEzbKDvsKti6gtu1nkSLXdSOZ5j0QYR9ONfPkzHAYC3G_k4zULH0s__SJ3-mr55Km1ItcbfQLMuF/s1600/Sanwo-Olu+corona.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="680" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxFcgUnnq19QFLr08pmrTFVjxw4yWPpH38LgqKt-KXVCJDIuA6kjUPrBkwVDDJ7W5AEzbKDvsKti6gtu1nkSLXdSOZ5j0QYR9ONfPkzHAYC3G_k4zULH0s__SJ3-mr55Km1ItcbfQLMuF/s400/Sanwo-Olu+corona.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Coronavirus infections in Lagos have reached 1,006 after the state recorded 30 new cases on Friday.</b></span><br /> <br /> It appears the state has passed its peak as it recorded a drop in infections in the last two days.<br /> <br /> After it ramps up 87 coronavirus cases on Wednesday, Lagos recorded a drop in infections to 45 on Thursday and has further gone down to 30 on Friday.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> As it is, the state is still the epicentre of the virus, but if the figures being churned out by Kano on daily basis continue, it may dethrone Lagos as the epicentre.<br /> <br /> The state discharged 26 more patients who recovered from the virus on Friday, taking the total number of survivors discharged so far to 225, with 28 deaths.<br /> <br /> Active Coronavirus cases in the state right now stand at 753.<br /> <b><br /> How States Stand</b><br /> <b><br /></b><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifczdLwF3i0sqLCiIhHY0ZSa0R22jgxs18SnqUwxuy9TCniercmgaQU9-Xtmy7Zc4Kb1P4iqVjWCJWG9_by5tq3xSVZhD-Rt0dsWZKBFEoPAOFy6rism5BDjd-OMvOrbs9WiAyvJkLtpj_/s1600/cvv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifczdLwF3i0sqLCiIhHY0ZSa0R22jgxs18SnqUwxuy9TCniercmgaQU9-Xtmy7Zc4Kb1P4iqVjWCJWG9_by5tq3xSVZhD-Rt0dsWZKBFEoPAOFy6rism5BDjd-OMvOrbs9WiAyvJkLtpj_/s1600/cvv.jpg" /></a></div> <b><br /></b>

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Nigeria to prosecute people without face masks in public

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="950" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Q6Y0SkIvpmCFn3lSb8tqGzTjXjVlrkZ0HZ52EAUHGyLAZxhOfJe7WkrB_71hz58FZ0sFxezjU-fG7L1ObJwsrcQas-ERb7tsz1inGeYuEqFn3TeVDCJRG74XmmgCQJUYUs1WTuGs-8Dq/s640/face+mask+coronavirus.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> <br /> The Federal Government has released new guidelines towards the containment of COVID-19 from May 4, 2020.<br /> <br /> The guidelines, signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, stated that anyone without a face mask in public would be prosecuted.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The SGF said, “Anyone who presents a temperature of above 380C will be mandated to return home and call the NCDC for evaluation.<br /> <br /> “Anyone without a face mask/covering will be asked to return home and will be prosecuted.<br /> <br /> “Anyone violating the curfew in a non-emergency situation will be prosecuted. Anyone attending a gathering of more than 20 people will be prosecuted.”<br /> <br /> He added that anybody who violates the ban on interstate movement would be prosecuted.<br /> <br /> The statement also gave guidelines for the ease of the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun states and the Federal Capital Territory.<br /> <br /> It said, “Following improvements in the multi-sectoral response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Government of Nigeria has decided that there will be a phased and gradual easing of the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Territory, effective from Monday, May 4, 2020.<br /> <br /> “The easing of the lockdown will be characterised by mandatory use of non-medical face masks/coverings for all persons while in public spaces. Latex hand gloves should not be worn except for specific medical purposes.<br /> <br /> “All interstate travels are prohibited except for essential travels and services such as transportation of agricultural products, petroleum products, relief items, goods, commodities related to the COVID-19 response and persons on essential duty.”<br /> <br /> The new advisory also prohibited mass gathering of more than 20 people outside of a workplace while there would be controlled access to markets and locations of economic activities.<br /> <br /> The FG retained ban on passenger flights and religious gatherings.<br /> <br /> For intrastate travel in public transport, the guidelines recommended a maximum of a 50 per cent of usual occupancy while taxis were ordered to carry only four persons, including the driver.<br /> <br /> “All schools to remain closed till further evaluation. Schools are encouraged to continue with e-learning and visual teaching. State governments and security agencies are enjoined to ensure effective and strict enforcement of these guidelines.<br /> <br /> “The level of compliance with these guidelines will be reviewed in two weeks before additional guidelines for phase two is issued,” it added.

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Relaxing lockdown will expose more Nigerians to COVID-19 — Nigerian doctors warn

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sxRyFKfb-anf35gX3f33l9N8CYmhcab16Mw4WmrllelvagXRsfep4EC7T7mno18hrDOoGtcReMWGzMRega9Ey7Rqp2E8oLaEdpryKm0FvEzMrGQQfdPc7geRLLX6BHBml1ue7DF7cEA-/s1600/coronavirus+lagos+africa+nigeria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sxRyFKfb-anf35gX3f33l9N8CYmhcab16Mw4WmrllelvagXRsfep4EC7T7mno18hrDOoGtcReMWGzMRega9Ey7Rqp2E8oLaEdpryKm0FvEzMrGQQfdPc7geRLLX6BHBml1ue7DF7cEA-/s400/coronavirus+lagos+africa+nigeria.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Friday spoke against the decision of the Federal Government to relax the stay-at-home order.</span><br /> <br /> The umbrella body of Nigerian doctors described the move as premature and can potentially expose more Nigerians to the coronavirus (COVID-19) infection.<br /> <br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> <br /> The association warns that the country could experience a bounce in the number of coronavirus cases as health workers are grappling with numerous challenges like lack for bed spaces in epicenters of the pandemic, especially Lagos, unraveled cause(s) of deaths in Kano State and delay in the distribution of personal protective equipment (PPE) to public and private hospitals, among others.<br /> <br /> President Muhammadu Buhari had declared a two-week lockdown of Lagos and Ogun states as well as the Federal Capital Teritory (FCT) Abuja during his first address on the pandemic on March 29, 2020, to enable the country tackle the coronavirus pandemic.<br /> <br /> On April 12, the President addressed the nation again on the same issue, announcing an extension of the lockdown by two weeks.<br /> <br /> However, on April 27, 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari approved a ‘phased and gradual easing’ of lockdown measures in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun when he extended the lockdown by one week.<br /> <br /> The relaxation of lockdown is billed to take effect from Monday, May 4, 2020.<br /> <br /> At the time of filing this report, there were 2,170 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country with 238 new cases recorded nationwide yesterday.<br /> <br /> The number of discharged patients was 319 while the number of deaths stood at 58.<br /> <br /> The President of the NMA, Dr. Francis Faduyile, in a statement in Abuja, said: “As the incidence of the COVID-19 hits the 2000th mark by this weekend, just seven days after hitting the 1000th mark, it figuratively tilts the epidemiological curve towards an upward spike.<br /> <br /> “More so, the revelation by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that the nation lacks bed spaces in Lagos worsens this frightening scenario.<br /> <br /> “The confusing situation in Kano is neither unraveled nor resolved. At the same time, some states continue to live in the delusion of zero COVID-19 incidences.<br /> <br /> “The easing of the lockdown even in phases is very premature. Nigeria should learn from her neighbour Ghana where the same action produced 100 per cent increase in infection rate in just a week.<br /> <br /> “Instead, the association believes that agencies of state should intensify efforts through mass enlightenment campaigns beyond current attempts to explain the dangers inherent in easing the lockdown prematurely in the face of rising infection rates; and also for the palliatives to reach the needy.”<br /> <br /> The NMA condemned the pronouncement of the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Muhammed, mandating the use of chloroquine and Zithromax to treat coronavirus patients in the state.<br /> <br /> It describes such approach as improper and unethical.<br /> <br /> “The Association bemoans the rather meddlesome pronouncements by some state actors on the management protocols for COVID-19 in the country.<br /> <br /> “In particular, we view the directive by the Bauchi State Governor for the use of a specific drug in the treatment of positive cases as improper and unethical.<br /> <br /> “Medical doctors have the prerogative to use whatever treatment regimen they consider best based on evidence and presentation of the patients.<br /> <br /> “We, therefore, implore our leaders to desist from distracting our time tested doctors and health workers.<br /> <br /> “Instead, they should encourage them through the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), incentives and communication tools to interact with peers within the country and overseas as it is customary in the world of medical science to arrive at the best possible interventions for their patients,” he said.<br /> <br /> He added: “With 113 healthcare workers in Nigeria reportedly infected with COVID-19 in the course of discharging their duties, NMA reminds all doctors and healthcare workers not to let down their guards in adhering strictly to infection prevention and control protocols.<br /> <br /> “The Association re-emphasises that all healthcare workers should wear the proper PPE before attending to any patient as every patient is a potential COVID-19 patient.<br /> <br /> “Furthermore, the Association notes with dismay the delay in distributing the available PPE to all public and private hospitals to prevent, detect and treat more patients as it ought to, and pray that the burgeoning bureaucracy is not a clog in the wheels of progress in this regard.<br /> <br /> “We wish that the ‘Panel of Experts’ recently inaugurated by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) is empowered to immediately commence their work of thinking, analysing, synthesising, collating and disseminating the most relevant medical information that informs the best management of our COVID-19 patients.<br /> <br /> “Science and knowledge must inform policies and politics. We appreciate the FMOH for finally listening to the plea we made several weeks ago.<br /> <br /> “We wish the nation and our people the safety and protection from COVID-19 while praying the authorities to continue to carry out all necessary and more invigorated knowledge-based interventions towards a zero COVID-19 Nigeria.”

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJT69w3RG3LX7F-vzlbyymTrXKKooPWIKYuC43pBohWbmsXGOxx4_Fshgc2xe6WojuCLuLGss3mM51FmxN-TGjfuiY0qY26KpUGQI2pKLBbx5hjq0Nnbw6c2oNbKWfEp5aEDMuXEPVLMCI/s1600/ASUU+logo+r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJT69w3RG3LX7F-vzlbyymTrXKKooPWIKYuC43pBohWbmsXGOxx4_Fshgc2xe6WojuCLuLGss3mM51FmxN-TGjfuiY0qY26KpUGQI2pKLBbx5hjq0Nnbw6c2oNbKWfEp5aEDMuXEPVLMCI/s1600/ASUU+logo+r.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Friday, described as an act of illegality the request by the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, that lecturers who had yet to receive their salaries should submit their Biometric Verification Number as a pre-condition for payment.<br /> <br /> ASUU, in a statement entitled, ‘This mountain shall be removed.’ made available to journalists by the Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, Prof Ayo Akinwole, said the AGF’s directive was at variance with the order of the President  Muhammadu Buhari, that all striking lecturers should be paid by April 24.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> It said it remained committed to the demand for full implementation of agreements between ASUU and the Federal Government, including the payment of earned allowances from 2012 till date.<br /> <br /> It read in part, “Section 1.6 of the CBN Regulatory Framework for BVN shows clearly those who are entitled to request for BVN and defines the procedure for obtaining it. The Accountant General of the Federation is neither eligible nor has he obtained a valid court order or approval from the CBN.<br /> <br /> “This is another case of illegality. A BVN is a very private instrument and should not be put in public space. It can easily be used for fraudulent activities. Staff emails and phone numbers are regularly sold to private organisations by government agencies.<br /> <br /> “To entrust one’s BVN to them will amount to committing suicide. Besides, government has the resources to verify financial information of staff from banks without requiring individuals to submit their BVNs to questionable sources.”

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US Coronavirus deaths near 65,000

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="561" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgweXAwPwYkoT8BfVRER7a0bPZa27l10fionmERjpbuGWb-v_uvkOLUp9yp7Gixx0SMyy-l7H4YhyOQ7jShyphenhyphenpluNxGBWPKeMqmG09hYvY6zkpnIkMYtKLLE6K5HbAYEWfBPFHowPVDKuTCh/s400/coronavirus+death.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> The coronavirus death toll in the United States climbed by 1,883 in the past 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Friday, bringing the total number of fatalities to nearly 65,000.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The Baltimore-based university had recorded more than 1.1 million cases in the country as of 8:30 pm Friday (0030 GMT Saturday), with 64,789 deaths, a rise of three percent from a day earlier.<br /> <br /> The US has by far the highest death toll of any country in the global pandemic.<br /> <br /> (AFP)

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We are currently tracing 12,000 COVID-19 contacts - NCDC DG

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1200" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeNLVZKiqEnxOaQJMgkFlGg0mQ3a4x2wPhm8t6mEcpohoQNB5lqKZJmJcnIzJeM36ePTyQ8hYV5HuNVnivcxfMIINhdd5ghPwArmQo2mmYTPdBH-XLwXwvTvCtar76exKeOyQ3thRXfp_y/s400/NCDC+boss.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, on Friday said about 12,000 contacts were being traced across the country for COVID-19 sample and testing.<br /> <br /> Speaking at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja, Ihekweazu said Nigerians must learn to refrain from stigmatising persons infected because everybody was vulnerable.<br /> <br /> He said, “We are at the beginning of a journey and until we have a vaccine, we will need to learn to live with COVID-19 in our country. If we start stigmatising each other, I don’t know where to stop because the same group stigmatising one group will end up being infected tomorrow.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “In terms of the number of contact tracing, every day there are new cases and new contacts but cumulatively, there are 12,000 contacts across the country.”<br /> <br /> The DG of the NCDC ruled out setting up sample collection centres in markets across Nigeria, saying however that if there were evidence of rise in cases in any market, the NCDC would take the appropriate action.<br /> <br /> He noted, “We are driven by evidence and if we see increasing transmission in the market, we will go to that market but we are not going to set up a stand in every market across Nigeria to collect samples. We look at the date to make decision but if we have to go to the market, we will do that exactly.”<br /> <b><br /> NCDC records highest single-day testing of 2,000</b><br /> <br /> Ihekweazu said the centre achieved the highest number of samples tested across the country with 2,000 samples tested in all the 16 laboratories across the country.<br /> <br /> “We tested 2,000 samples on Thursday; that is the highest number of samples we have tested in a single day across the country. Despite the challenges, the truth is that samples are coming into our laboratory network. There are a lot of efforts being made by health workers in spite of the challenges,” he said.<br /> <br /> At the briefing, the Minister of State for Health, Dr Oloruninbe Mamora, kicked against the demand for Personal Protective Equipment from patients, describing it as illegal and condemnable.<br /> <br /> He said, “It is illegal, unacceptable and condemnable for the PPE to be demanded before treatment. I do not expect any treatment centre, hospital or clinic to be making such demand from patient.”<br /> <br /> In his speech, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said, “With regard to Kano, a multi-sectoral team of specialists will leave for Kano in the morning (today) to support the state in all areas.<br /> <br /> “The main focus of the intervention is on training and capacity building of the state health-care workforce along various specialties on a massive scale.<br /> <br /> On the call to suspend Value Added Tax to ease the suffering occasioned by the pandemic, the Chairman of the PTF, Boss Mustapha, said there was the need to allow trade and taxation for government to earn income to pay for its overhead.

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7MxVd5IXKw4GuWuFQ-fc3d5eWUGJ573sX75L330-weiKFdRieNWOydi0bMpyFcU5WbeeroRffg219q2DhjpterDHHSML1EkdBFCSROWzJ3gLnWZpO-vgCC4SX2gwLDAK-ROxuwYvGAw/s1600/1BDC7090-7B37-4B03-947A-99EB8550F23B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="737" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI7MxVd5IXKw4GuWuFQ-fc3d5eWUGJ573sX75L330-weiKFdRieNWOydi0bMpyFcU5WbeeroRffg219q2DhjpterDHHSML1EkdBFCSROWzJ3gLnWZpO-vgCC4SX2gwLDAK-ROxuwYvGAw/s400/1BDC7090-7B37-4B03-947A-99EB8550F23B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Joe Biden will break his silence Friday about a former aide’s allegations that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, according to the broadcaster set to interview the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.</b><br /> <br /> Biden’s morning appearance on MSNBC comes as he faces mounting pressure, including from President Donald Trump, to address the allegations, and as top Democrats rushed to the party flagbearer’s defense.<br /> <br /> “Tomorrow in a @Morning_Joe exclusive, former Vice President @JoeBiden (will) respond for the first time to the recent allegation of sexual assault,” the cable television channel’s public relations team said Thursday on Twitter.<br /> <br /> Biden’s campaign has denied the claim that he assaulted a 29-year-old staff assistant who worked in his US Senate office.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> But the 77-year-old White House hopeful has yet to personally respond to the bombshell accusation by Tara Reade, now 56.<br /> <br /> Trump, who himself faced more than a dozen accusations of sexual harassment and assault before he became president, said he knew little about the claims against Biden, even as his re-election team and Republican campaign operations aggressively push the controversy.<br /> <br /> “I think that he should respond,” Trump told reporters at the White House.<br /> <br /> “It could be false accusations,” he added. “I know all about false accusations, I have been falsely charged numerous times.”<br /> <br /> According to Reade, Biden assaulted her in 1993 in a hallway on Capitol Hill.<br /> <br /> “He went down my skirt but then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers,” Reade said in a late March interview on the Katie Halper Show podcast.<br /> <br /> Other women have accused Biden of touching or embracing them inappropriately in the past, and Reade’s initial claims were similar — and less severe than her most recent allegations.<br /> <br /> Police arrest 70-year-old man for ‘insulting’ Buhari, Masari<br /> The New York Times reported it interviewed Reade on multiple occasions, along with her friends and others who worked for Biden in the 1990s.<br /> <br /> The paper said it uncovered no pattern of misconduct.<br /> <br /> Biden has pledged to pick a woman as his running mate, and on Thursday he launched a committee to help him search for and vet a vice-presidential candidate.<br /> <br /> “Selecting a vice presidential candidate is one of the most important decisions in a presidential campaign and no one knows this more than Joe Biden,” campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.<br /> <br /> The committee co-chairs include congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.<br /> <br /> US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who this week endorsed Biden for president, addressed the issue at her Thursday press conference, which focused on the coronavirus pandemic.<br /> <br /> “There was never any record” about the assault, and “nobody ever came forward to say something about it apart from the principal involved” until 27 years later, she said.<br /> <br /> Biden is “a person of great values” who has fought for women’s rights throughout his career, she said.<br /> <br /> Biden, relegated to campaigning from home due to the coronavirus crisis, appeared on an Instagram live chat Thursday with soccer champion Megan Rapinoe, but the issue was not addressed.<br /> <br /> Several women seen as candidates to be Biden’s running mate, including Senator Kamala Harris and former Georgia state lawmaker Stacey Abrams, have expressed support for Biden regarding the allegations.<br /> <br /> “I know Joe Biden and I think he’s telling the truth and this did not happen,” Abrams told CNN Tuesday.<br /> <br /> The Reade allegations present a thorny problem for Biden’s campaign.<br /> <br /> Harris and Senator Amy Klobuchar, another potential running mate, played leading roles in opposing the 2018 confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court over unproven accusations of sexual assault.<br /> <br /> Trump said Kavanaugh was “falsely charged” by Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a party in the early 1980s.

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Police arrest 70-year-old man for ‘insulting’ Buhari, Masari

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDYuXxvBt4qin7XMiqoF6k682nzNQN4fJ1n0s7-UUnRuIUi1saXCTjRP_Bwuc65Dxrni5rejWfgI2O4NB25jSehe__wHZu6BRcQsfjR91vj7vWGVEH0OVZLyncejLZz2kk_gysfqDavE/s1600/A9F4C10C-62F7-49B7-BBB2-AE36E5E9CEE2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="650" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPDYuXxvBt4qin7XMiqoF6k682nzNQN4fJ1n0s7-UUnRuIUi1saXCTjRP_Bwuc65Dxrni5rejWfgI2O4NB25jSehe__wHZu6BRcQsfjR91vj7vWGVEH0OVZLyncejLZz2kk_gysfqDavE/s400/A9F4C10C-62F7-49B7-BBB2-AE36E5E9CEE2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Police in Katsina State said on Thursday evening that they have arrested three persons for allegedly insulting the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and Governor Aminu Masari on social media.</b><br /> <br /> The police titled the statement ‘Conspiracy and intentional insult against the President and Governor of Katsina state by one Lawal Izala and two others on social media’.<br /> <br /> But the statement neither stated when the offence was committed nor reveal when the suspects were arrested.<br /> <br /> The spokesman for the Katsina police command, SP Gambo Isah, signed the statement.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The statement gave the names of those arrested as Lawal Abdullahi, 70; Bahaje Abu, 30 and Hamza Abubakar, 27.<br /> <br /> The statement warned against taking “undue” advantage of social media to heap insults on others.<br /> <br /> The statement read, “The attention of the Katsina State Police Command has been drawn to a viral video on social media showing one Lawal Abdullahi, alias “IZALA”, ‘m’, aged 70yrs of Gafai Quarters, Katsina, Katsina State, who was contemptuously insulting the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, and His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Bello Masari, CFR.<br /> <br /> “Consequently, the Commissioner of Police, Katsina State Command, CP Sanusi Buba, ordered for investigation, which led to the arrest of the trio of Lawal Abdullahi Izala, ‘m’, aged 70yrs, Bahajaje Abu, ‘m’, aged 30yrs and Hamza Abubakar, ‘m’, aged 27yrs all of Gafai Quarters, Katsina, Katsina state.<br /> <br /> “In the course of investigation suspects confessed to the committing the offences.<br /> <br /> “To this end, the Command wishes to warn members of the general public that the Police will not fold its arms and watch while disgruntled elements violate the sacred laws of the land.<br /> <br /> “Any person found taking undue advantage of the social media to insult others, contrary to the provisions of the Cyber Crime Act, will face the wrath of the law.”

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4ChtysGXLgsMdmnmzcCtPIxgVtdqgyjbEwz8myIni1WbWvVBJv1_IccAooHSxbv0iA_BGO-OrXUPLsG0OtkSpnQbMV3qcxAZ4VHUTG279_vg421bJNeM73nj7Q6bQOU2XxY5yvOUi6g/s1600/6F099788-DDB7-4636-911A-18C61BB44862.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="726" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4ChtysGXLgsMdmnmzcCtPIxgVtdqgyjbEwz8myIni1WbWvVBJv1_IccAooHSxbv0iA_BGO-OrXUPLsG0OtkSpnQbMV3qcxAZ4VHUTG279_vg421bJNeM73nj7Q6bQOU2XxY5yvOUi6g/s400/6F099788-DDB7-4636-911A-18C61BB44862.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Delta, between Thursday night and early morning Friday, recorded 10 new cases of COVID-19, shooting a number of confirmed cases in the state to 17.</b><br /> <br /> Confirming the development in his Whatsapp page, the State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, said the State now has 13 active cases, two discharged and two deaths.<br /> <br /> A reliable source who pleaded anonymity, however, explained that the majority of the new cases were recorded in Warri and one or two in Asaba axis.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, the Delta State testing laboratory has been inaugurated at the State Specialist Hospital, Asaba to facilitate the diagnosis of suspected COVID-19 cases in the State.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> Recall that the State Government had on Monday received a mobile testing laboratory through its partnership with Irrua Specialist Hospital and Pan African Network for Disease Outbreak Research and Rapid Response, PANDORA.

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9TmpvlUms5qQYvGL6vNEMxkeBUsBDDrPOdcylVCHw29Ci8iFVcnhnjcVt7hqsOCb0bNcJlFy-l9o0-reV8nhOpNQMsY6Me_T42heNDRRrwzztw5hPFoAuuZfBjHxdqx_T2U2ExraV_s/s1600/D71331DB-9E0D-4071-A737-B9DFC95A3BCA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="739" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy9TmpvlUms5qQYvGL6vNEMxkeBUsBDDrPOdcylVCHw29Ci8iFVcnhnjcVt7hqsOCb0bNcJlFy-l9o0-reV8nhOpNQMsY6Me_T42heNDRRrwzztw5hPFoAuuZfBjHxdqx_T2U2ExraV_s/s400/D71331DB-9E0D-4071-A737-B9DFC95A3BCA.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>Popular Nigerian singer, Naira Marley has pleaded with all the random ladies sending him nude photos to stop as he observes the Muslim fasting season.</b><br /> <br /> The controversial  entertainer took to his Twitter handle to share a clip in which he is seen addressing individuals whom he said have continually questioned him on whether or not he’s observing the fast.<br /> <br /> “Stop asking me if I’m fasting. Because it says if you are sick, pregnant, and have problems with your head or mad, those people shouldn’t fast, and I don’t fall into that category,” he said.<br /> <br /> “To all of you that keep sending bum, stop sending me now. When I wasn’t fasting you weren’t sending me any nudes, stop sending me bum.”<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> In the short clip, the 25-year-old singer, who was recently arrested and arraigned for flouting the government’s lockdown directive, can be be seen holding a lighter and what appeared to be a single stick of wafer biscuits.<br /> <br /> Recall that  Marley named Nigeria’s most-viewed artiste on YouTube for the year 2019, beating the likes of Davido, Burna Boy, Wizkid, Teni and Zlatan among others.

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May Day: Gbajabiamila salutes Nigerian workers, tasks them on productivity

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ZA3-L_BK62JZq-4I7cGxN0TimtNlvPwef5-0CCCK6KlmZbEFPwUXeu0ZCmqI-OrRcZ25CyS9C1rFIStqakF0-3tT4LrG2ze4dh6XXMTgvmG8CLQxn1DeQYRh-9wQq6zBHbI8R8FgIN4/s1600/9DE827AA-E0CA-4CC0-B479-966C1BFEC353.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="750" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ZA3-L_BK62JZq-4I7cGxN0TimtNlvPwef5-0CCCK6KlmZbEFPwUXeu0ZCmqI-OrRcZ25CyS9C1rFIStqakF0-3tT4LrG2ze4dh6XXMTgvmG8CLQxn1DeQYRh-9wQq6zBHbI8R8FgIN4/s400/9DE827AA-E0CA-4CC0-B479-966C1BFEC353.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila has congratulated the Nigerian workers for marking this year’s International Workers’ Day.</b><br /> <br /> Gbajabiamila said although the day is being marked quietly across the globe as a result of the lockdown necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is much to remember about the sacrifices made by Nigerian workers.<br /> <br /> Gbajabiamila, in a statement marking the Workers’ Day signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Lanre Lasisi, commended Nigerian workers for their commitment and dedication to work over the years, which he said has shaped the country tremendously.<br /> <br /> The Speaker, however, called on Nigerian workers to be more productive now and always, saying no matter what was achieved before now must be sustained and improved upon.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “I want to salute the courage of Nigerian workers, who have over the years given their best to their work. Indeed Nigeria and Nigerians are proud of you.<br /> <br /> “I urge the Nigerian workers to redouble their efforts at this time of our national development. They must continue to put in their best in the work that they do for the betterment of the country,” Gbajabiamila said.

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May Day: Atiku commends health workers leading battle against COVID-19 pandemic

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRnj8sSSFxNN-m01VhHIvbcATM1SHymvjne11z4i1eZLs54BUX0_pO-aaAen6VZoRviOMxsTbqI4GW18qyNjZXc9ykc-pIxLe0DS6Uxr45p2CDjufCQ1hJIaL-m-o1-buRmm5bE477yw/s1600/D5F1ED0E-8C43-4A3E-BDAE-42D94AE89F70.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="748" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirRnj8sSSFxNN-m01VhHIvbcATM1SHymvjne11z4i1eZLs54BUX0_pO-aaAen6VZoRviOMxsTbqI4GW18qyNjZXc9ykc-pIxLe0DS6Uxr45p2CDjufCQ1hJIaL-m-o1-buRmm5bE477yw/s400/D5F1ED0E-8C43-4A3E-BDAE-42D94AE89F70.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark Workers’ Day, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has commended health workers leading the battle to contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.</b><br /> <br /> Workers’ Day is celebrated on May 1 every year.<br /> <br /> Abubakar, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said this year’s Workers Day was coming at a time when Nigeria was in the middle of a ravaging health pandemic.<br /> <br /> He said he believed it was more appropriate to use the opportunity to express utmost gratitude to health workers who had been leading the battle to contain the spread of the deadly virus.<br /> <br /> According to him, we cannot thank such workers enough.<br /> “Since December last year when the novel coronavirus reared its ugly head in China, it has expanded to nearly every corner of the world. Nigeria has not been spared of this scourge.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “From our index case in February, the plague has spread to 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with 1,728 confirmed cases and 51 deaths, according to information from Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), as at April 29.<br /> <br /> “The good news, however, is that thanks to our heroic healthcare workers, 307 persons were successfully treated and discharged.<br /> <br /> “One of those is my son, Mohammed. I remain eternally grateful to the medical personnel for their services.”<br /> <br /> Abubakar expressed optimism that after the pandemic, governments would see the need to increase spending on healthcare and human capital development.<br /> <br /> He said they should also work toward a better standard of living for the people and other topical issues being demanded by the Labour.<br /> <br /> Abubakar said no one ever envisaged that the global economy could afford to shut down for several weeks with heavy consequences on businesses – both public and private sector.<br /> <br /> “But even the greater casualties of the current lockdowns are the workers.”<br /> <br /> Abubakar said there were abundant reports about how companies and corporations were laying off staff and cutting wages.<br /> <br /> According to him, some state governments are finding it difficult to pay salary, while others are slashing workers’ salary on account of the COVID-19 situation.<br /> <br /> “It will be wrong of us as a society to say that the weakest of us should bear the pain of this affliction. The reverse should be the case.<br /> <br /> “It will not be asking for too much to urge the National Assembly to forbid any employer of Labour from penalising workers in the effect of the pandemic.<br /> <br /> “The grim reality of the situation that we are in today calls for greater understanding between government and Labour. It is, therefore, time that both entities see each other as partners in progress.<br /> <br /> “On the occasion of this year’s Workers Day, I join many across the world in solidarity with the Nigerian workers in particular who have been making great sacrifices to keep our frontiers firm.<br /> <br /> “I want to however take solace in the can-do Nigerian spirit. We shall not give up. We shall not give in. It will take more than Covid-19 and the consequential lockdown to knock us down.<br /> <br /> “It will not be easy, but standing united, we can rebuild our country because it is the place we call home,” he said.

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May Day: Senate President greets Nigerian workers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBj1i3s9rRMehk3F5v4WOU4DGCNTgxzPPN4QnWTkIk-ZIpNxHTpOmkVr0lcSvdaG1ag2xJJJwGjF4x-aKAhhmtQUtGuuIjo-KmkJo6OVE-jPm6FNJ0ijlZfDWY6uQBFpaHMG7JM9MNAlE/s1600/6F77A8DF-49E1-41CA-9C07-ECE198846BEE.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="720" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBj1i3s9rRMehk3F5v4WOU4DGCNTgxzPPN4QnWTkIk-ZIpNxHTpOmkVr0lcSvdaG1ag2xJJJwGjF4x-aKAhhmtQUtGuuIjo-KmkJo6OVE-jPm6FNJ0ijlZfDWY6uQBFpaHMG7JM9MNAlE/s400/6F77A8DF-49E1-41CA-9C07-ECE198846BEE.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <b>President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has felicitated with Nigerian workers as they join their counterparts the world over to mark the Workers’ Day.</b><br /> <br /> Lawan congratulated Nigerian workers for sustaining their heroic struggle for the liberation of the country from poverty and underdevelopment even in the face of the daunting challenges at various work places.<br /> <br /> The Senate President acknowledged the role of workers as the creator of wealth in the society and stressed that it is for this reason that they should be appreciated at all times.<br /> <br /> “The best way to appreciate the enormous contributions of the Nigerian workers is to always consider their welfare as of utmost importance.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “As a legislature, we are ever ready to work in collaboration with the organised labour Unions to rid our statute books of any anti-labour laws,” Lawan said.<br /> <br /> The Senate President said as part of the effort of the ninth National Assembly to strengthen the economy and improve the standard of living of the people, it is determined to make the country’s financial year predictable through timely passage of the 2020 budget.<br /> <br /> Lawan said the National Assembly has in the same respect made critical amendments to some laws to ensure smooth implementation of the budget. He said the Legislature would continue to move relentlessly in that direction, despite the unforeseen challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<br /> <br /> The Senate President noted that this year’s celebration of Workers’ Day comes at a time the entire world is facing the health emergency brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic.<br /> <br /> Lawan said the resilience and never-die spirit of the Nigerian people will boost the efforts of the government to overcome the pandemic.<br /> <br /> The Senate President urged the Nigerian workers, as they mark their day, to adhere strictly to all the prescribed public health protocols of social distancing, wearing of face mask, use of hand sanitizer, observance of personal hygiene, and to endeavour to stay at home and stay safe.

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Some states are using COVID-19 to make money - Northern Elders

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="360" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLniCv3vxOOD2kI59BUrP0jAE0eitHxDjoxRxR6ihhLdp0JqA-uaqgJ6Rh3R8kYA__h0X7ig3YwXgox94SOPMYIbZVPHCeYJ5DE4YeXlN0uBx6nRTTPmV1OhoWQSIOhGaMEgu-w32p6eso/s400/Prof-Ango-Abdullahi..jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> <br /> The Professor Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders Forum on Thursday accused states of allegedly playing politics with the coronavirus that is currently ravaging the world.<br /> <br /> The NEF noted in particular that the states were playing politics with the numbers of suspects tested for COVID-19 in order to attract more funds from both the Federal Government and foreign donors<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> This was contained in a statement signed by Abdullahi and made available to journalists in Kaduna.<br /> <br /> The statement read in part, “The forum regrets the appearance of attempts by many state governments to play politics with numbers for what appears to be expectations that more funds from the Federal Government and foreign donors will be allocated to them.<br /> <br /> “It is public knowledge that what the entire nation needs are good policies that protect all Nigerians; equipment and facilities for testing and treatment; and resources to support people who will find it hard to stay at home without some palliatives during the lockdown.”

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Rivers governor blasts Buhari's government - "Stop using Coronavirus to play politics"

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4d0ji2Wm1nGO-lFwH4ixht7_JScOHJVbLP86yDaRNLJtb-jkLfsUcI0Ay9tJ9v6JwTpQQ855R_J5SmoEbVM_Hvlt24PkEOmhp_S9UJhyYpRUH2ltcmiAl8CvzbY4CYnCpFuhLworogNno/s1600/Wike+Rivers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4d0ji2Wm1nGO-lFwH4ixht7_JScOHJVbLP86yDaRNLJtb-jkLfsUcI0Ay9tJ9v6JwTpQQ855R_J5SmoEbVM_Hvlt24PkEOmhp_S9UJhyYpRUH2ltcmiAl8CvzbY4CYnCpFuhLworogNno/s400/Wike+Rivers.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has accused the Federal Government of playing politics with the fight against COVID-19 (Coronavirus).<br /> <br /> Wike also attributed most of the new COVID-19 in the state to sabotage by security agencies and some oil firms.<br /> <br /> He said it was unfortunate that the Federal Government was supporting Lagos, Ogun and Kano to tackle the pandemic virus without paying attention to his state.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The governor spoke during two separate events in Port Harcourt on Thursday.<br /> <br /> “The nation does not need the nature of politics being played by the Federal Government and her agencies at this time when coronavirus is ravaging the world,” Wike said when received the new Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mukan, at the Government House, Port Harcourt.<br /> <br /> The governor, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Electronic Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, said to defeat the pandemic, all the tiers of government must work together.<br /> <br /> Wike added, ”There must be a collaboration to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. NCDC (National Centre for Disease Control) is building laboratories in Lagos, Ogun and Kano, without building in Rivers State.<br /> <br /> “This is a state that is exposed to several foreign and local visitors with no single federal intervention.<br /> <br /> “When oil companies write to change crew, we insist on knowing their Coronavirus status. If they continue to politicise COVID-19, Nigeria will suffer it.”<br /> <br /> The governor recalled that when he demanded support from the Federal Government, many people called for his head.<br /> <br /> “But, the Northern governors and the Kano State Government has demanded for assistance. Initially, the Kano State Governor (Abdullahi Ganduje) criticised the Federal Government over lack of support. When the support came, he (Ganduje) said the Federal Government is doing well. If they also support Rivers State, we will also commend them,” he said.<br /> <br /> Also at the inauguration of the state Taskforce on Border Closure, the governor said his administration found out that security agencies allowed new COVID-19 carriers into the state without subjecting them to mandatory health checks.<br /> <br /> He said: “We will not relax because if coronavirus escalates in this state, we will not get any form of support. Most of these oil companies also sabotage us. One of the cases at the state treatment centre is an oil worker who came from the rig.<br /> <br /> ”He tested positive and now our health workers are tracing all his contacts to check the spread”.<br /> <br /> Wike charged the task force members to work like persons struggling to save their lives since the state is being sabotaged from all sides.<br /> <br /> His words: “This taskforce is very important. When they don’t want you to live, you must devise means to survive. You have to support the security agencies and don’t allow anyone to get into the state without approval.<br /> <br /> “Anyone coming into the state must be screened by the health officials. Don’t join the security agencies to extort the people. If that happens, the essence of this task force is defeated.<br /> <br /> “We are being sabotaged at sea, land and at the domestic wing of the airport. Sometimes, they secretly receive flights and before we know the people sneak into the town. The Task Force in Ikwerre must check anyone coming from the airport.<br /> <br /> ”When we shout, they say we are fighting the Federal Government. All we are saying is help us to fight the virus. This is a matter of life and death. You must protect your people”.<br /> <br /> Describing the fight against Coronavirus as a non-conventional war, the governor said it had nothing to do with politics.

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Fela’s drummer, Tony Allen is dead

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMoVns190FzKOQyKu10_ui4YUzGhV7stbROM-cvF-wGpvfXUbgTrgqm5_nRgSiFPRHTuLENS5k8UtwAWiYxEkb1vaAhLYYwBMjA5MQQZhZrteJbBFI5AnRxLgw0bh6FXCeMRuokLuDsV_/s1600/tony+allen+fela.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="300" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMoVns190FzKOQyKu10_ui4YUzGhV7stbROM-cvF-wGpvfXUbgTrgqm5_nRgSiFPRHTuLENS5k8UtwAWiYxEkb1vaAhLYYwBMjA5MQQZhZrteJbBFI5AnRxLgw0bh6FXCeMRuokLuDsV_/s400/tony+allen+fela.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, who created afrobeat along with his old bandmate Fela Kuti, died suddenly at the age of 79 in Paris on Thursday, his manager told AFP.<br /> <br /> “We don’t know the exact cause of death,” manager Eric Trosset said, adding it was not linked to the coronavirus.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “He was in great shape, it was quite sudden. I spoke to him at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT), then two hours later he was sick and taken to Pompidou hospital where he died.”<br /> <br /> Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti’s band Africa ’70 in the 1960s and 1970s.<br /> <br /> During that time the pair created afrobeat, combining West African musical styles such as highlife and fuji music with American imports jazz and funk. Afrobeat went on to become one of the totemic genres of 20th century African music.<br /> <br /> Over Allen’s thrilling beat, Fela laid out his revolutionary and pan-African message, which led him to become one of the abiding icons of the struggle for freedom across the continent.<br /> <br /> Allen and Fela recorded around 40 albums together in Africa ’70, before parting ways after a mythic 26-year collaboration.<br /> <br /> Such was the hole that Allen left in his band, Fela needed four drummers to replace him.<br /> <br /> Allen taught himself to play drums from the age of 18, drawing inspiration from American jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker as well as contemporary African music.<br /> <br /> He remained hugely influential and beloved by generations of musicians.<br /> <br /> British musician and producer Brian Eno has called Allen “perhaps the greatest drummer who ever lived”.<br /> <br /> Allen was the drummer in the supergroup The Good, the Bad & the Queen, also featuring Blur singer Damon Albarn and The Clash bassist Paul Simonon, which released its second album in 2018.<br /> <br /> He lived in the Paris suburb Courbevoie.

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Five family members die mysteriously in Enugu

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD0Cy_8q71PV7r4JZ3qx5MOTND79KXvLJP-WtRhs6jiD_EXcFQDd18FjGXT0uJRWt3eBjKG2fV8mUmIocUXkrzTyThQ7GQYzOAs4dUsFy2RJzkihgyohoQ4aVLRwsm90Q7Zchf7ZaDnMU-/s1600/Enugu-on-map.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="777" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD0Cy_8q71PV7r4JZ3qx5MOTND79KXvLJP-WtRhs6jiD_EXcFQDd18FjGXT0uJRWt3eBjKG2fV8mUmIocUXkrzTyThQ7GQYzOAs4dUsFy2RJzkihgyohoQ4aVLRwsm90Q7Zchf7ZaDnMU-/s400/Enugu-on-map.png" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> Residents of the Amaokpo suburb of Nike in the Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu State were in tears on Thursday as the corpses of five members of a family, who died mysteriously in their house, were recovered and deposited in the morgue.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> It was gathered that the family of Onyekwere Chukwumalu of Eziowelle, Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State, were last seen on Monday and were discovered dead on Wednesday morning with their skin already peeling off.<br /> <br /> It was learnt that neighbours did not know of their death until a building contractor, who worked with Onyekwere, went to keep an appointment with him and found the house locked but the family head’s vehicle was parked outside.<br /> <br /> Because there was no response when the contractor called, he was forced to move closer and discovered the corpses of members of the family in a heap as if they were praying.<br /> <br /> Journalists who visited the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, where the corpses were deposited, gathered that the incident shocked neighbours, who came together to break into the house to bring out the corpses.<br /> <br /> It was learnt that the police personnel from Abakpa Nike; the Chairman of the Enugu East Local Government Area, Alex Ugwu; and the United Nations Rescue Mission visited the scene of the incident on Wednesday evening.<br /> <br /> Eyewitnesses said in the process of bringing out the corpses, one of Onyekwere’s children, Arinze, 10, shouted ‘Jesus’ and was rushed to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozala, where he is said to be responding to treatment.<br /> <br /> Speaking to journalists at the NOH, the South East Zonal Commander of the United Nations Rescue Mission, Emmanuel Okoye, said someone informed the team about the incident that a man and his family members were found dead and they went to the scene.<br /> <br /> Okoye said the team helped to evacuate the corpses to the mortuary since the police were nowhere to be found.<br /> <br /> He regretted that the police, which were supposed to be at the forefront of the evacuation and were properly informed, were nowhere to be found.<br /> <br /> Ugwu, on his part, said Onyekwere was a good man and wondered how he and his family members died in that manner.<br /> <br /> Ugwu blamed the death on possible food poisoning since there was no generator in the house to suggest that it could be as a result of fumes from it.<br /> <br /> “When I heard about the incident, I alerted the police and the state Ministry of Health to take charge. It was when the officials of the ministry were trying to evacuate the corpses that one of the man’s children sneezed and was discovered to be alive and he was rushed to the hospital,” he said.<br /> <br /> The police spokesman in the state, Daniel Ndukwe-Ekea, however, said he was not aware of the incident and stated that he would get back to our source.<br /> <br /> “How did you get to know about the incident? I will inquire and in 30 minutes’ time, you can call me back so that I will tell you my findings,” PPRO said.

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Lagos state issues new guidelines for transport operations

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="800" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGn92pY8OapcWe5ntdT9DwPAKbVngcII05B9WSF8gPFk0wpzme-ZC4vQ75j28eCk3d0wZ8cFzNUtkDfXVFqKKlaWnCTnYZareV7kezzt_uwEIfclLifTswYqMudhOqSodJI7rLkxBDOJ4/s640/danfo+bus.jpg" width="640" /></div> <br /> The Lagos State Government on Thursday said commercial vehicles, from May 4, 2020, will operate from 6am to 7pm daily.<br /> <br /> Commercial motorcycle riders and inter-state travels were suspended indefinitely<br /> <br /> The guidelines were revealed by the state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The commissioner also urged passengers and commuters to always wear face masks, use hand sanitisers, wash their hands with soap under running water before and after each trip.<br /> <br /> “All transport operators and companies are expected to disinfect their vehicles, parks and garages regularly and continuously in collaboration with and under the supervision of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, in order to ensure standards and safety of the disinfectant being used.<br /> <br /> “Motor parks and garages must not be overcrowded with passengers and commercial activities at any point in time. Social distancing is required for passengers queuing to board buses.<br /> <br /> “All public buses should be 60 per cent capacity, i.e. for buses one passenger with driver in front seat, two passengers on the back rows each and two passengers for tricycle,” he said.

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BREAKING: Nigeria's Coronavirus cases increase to 1,932

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="583" data-original-width="1200" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrS6k7Hy-iFcZ8xfkf5j0VawkXvTQS4S77ZPfElRNhImS9G-UzLVV20lcWQali8dUuGqmHGgFZcIUMEz1kZK9xRdmloozLm0V4DjDV9oYb1aSS9xwvYxs7ICLwnsPfA3jZUihZ2uBcgcX_/s640/coronavirus+lagos+isolation.png" width="640" /></div> <b><br /></b><b>Nigeria on Thursday recorded 204 new cases of coronavirus, its highest daily figure since the first case was recorded in February.</b><br /> <br /> The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced new cases via its twitter page, bringing the country’s total infections to 1,932<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> The newly-reported cases, as revealed via the Centre on Thursday evening, shows that Kano has the highest number with 80 cases, followed by Lagos with 45 cases.<br /> <br /> The country also recorded seven deaths from the disease on Thursday, bringing the total number of deaths to 58.<br /> <br /> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <div dir="ltr" lang="tl" xml:lang="tl">204 new cases of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> reported;<br /> <br /> 80-Kano<br /> 45-Lagos<br /> 12-Gombe<br /> 9-Bauchi<br /> 9-Sokoto<br /> 7-Borno<br /> 7-Edo<br /> 6-Rivers<br /> 6-Ogun<br /> 4-FCT<br /> 4-Akwa Ibom<br /> 4-Bayelsa<br /> 3-Kaduna<br /> 2-Oyo<br /> 2-Delta<br /> 2-Nasarawa<br /> 1-Ondo<br /> 1-Kebbi<br /> <br /> 11:50pm 30th April- 1932 confirmed cases of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> in Nigeria<br /> <br /> Discharged: 319<br /> Deaths: 58 <a href="https://t.co/CIZtojz5UR">pic.twitter.com/CIZtojz5UR</a></div> — NCDC (@NCDCgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/NCDCgov/status/1255993387603329026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="async" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br /> <br /> Across the world, the novel coronavirus has killed 230,309 people since the outbreak first emerged in China in December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1900 GMT on Thursday.

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Atiku blasts Buhari's govt for taking additional foreign loans

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8PyYLkDPkz0ladHu5yTCQ7RB58yzcTY0vdK5MrFe8mOunEvICiu4zlimmzyLkW9C2QZxVyT_AxC3UXYL1LDUqueOwYeN4GmtnaQdw6hYjL7xgj4MpBR-cMRgfGS1bYu1XXNF_YPI9F_Ws/s1600/buhari+atiku+h.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="660" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8PyYLkDPkz0ladHu5yTCQ7RB58yzcTY0vdK5MrFe8mOunEvICiu4zlimmzyLkW9C2QZxVyT_AxC3UXYL1LDUqueOwYeN4GmtnaQdw6hYjL7xgj4MpBR-cMRgfGS1bYu1XXNF_YPI9F_Ws/s640/buhari+atiku+h.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /> Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has warned the Federal Government against taking additional foreign loans, noting that the nation’s debt profile has quadrupled in just four years.<br /> <br /> In a piece titled, “How to pull Nigeria from the brink,” the ex-Vice-President said, “Nigeria is at the lowest point we have ever been as a nation. We have over indulged on seemingly cheap loans and have quadrupled our foreign debt in just four years.<br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> “Taking more of such loans will just sink our country deeper and deeper into a quagmire. What is certain is that we cannot continue with things the way they are now; except we want to ensure an implosion of our dearly beloved nation.<br /> <br /> “We must cut our coat, not according to our size, but according to our cloth. Our Presidential Air Fleet of almost 10 planes should go. Our jumbo budgets for our legislature must go. The planned $100m renovation of our parliament must be cancelled.<br /> <br /> “We cannot be funding non-necessities with debt and not expect our economy to collapse. Our civil servants must come to the realisation that Nigeria cannot sustain its size and profligacy. The same cost saving measures must be adopted by the states and council’s government.”<br /> <br /> Atiku further said, “Prior to Nigeria’s October 1, 1960 independence from Great Britain, not only were we a nation self-reliant in food production, but we also exported food to other countries, earning precious foreign exchange in the process. Who can forget the great groundnut pyramids in Northern Nigeria?<br /> <br /> “For example, in 1957, agriculture formed a whopping 86 per cent of our export revenue. By 1977, agricultural exports had dwindled to six per cent, and today, the figure is less than three per cent.<br /> <br /> “How did our country go from being a net exporter of agricultural products to a net importer of food products? How did we go from a country that could feed itself to one that desperately depends on foreign imports for survival? The answer to these questions is leadership focus.”

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Number of Nigerian health workers infected with COIVD-19 rise from 40 to 113 in one week

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFOM1N8HkzMuPe5kibuJlKMiDUnkXUmEQoViNUB54TFCmO8kXg3wmwnW4OlfP5HIdVw2JAPVPh4FHQ_j-gF-W4PbSXwx5Xp9wqqCE9K1-26-HUjcpge7b-lQJg0IoVJDtnsxDo04U6Qtf/s400/Coronavirus-protective-gear.jpg" width="400" /></div> <br /> The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday, revealed that 113 health workers had been infected with COVID-19.<br /> <br /> Ehanire, who disclosed this at the press briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, said they included workers in the public and private health facilities.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> He, therefore, reiterated his advice to health workers that it was dangerous to treat coronavirus patients without using personal protective equipment.<br /> <br /> The minister had, at the task force media briefing in Abuja on April 23, said about 40 health workers in the country had tested positive for coronavirus.<br /> <br /> Ehanaire, who lauded health workers for their commitment to the war against COVID-19, warned them against treating patients without the PPE.<br /> <br /> He said, “Please, do not treat any patient without using the PPE. Frontline health workers must undertake refresher training at intervals. This warning has become necessary due to the number of health workers, who have tested positive for COVID-19. They are over 40 now and they have been quarantined.”<br /> <br /> But the Nigerian Medical Association, through its National President, Dr Francis Faduyile, in its reaction, said most of those who contracted COVID-19 were not health workers treating COVID-19 patients, but personnel in other hospitals.<br /> <br /> On Thursday, the health minister said the risk of being infected with COVID-19 was the reason why the task force warned health workers against treating patients without using the PPE.<br /> <br /> He said, “The latest figure we have is that 113 health workers have been infected. They are not all public health workers. There are some from private hospitals.<br /> <br /> “If you hear us speak frequently against treating coronavirus in private clinics, we are actually referring to people who do so without precaution and training. They risk infecting themselves and their families. Health care workers with no training have no business handling coronavirus.<br /> <br /> “As for those who do not have equipment, we have said that we will provide the protective equipment. Let me remind you that there is a global shortage. They (the pieces of equipment) are really scarce but we are doing what we can to make sure our frontline workers have the requirement. We also have a stockpile that we can send quickly. For example, we sent a stockpile to Kano.”<br /> <b><br /></b><b>COVID-19 patients seeking alternative treatment, FG raises the alarm</b><br /> <br /> The minister also stated that the country would be in a difficult position if infected persons continued to hide or seek alternative treatment instead of approaching government.<br /> <br /> He added, “People should come out and seek treatment, not to hide. The ones that we worry most about are the people who hide and look for alternative treatment. They are lost to our counting.”<br /> <br /> The minister noted that health care workers went through a lot of pressure during a crisis period. He called on those who could not handle the pressure to quit.<br /> <br /> He, however, said that government would continue to provide mental health and counselling support for those feeling the impact of the pressure.<br /> <br /> He said, “It is very important for health care workers to realise that nobody is forced. Everybody is a volunteer. Those who cannot handle it have the option of being asked to be excused and someone else will come in.”<br /> <br /> The minister allayed the fear of survival for those infected with COVID-19, saying that enough evidence had shown that the majority of infected persons would survive the virus.<br /> <br /> “The recovery rate is 95 per cent or more. Out of 100 people that are infected, about 80 of them will have mild or no symptoms. Fifteen will have fairly severe symptoms, but not critical, while less than five per cent will have critical symptoms.<br /> <br /> “What this means is that nobody really needs to be afraid. It is a dangerous disease that can affect a large number of people and bring health system to its knees. The five per cent can be so many, but there is no need to have a stigma.”

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Coronavirus skyrockets in Kano with 80 new cases in single day

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-NAGqbqaCOkS7YPZSgcPKao2Hej8nFaCK8SUIGtfaCgH0niPFt8iUPR1cBirIsoTQWo6iZnK8iR4vqQgGmUjpeWsSwLPGxIFg45e0dUsXNBF-J9QkUZ9_Plc_D7POJPBHkGtaqdaGYcSR/s1600/corona.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="630" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-NAGqbqaCOkS7YPZSgcPKao2Hej8nFaCK8SUIGtfaCgH0niPFt8iUPR1cBirIsoTQWo6iZnK8iR4vqQgGmUjpeWsSwLPGxIFg45e0dUsXNBF-J9QkUZ9_Plc_D7POJPBHkGtaqdaGYcSR/s640/corona.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b>There is serious danger in Kano as the state recorded a whopping 80 new cases of Coronavirus on Thursday.</b><br /> <br /> Kano’s total coronavirus cases is now put at 219, overtaking Abuja that has 178 cases.<br /> <br /> Kano, which recorded its first case on 11 April, 2020, has been recording series of mysterious deaths which officials said were not due to Coronavirus.<br /> <br /> <a name='more' id="more"></a><br /> <br /> But the fear of many is now manifesting with the huge infections rate coming from the ancient city.<br /> <br /> Kano’s 80 recorded infections is the second highest recorded in a single day in the country, with Lagos’ 87 cases on Wednesday still the highest raked in a single day.<br /> <br /> As it stands, the ancient city has not discharged any patient, but has recorded five deaths.<br /> <br /> The state now has 214 active cases to manage.<br /> <br /> Many analysts believe that more huge coronavirus infection figures will still come from Kano as the virus has entered the community.<br /> <br /> <b><br /> How States Stand on Thursday</b><br /> <br /> 80-Kano<br /> 45-Lagos<br /> 12-Gombe<br /> 9-Bauchi<br /> 9-Sokoto<br /> 7-Borno<br /> 7-Edo<br /> 6-Rivers<br /> 6-Ogun<br /> 4-FCT<br /> 4-Akwa Ibom<br /> 4-Bayelsa<br /> 3-Kaduna<br /> 2-Oyo<br /> 2-Delta<br /> 2-Nasarawa<br /> 1-Ondo<br /> 1-Kebbi

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