Breaking News from Nigerian Evening Newspapers and Evening News Tuesday 21st April 2020
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Lagos health workers get N20,000 hazard allowance increment
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved the increment of Hazard Allowance for all health workers in the State Public Service from N5,000 to N25,000 for the month of April, 2020. This was contained in a circular issued and signed on Tuesday by the Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri Okunola. According to the circular, the gesture …
Daily Trust.
COVID-19: Akwa Ibom begins random testing, says no support from FG
Akwa Ibom state government has concluded plans to commence mass testing of residents following increase in the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19. This is even as the state is also taking cognizance of the need to review the lockdown order in view of the hardship it was causing. It also appealed to the Federal …
Daily Trust.
COVID-19: 1 Polish, 8 Nigerians recover in Lagos
The Incident Commander in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has disclosed the recovery and discharge of nine patients, including one foreign national – a Polish – from the isolation facilities in the State. The eight others are Nigerians. Sanwo-Olu, in his COVID-19 update, said that the patients, who are five females and four males, have …
Daily Trust.
COVID-19: WAEC, NECO candidates to know fate after lockdown
Candidates sitting for this year’s West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) examinations would know when they would be writing the papers after the COVID-19 lockdown. Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, said this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja. He said that …
Daily Trust.
Borno’s confirmed COVID-19 cases now 4
Borno State has recorded two more confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, taking the total in the state to four. The new confirmed cases are part of the contacts of the State’s COVID-19 index case. Daily Trust had, on 19 April, reported exclusively that a retired anesthetic nurse working with an international organisation in Pulka …
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La Liga clubs pledge €200m to other sports, lower leagues
Clubs in Spain’s top two divisions have agreed to give an additional 200 million euros (176.4 million pounds) over the next four years to boost Spanish sports. The fund would also assist lower league football, the league’s organising body, La Liga, said in a statement on Tuesday. Since signing a collective broadcasting rights deal in …
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Sokoto bans private hospitals from treating patients with COVID-19 symptoms
The Sokoto state government has directed private hospitals to desist forthwith from treating patients with COVID-19 symptoms. It also said it has begun tracing all those that might have come in contact with the index case of coronavirus in the state in the last two weeks. The state Commissioner of Health and chairman, Dr. Ali …
Daily Trust.
COVID-19: Six Okada riders returning from Lagos nabbed in Bauchi
Members of the vigilante group manning Tafawa Balewa estate area of Bauchi metropolis have arrested six commercial motorcycle (Okada) riders who recently returned to the state from Lagos. The Okada riders returned to the state on board a trailer carrying Federal Government palliatives to Borno state. A member of the vigilantes, who asked not to …
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FG warns Kano residents against buying ‘COVID-19 vaccine’
Following the spike in the numbers of the COVID-19 cases across the country and particularly in Kano, the Federal Government has warned citizens to be wary of the ‘COVID-19 vaccine’ being sold by some people in Kano State. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the warning on Tuesday in Abuja, at …
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Another WHO staff tests positive for COVID-19′ in Bauchi
A Security Guard at the World Health Nation (WHO) and UNICEF office has been tested positive for Coronavirus in Bauchi State. Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Rilwani Mohammed, who disclosed this to Daily Trust in a telephone interview, said that the victim is a female security guard whose samples was taken …
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COVID-19: Yobe sets up mobile courts to prosecute violators of border closure
The Yobe State COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control has announced the setting up of mobile courts to prosecute offenders of border closure directive. This was among seven points resolutions reached at the end of the Committee’s 5th meeting held on Tuesday in Damaturu. Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Abdullahi Bego, while briefing …
COVID-19: Yobe sets up mobile courts to prosecute violators of border closure
COVID-19: Government extends stay-at-home order by two weeks
The Jigawa State Government has extended the stay-at-home order by two weeks to further strengthen measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the state. The State Commissioner for Health and Chairman State Task Force Committee on COVID-19, Abba Zakari disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Tuesday. DAILY POST reports that the state government had …
COVID-19: Government extends stay-at-home order by two weeks
Two killed, six injured in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway auto crash
Two persons were on Tuesday confirmed dead in an accident involving a Mazda bus and a motorcycle around the new Kara Market on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Public Relations Officer, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the incident to NAN, said that the accident, which occurred around 9:30 a.m., was caused …
Two killed, six injured in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway auto crash
Richard Akinjide: What many Nigerians don’t know about ex-AGF – Obasanjo
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has described the late Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Richard Akinjide, as a nationalist and patriot. Obasanjo went down memory lane and revealed some details he said many Nigerians might not know about the late Akinjide. He recalled that the deceased, who died on Tuesday in Ibadan, …
Richard Akinjide: What many Nigerians don’t know about ex-AGF – Obasanjo
Real reason Ayade ordered aides to return COVID-19 vehicles
The Commissioner for Health in Cross River State, Betta Edu, who doubles as the Chairman of COVID-19 Response Task Force, has revealed the reasons Governor Ben Ayade ordered the withdrawal of COVID-19 vehicles from his aides. Speaking with DAILY POST on Tuesday, Edu lamented the poor performance of the aides, noting that the people performed …
Real reason Ayade ordered aides to return COVID-19 vehicles
Shiroro youths cry out to Gov Bello as bandits take over Niger community
Youths of Shiroro in Shiroro Local Government said it is highly risky to trust in the Niger State Government to provide security from incessant banditry attacks as dependence will amount to double jeopardy. The youths through their leader, Bello Ibrahim of Concerned Shiroro Youths, told newsmen in Minna that the people of the area can …
Shiroro youths cry out to Gov Bello as bandits take over Niger community
COVID-19: PDP calls for prosecution of Boss Mustapha, others over violation of social restriction order during Abba Kyari’s burial
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tuesday, demanded the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, to prosecute the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, and Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 pandemic, Boss Mustapha. DAILY POST recalls that Mustapha allegedly violated the health safety and social restriction directives during the funeral of the late …
COVID-19: PDP calls for prosecution of Boss Mustapha, others over violation of social restriction order during Abba Kyari’s burial
COVID-19: Borno reveals test results of 48 persons
Borno State Deputy Governor and Chairman COVID-19 Response Team, Alhaji Umar Kadafur, on Tuesday revealed that, out of the 104 persons believed to have had contacts with the state’s COVID-19 index case, 48 persons have been tested. According to the chairman, 44 persons have tested negative to coronavirus while two persons tested positive and two …
COVID-19: Borno reveals test results of 48 persons
Abba Kyari’s burial: Buhari told to sack Boss Mustapha, Garba Shehu
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack forthwith the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha from the special intervention platform. HURIWA also wants President Buhari to compel Mustapha and other members of the committee, who violated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, …
Abba Kyari’s burial: Buhari told to sack Boss Mustapha, Garba Shehu
COVID-19: NCDC speaks on Buhari extending lockdown beyond April 27
The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari will have to make some difficult decisions on extension of lockdown in Nigeria. On Monday, April 13, Buhari announced an extension to the initial two-week lockdown by another 14 days. Nigerians are eagerly waiting to know if …
COVID-19: NCDC speaks on Buhari extending lockdown beyond April 27
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