Tribune Newspaper Headlines Today Saturday 16th May 2020
Tribune Newspaper Headlines Today and news Dailies Update on current affairs happening now in Nigeria today 16/05/20
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Expert identifies COVID-19 psychological effects
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Expert identifies COVID-19 psychological effects
Dr Adedotun Ajiboye, a Clinical Psychologist at the Mental Health Department, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, says COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine strategies has positive and negative effects on families. Ajiboye made this assertion in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the occasion to commemorate the International Day of Families. NAN reports …
Expert identifies COVID-19 psychological effects
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Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project to gulp N315 billion
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Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project to gulp N315 billion
So far, the Federal Government (FG) has approved about N240 billion for the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, out of a total of N315 billion which is the project’s contract value, Saturday Tribune has gathered. The highway, on which wok has stalled over time, connects Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States, and it leads to …
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project to gulp N315 billion
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Despite hike in COVID-19 cases, six northern govs open mosques, churches
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Despite hike in COVID-19 cases, six northern govs open mosques, churches
AMIDST daily spike in COVID-19 cases in Northern states, governors in six states in the region on Friday allowed Juma’at service to hold across towns and villages. In Gombe, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Jigawa and Zamfara states, the governors have also given churches the go-ahead to hold Sunday service tomorrow. Statistics from the Nigeria Centre …
Despite hike in COVID-19 cases, six northern govs open mosques, churches
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Osun ranks 3rd among states with lowest poverty rate in Nigeria —NBS
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Osun ranks 3rd among states with lowest poverty rate in Nigeria —NBS
Osun State has been ranked, as one of the States with the lowest poverty and inequality index in the country, according to the latest report from the Nigerian Living Standard Survey. The report, which was computed between September 2018 and October 2019 by the National Bureau of Statistics (and published 4th May 2020), assessed the …
Osun ranks 3rd among states with lowest poverty rate in Nigeria —NBS
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Consider cashew as alternative to oil, farmers charge FG
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Consider cashew as alternative to oil, farmers charge FG
Cashew Farmers in Oyo State have charged the Federal Government to take concrete steps towards diversifying the nation’s economy in response to the adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic on oil, the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. The farmers, who operate mainly in the Ogbomoso axis of Oyo State also noted that encouraging massive investment by …
Consider cashew as alternative to oil, farmers charge FG
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Plateau govt, NCDC disagree over latest COVID-19 cases
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Plateau govt, NCDC disagree over latest COVID-19 cases
Plateau State government has declared that only one case of covid-19 was recorded in the state as at Friday 15th April against five announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Nimkong Lar who briefed journalists alongside the secretary to the state government, Professor Danladi Atu, and the Commissioner …
Plateau govt, NCDC disagree over latest COVID-19 cases
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Ogun extends lockdown by another one week
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Ogun extends lockdown by another one week
The Ogun State government says it will extend the current lockdown in the state by another one week. Gov. Dapo Abiodun made this known while addressing journalists on Friday evening in Abeokuta. He said it had become expedient to further add another week to the lockdown in view of the rising number of COVID-19 cases …
Ogun extends lockdown by another one week
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Controversies trail COVID-19 management as govt changes dead patient’s status from positive to negative
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Controversies trail COVID-19 management as govt changes dead patient’s status from positive to negative
SUBAIR MOHAMMED, in this story, speaks with all sides in the controversies over COVID-19 management in Lagos. THE Lagos State government stoked further controversies on Thursday as it recanted its earlier statement on the COVID-19 status of a 32-year-old Dubai returnee who was announced as having died of coronavirus. The government, in its latest pronouncement …
Controversies trail COVID-19 management as govt changes dead patient’s status from positive to negative
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COVID-19: ABU unveils locally made ventilator
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COVID-19: ABU unveils locally made ventilator
A team of engineers in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, has unveiled a locally invented ventilator to enhance the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria. Prof. Muhammad-Sani Sallau, Director Equipment Maintenance and Development Centre, ABU, said this at the unveiling of the equipment at the university in Zaria on Friday. Sallau, who is also the team …
COVID-19: ABU unveils locally made ventilator
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How we shared Oyo’s N60m face mask contract —Tailors Association
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How we shared Oyo’s N60m face mask contract —Tailors Association
Four weeks after Governor Seyi Makinde announced the state government’s resolve to produce one million face masks, the wait for the commissioned tailors to deliver the expected number of masks has continued. The state government had contracted the state Association of Tailors to get 100 tailors to each produce 10,000 face masks by the …
How we shared Oyo’s N60m face mask contract —Tailors Association
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