Breaking News in Nigeria Today Wednesday 6th May 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Wednesday 6th May 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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FG releases frame work for managing COVID-19 fund
The Federal Government yesterday unveiled a frame work for managing the Covid-19 Fund, compelling the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation( OAGF) to publish daily treasury statements for COVID-19 Fund. The framework said to have been personally approved by the President Muhammadu Buhari , demanded that the treasury statement outline details of all the inflows and outflows into the Fund. A statement issued by Henshaw Ogubike, Director (Information & Press) Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, highlighted provisions contained in the Covid-19 framework designed to guarantee…
Delta’s 2nd least poor state in Nigeria, says NBS
The Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said that Delta State ranked the second least poor state in the country. The bureau, in its latest Poverty Index Report, ranked Delta State second after Lagos among the states with low poverty rate, and said that 40.1 per cent of Nigeria’s total population was poor. According to it, an average of four out of 10 individuals in Nigeria have real per capita expenditures below N137, 430 per year, meaning that monthly income of an individual in this category is less than N11,500…
FG’s team to Kano denies linking deaths to COVID-19
Leader of the Ministerial Task Team on Covid- 19 in Kano, Dr. Nasiru Sani Gwarzo, yesterday denied linking Kano’s mysterious deaths to the COVID- 19 pandemic, insisting that he was quoted out of context by the media. Gwarzo hit headlines on Monday when he was quoted as saying that Covid- 19 was the cause of recent ‘mysterious’ deaths recorded in Kano. Speaking during the Kano Covid-19 Task Force press briefing at Africa House, Government House, Kano, Gwarzo, who is the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, said medical…
COVID-19: Senate introduces bill on emergency health
The Senate, yesterday, passed for first reading, the proposed National Health Emergency Bill, 2020, sponsored by Senator Chukwuka Utazi (PDP, Enugu North). That was however, as the former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, (PDP, Enugu West), kicked against the bill by demanding for the draft copy before further consideration by the Senate. Citing Order 14(1) of the Senate Standing Rules, Ekweremadu said that his privileges and that of the other Senators would be breached, if details of the contents were not made available to them before giving further…
Ugwuanyi warns traders against disregard for COVID-19 regulations
Enugu State Government has expressed dismay over what it described as “a total disregard and breach of the undertaking made by the OgbeteMainMarketTraders AssociationandthePharmaceuticalsDealersAssociation” for the partial and guided reopening of the market. It would be recalled that as a fall out of the recent meeting the Enugu State Government held with market leaders and security agencies, it was unanimously agreed that the Ogbete Main Market, Enugu, would be partially reopened on 4th May, 2020 in the overall interest of the public. This was after leaders of the two market…
NCDC lauds Ebonyi’s precautionary measures against coronavirus
Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control (NCDC) yesterday commended the Ebonyi State government for the measures being put in place to contain coronavirus pandemic in the state. NCDC technical team led by Dr. Sophia Osuwa made the commendation during a courtesy visit to Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Uchenna Orji. Osuwa, who noted that the comprehensive preventive approach adopted against the virus by the state government had paid off with the disease not recorded much in the state unlike many states of the federation, described the approach against the pandemic…
Communal clash: Ortom dethrones three traditional rulers
The Benue State Security Council presided over by Governor Samuel Ortom has dethroned three traditional rulers in Ushongo and Gwer East Local Government Areas of the state. The decision was taken after investigation into the matter by the governor and other major stakeholders over their roles in the violent communal skirmishes that led to the killing of some people and the destruction of property worth millions of naira. Governor Ortom, who briefed journalists on the matter after an expanded meeting of the council, named the chiefs to include Chief Peter…
Niger to profile, test Almajiris before returning them to states of origin
In order to forestall any further outbreak of COVID-19 in the state, the government of Niger State yesterday said it has set up eight isolation centres for the mandatory 14-days incubation period, where Almajiris would be profiled and tested for COVID-19 before being returned to their states of origin. Governor Abubakar sani Bello made this known when he addressed the COVID- 19 state taskforce commitee at the Government House, Minna. He added that there was a ban for all night travels of vehicles and people between 6p.m. and 7a.m. Speaking…
Stop sending patients back home, Ganduje warns doctors
Kano State Governor, Umar Ganduje, has warned public hospitals in the state to stop sending patients back home otherwise the state would be plunged into serious health crisis. Ganduje said it was true that public health facilities were sending patients back home because of fear of possible cases of coronavirus, but that they could create a demarcation between patients before seeing them. The governor, who gave the warning in Kano at a time when the state discharged three people from its isolation centres having been given a clean bill of…
COVID-19: Frontline health workers get jumbo allowance in Kwara
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Kwara State branch yesterday hailed Governor AbdulRahman Abdul- Razaq for delivering on his words to pay frontline health workers daily allowances in appreciation of their work. Kwara State Chairman of the NMA, Dr Kolade Solagberu, said in a statement in Ilorin, the state capital, that AbdulRazaq had fulfilled his promise to pay decent allowances to all health workers involved in the COVID-19 campaign. While medical doctors were paid N25,000 daily, all other categories of health workers in the frontline got varying allowances on a daily…
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