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fergie010:
The Abia State combined team of the COVID-19 TASK FORCE and youths of Ogbudiukwu have intercepted a Siena vehicle conveying bags of weeds suspected to be cannabis at Ogbudiukwu, in Umuahia South Local Government Area.

Briefing the press on the development, the Secretary to the State Goverment, Barr. Chris Ezem said that investigation has shown the identity of the driver and assured that the law would take its course on the victim.

Pple need this

Ctoreh:
Rivers State government has sent 150 non-indigenes to their states of origin in the North, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom as well as Niger Republic, as part of measures to curb the spread of Coronavirus pandemic.

The state profiled the affected persons and sent them to their states and country of origin through the Ministry of Social Welfare.

Good measure

NigerianSage:
Aeromedical Evacuation to airlift wounded soldiers from various theatres of operation to treatment facilities, the NAF has conducted a training for some of its flight nurses

Always looks good in training....

dra11:
Federal offices nationwide can open from May 4 for workers to resume work, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said. The resumption will be based on specific grade levels, the PTF explained.
Also, the banking, construction, manufacturing sectors, as well as food processing companies, will be allowed to open from Monday, the PTF further said.

not when the virus is fast spreading

Luckyduby7:
Iran reopened for business despite its persistent coronavirus outbreak as there was no end in sight to the crisis, its president said Wednesday, as 80 new deaths were announced.

"Due to uncertainty about when this virus will end, we are preparing for work, activity and science," said President Hassan Rouhani....

desperate times

fergie060:
A nurse and her mother have tested positive for coronavirus in Imokun, Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State. According to a source, the nurse who works at a private hospital and her mother tested positive on Sunday after exhibiting symptoms of the virus.

The source said both mother and daughter were not residents in the town, noting that they came to inspect an apartment she intended to hire for her mother in Imokun, Epe town....

serious sturv

arinze199:
The security synergy established by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu seem to be working following the arrest of wanted notorious armed bandit, Wahab Lawal, popularly known as Lordstime in the criminal world.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Lawal, who was arrested with one of his members, Seun Adeniyi, led a violent operation in Idimu some days back which led to the death of a victim while he escaped and went into hiding

Lordstime

NajaOlosho:
A Nigerian man from Ekiti State has handed over his son to the government for

14 days isolation after sneaking in from Lagos....

great father

Isilie:
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead former lawmaker from Ebonyi State, Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru, to the board of the Federal Character Commission.

But findings by SaharaReporters has revealed that Okwuru, who once represented Ikwo/Ezza Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, died in February 2020 at the age of 59.....

why am i not surprised?

Mkbite:
I need someone to give a good explanation to these words; Sack, lay-off, retrenchment & fired with their differences.

The words have raised lots of arguments in our office....

Same thing....

Love it

Referenses:
PRESS RELEASE: The governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, on Sunday 26th April, 2020, gave guidelines to the state’s residents regarding the relaxation of lockdown in the state.
However, an Islamic human rights association has criticized the governor for focusing on Christians and church attendance protocol during lockdown in the state to the detriment of his Muslim subjects.....

pls dont dignify this with a response

NwekeiUG:
According to the information made available to IgbereTV by the Honourable Commissioner For Health, Obi Emmanuel Ikechukwu, there is a newly confirmed case in Enugu. The case has a positive travel history.

The confirmed case travelled out of Enugu on the 28th of March 2020 and returned from Jos, Plateau State, 2 weeks ago (14th April 2020)....

let the contact tracing begin...

Brlka:
Many escaped death in a multiple crash involving four vehicles in Benin City on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.

Global Times learnt that the accident occurred on the ever-busy Upper Mission Road in the state capital.
The vehicles included a 18 seater passenger bus, a red car, an ash car and a truck fully loaded with 7up soda drink.

just sad

OEPHUIS:
A section of Enugu residents at the bank of Ekulu River, G.R.A, Enugu, has called on relevant government authorities in the state to come to their rescue as structures erected by The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement, at Pocket Layout by Trans-Ekulu Flyover, Enugu.

Igbere TV correspondent reports that residents lamented that the buildings are posing a serious threat to their property in the neighborhood.

govt has to step in

yashuai:
The federal government has requested for the account statements of some former public office holders to 10 banks.

Bloomberg reports that the public officers include former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience; former ministers of petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke and Rilwanu Lukman.

means they really have no case

HappyNigeran:
The Nigerian Bar Association has disowned a Lagos-based social critic, Adeola Samuel-Ilori, saying it has no record of him as a legal practitioner.

The NBA, in a correspondence from its General Secretary, Jonathan Gunu Taidi, said Samuel-Ilori’s name was not on the enrolment list of lawyers with the Supreme Court of Nigeria.....

should be arrested

lalastclala:
The Serum Institute of India said it is going to start making a still-experimental coronavirus vaccine while it is still on trial.

The Serum Institute of India which produces 1.5 billion vaccine doses each year for an array of diseases said it will start production before the autumn target date of the Oxford trial.

why the rush?

fergie060:
The woman who was offered for sale on Facebook by a Lebanese, Wael Jerro, has been rescued.

The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Tuesday said the victim, Busari Peace, was with the Nigerian Mission in Beirut, Lebanon.

Good

Liverpool fans wont like this news

lalastclala:
Coronavirus vaccine being tested at Oxford Uni left monkeys ‘virus free in one month’

A POTENTIAL coronavirus vaccine from Oxford University has kept monkeys immune from the deadly virus for a month.
The promising results comes after top Government experts warned a vaccine might be the only way out of the crisis.

badazz monkeys

fergie010:
President Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari earlier on Tuesday, solidarising with Nigeria over the coronavirus pandemic.

According to Lai Mohammed, minister of information, who disclosed this at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19, the US president promised to send across ventilators to Nigeria.

nothing special

Nemer2020:
The Benue State Emergen­cy Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday lament­ed the donation of 250 bags of spoilt beans to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the state as palliatives from the Federal Government.

The agency also lamented the influx of more than 10,000 refugees into the state, as well as more IDPs into the camps.

wicked!

Wisdomkos:
[PHOTOS] N500b COVID-19 Fund: Senate Bars Journalists From Nat. Assembly (Happening Now)

The Senate of the National Assembly has barred journalists from gaining access to the National Assembly as it resumed today to deliberate on the 500 Billion COVID intervention fund request from President Buhari.

unabashed corruption

Wisdomkos:
Resident Doctors Pull Out of ESUTH Strike, Lampoon ARD Leadership

Some resident Doctors have pulled out of the Strike action embarked upon by Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) last week.

good thinking

Mascjebs:
Africa's Sahara may have been 'the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth', a palaeontological study has concluded.

A team of international researchers found that what is today the famous desert region was home to 'ferocious predators' around 100 million years ago. At this time, the Sahara was a vast river system that played host to flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters.

cool era

Ndiburna:
The Jigawa State Government has received a total number of 76 Almajiri pupils evacuated from the neighbouring Gombe state, as it rejected 7 out of the total number leaving a total returnees to 69.

The Secretary task force on Covic-19, Dr. Salisu Mu’azu while receiving the almajirais at NYSC orientation camp Fanisau in Dutse, said the returnees almajirais would undergo medical screening for two weeks and other necessary investigation before handover to their respective parents.

abolish this already

tarantina1:
A top emergency room doctor at a major Manhattan hospital that treated coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday, according to her father.

Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview.

RIP

oshozondli:
Kazeem Alogba, chief judge of Lagos state, has approved the remote hearing of cases via Skype or Zoom.

The new practice direction for the judiciary in the state, signed by the chief judge on April 27, also allows lawyers and litigants to file cases electronically, while fees to be paid may be communicated to lawyers through email, WhatsApp, or text message.

our world wont be same again

fergie010:
The 21-Man Osun COVID-19 Food and Relief Committee begins food distribution to vunerable people; the elderly and disabled, through a social register as recognized by the World Bank.

The delivery will be carried out through Christian and Muslim leaders, traditional rulers, elders in the society, Civil Society Organizations, Local Government Chairmen, Focal Staff of all local governments and Community Development Associations.

Here for it

myaprince:
COVID-19: Countries With More Than 80% Recovery. PS: The report is done on countries having at least 1000 cases and the data used in the report is based on worldometer statistics as at 12pm 28th March, 2020.

While the world has remain a firm believer in human race and our ability to overcome the pandemic,it seems like there is a ray of light shining for us. Some countries have recorded immense recovery of cases of Covid-19 in the last month.

there is hope

RZArectar:
In more measures to curb the spread of coronavirus in Rivers State, Governor Nyesom Wike, has ordered the immediate deportation of almajiris and other street beggars from the state with immediate effect.

Governor Wike gave the order on Monday in a statewide broadcast on COVID-19. He said it became necessary to deport the almajiris because of the dimension COVID-19 is beginning to take in the country.

good measure