Nobody Under Our Management Has Died Of COVID-19, Abia Govt Insists
Following the announcement of 3 COVID-19 casualties in Abia by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the state government has insisted that no COVID-19 patient under its care has died. The state's Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu made this known on Monday while fielding questions from newsmen in Umuahia, the state capital. While stating that the state government...
Anti-Vaccine Politician Dies Of COVID-19
A Brazilian politician who introduced a bill prohibiting compulsory Covid-19 vaccines has died from coronavirus. Legislator Silvio Antonio Favero, 54, passed away at a private hospital in the city of Cuiaba, Brazil, on Saturday. Favero, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul for the Social Liberal Party (PSL), had been hospitalised since March 4 and intubated in the hospital's intensive...
COVID-19: Imo State Government Postpones Resumption Of Schools
Government of Imo State has postponed resumption of schools in the state until Jan. 25 due to the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s Commissioner for Education, Prof. Bernard Ikegwuoha said. Ikegwuoha, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Owerri on Monday, said the postponement was as a result of rising cases of COVID-19 in the urban areas...
Group Carpets EFCC Chairman, Bawa Over Sen. Kalu’s Retrial, Says He’s Seeking Public Clap
A group, Concerned Abia Professionals has condemned the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Abdulrasheed Bawa over his comment that the Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Orji Uzor will be retried, describing it as a deliberate attempt to attract public applause. The group wondered why the EFCC Chairman, Bawa is not aware that Sen. Kalu's retrial has since commenced...
Doctor Who Gave Birth To Twins In Coma Battling COVID-19 Returns Home [Photos, Video]
An NHS consultant whose premature twins were delivered by caesarean while she lay in a coma battling Covid-19 is finally back home safely with her family. Perpetual Uke gave birth while on a ventilator in an induced coma and did not see her newborn babies until she came round sixteen days later. The twins, Palmer, a girl, and Pascal, a boy, stayed in a...
BREAKING: Nigeria Records 501 New Cases Of COVID-19, Total Now 15,682
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 501 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 15,682. The centre disclosed this on Saturday night via its verified Twitter handle. Also Read: Ohanaeze Ndigbo Mobilses 100 Religious Bodies To Pray For Abia Gov “501 new cases of #COVID19 Lagos-195 FCT-50 Kano-42 Kaduna-27 Edo-26 Oyo-22 Imo-21 Gombe-17...
Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation Begins A Two Days COVID-19 Outreach (Photos)
In a bid to sustain the Federal Government's efforts in containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation a non-governmental/business organisation on Wednesday embarked on a Covid-19 outreach programme in some major areas of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. The foundation is expected to distribute thousands of items such as Hand Sanitizers, Washing soaps,...
COVID-19: Prof. Ibe Tasks Abians On Caution, Assumption Of Responsibility
As Abia continues to records an astronomical increase in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, the Chancellor of Gregory University Uturu, Prof Gregory Ibe has urged the people of the State to commit their cares, fears, and affairs to God in order to attract divine provision and protection. In a release signed by the PAR, Media & Public Relations...
Mob Raids Warehouse In Mazamaza Reportedly Housing COVID-19 Palliatives [VIDEO]
Residents discover Covid-19 palliatives that should have been shared to the people stored away in a warehouse stored at Mazamaza community in Oriade Local Council Development Area of Lagos State https://youtu.be/MnT7xE6ywBY After the hoodlums gained entrance into the warehouse, they looted some COVID-19 palliatives, a resident who witnessed the event said. The warehouse is located on Benster Crescent, popularly called Monkey Village. The...
Abia Govt Releases Picture Of Fleeing COVID-19 Patient
The Abia state government has made public the pictorial profile of a fleeing COVID-19 patient in the state, Emmanuel Ononiwu who took to his heels after a test confirmed he was positive for the virus. He was later declared wanted after escaping from a holding center in Aba where he was kept in readiness for movement into isolation centre. Mr. Ononiwu,...
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