Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 5th May 2020
Here are some of the Breaking News in Nigeria Today Tuesday 5th May 2020 on some of the nation newspapers .
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Wear face masks or be quarantined, Delta warns residents
D elta State government yesterday ordered arrest of and 14 days compulsory isolation for business operators who refuse to wear face masks as part of efforts to check the spread of the coronavirus. The state warned commercial tricycle and Delta City Taxi operators to desist from carrying any passenger or transacting business with customers not wearing face masks. The state said such business centres would be permanently shutdown while the owners would be treated as enemies of the state. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa had last week…
Dare remembers Super Eagles legend, Yekini
M inister of Youth and Sports Development Mr. Sunday Dare has described the late Rashidi Yekini as one of the best strikers the African continent has produced on the eighth year anniversary of his death. According to Dare, “Yekini was a delight to watch during his playing days. He scored some of the most fantastic goals that left some goal keepers helpless. “Yekini will forever be remembered as legend of football in Africa not just Nigeria”. Dare concluded by saying, “May his soul continue to rest…
Oliseh lays foundation for Eagles – Balogun
Super Eagles central defender, Leon Balogun, has said that the foundation of the present senior national team handled by Franco-German Gernot Rohr was laid by former Nigerian International, Sunday Oliseh. Balogun disclosed that the nucleus of the team was assembled during the days of Sunday Oliseh as Super Eagles coach. Speaking on how the foundation was laid for the team that went to feature at the last World Cup in Russia and won bronze at the Africa Cup of Nations AFCON in Egypt, Balogun said it…
Multiplication of regional commissions
R ecently, there was an uproar in the Senate during a debate on a bill seeking the establishment of South-West Development Commission. The establishment of the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) had led to the clamour by other geo-political zones to have such bodies that will cater for their zones in infrastructural development. Members of the House of Representatives from the South-East, North-Central and North-West had earlier indicated interest in having their own development commissions. This is because of the impression created by those that benefitted from…
What is Oshiomhole’s legacy in Edo healthcare?
F ewer things have left me as bewildered as the statement sent to me via WhatsApp yesterday that was purportedly issued by Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this statement, he offered support and encouragement to frontline health workers and applauded their contributions to the fight against COVID-19. While these heroes of our time deserve more than the accolades that they are receiving for the personal sacrifices they are making during this unprecedented global health crisis, the…
New HIV drug can be taken once a year
R esearchers in the United States (US) have reformulated an HIV medication that could eventually be taken once a year. According to the findings of a new study published online in the journal ‘Nature Materials,’ the idea of the new medication is to free people from needing daily pills. The work is in the early stages, having been studied in lab animals. But the goal is to create an HIV drug that can be injected annually — offering protection from infection or control of the virus…
Okowa: Coronavirus impacted badly on Delta budget
D elta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that the deadly Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) had impacted negatively on the state budget for 2020 fiscal year. This was as the governor insisted that state government would reduce the budget size for the fiscal year and to combat the deadly virus with social investments and agricultural empowerment to meet economic realities of the state. Okowa, who said while his administration was striving to complete all ongoing infrastructural projects that had reached advanced stages, noted that new ones…
Nasarawa community decries confiscation of farmland
T iv community in Kadarko chiefdom, Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, has called on the federal government to set up an independent commission of inquiry into the land dispute between it and the paramount ruler of Kadarko chiefdom, Osokadoko of Kadarko, His Royal Highness (HRH), Umaru Dodo. The group further called on both the federal and state governments to intervene in the mater with a view to addressing it before it degenerated into crisis. Addressing a news conference shortly after a meeting held at Mori village,…
Kogi doctors threaten to withdraw services
W orkers Unions at the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, have said they would withdraw their services if nothing was done to protect their members from contracting the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic. The unions under the umbrella of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), revealed that there were no single test kit provided them to ascertain who is living with the virus or not. The state chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Obajemu Samuel, who led other Health Workers Unions of the Federal Medical Centre, to pay courtesy visit on the leadership of…
COVID-19: Benue tightens restrictions on Nasarawa boundary
B enue State goverment through the Action Committee on COVID-19 yesterday tightened restrictions on the boundary between it and neighbouring Nasarawa State. Deputy Governor and Chairman of the Committee, Engr. Benson Abounu, accompanied by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Orientation, Hon. Mrs. Ngunan Addingi, led a taskforce to the entry point at Yelewata, where he supervised the restriction of movement into the state. A technical team on ground at the entry point comprising officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Benue State Ministry of Health…
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