The Sokoto State Ministry of Health has announced the death of one of the Coronavirus patients in its isolation center. This brings the total number of Coronavirus related deaths in Sokoto state to 13. The tweet shared on the ministry’s official Twitter handle reads; Breaking!! Unfortunately, 1 #COVID19 death has been recorded at our Isolation centre. This brings the total number of #COVID19 related deaths in Sokoto to 13 Keep calm
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Despite criticisms that have greeted the action of Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, over the demolition of two hotels in Port Harcourt, the state capital, Peoples Democratic Party has thrown its weight behind him, saying he acted in the interest of his people. Wike had on Sunday personally monitored the demolition of Prudent Hotel, Eleme, and Etemeteh Hotel in Onne Local Government Area of the state for allegedly flouting the state’ Executive Order put in place to curb the spread …
A LASTMA official was allegedly beaten to a coma by a police officer while he was on duty in Apapa, Lagos. According to the daughter of the LASTMA official, her father, Roland Fuludu, was beaten by SP Femi, a police officer attached to the Apapa Zone 13 of Lagos State. She said her father objected to the police officers breaking traffic rules and collecting bribes while at it, hence the beating he received. She claimed that SP Femi hit her …
Imo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Damaris Osunkwo has disclosed that the state’s third case of Coronavirus is a Kano returnee. The health commissioner who disclosed that all the necessary contacts tracing has been done and samples already taken from people considered highly exposed, added that all the three cases in the state are doing well at the isolation and treatment centre where they are being quarantined. Damaris said; “The third and newly confirmed case is a 43-year-old returnee from …
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two Chinese: Mr. Meng Wei Kun and Mr. Xu Koi for offering the sum of N50, 000,000( Fifty Million Naira only) as a bribe to its Zonal Head, Mr. Abdullahi Lawal. The suspects were arrested on Monday, May 11, 2020 in Sokoto. The bribe was allegedly offered in a desperate bid to compromise ongoing investigations of a construction company, China Zhonghao Nig. Ltd, handling contracts awarded by …
President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced a former House of Representative member, Tobias Okwuru, who was named as a member of the Federal Character Commission board two months after his death. The appointment of the late Okwuru alongside 37 others was contained in a letter Buhari sent to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation on April 28, 2020. But in a letter on Tuesday, Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said Buhari had requested the replacement of four nominees including Okwuru. He said, “In …