Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, has disclosed the mission of the 15 Chinese experts who came into the country in April. While speaking at the daily press briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 today May 19, Arebesola said the experts are in Nigeria on the bill of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) to assist in building and equipping isolation centres. He also refuted claims that they have been snuck out of Nigeria. “Indeed 15 …
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The Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire was on Tuesday May 19, questioned by members of the House of Representatives on whereabouts of the Chinese doctors who arrived the country weeks ago. The lawmakers who demanded the full details of the activities and whereabouts of the Chinese doctors, said they were not satisfied with the Minister’s statement of the Chinese doctors not being guests of the Federal Ministry of Health but that of a Chinese firm in Abuja. Channels …
Femi Fani-Kayode has questioned the whereabouts of the 15-member Chinese doctors who are currently in Nigeria after Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire said they are not guests of the Nigerian government. During the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday, May 14, Ehanire disclosed that the Chinese medics are staff of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC). He further revealed that they are in Nigeria on a Company visa, but refused to disclose …
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has given the Federal Government a 48-hour ultimatum to state the whereabouts of the Chinese medical team brought in purportedly to assist in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. In a statement released by its spokesperson Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said its position is predicated on the alarming declaration by the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, that he cannot account for the whereabouts of the Chinese doctors who were brought …
Hours after his father and his 2 children were discharged from the Coronavirus treatment center, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr, son of the owner of AIT, has also tested negative to the virus. Raymond Jnr was the first in his family to test positive for the virus. He went into Isolation on April 27. His father and other family members tested positive for the virus on May 1st and were also taken into Isolation. Raymond Snr and two of his grandchildren …
The Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire on Thursday May 14 said that the 15-member Chinese doctors who are still in the country are not guests of the Nigerian government. Speaking at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja, Ehanire disclosed that the Chinese medics are staff of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC). He further revealed that they are in Nigeria on a Company visa. The Minister said; “I think not all …