The Kogi state government has again countered claims of the state having cases of Coronavirus by stating that the alleged index case in the state only suffered a bee sting. Kingsley Fanwo, the state’s commissioner for information and communication disclosed this in a statement released on Monday June 8. Reacting to NCDC’s May 27 announcement of the state having two cases of Coronavirus, Fanwo said the the chief imam of Kabba, Abubakar Ahmad who was one of the two patients only suffered …
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The war of words between the Kogi state government and the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, continued today with the state Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, asking the agency to stop ”defrauding” Nigerians with the Coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on Channels Television this evening, Fanwo accused the agency of fraud. According to him, the NCDC has an agenda to spread COVID-19 to all the states in the Federation ” NCDC should stop defrauding this country. I am not one …
Kogi state’s commissioner for information, Kingsley Fanwo has served an update on the state government’s effort to check the spread of Coronavirus. The Commissioner who spoke to newsmen revealed that they’ve tested 111 residents for COVID-19, but the tests returned negative. Fanwo disclosed that they’ve procured about 5,000 testing kits and residents of the state who were tested using guidelines of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), were randomly selected. He said; “Kogi state got testing kits …