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The Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) has produced mechanical ventilators using locally sourced materials with a view to contributing to the fight against COVID-19. Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, who disclosed this while briefing journalists in ...
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Widows benefit from palliatives as food distribution continues in Delta
AS part of measures to cushion the effects of lockdown occasioned by coronavirus, the Delta State Government has extended palliatives to widows and other vulnerable persons in the state. The distribution of food items, which commenced in local government areas, ...
Read More »FG extends airport shutdown by two weeks as UK evacuates 213
The Federal Government has extended the shutdown of airports nationwide by another two weeks. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who disclosed this via his Twitter account, stated that the facilities would no longer open for commercial operations on April ...
Read More »Quarantine for 14 days over Kyari, NUJ tells Mustapha, others, threatens protests
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has urged chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, and other members of the team ...
Read More »Petitioner, ICPC differ on probe of Kogi CCT scheme, over 60,000 Benue households to benefit
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has disagreed with Hauwa Sulaiman, a petitioner from Kogi State, over calls to probe fraud allegations in the state’s Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) scheme. Sulaiman had accused the Kogi ICPC ...
Read More »UN urges Borno to decongest 23 IDP camps, Kebbi converts NYSC camp to isolation centre
The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, has urged Borno State government to de-congest 23 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps to prevent fire and coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks across the state. According to him, half of the ...
Read More »Lockdown now operation kill South East youths, COSEYL laments
The Coalition of Southeast Youth Leaders (COSEYL) has decried the rate of extra-judicial killing of Igbo youths by security officials in the guise of enforcing the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. In a statement issued by its President, Goodluck Ibem and Secretary ...
Read More »Onyema denies presidential ambition in 2023
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has denied nursing presidential ambition. He stated this while responding to an online poster by a group -United People of Nigeria Initiative (UPNI) endorsing him for presidency in 2023. He ...
Read More »How to contain spread of coronavirus in communities, by YMLSF, cleric urges health sector development
The Young Medical Laboratory Scientists Forum (YMLSF) has urged Nigerians to obey social distancing order and other advice from health authorities to enable the nation and the rest of the world to defeat the coronavirus. In a statement issued by ...
Read More »Our priority is to save personnel, Nigerians, NPDC boss declares
Management of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) in collaboration with ND Western has declared that its priority at the moment is to help its personnel and Nigerian survive the coronavirus pandemic. Manager, Government Relations, Community and Security, NPDC/NDW OML ...
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