Month: March 2020
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S/Korea prepares extra budget worth $20trn won over Covid-19 – Minister
South Korea’s government is preparing an extra budget bill worth around 20 trillion won (16.7 billion dollars) to fight against the new coronavirus, the interior minister said on Monday. “The government plans to submit a supplementary budget bill to the National Assembly on Thursday as it struggles to contain the fast spread of COVID-19 amid…
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Bangladeshi police kill 7 Rohingya men suspected of being bandits
Police on Monday said seven Rohingya men suspected of being bandits have been killed in a gunfight with police near a refugee camp in south-eastern Bangladesh. Battalion officer Mirza Shahed Mahtab said the gunfight occured when members of a special police unit, the Rapid Action Battalion, raided a hillside den of a suspected gang in…
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Sanitation: C/River Gov’t collaborates with vigilante group
The Cross River Government has called for synergy with the state command of Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) on sanitation and enforcement of environmental laws in the state. Commissioner for Environment in the state, Mr Mfon Bassey, made the call on Monday in Calabar when the leadership of the state VGN command paid him a…
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Unilorin creates COVID-19, Lassa fever response team
The University of Ilorin says it is establishing a Disease Outbreak Response Team, tagged ‘UNILORIN DORT’, to address the challenges of deadly diseases. This is contained in a statement signed by Prof. Olatunji Kolawole, the Director of the Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, of the university. He stated that this is in response to…
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Student leaders urge Dickson to join Bayelsa West senatorial race
By Ere-ebi Imisi Student leaders from the Bayelsa West Senatorial District of Bayelsa State have urged the immediate past governor of the state, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson to join the race for the vacant Senatorial seat in the National Assembly. In a statement signed by the chairman, Students Consultative forum, University of Africa Toru-Orua,…