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  • COVID-19: KAM Holding donates N20m to Kwara govt

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Group Managing Director/CEO of KAM Holding, Alhaji (Dr.) Kamoru Yusuf, has donated the sum of N20m to the Kwara state COVID-19 Technical Committee towards ensuring that the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world does not spread to the state. KAM Holding is an indigenous private company based in Ilorin, the Kwara…

  • Kidnapped Adamawa NULGE Chairman: Police nabs 4 suspects

    Kidnapped Adamawa NULGE Chairman: Police nabs 4 suspects

    , recover Army uniforms Barely few hours after the kidnap of Adamawa Chairman of National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Alhaji Hamman-Julde Gatugel, four suspected kidnappers have been arrested in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of the state. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Yola.…

  • Missing Osun COVID-19 patient found-Govt.

    The Osun government says it has found the missing COVID-19 patient who reportedly absconded from the Isolation Centre in Ejigbo in the early hours of Saturday. Mrs Funke Egbemode, the State’s Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo, said the unnamed female patient had been returned…

  • Gov. Bello extols APC Chairman, Oshiomhole at 68

    Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, has felicitated with Mr Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on the occasion of his 68th birthday anniversary celebration. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Muhammed, on Saturday in Lokoja, Bello described Oshiomhole as a quintessential and astute politician of quality, ethics and…

  • COVID-19: Osun govt. commences fumigation exercise in Ile-Ife

    The Osun Government has commenced the fumigation of public places in Ile-Ife in efforts aimed at curtailing the spread of the coronavirus. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who monitored the fumigation exercise in the ancient city on Saturday, reports that areas to be covered included markets, local council secretariat and the…

  • COVID 19 Patient Dies In UBTH

    By Ikhili Ebalu , Benin City. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the death of two patients of coronavirus in Lagos and Edo State . NCDC also confirmed 20 new cases of the disease, making the total cases to 210, stating that “Two new deaths have been recorded in Lagos and Edo…

  • Osun Govt debunks report on missing 6 Covid-19 patients

    Osun Govt debunks report on missing 6 Covid-19 patients

    Osun Government has denied report that six patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have escaped from the Ejigbo isolation centre in the state. Mr Ismail Omipidan, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Gboyega Oyetola , in a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday debunked the story, describing it as a mere…

  • No confirmed COVID-19 case in Kwara: Govt

    · Explains UITH incident, samples taken · Govt begins distribution of N154m worth of palliatives By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Government on has denied that the state has recorded a case of coronavirus (COVID-19), adding however that all the six samples of suspected cases so far tested in the state have been negative. “The…

  • Kwara: Deputy Gov chastises security operative for aiding lockdown violation

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Deputy Governor and Chairman Technical Committee on Coronavirus, Mr Kayode Alabi, has intercepted some fully loaded passenger buses operating along Otte-Ogbomosho road in violation of the state government’s lockdown order. This development made the Deputy Governor to chastise the security agents for conniving with commercial vehicle operators to violate…

  • COVID-19: Tuyil donates N10m to support Kwara, lauds Gov AbdulRazaq

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Concerned about the rampaging coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) across the globe, particularly Nigeria, and to prevent its spread to Kwara state, Tuyil Pharmaceutical Nigeria Limited has donated the sum of Ten Million Naira (N10m) to support the efforts of the State’s COVID-19 Technical Committee. Tuyil is a leading private pharmaceutical manufacturing company…