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By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRaszaq has confirmed that no fewer than 75 persons suspected to have had contacts with COVID-19 patients in the state are already in isolation for medical observation about their health status. AbdulRazaq, who made this known on Tuesday while addressing journalists at the government house in ilorin,…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Authorities of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) have disclosed that they had placed no fewer than 28 medical staff that had contact with the deceased suspected COVID-19 patient on self-isolation. Kwara state on Monday recorded two cases of COVID-19 allegedly caused by their contact with a suspected late coronavirus…

· Says he was in self-isolation as a precaution By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has launched the Federal Government’s conditional cash transfer to 25,000 households in the state, with beneficiaries getting at least N20,000 each. He said: “Today, I flag off the disbursement of conditional cash transfer initiative of the Federal…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Technical Committee on COVID-19 has confirmed two separate cases of COVID-19 in the state. One is the wife of the UITH patient, a UK returnee, who died last Thursday and the other is another UK returnee. This statement, according to Rafiu Ajakaye, press secretary to the governor as well…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has de-listed nine Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres from the list of approved centres in the just concluded 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB, in its weekly bulletin, published every Monday in Abuja said the centres were de-listed due to technical deficiency to conniving with candidates to cheat. According…

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin, on Monday tendered his resignation letter after failing to convince the governing majority to postpone the May 10 presidential election in view of coronavirus. “I believe that the election should be postponed. The May 10 date is out of the question,” Gowin said. The politician announced he would vote…

The Federal Government has provided N102.5 billion in resources for direct interventions in the country’s healthcare sector, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has said. Ahmed made this known at a news conference on fiscal stimulus measures in response to COVID-19 pandemic and oil prices fiscal shock in Abuja on Monday.…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin National leadership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Solidarity Vanguard (BATSV) has felicitated with the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomole on his 68th birthday. National Chairman of the Vanguard, Dr. Dare Owotomobi, while congratulating the APC National Chairman and wishing him more successes in office, lauded Oshiomole’s…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin No fewer than eleven prominent socio- cultural associations and professional bodies have hailed the appointment of Professor Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi as the new and second vice chancellor of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete. The associations in separate press statements made available to newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara state capital on Thursday,…

By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara state Technical Committee on COVID-19 has stated that the government has not declared total lockdown as is being speculated in some quarters. A statement on Sunday by Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and Spokesman for the Technical Committee on COVID-19, said “the public, as has been the…