Tag: COVID-19 lockdown
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COVID-19 Lockdown: YYA urges FG, South-West leadership to ensure citizens’ security, welfare
The Yoruba Youth Assembly (YYA), an umbrella body of Yoruba youth groups globally, on Wednesday appealed to the Federal Government and the South-West governors to upgrade communities’ security architecture to tame COVID-19 lockdown induced crimes. The National President of the body, Mr Olarinde Thomas, the National Secretary, Mr Deji Oso, and Mr Nathaniel Oduyemi its…
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COVID-19 lockdown: Inmates get relief package from Edo govt
The Edo Government has donated relief items to the Nigerian Correctional Service in the state for inmates in custody. The Edo Command’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), DSC Aminu Suleman, made this known in a statement in Benin on Tuesday. He described the donation by the government as an unprecedented demonstration of the commitment to the…
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COVID-19 lockdown: NGO urges effective distribution of palliatives in Ebonyi
An NGO, Development Integrity Foundation (DIG), has urged Ebonyi Government to eschew partisanship in the distribution of palliative items released to cushion hardship occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The Executive Director of DIG, Mr Oliver Aja, made the appeal in Abakaliki on Tuesday in an interview with our correspondent. The director commended state government…