Platforms Africa fact checks fake news flying around across the continent on reasons the DR Congo Nobel Laureate Mukwege left COVID-19 team. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Nobel laureate, Dr. Dennis Mukwege, resigned his appontment from a Covid-19 team through a statement last Wednesday, June 10 2020. As much as the resignation of this gynaecologist who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his work against sexual violence in war, generated interest across Africa, the news has also been greeted by fake news, lies and misinformarion across the…
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Nigeria’s Wema Bank shuts regional, branch offices as 54 staff, customers contract COVID-19
About 54 staff and a few customers of Wema Bank in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, have been sent to the Lagos State isolation centres for the treatment and management of Coronavirus Disease. A Lagos-based online medium, The Eagle Online, which reported this quoting impeccable sources, noted that this followed the outbreak of the virus at a Lagos State office of the bank, which serves as both regional and branch offices. The affected office, The Eagle Online gathered, was the bank’s office at Oba Akran Avenue in Ikeja, which serves…
Read MoreCOVID-19: FirstBank staff tests positive, 24 others quarantine 54 days after losing manager in Kano
FirstBank has redeployed a full team of fresh staff to a branch in Lagos after the facility was disinfected due to confirmation that a member of the old team was tested positive for COVID-19 while other were put on compulsory isolation. The COVID-19 scare rocking the First Bank of Nigeria Limited degenerated on Tuesday as the financial institution announced that one of its staff at a branch in Marina, Lagos, Nigeria, has tested positive for the dreaded infection . This came barely 54 days after the bank mourned a…
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