Day: July 24, 2020

We spend N1million daily on each severe COVID-19 patient – Lagos

Damilola Olonade

  The commissioner for health in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Professor Akin Abayomi, has said the state government spends an average of N1 million daily on each patient with severe coronavirus. The state has recorded 14,009 cases as at Thursday, July 23, 2020. Abayomi who said this during a press briefing on COVID-19 Infection in the state, maintained that the state also spends an average of N100,000 daily on each patient with mild or moderate infections. Fielding questions on the cost of managing COVID-19 patients in the state, the commissioner emphasised…

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NO WAY! WAEC rejects Nigeria’s plea for Exam shift

Tim Bauer

  . Northern states consider GCE, Southwestern states in race to meet up with WASSCE     The West African Council Examinations Council (WAEC) has rejected a plea by Nigeria for a shift in the date and timetable for its West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who said this, maintained that students in some states may be forced to sit for the General Certificate Examinations (GCE) holding in November, if their states fail to meet up with this year’s timetable…

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South Africa Shuts Schools Again As COVID-19 deaths soar to 6,000

Aoko Benjamin

  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the shutdown of public schools again barely two months after the schools were opened for academic activities. The closure which, according to him, is for a month from Monday, July 27, to limit the spread of coronavirus as the country grapples with surging infections. The country has now recorded 408,052 coronavirus cases, the fifth-highest in the world. More than 6,000 people have died from the virus. Rising infections have, according to a report by AFP, caused concern among teaching staff, with unions…

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How Gunmen stormed Nigerian Court, whisked away 4 alleged hardened criminals

Aliyu Aliyu

  More details have emerged on how five daredevil gunmen stormed a Nigerian Court, shot sporadically and whisked away four alleged hardened criminals. The four suspects who were standing trial for kidnapping and robbery, were to be arraigned before the Plateau High Court in Barkin Ladi Local Government of the state. The suspects, according to a report by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), namely; Umar Adamu, Bashir Mohammed, Musa Usman and Abdul Haruna, were to appear before Justice Nanpon Dadi when the incident occurred. “A visibly shaken Prosecutor from…

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Group demands Minors’ Release from the Nigerian Prison

Precious Ibekwe

  A group has called on Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately order the release of Minors from all federal prisons in the country. The group known as Hospital and Prison Welfare Initiative (HPWI) did not give a statistics on numbers of minors being detained in correctional centres across the Africa’s most populous nation. It, however, declared that prisons in Nigeria are congested calling on the government to, as a matter of urgency, declare war on the Congestion of the Nigeria Prisons, especially during Covid-19. The group said In the…

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COVID-19: Number of Health workers infected in Africa surges pass 10,000 – WHO

Damilola Olonade

  Over 10, 000 health workers in 40 countries across Africa have contracted COVID-19. The World Health Organization (WHO), which announced this warned of the threat posed by COVID-19 to health workers across Africa. Some 10,000 health workers in the 40 countries have been infected with COVID-19 so far, a sign of the challenges medical staff on the frontlines of the outbreak face, the organisation said. Platforms Africa reports that COVID-19 cases in Africa appear to be gathering pace. There are now more than 750 000 cases of COVID-19, with over 15…

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