Malam Abba Kyari: A great public servant by Mamman Daura
One of those lives lost was Malam Abba Kyari’s, Chief of Staff to the President. Malam Abba succumbed to complications after contracting and recovering from Corona Virus a week today. Malam Abba Kyari was a man blessed with mountainous gifts and uncommon attributes of intelligence, diligence, hard work, loyalty to friends and worthy causes. One…
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NMA laments inadequate testing, worries over rejection of patients by hospitals
The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, yesterday expressed concern over hospitals’ refusal to treat patients with other ailments, lamenting the low rate of testing in the country. This came as Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, in a report, said 26 percent or 203 of the 782 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria as of April 21…
Sokoto budgets N500m on Ramadan feeding, blames inflation
Sokoto State Government will expend the sum of N500m for the feeding of its citizens during Ramadan. Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, while constituting a 32-person committee on COVID-19 Ramadan feeding programme in the state said, “Unlike last year, there is significant rise in the amount to be spent from N380m last year to N500m this…
LASG warns private schools against third term resumption
The Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned private schools in the state to shun the idea of resuming for the third term academic session until the lockdown period is over. Recall that the state government had on March 18 ordered public and private schools in the state to close down from March 23, as…