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Confusion as NYSC staff dies of COVID-19 in Kano

Daily Dispatch February 3, 2021

There are palpable fear and confusion at the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), camp in Kano after a staff died of COVID-19 complications. The victim, (name withheld) who was earlier evacuated from the NYSC orientation camp in Kusala dam, Karaya about 95 kilometers from Kano metropolis had

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State House Clinic to get COVID-19 testing laboratory – PTF

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2021

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, has said that a COVID-19 testing laboratory will soon be established at the State House Clinic. Mustapha said this on Tuesday in Abuja during the commissioning of State House Clinic Special Care Centre (COVID-19 Isolation Centre). According […]

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Zulum Sacks Commissioner Of Health

Daily Dispatch February 2, 2021

By Oluchi Ihediuce Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has sack the Commissioner of Health, Dr Salihu Kwaya-Bura today as part of measures to reposition the ministry. This is contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the governor on Public Relations and Strategy, Malam Isa Gusau. ”The governor has directed his Chief of Staff, […]

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No one has immunity against COVID-19, FG cautions Nigerians

Daily Dispatch February 1, 2021

The Federal Government has cautioned Nigerians to protect themselves amid the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, warning that no one has immunity against the deadly virus. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, gave the warning in a series of tweets on Monday. “We have a duty to protect ourselves and […]

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Why Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is delayed – FG

Daily Dispatch January 31, 2021

Nigeria says the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is delayed because of  “politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria.” The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday, said the issue of vaccine was a serious one to government which […]

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Yahaya Bello believes Covid-19 ‘is an advancement of malaria which is not really a big deal’ Kogi Speaker

Daily Dispatch January 27, 2021

Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Matthew Kolawole, says Governor Yahaya Bello’s insistence that COVID-19 was a ruse was to ensure that the virus did not set the state’s economy backward.He said in Ilorin on Tuesday that: “it is not that the governor is not accepting the fact that there is a virus called […]