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COVID-19: Makinde resumes work, inspects 100-bed Infectious Disease Centre …says state will test 10,000 samples

Daily Dispatch April 6, 2020

…appreciates residents’ prayers, support during isolation Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, formally resumed work on Monday and immediately conducted an inspection tour of the state’s largest isolation centre- Infectious Disease Centre, Olodo, Ibadan. The governor, who appeared calm

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COVID -19: FG receives medical supplies from Turkey

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

The Federal Government at the weekend took delivery of the first batch of medical supplies intended to fight the spread of COVID-19 and treatment for infected persons. The supplies were flown in by an Air Peace Boeing 777 aircraft which landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport , Abuja from Istanbul, the Turkish capital on […]

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PDP charges NASS to ensure transparency in N500bn intervention proposal

Daily Dispatch April 5, 2020

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges the National Assembly to comprehensively scrutinize the overall profile of the N500 billion proposed by the Federal Government as an intervention fund against the COVID-19 pandemic so as to ensure that the fund reached the desired target. The party in a communique on Sunday urged the legislature to examine […]

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We have the capacity to treat COVID-19 patient- Akeredolu

Daily Dispatch April 4, 2020

Ondo Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has ruled out taking the COVID-19 patient in the state to Lagos for treatment. Governor Akeredolu said the state has the capacity to treat the patient, who is a military officer that just returned from India. Akeredolu, who spoke in Akure at a world press conference, said contact tracing for the […]

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BEWARE: Notice Circulating On Social Media Using Atiku Abubakar’s Name Is A Scam

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2020

Abuja, 02 April 2020: We wish to bring to the attention of Nigerians that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is not connected to a certain notice circulating on social media directing unsuspecting members of the public to a link. We thus state categorically that any such link asking for the bio-data of Nigerians as beneficiaries […]

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TY Danjuma Inaugurates Task Force For Victim Support Fund (VSF)

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2020

The Chairman of the Victims Support Fund, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd) has inaugurated the Victim Support Fund (VSF) Task Force on COVID-19. The Task Force is mandated to provide palliative measures to Internally Displaced Persons and other vulnerable groups around the country, as part of its contribution to national efforts to fight COVID-19. According […]