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COVID-19: We Have Two Confirmed Cases In Abia

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

We have received the report of two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Abia State this evening from NCDC. Both patients are advanced in age but currently stable at an isolation center in our state.

On the direction of the Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, we have deployed our ventilators to the isolation center in readiness for their use if eventually required to nurse them back to good health. Our well trained medical personnel are offering all necessary support and we hope and pray the patients survive this ailment.

Contact tracing has commenced in earnest and our rapid response team is currently moving to bring in those who may have had contact with the two index cases.

Meanwhile, the result of “Prosper Vincent” returned negative and he will promptly be released from isolation.

We wish to call on our people not to panic but continue to observe all the guidelines issued by NCDC and the state inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19:

-Stay at home unless there is a compelling need to go out either to buy drugs or food. Do so with your face mask on.

COVID-19: Here Are The FULL List Of COVID-19 Test Centres In Lagos

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

The Lagos State Government has announced COVID-19 test centres in its 20 Local Government Areas.

It, however, said the visit to the centres is ‘strictly” by appointment, not emergency in a tweet on its official handle on Sunday.

To book the appointment, residents were told to make requests through app.alertclinic.com at the test centre closest to them.

Lagos has recorded 309 cases, 94 recoveries and 14 fatalities, making it the epicentre of coronavirus in Nigeria.

COVID-19 TEST CENTRES IN LAGOS STATE

Somolu Local Government – Wright Memorial Primary Health Centre (Emmanuel Street, Somolu)
Ifako Ijaiye Local Government – Ifako Mini Stadium (College Road beside Ifako General Hospital)
Ojo Local Government – Ojo PHC (1, Rest House, Ojo)
Eti-Osa Local Government – Ikota Primary School (Lekki-Epe Expressway)
Surulere Local Government – Surulere LG Secretariat (24 Alhaji Masha Road, Surulere)
Kosofe Local Government – Ogudu Area Office (By Ogudu Roundabout, Ogudu Road)
Amuwo Odofin Local Government – Amuwo Odofin LG Secretariat (41 Road, Festac Town)
Ikorodu Local Government – ItaElewa PHC (Oriwu Road, Ikorodu) / Igbogbo PHC (32, Bola Ahmed Way, Igbogbo)
Lagos Island Local Government – IganIduganran PHC (151/152 Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos Island)
Epe Local Government – Epe PHC (Epe/Ijebu-Ode Expressway bu Oba’s Palace)
Lagos Mainland Local Government – Simpson PHC (1, Glover Road, by Simpson Street, Ebute-Meta)
Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government – Akere PHC (106, Baale Street, OluwaAkere)
Ibeju Lekki Local Government – Awoyaya Mayfair Estate (Beside First Bank)
Apapa Local Government – Apapa Iganmu LCDA Secretariat (41, Gaskiya Road, Badia Apapa)
Alimosho Local Government – Bola Ahmed Tinubu PHC (Vulcaniser Bus Stop, Egbeda) / Ipaja mini-stadium (Fela Field, Ipaja) / Rauf Aregbesola PHC (1,
Powerline Road, Okunola, Mosan-Okunola) / Meiran PHC (1, Meiran Road, Meiran) / Ijegun PHC (30, Kudeyibu Street, Transformer Bus Stop, Old Isolo Road,
Ijegun, along Ejigbo Road / Helen Aderonke PHC (Olorunfunmilayo Primary School, OPC junction, Idimu Bus Stop)
Oshodi Isolo Local Government – Ajibulu PHC (1, Ajibulu Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi)
Ikeja Local Government – Ikeja LG Secretariat (2/3, Obafemi Awolowo Way)
Agege Local Government – Sango PHC (2, Balogun Street, Pen Cinema, Agege)
Badagry Local Government – Ajara Flagship Health Centre (1, Wande Street, Opp. 100 Shops, Ajara Badagry)
Mushin Local Government – Isola Road PHC (Isolo Road, near Zone D Police Command, Mushin / Odi-Olowo LCDA Secretariat (Ilupeju)

I Will Sacrifice Everything For Biafra - Nnmadi Kanu Says

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

Leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra(IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has vowed to sacrifice everything to achieve freedom for the people of Biafra.

The IPOB leader made the disclosure in a broadcast on Sunday.

He said that nothing would stand in his way until Biafra is achieved.

“I will sacrifice anything sacrifiable to make sure I achieve Biafra. I have no cloth, I have nothing. My aim is Biafra, nothing else will stand in my way, until Biafra is restored so that the world will know that Biafra is a Divine project,” he stressed.

According to him, the death of his parents was the supreme sacrifice he has to pay in the struggle for the actualisation of Biafra.

Kanu stated:

“I sacrificed my father and mother. That’s the supreme sacrifice to make sure that Biafra is restored.”

He said that every verbal attack IPOB had launched was designed to bring freedom for the people.

“I do not hate anybody I want everybody Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo to be freed in the land of their ancestors even if you want to have a country, everybody will come together willingly and voluntarily to join a union not by force. That’s what I have been preaching from day one.”

He said further that he would continue to expose evil no matter where it was committed.

Kanu informed the group also arrested some state coordinators for stealing bags of rice meant for indigent Biafra to cushion the effect of COVID-19 lockdown.

“I am holding some coordinators for stealing some bags of rice. They ran away with some bags of rice supplied for the poor people. They will be handled appropriately because Biafra is a land of accountability,” he stated.

See What Ganduje Did To Buhari’s Hospital - READ

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

The Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on Sunday converted Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital located at Giginyu in Kano metropolis to an isolation centre.

This addition is to compliment that of Kwanar Dawaki isolation center, following the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the state.

A statement by Salihu Tanko Yakasai, the Special Adviser Media to the governor said the center would be dedicated to the treatment of people that have tested positive for Covid-19 in the State.

Tanko Yakasai explained that the category of people that will be accommodated at the hospital are confirmed positive cases that have mild or no symptoms at all.

He revealed that the facility would have 100 beds and kitted with other necessary equipment for the treatment of patients.

Coronavirus: Over 160,000 Dead As Confirmed Cases Hit Two Million Globally

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 160,685 on Sunday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT.

More than 2,334,130 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December.

Of these cases, at least 518,900 are now considered recovered.

The tallies, using data collected by AFP from national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO), probably reflect only a fraction of the actual number of infections.

Many countries are testing only the most serious cases.

In the United States, now the worst-hit country, the death toll stood at 39,090 with 735,287 infections. At least 66,819 patients have recovered.

Italy is the next most-affected country with 23,227 deaths and 175,925 confirmed infections.

It is followed by Spain with 20,453 fatalities and 195,944 confirmed infections, France with 19,323 deaths and 151,793 infections and Britain with 15,464 deaths and 114,217 cases.

China excluding Hong Kong and Macau has to date declared 4,632 deaths and 82,735 cases.

Europe has listed 1,153,148 cases and 101,493 deaths to date, the US and Canada together have 768,670 cases with 40,619 deaths, Asia 162,256 cases with 6,951 deaths, the Middle East 122,819 cases with 5,559 deaths, Latin America and the Caribbean 98,202 cases with 4,915 deaths, Africa 21,165 cases with 1,058 deaths and Oceania 7,879 cases with 90 deaths.

– AFP

Policemen Involved In Ohafia Shooting Acted Under Influence Of Alcohol - Says CP

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

The Abia state Police Command has announced the arrest of policemen involved in sporadic shooting in Ohafia on Friday that led to the death of an indigene of the area, identified as Ifeanyi Arunsi.

The State Police Command said it received with nostalgia the news of the shooting incident in Ebem Ohafia by a team of policemen led by an Assistant Superintendent of Police, saying the team were neither on duty nor on COVID 19 preventive assignment.

In a release signed by the command’s PRO, SP Geoffrey Ogbonna on behalf of CP E. Ene Okon on Saturday made available to ABN TV, he said the team went out in a private car belonging to one of them to a drinking joint where they got drunk and while going back home, the driver hit a truck off-loading goods.

“In an ensuing argument between the Policemen and the people off-loading goods, one of the Policemen, a Constable disappeared from the scene and resurfaced with a Police rifle and started shooting sporadically under the influence of alcohol during which, bullet hit the victim on the buttocks.
“This singular act and others of same nature is regrettable, condemnable and not tolerated by both the Nigeria Police Force and its Abia State Command.
“The Commissioner of Police Abia State, CP E. Ene Okon commiserates with the immediate and extended families of the deceased as well as the entire Ohafia people.

“It is the Commissioner of Police’ sordid appeal to the youths and people of Ebem Ohafia to eschew violence and destruction of Police/government property while assuring that justice must be done.

We Have Spent Over N1bn In COVID-19 Fight - Obaseki Reveals

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki holds a love briefing on COVID-19 by the State Response Team in Benin on April 19, 2020.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State says the state government has spent over N1billion to curtail the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking in Benin during a live briefing on the virus by the State Response Team on Sunday, Governor Obaseki reiterated his administration’s commitment in ending the scourge of the virus in the state.

“The government of Edo State is leading this battle from the front. We have already spent over N1billion of our limited resources so far on this fight.
“We have constituted the Edo State Fund-Raising Committee which is made up of our sons and daughters who are captains of industries, religious leaders, traditional rulers to help us galvanise efforts at mobilizing resources to beef up the state government’s response to this pandemic,” he said.

According to him, the decision of the state government to review the partial lockdown imposed on residents was borne after reviewing the COVID-19 tests carried out on suspects.

BREAKING!! 86 New Cases Of Covid-19 Have Been Discovered In Nigeria, 70 In Lagos - See Details

Oleh Nwogu Chimex - April 20, 2020

Cases of Covid-19 in Nigeria keeps skyrocketing despite lockdown.

New update from NCDC revealed that 86 new cases of Covid-19 have emerged with Lagos claiming the highest number with 70 new cases.

7 in FCT, 3 in Katsina, 3 in Akwa Ibom, 1 in Jigawa, 1 in Bauchi and 1 in Borno.

In total, 627 confirmed cases of #Covid19 in Nigeria . 170 have been discharged with 21 deaths.

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Second COVID-19 Patient Discharged in Enugu

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

The Enugu State Ministry of Health has discharged the second patient from Treatment and Isolation for COVID 19.

Recall that the NCDC had announced 2 cases of COVID 19 in Enugu who were in Isolation and receiving care. Yesterday, the Enugu State Ministry of Health announced that one patient had been discharged.
Two of them are now Negative for the Corona virus and have been discharged.

We encourage our people to continue to stay home, try not to touch your face without having washed your hands, maintain strict hand and respiratory hygiene, wear a facemask in line with the NCDC's advisory and maintain physical distancing. Ndi Enugu, if you need health assistance

the numbers to call remain 08182555550 or 09022333833, or the NCDC number 080097000010. Enugu State is in the Hands of God.

Assc. Prof. Ik. E. Obi
Hon. Commissioner for Health.
Enugu State.

Enugu State is in the hands of God!

35 New Cases Of COVID-19 Reported, Total 442, 152 Discharged,13 deaths

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

Thirty-five new cases of #COVID19 have been reported[/b] as follows:

19 in Lagos
9 in FCT
5 in Kano
2 in Oyo

As at 10:20 pm 16th April there are 442 confirmed cases of #COVID19 reported in Nigeria. 152 have been discharged with 13 deaths

As at 10:20 pm 16th April, number of states with confirmed cases of COVID-19 + FCT
Lagos- 251
FCT- 67
Kano- 21
Osun- 20
Edo- 15
Oyo- 13
Ogun- 9
Katsina- 7
Bauchi- 6
Kaduna- 6
Akwa Ibom- 6
Kwara- 4
Delta- 4
Ondo- 3
Enugu- 2
Ekiti- 2
Rivers-2
Niger- 2
Benue- 1
Anambra- 1

COVID-19 lockdown: Pay relief funds to households, unemployed Nigerians through BVN - Tinubu advises FG

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

The APC national leader, Tinubu, has advised President Buhari on how two take care of Nigerians and sustain the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic

- Tinubu advised the president to pay stipends or relief funds to Nigerian households using BVNs

- The former Lagos state governor also urged the CBN to reduce the interest rates just as he urged the government to push for debt relief

As the coronavirus lockdown bites harder on Nigerians, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari on how to sustain the economy and save citizens from hunger.

The Sun reports that Tinubu advocated an economic relief package in the form of emergency sustenance payments to vulnerable Nigerians.

Police Dismantle Roadblocks, Desert Lagos Roads

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

SOME Lagos residents have raised concerns over the absence of policemen on major roads and streets.

The police came out full force two weeks ago following the presidential directive that Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Captial Territory (FCT) be locked down, but they appear to be losing steam.

Their absence coincided with cult clashes and armed robbery attacks around the Lagos-Ogun border communities.

As the attacks spread to other parts of the state, such as Ikorodu, Ikotun, Oke Afa, Agege, Egbeda, Abule Egba, Meiran, Alakuko, Alagbado, Ijoko, Ogba and Ojodu Berger, there were complaints that the police have allegedly abandoned residents to their fate.

It was gathered that from Mushin to Abule Egba and back, there has been no police presence in the past three days.

All the checkpoints mounted by the police have been discarded while those on patrol were hardly visible at nights.

Similarly, those who ply Ikorodu road from Oshodi as well as from Mushin to Idimu shared similar concerns, urging the Commissioner of Police to address the situation.

“They (police) have abandoned the road and left the people to be at the mercy of hoodlums. This is the third day running that I have complained about the lack of police presence on the road, especially at nights.

“From Mushin to Abule Egba, there is no single police checkpoint in the night and the patrol teams are nowhere in sight.

“The police seem to have abandoned their duty to enforce the lockdown,” said a resident.

Similarly, another resident raised alarm over the lack of police presence from Mushin to Idimu.

She was surprised that from the time she left the office around 10:30pm on Tuesday till when she got home, she did not see a single policeman or roadblock.

“Even the roadblock in front of Ikotun Police Station had been removed. I did not see a single police operative anywhere and that is really scary considering that these hoodlums are everywhere now.

“The police need to be visible. Their presence gives a sense of security and safety to people. They should not abandon us at this time,” she pleaded.

Denying that the police have abdicated their responsibilities, spokesman Bala Elkana said they had to dismantle roadblocks since they were doing more of vehicular patrols.

“Our policemen are moving around everywhere. They cannot pin down on the roads when they need to pursue criminals trying to disturb the peace of Lagosians.

“Also, those complaining should not be afraid because we have men at major entry and exit points enforcing the lockdown. The police are working round the clock to keep Lagosians safe,” he said.

Lagos Creates 20 Centers for Testing Corona Virus, FCT Combs Resident Houses

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday said 20 centres would be created in Lagos State for collection of samples from people suspected to have contracted COVID-19.

The NCDC Director General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who disclosed this at a press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said the samples would be taken to the molecular laboratories in Lagos for testing.

Ihekweazu also said door-to-door collection of samples would soon begin in Abuja. He added that Nigeria had increased her testing capacity to 3,000

At the press conference, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, disclosed that the ministry had expanded its case definition for COVID-19.

The NCDC had, on Tuesday, said the problem the country was facing was not the inadequacy of molecular laboratories, but how adequate samples would get to the labs for testing.

It said the 12 molecular laboratories in the country, which it put their capacity at 1,500 on Tuesday, were not conducting enough tests.

At the PTF press conference on Wednesday, Ihekweazu said part of the measures to contain the spread of the virus was adoption of a change in strategy after more testing laboratories had been established.

Samples of people with acute respiratory infection, high fever to be taken

He said, [b]“We are trying to change our strategy now and test more people. The testing laboratories have increased, but the bottleneck now is getting samples from the right people.

“We are setting up 20 health care facilities in Lagos to collect samples from people that think they have acute respiratory infections and high fever. We are intensifying our surveillance in health, so hospitals around Lagos and the FCT (Federal Capital Territory) can collect samples from people with high respiratory infections.

“In certain Abuja communities, we are going from door to door to collect samples from people that have acute respiratory infections. We are doing the same in Lagos. In these two places, Lagos and the FCT, where there is high incidence of the infection, we are now going to the patients to collect samples.

“Core centres have improved dramatically and we are urging the people that think they have acute respiratory infections to call us. Go to one of these 20 centres (in Lagos). Don’t go to any other centre. Lagos State will announce them as they are set up and make them accessible to everyone.

“We have the capacity right now to test 3,000 per day, but that capacity is not being fully utilised. That is why we focus on Lagos and the FCT.”[/b]

Health workers, senior citizens to be prioritised

The NCDC boss added that with a shortage of personal protective equipment around the world, Nigeria would give priority to health workers at isolation centres and laboratories, as well as senior citizens on the use of face masks.

He said, “It (use of masks) has been a controversial topic, but it does not have to be. The number of cases from over the world has risen to over two million with over 100,000 deaths of a disease that none of us knows about. The scale of the disease outbreak and response has to radically increase and the aspect of mask is one of them.

“On the other hand, there is a reality that we face. There is a chronic global shortage of personal protective equipment, including masks, around the world. The world was not prepared for a pandemic of this scale. We have to prioritise certain part of our population.

“Fifty per cent of the world masks are produced by China that has been locked down for months. They are now restarting their production and thankfully, some of those things are coming out.”

He said countries that produced medical materials, including masks, had banned their exportation because they too needed them.

Policeman Attacked With Acid In Nkpor, Anambra By Angry Youths

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

Some policemen were left running for their lives after being attacked by angry youths in Nkpor, over the killing of a young man in an unprovoked encounter earlier today.

Videos shared online earlier, showed youths marching down to a police station before an attack was launched on some police officers.

Anambra Police Command spokesperson, Mr Haruna Mohamed confirmed that some members of a police patrol team were attacked by the youths. He said an unprovoked attack was launched against a Police patrol team, with a substance suspected to be acid.

Haruna further told newsmen that “efforts are ongoing to restore sanity in the area”.

Lockdown: Woman gets Shot by Police During Hunger Protest in Delta

Oleh Step Hen - April 16, 2020

A policeman in Delta State on Wednesday, allegedly shot a protesting woman, left his rifle behind and ran to an unknown location.

The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Hafiz Inuwa, told reporters that “the police are on the trail of the suspect in order to intensify investigations into the matter.”

The protest of which a large number of women participated in Sapele area of the state was as a result of the extension of the coronavirus lockdown announced by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday evening.

DAILY POST reported earlier that women and youths took the streets in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of the state to protest the extension of lockdown by the government and lack of palliative care.

The protest recorded its first casualty as the protester was shot by a policeman as the women protested over hunger.

The woman is now lying in a critical condition in the hospital after the officer shot her two legs.

The victim was reportedly shot at a close range in both legs by the trigger-happy policeman despatched to restore normalcy in the area.

The policeman was said to have immediately ran away leaving his service rifle behind in a desperate move to avoid mob attack.

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