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12 patients discharged Professor Akin Abayomi, Lagos State Health Commissioner By Chioma Obinna – Lagos The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, yesterday, disclosed that a 25-year old male patient has died from coronavirus infection in the state. Abayomi who disclosed this in his twitter handle said the deceased was brought in a state of breathlessness due to the severity of the coronavirus infection. He said: “We regret to announce additional COVID-19 related death involving a 25year old male who at the time of admission was in a state of severe breathlessness. READ ALSO:  People Talk: Extension of COVID-19 lockdown and 8pm-6am nationwide curfew “The total number of COVID-19 related deaths in Lagos is now 20.” Meanwhile, the Lagos State government has discharged another set of 12 patients who have tested negative for coronavirus after spending some days at the isolation centres in the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the 12, including a U...

By Theodore Opara Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) A leading health advocate, Dr. Kelechi Okoro, has commended the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria, TOAN, for taking proactive steps on regulations to ensure safety of tricycle drivers and passengers in the COVID-19 crisis. Kelechi Okoro, who made the commendation via her social media handle, said: “As a medical practitioner, I say kudos to TOAN for taking proactive steps to increase the safety of their riders and passengers, by announcing health and safety norms to help curb the spread of COVID-19. READ ALSO Trump says evidence ties COVID-19 virus to Wuhan lab, threatens tariffs “Kekes can be a safer option of public transport because of limited passengers and open ventilation, and TOAN has gone one step further by limiting passengers to two persons at a time.” Pennultimate week, TOAN, one of the country’s largest tricycle operator unions, issued a circular advising their affiliated tricycles to limit the num...

Timipre Sylva, Minister for State for Petroleum (left) and Mele Kyari, GMD, NNPC. By Tajudeen Suleiman Timipre Sylva and Mele Kyari are two of a kind changing the oil & gas industry. The two are from diverse backgrounds but seem driven by the same passion- the desire to make things better. Timipre Sylva, Minister for State for Petroleum and Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) are two of a kind. The two were appointed to their respective offices by President Muhammadu Buhari almost at the same time. Kyari came in July 2019 while Sylva came on board in August of the same year. But the two have been able to forge a rare collaboration that has brought synergy to operations in the oil and gas industry and ensured calm in the highly combustible Niger Delta. This is an extraordinary accomplishment in view of recent history where rivalries and insubordination have defined relationships between the minister of state petroleum...

By Victor Young The International Labour Organisation, ILO, on Wednesday, in Geneva, Switzerland, warned that no fewer than 1.6 billion jobs in the informal economy are at risk, following the continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to the coronavirus, COVID-19 outbreak. ILO noted that the number was nearly half of the global workforce. According to “ILO Monitor third edition: COVID-19 and the world of work”, the drop in working hours in the current (second) quarter of 2020 was expected to be significantly worse than previously estimated. The global body informed that “compared to pre-crisis levels (Q4 2019), a 10.5 percent deterioration is now expected, equivalent to 305 million full-time jobs (assuming a 48-hour working week). “The previous estimate was for a 6.7 percent drop, equivalent to 195 million full-time workers. This is due to the prolongation and extension of lockdown measures. “Regionally, the situation has worsened for all major regional groups. Estima...

Garba Shehu The Presidency has again warned that attempts are being made to politicise the mysterious disease claiming lives in Kano State, saying there is no time for wasting energy on political point-scoring by current or former political officeholders. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, gave the warning in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. He advised, however, that all concerned citizens should be prepared to accept the medical and scientific result of the autopsies being carried out by experts in Kano and work together to confront the common enemy. ”Nigeria is only weeks into our fight against the invisible COVID-19 that earlier this year, was unknown to almost every nation in the world. ”Only earlier this month Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, made clear that ‘We are at the beginning in Africa’. READ ALSO: Mysterious deaths: Toll rises, as more citizens die in Kano ”There is muc...

Osita Chidoka *Asks Senate to reject northern nominee for FCC chairman By Clifford Ndujihe & Henry Umoru A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Osita Chidoka, has called on the  Senate to reject the nomination of candidates from northern states of Kwara and Taraba as chairman, and secretary, respectively, of Federal Character Commission, FCC. Chidoka said the nomination violated Section 4 of the subsidiary legislation which states that the distribution of position shall be across the zones. He said that it had always been the tradition that Chairman and Secretary are from the North and South, respectively, for the same reason past governments, including that of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, had appointed northerners as chairmen and southerners as secretaries. According to Chidoka, “where the number of positions available cannot go round the states of the federation or the Federal Capital, the distribution shall be on zonal basis, but in the case...

Delta Government on Wednesday inaugurated a testing center for COVID-19 in Asaba, to enhance the fight against the spread of the disease in the state. Mr. Chiedu Ebie, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), while inaugurating the laboratory at Asaba Specialist Hospital, said the center would enable the government to control the disease and scale-up diagnosis in the state. Ebie thanked the management of Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) and PANDORA Group for deploying the laboratory to the state. He called on other organisations to partner the state government in the fight against the dreaded virus. READ ALSO:  Delta state borders remain shut to all road users ― Otuaro According to him, the facility came at the right time as it would enable suspected cases of COVID-19 to be tested in the state, and the result received on time. “We have just had a brief tour of the test centre which is a partnership between PANDORA ID NET and Delta State Government and facilitat...