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Three weeks after Israel reopened schools, COVID-19 cases have soared among it’s pupils and teachers, forcing authorities to close down schools again, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. With 347 pupils and teachers testing positive for the virus, 127 schools did not reopen on Sunday, the beginning of the workweek in Israel, NAN quoted an Education Ministry statement. The …

Government at various levels have been admonished on the need to bring on board community pharmacies for remote and community oversight on patients on self-isolation towards providing them with supplements that could aid their immune system to fight COVID-19. The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) gave the admonition on Sunday, when the newly elected chairman of the body, Rasheed Ayinde, paid an unscheduled visit to …

As an individual in your right senses, you may not understand what is going on in the mind of a rapist. And sometimes what drives him to kill his victim after satisfying his sexual urge. The Co-ordinator of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, Titilola Vivour Adeniyi, shares the findings of a study of 141 rapists …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has said the party has the strategy that will enable it to win the Edo governorship election. He said a committee was being set up to harmonise different strategies to enable them to win the election, noting that the party will explore the crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress …

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has attributed the inability of the Nigerian military and other security outfits to contain the disturbing nation’s insecurity to international politics. He said international politics was slowing down efforts aimed at acquiring sophisticated machinery needed by the security agencies to do their jobs. Lawan spoke on Sunday in an interview with journalists ahead of …

Against rumors that he parades bogus academic credentials, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State told perpetrators of such rumors, and Edo people, today that his certificates are intact. Obaseki also described as laughable, rumors that he lost his ward in the last general elections, noting that those who make up such stories forget that election results are documented. The governor …

Edo State government has intensified screening of residents across the state, testing over 2,824 people, contact tracing 1,398 others and visiting over 663 rural and urban communities for Active Case Search (ACS) activities. It is part of government’s intensified measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, who …

A Mobile Court sitting in Benin City has convicted 16 persons for violating the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases Prevention Regulations, put in place by the government to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. The Edo State Judiciary had in April, 2020, constituted Mobile Courts across the state to try violators of the Edo State Dangerous Infectious …

Aspirants’ Credentials to be displayed publicly for Claims and Objections The All Progressives Congress (APC) announces six Governorship aspirants to be screened for the Party’s June 22, 2020 Primary Election to elect the Party’s Edo state governorship candidate. The six aspirants who have bought, completed and submitted the Party’s expression of interest and nomination forms are Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, H.E. …

Nigeria has nominated a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as its candidate for the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) election coming up next year. President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed the nomination on Thursday in an official announcement through the Nigerian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, …