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BOSTON — The number of Massachusetts residents applying for first-time unemployment benefits during the week that ended May 2 was 55,488, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Labor report. It was the seventh weekly labor report since companies began laying off and furloughing workers in response to the economic downturn caused by the new coronavirus pandemic. Since the report for …

…intensifies screening, testing in 18 LGAs, 192 wards As part of efforts to contain the coronavirus (COVD-19) pandemic in Edo State, the government has intensified Active Case Search (ACS) activities in 400 rural and urban communities across the state, contact tracing over 655 persons and screening over 75, 000 others. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, who disclosed this to …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has sworn-in the new Head of Service (HOS), Anthony Okungbowa Esq., urging him to contribute his quota to ongoing reforms in the state’s civil service. The governor, who swore-in the HOS at Government House, Benin City, noted that as the state battles coronavirus (COVID-19), the civil service is needed more than ever to action …

Sixty patients have been discharged from Lagos State isolation facilities following their full recovery from coronavirus infection, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. The patients tested negative to COVID-19 twice and have been discharged to reunite with the society. The discharged patients comprises 40 males and 20 females. This brings the total recoveries in Lagos to 321. “60 more …

The Senate has called for the decentralisation of the Nigeria Police Force into 13 zonal commands, each with “operational and budgetary powers.” The lawmakers also urged state assemblies to make necessary laws to legalise community policing to be established at the local government level while state governors should fund the community policing from grants appropriated to each local government. These were part …

Fear has gripped residents of different parts of Abia State following the interception on Tuesday of a group of Almajiris loaded in cattle truck on their Way to Abia. It was gathered that Abia State Homeland Security agents led by the Commissioner for Homeland Security, Prince Dan Okoli intercepted the Almajiris hidden in cattle trucks at Enugu-Abia border, along the …

The Jigawa State Government on Tuesday announced that coronavirus is rapidly infecting its people at the community level, thus endangering the lives of many. It also said some of the deaths it has witnessed in recent days are inexplicable. “The 32 new cases in Jigawa are not from returned Almajiris. These are community transmissions from the cases recorded. Numbers will …

Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire told the House of Representatives on Tuesday, that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, is open to the possibility of using local herbs to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but insisted that the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development must first certify any such remedy. The Minister who made the disclosure when the Presidential …

President Muhammadu Buhari has extolled the virtues of late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who also served as Governor of Katsina State for eight years, saluting his honest and sincere service to the country. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said Mr Buhari made his feelings known as …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state would be sustained by a robust agriculture-based economy in the aftermath of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, with its ongoing investments to spur agribusiness, agro-processing and other agro-allied sectors in the state. The governor disclosed this during the inspection of ongoing construction work at the Edo State College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi …