The National Youth Service Corps has dismissed rumours circulating on some social media platforms that it had postponed the 2020 Batch “A” orientation programme, reportedly over Coronavirus scare.
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Sam Adurogboye, the General Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, made the call in a statement issued in Lagos.
The union had on April 18, embarked on industrial action due to the “insensitivity and lackadaisical attitude of drivers of the health sector”.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
It is the ninth time Ebola has been recorded in the central African nation, whose eastern Ebola river gave the deadly virus its name when it was discovered there in the 1970s, and comes less than a year after its last outbreak which killed eight people.
The screening of the film, 93 DAYS, which held at the world famous Egyptian Theater in Hollywood with a red-carpet, was also the inaugural ‘Nollywood in Hollywood’ event.
Dr. Tunde Olawepo, the Chairman of the association in Kwara State, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Ilorin.
Senate President, Senator David Mark Tuesday said that Boko Haram has declared total war on Nigeria, charging the Fedral Government to confront and defeat the terrorists.
The Rivers State Government on Monday warned that it would shut down any primary or secondary school without pipe borne water.
Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang has approved the release of N95 million for the fight against Ebola virus in the state.
Chukwu said this in Abuja while answering questions from newsmen at the second emergency National Council on Health meeting on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Nigeria
He said that the Senate of the institution set up a committee on Ebola recently in recognised of the university’s responsibility in conducting researches and offering community development services
Chief among information provided by the RVSG were the name of the doctor who died as a result of the EVD infection, the name of his hospital and the details of the decontamination of the hotel where the diplomat and ECOWAS staff who infected him stayed while in Port Harcourt, the state capital
Dr. Bridget Okoeguale, the Director of the Department of Public Health, gave the advice during interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday
Shekarau said: “The minister and all commissioners met today, August 26, to discuss issues related to the reopening of schools for the new academic year vis-à-vis the Ebola epidemic issue
Rather, the N200 million was a direct funding by the Federal Government for the control of the EVD in Lagos.
According to the statement, among those who have donated to the fund for the containment of the EVD are the Aliko Dangote Foundation, N152 million, which will be to sponsor the Ebola Emergency Operation Centre in Lagos; ANAP Foundation, founded by Atedo Peterside, which will be supporting affected private hospitals to the tune of N100,000 per bed space, with the First Consultant Hospital in Lagos, where the index case was managed, to be the first beneficiary and that the hospital would receive N4 million since its bed capacity is 40; the Tony Elumelu Foundation, which has pledged a donation of N50 million to support the Federal Government’s containment efforts; and Shell Petroleum Development Company, which donated an ambulance to the Ebola Emergency Operation Centre in Lagos
The latest figures came as it emerged that a 48-year-old British woman who collapsed and died in Austria following a trip to Nigeria did not die from the disease
A “factsheet” issued by the state department on its response to the Ebola virus, said the agency only issued a travel warning on August 7, 2014 against non-essential travel to Liberia
By the time he arrived at the airport on Monday, he could barely stand, prompting the health authorities to quickly carry out Ebola tests on him
Fagbemi told the News Agency of Nigeria in Akure on Monday that only the media could give them satisfactory knowledge of the virus