The Kano State Chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress has advocated for upward review of hazard allowances for frontline health workers to stem further spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the state.
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it has activated the second Molecular Laboratory in Kano State to enhance detection and prevent further spread of the coronavirus in the state.
Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and PTF chairman on COVID-19, gave the assurance at the PTF daily briefing on Thursday in Abuja.
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 office holders.
Alhaji Abdulrahman Sani-Maigoro, the Chairman, Keffi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, said the council had returned nine passengers from Kano, who were intercepted in Keffi on Tuesday.
Sani-Maigoro justified the action of the council as part of the measures adopted by the state government to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic in the country.
The council chairman made this disclosure on Wednesday while briefing newsmen in Keffi, Keffi Local Government Area of the state.
Sani-Maigoro said the council also intercepted six vehicles with passengers from Kano and Lagos and returned them to their various destinations respectively.
He urged the public to disregard report circulating in one of the national dailies and social media that traders selling fabrics were still moving their goods in the night from Kano to Keffi.
“The report, which was sponsored by some people, who did not wish this local government and the state well, is not only false but unfounded,” he said.
He called on the sponsors of the reports to join hands with him in order to take the council area to greater heights and to contain the spread of the virus in the country.
Sani-Maigoro said: “I have done my best and will continue to do my best as I have a COVID-19 task force committee on ground monitoring all roads and places bordering Keffi in order to contain the pandemic.
“I have set up the committee to work both day and night in order to ensure that people adhere strictly to government directives against COVID-19.
“This was evident in the interception of nine passengers in Sharon bus from Kano on Tuesday in addition to the arrest of violators of government order and they were returned to Kano.”
Sani-Maigoro urged residents of the area to continue to observe total compliance with the directives given by government and experts to fight COVID-19 in the country.
According to him, Governor Abdullahi Sule has taken certain measures towards curtailing the spread of COVID-19, which have been enforced in Keffi.
He reiterated the measures to include the stay at home directive, ban on social gatherings, closure of worship centres, ban on motorcycles and tricycles.
The council chairman added that arrangement had been concluded for the evacuation of almajiris to their states of origin as part of measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19.
This was disclosed in the early hours of Wednesday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it remains focused on the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.
Halima Shitu, a pioneer female Hisbah Commander in Kano State, has died at the age of 55 on Monday, a family source has said.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the Proclamation Order on the General Management of COVID-19 in Lagos, Ogun and Kano States, Federal Capital Territory and other States in Nigeria as contained in his national broadcast of April 27, 2020.
Wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, through her foundation, Future Assured, has donated 16 trucks of assorted food items and for distribution to 500,000 households in Kano State.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded for explanation from the Federal Government on the strange deaths and burials in Kano State.
First Bank has confirmed the death of one of its state, Abdullahi Lawal, who until his passing worked at in the Kano Main Branch.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent Freedom of Information requests to the 36 state governors, urging them to “urgently provide information on spending details on COVID-19 in your state, and to immediately redirect public funds budgeted for security votes and life pensions for former governors from the state to invest in and improve public healthcare facilities and access to quality education.”
The Plateau State Government on Sunday began the evacuation of 183 Quranic education (Almajiri) pupils to their states of origin.
The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund on Wednesday in Kano trained 13 journalists on effective reporting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Kano State Government says it has begun investigation into claims that there was a surge in deaths in Kano metropolis.
The Kano State Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sa’id, has said the evacuation of Almajiri from Kano to their states of origin was to safeguard public health and stem the spread of Coronavirus pandemic.
The Kano State Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Kabiru Getso, says the state government sealed the Tiamin Rice Mill in Kano due to its closeness to Kwanar Dawakin Kudu COVID-19 Isolation Centre.
Rev. Samuel Adeyemo, the Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria in Kano State, said Christian faithful have complied with the stay-at-home order in the state.
Justice Aliyu Umar, the former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Kano State, is dead.
Umar, aged 68, died on Friday after a protracted illness at his residence in Farm Centre area of Kano metropolis.