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Ogun State Ministry of Environment has began the clearing of water channels in Ota axis to allow free flow of water and to make the Environment clean. The permanent secretary Engineer Razak Ojetola while speaking with OGTV news said the excercise is ongoing in all the senatorial districts of the state in preparation for the…
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday said his government was in touch with manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccine. Lagos is the most affect state in Nigeria with 35,804 cases in total, the highest from any region. “We have started a conversation with some of the vaccine manufacturers,” Sanwo-Olu said. “Pfizer for example,…
Nigeria’s rising COVID-19 positive cases are worrying, Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire announces on Monday. According to him, 10,300 confirmed cases were reported from 50,750 samples tested last week. This translates to 20% positivity rate. “It means one out of every five persons tested in the last one week turned out positive, compared with the…
Virologists and other medical experts have warned that 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine the country is expecting may become useless, if proper arrangements are not made for their transportation and storage. The experts, including the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria, Dr Patrick Dakum; a medical virologist, Dr Oladipo Kolawole, and…
Determined to promote good health, sound mental reasoning and pursuit of a hunger free society, Ogun State Government has affirmed its readiness to provide adequate nutrition for children below the age of five years. The Commissioner for Rural Development, Engr. Oludotun Taiwo revealed this at a stakeholder’s meeting on multi-sectional synergies for food and nutrition screening,…
The Ogun State Government has announced its preparedness to contain the second wave of COVID-19, just as it opened an Oxygen Therapy Center. Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, said the Oxygen Therapy Center which located at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Iberekodo, Abeokuta, consists of 20 beds of high dependency capacity. Dr. Coker affirmed that…
The government are set to spend over $576 million(N220 billion) on COVID-19 vaccine, as the government plans to immunise 70% of Nigerians who are at risk of the virus, Director of National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA) Dr. Faisal Shuaib said. According to him, free vaccine to immunise 20 per cent of those to be…
Workers in the Ogun State Civil /Public Service have been called upon to keep the flag of the State flying, in order to maintain the best standard that Ogun State is known for. The appeal was made by the Ogun State Head of Service, Alhaja Selimot Ottun while speaking with journalists in her office, on the…
The Lagos State government has directed all civil servants from Grade Levels 14 and below to continue working from home for another 14 days. It explained that the extension order to the workers who were expected to resume on Monday followed the increase in recorded cases of COVID-19 in the state. The state governor, Babajide…
Tunde Rahman, his spokesperson, has denied that the APC stalwart is down with COVID. “This story is inaccurate. Asiwaju is healthy and does not have COVID-19,” he said. “He took his annual trip and as part of the preparation for the trip he took a COVID-19 test which was negative. Since the advent of the…
