Lagos state command says an order came from the Inspector General of Police's office for the immediate withdrawal of the police escorts attached to E-Money.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Inspector-General of Police orders immediate withdrawal of E-Money's police escorts
House of Representatives Ask Federal Government To Stop Repatriation Of Almajiri Children
This formed part of the resolutions of the lawmakers during Tuesday’s plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja. They made the call following a motion sponsored by a member of the House, Aishatu Dukku.
Clergy, Imam and 27 others arrested for violating lockdown order in Lagos
The Christan and Islamic clerics arrested alongside their congregants at different locations in the state while holding congregational services, were paraded on Monday May 11 at the Command headquarters, Ikeja.
President Buhari yet to show interest in our drug on Coronavirus– Iwu
Maurice Iwu, a former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has lamented that the federal government is yet to show interest in his COVID-19 cure.
Iwu, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Bioresources Development Group, said government should show interested in the drug. Speaking at a conference in Lagos via Zoom with the title: “Covid-19 and the proposed Vaccination Bill: Implications for Nigeria,” Iwu said funds raised from private sector could be deployed in ensuring locally produced antidotes for COVID-19.
The former INEC boss urged the National Assembly to call for public hearing on the issue. According to Iwu, lawmakers should direct concerned agencies to validate the drug.
He said: ”Government needs to show interest in our drug, the money raised by private sectors can be deployed, it does not need to come to Prof. Iwu, it is information, the product is ours, but the information is already outside.
“There must be interest on the part of government that they want to test the drug, once the government shows interest, every other thing will fall in place.” Iwu had led a group of researchers that discovered a possible plant-based patented treatment for COVID-19. The drug was recently presented to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu.
American Lady Visiting Nigerian Lover She Met Online Dies Of Suspected COVID 19 Complications
A United States citizen said to have been invited to Nigeria by a young man she met on the Internet, has died of suspected Coronavirus complications in Delta State. The American, whose identity could not be ascertained at the time of this report, was said to have died on Sunday morning after she manifested some symptoms of the virus and was rushed to a private hospital at Osubi, Orerokpe under Okpe Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking with a correspondent, a security official attached to a police station in the local government, disclosed that the young man and the white lady had been lodged at a hotel in Osubi town since her arrival in Nigeria on March 3, 2020.
The official said, "The young man and the American white lady lodged in a hotel in Osubi where they spent some weeks. The white lady fell sick and she began to manifest some symptoms of COVID-19, especially severe coughing. At this stage, her lover rushed her to a private clinic in Osubi but she gave up the ghost this morning.
"Immediately she died at the hospital, her Nigerian lover carried her corpse in a Venza car to the Orerokpe Police Division and he was arrested by the police. While still at the station, a doctor was brought and took samples from the corpse for test."
The situation, gathered had created tension in the council area. When contacted over the issue, the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Onome Onowakpoyeya, confirmed the incident, explaining that the white lady’s corpse was brought to Orerokpe Police Station by her lover, who revealed to the police that the deceased had severe cough for about a week until she died on Sunday morning. According to Onowakpoyeya, the blood sample of the woman, that of her lover and others, who may have had contact with her, have been taken for test.
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