COVID-19: Kaduna’s Governance Continuity Plan and Citizens’ Engagement
By YUSUF ISHAKU GOJE The urgency to combat the spread and socio-economic impact of covid-19 has continued to push the Kaduna state government into taking rapid and decisive measures. To meet up with these emergencies, some bureaucratic due processes and procedures have to be suspended. This is in order to ensure flexibility and speed in […]
COVID-19 Lockdown: 40,000 job loss imminent as Northern broadcast stations threaten shutdown
Hard hit by low income generation as a result of the current economic downturn and exacerbated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has paralysed businesses across the world and indeed Nigeria, privately owned broadcast stations in northern Nigeria may have to close shop soon. In a statement signed by chairman of its Executive […]
Official Statement by the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, on Kaduna State COVID-19 Response
We are all witnesses to how things have changed since the report of the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria on 27th February 2020. Kaduna state engaged relevant stakeholders and an Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) on COVD-19 was activated on 28th February 2020. Chaired by the Commissioner of Health, the EOC is responsible for […]
Journalist tests positive for coronavirus
… Press Center shut A member of the Correspondents Chapel Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Adamawa State Council has tested positive for coronavirus, subsequently, the authorities have directed all members to go on self-isolation with immediate effect. This was confirmed in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by Ishaka Donald Dedan, Chairman, and Fidelis […]
Gov el-Rufai Recovers From Coronavirus Infection
Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nadir el-Rufai has announced his full recovery from COVID-19 infection. Elrufai made the disclosure Tuesday, 22 April, 2020, in a press release sent to Procyon News through electronic mail in Kaduna. Read full text of the statement below… KADUNA UPDATE: Statement on My Recovery from Covid-19 In the evening of Saturday, […]
Covid-19: Thanklessness of Journalism Thrown Bare
By David-Chyddy Eleke Many times over, journalism has been described as a thankless profession. The description has often come from practitioners, who may be speaking out of experience. I have often disagreed with that belief, but as time goes by, I am constantly nudged to the truth in that assertion. The stay-at-home declared by government […]
Covid-19: Governor Obaseki’s speech disappointing, curious and scandalous!
… Failed to address pressing economic issues. The People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) Edo State chapter has described the Sunday Covid-19 speech of Governor Obaseki as disappointing, curious and scandalous. Edo PDP has cautioned officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led State Government to stop using the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as gateway for corrupt profiteering and […]
HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN
“A fmr. President & a fmr. COAS & Min. of Def. would have been arrested,a fmr. NSA & a popular online publisher would have still been in detention &more would have been detained had it not been for this man”-FFK
Lockdown Is Wrong For Africa
The biggest public health risk in Africa is not Covid-19, but the consequences of regional and global measures designed to reduce its effect on public health. The cost-benefit analysis of these measures yields a different result in Africa than in Europe, North America and large parts of Asia. By far the biggest risk factor for […]
SACKED KANO STATE COMMISSIONER, SAYS I AM SORRY
…I DID NOT CELEBRATE KYARI’s DEATH..PEOPLE ONLY MISUNDERSTOOD ME SACKED KANO STATE COMMISSIONER SAYS I AM SORRY ….I DID NOT CELEBRATE KYARI’s DEATH..PEOPLE ONLY MISUNDERSTOOD ME -Assalamualaikum, dear people of Kano and Nigeria at large, I want to sincerely clear up what a lot of people may have misunderstood and set the record straight. As […]