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By Dave Okpogadie, AsabaThe Special Project director, Asaba International Airport, Mr Austin Ayemidejor, said the proactive and timely lockdown of Delta State by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led committee on the containment of the COVID-19 saved a lot of Deltans from the effects of the ravaging pandemic.Mr Ayemidejor, who, stated this while chatting with journalists in Asaba, said when the governor took the decision as a professional medical expert who was working with professionals in different fields, many people saw it to be in the best interest of Deltans.He observed that at a time like this, the most important factor at stake…

Each day the Coronavirus pandemic exposes the failings of the Nigerian government from local government to state down to the federal. Rather than set up needed infrastructures, our leaders built personal empires and faced with the pandemic, they are clutching at straws including forcing Chinese medical team and globally rejected equipment on our people.The Buhari government has consistently borrowed money from China yet it had literally no structures on ground when, insensitive to public demands that our borders be shut to keep the rampaging virus away, it waited for children of the high to get back and loot hungry officials…

Countries around the world are working to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus pandemic. Flattening the curve involves reducing the number of new COVID-19 cases from one day to the next. This helps prevent healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed. When a country has fewer new COVID-19 cases emerging today than it did on a previous day, that’s a sign that the country is flattening the curve.On a trend line of total cases, a flattened curve looks how it sounds: flat. On the charts on this page, which show new cases per day, a flattened curve will show a downward trend…

By UTHMAN Samad file Photo illustrating African alternative medicine. Source: googleFacebookTwitterEmailSMSWhatsAppMoreWITH over 1.2 million cases, 70,000 deaths and unprecedented global economic disruption reported in less than five months around the world, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS) also known as Covid-19 is threatening human existence.It has ravaged 20 states in Nigeria with over 300 confirmed cases of which Lagos, Abuja and Osun States are the worst hit.While the importation of cases slowed down following the suspension of the Nigerian airline operations, land and sea entry ports, the disease continues to spread within the country.However, while some drugs have been touted as having potentials to…

By Iduozee Paul, BeninEdo State commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia says two other persons have been tested positive for Coronavirus, bringing to 11the number of persons that have contracted the disease in the state.Dr. Okundia added that four isolation centers have been built by the state government to enable it curtail the virus in the state. He made the statements when the Edo State COVID-19 Response Team briefed journalists at the Government House in Benin-City.The commissioner said two centers are in the Stella Obasanjo Teaching Hospital with other testing centers assuring that all hands must be on deck to…

By Iduozee Paul, Benin CorrespondentAs the battle against the deadly Coronavirus pandemic gets messier, a brothel owner at Ugbague in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State has evicted prostitutes occupying his building for fear of the spread of the disease.Osagie said the eviction became necessary because of the way the virus spreads from person-to-person and the fact that there is a high possibility that if one of the prostitutes contracts it, she might spread it to other colleagues and customers.“I asked the prostitutes occupying my buildings to go home and meet their children and families at their various states.They…

By Bridget EdokwePastor Gerald GlennGerald Glenn, pastor and founder of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in the US, has died from COVID-19 complications three weeks after saying God is “larger” than the disease.He had proudly shown off how packed his Virginia church was and had vowed to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital”.Glenn announced he was being controversial by being in violation of safety protocols with “way more than 10 people” at the church.“I am essential,” he said of remaining open, adding, “I’m a preacher — I talk to God!”The pastor, who died on Saturday, had experienced difficulty…

By Dave Okpogadie, AsabaChief Great Ovedje OgboruAs Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru marked 62 years of his existence on earth, some Deltans have felicitated with him wishing him long life and good health.Chief Ogboru, who was born in 1958 in Port Harcourt, was the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta state during the 2019 general elections.In a congratulatory messages made available to newsmen in Asaba some APC members and ardent followers of the ‘People’s General’, as he is fondly called, expressed gratitude to God for keeping and blessing him with leadership qualities.A staunch supporter of Chief Ogboru…

With 90 countries in lockdown, four billion people are now sheltering at home from the global contagion of COVID-19. It’s a protective measure, but it brings another deadly danger. We see a shadow pandemic growing, of violence against women.As more countries report infection and lockdown, more domestic violence helplines and shelters across the world are reporting rising calls for help. In Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom (1), and the United States (2), government authorities, women’s rights activists and civil society partners have flagged increasing reports of domestic violence during the crisis, and heightened demand for emergency shelter (3 ,4 ,5).…

By Iduozee Paul, BeninTo help put smile on the faces of the less privileged in this Easter season and to ease their pains over the Coronavirus stay at home, the Edo State attorney general and commissioner for Justice, Prof. Yinka Omorogbe has distributed foodstuffs and other consumables to 300 migrant returnees, widows and the vulnerable in Benin City, Edo State.Prof. Omorogbe said, “I am moved by the challenges faced in various Nigerian homes occasioned by the near total lockdown directive of government to control the further spread of the dreaded Coronavirus pandemic. I have had many complains of hardship by…