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  • Six Coronavirus cases reported in Nigeria, toll rises to 238

    Six Coronavirus cases reported in Nigeria, toll rises to 238

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control disclosed that the six new cases were reported in Kwara, Edo, Rivers and Abuja.

    Kwara State reported its first cases, meaning 14 states and the FCT have so far reported cases.

    The NCDC said “as at 09:30 pm 6th April there are 238 confirmed cases of COVID19 reported in Nigeria.”

    Meanwhile, 35 people have recovered and been discharged while five infected people have died.

    Currently, 198 of the infected people are still sick and undergoing treatment.

    Breakdown
    Lagos has so far reported 120 cases, followed by FCT- 48, Osun- 20, Oyo- 9, Edo- 11 Bauchi- 6, Akwa Ibom and Kaduna- 5 each, Ogun- 4

    Enugu, Ekiti, Kwara and Rivers-2 each, while Benue and Ondo has recorded one each.

    Lagos has remained the epicenter of the virus in the country.

  • BREAKING: Nigeria confirms more Coronavirus cases, toll jumps to 81

    BREAKING: Nigeria confirms more Coronavirus cases, toll jumps to 81

    Nigeria now has 81 confirmed cases of the coronavirus after 11 new cases were confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) late Friday.

    For the first time, the disease showed up in the country’s south-east as two cases were confirmed in Enugu state.

    Lagos State, which has been described as the country’s hotspot, added eight cases, bringing the state’s total caseload to 52.

    One other case was recorded in Edo State.

    Earlier on Friday, the NCDC had reported the discovery of five new cases, three in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and two in Oyo state. No new case was reported in Lagos.

    But the last announcement on Friday further strengthens Lagos’ status as the country’s hotspot.

    In total, 16 new cases were confirmed on Friday.

  • JUST IN: Appeal Court reserves judgments in Onnoghen’s cases

    The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reserved judgments in the four appeals filed by the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnghen.

    A three-man panel of the court, led by Justice Stephen Adah, after taking arguments from parties, in respect of the appeals, said they will be informed when judgments were ready.

    The appeals are CA/A/44c/2019; CA/A/CA/A/63c/19; CA:A/70c/2019 and CA/A/114c/2019.

    Onnoghen is, by his first appeal, challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT to hear the charge against him, being a serving judicial officer.

    He is, in the second appeal, querying the propriety of the CCT’s ruling of January 14 this year, in which it elected to hear all pending applications

    The third appeal is against the CCT ex-parte order directing Onnoghen to vacate office as CJN and for President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint an acting CJN.

    The fourth appeal challenges the competence of the warrant of arrest issued against the suspended CJN by the CCT.

    The arrest warrant, issued on February 13 this year, was vacated by the CCT on February 15 when Onnoghen voluntarily attended the sitting of the CCT, during which he was arraigned.

     

  • Nigeria records 37 new cases of Lassa fever

    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday confirmed 37 new cases of Lassa fever recorded between Feb. 4 and Feb. 10.

    The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made this known on Wednesday in a statement in Abuja.

    Ihekweazu said that from Jan. 1 to Feb. 10, 2019, out of a total of 947 suspected cases reported from 20 states and the FCT; 324 were confirmed positive, three probable and 620 negative.

    He added that since the onset of the 2019 outbreak, there had been 69 deaths from the confirmed cases, bringing the fatality rate to 21.3 per cent.

    The CEO said that Edo, Ondo, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Plateau, Taraba, FCT, Adamawa, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Benue, Rivers, Kogi, Enugu, Imo, Delta, Oyo and Kebbi states, had recorded at least one confirmed case across 54 local government areas.

    He also confirmed that three new health workers were affected in Benue, Bauchi and Rivers states in the recent outbreak.

    Ihekweazu said that a total of 12 healthcare workers had so far been affected since the onset of the outbreak in seven states namely, Edo, Ondo, Ebonyi , Rivers, Bauchi and Benue and Enugu, which recorded one death.

    He said that a total of 3,746 people, who were suspected of having contact with infected persons, had been identified across 18 states.

    According to him, 2,658 of the suspected contacts are being followed up, while the remaining 1,045 have completed the mandatory 21 days of follow up to ensure they show no symptoms.

    “National Lassa fever multi-partner and the multi-sectoral Emergency Operations Centre continues to coordinate the response activities at all levels,” Ihekweazu said.

  • INEC involved in 419 cases – Chairman

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday, said that it had been involved in 419 court cases over election matters from 2016 to date.

    Chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this in an interactive session with a group of civil society organizations, under the umbrella of the Situation Room, on Tuesday, in Abuja.

    “Between 2016 and 2017, till this week, we have appeared for 419 cases in four different courts; so, I will say that in the last two years INEC has been dragged to court 419 times.

    “Conversely, 187 of them are at Federal and state high courts while 141 are at the Court of Appeal. Sixty-one of them are at the Supreme Court and two at the Industrial Court,’’ he said.

    Yakubu said that the political atmosphere in Anambra was quite peaceful as compared to recent elections, adding that “up till today, we have no case in court on the nomination of any candidate’’.

    He said that though the situation was unusual, it was rarely amazing in the context of litigation since the 2015 general elections.

    The chairman said that 37 political parties were participating in the Nov. 18 Anambra governorship election which was a record for any governorship election in the country.

    He said that INEC monitored all the political party’s primaries and that 35 of them complied with the rules except for two that changed their candidates after the primaries, which was not allowed.

    He said that Anambra had 21 local government areas, with 326 wards, 468 polling units, 724 voting points and 2,154,738 registered voters, including 203,681 new registrants.

     

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