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The Senior Pastor of the Covenant Christian Centre, Poju Oyemade, has said that the COVID-19 outbreak should be a an alarm call for the reshaping of Nigeria’s healthcare structure.
He disclosed this on Saturday during the Church’s annual Worker’s Day programme, The Platform.
This year’s edition, nevertheless, concentrated on Nigeria’s fight against the COVID-19, until now.
While conveying his message, Pastor Oyemade recollect how years ago, the University College Hospital, Ibadan, where his parents both worked as doctors, was categorized among the 10 best hospitals in the commonwealth nations.
He said this on Saturday during the Church’s annual Worker’s Day programme, The Platform.
This year’s edition, however, focussed on Nigeria’s battle against the COVID-19, so far.
But as said by him, the present healthcare system is now nothing to be proud of.
He, nonetheless, says the current pandemic should be an alarm call for the government to reshape sustainable infrastructure.
“My parents are both medical doctors and I was born while they were living on the premises of the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
“The UCH, then, was regarded as one of the best 10 hospitals in the commonwealth nations, which included hospitals in England, Whales, Scotland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand,” Oyemade said.
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Mr Femi Adesina says the mistrust who discharged the draft speech of President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast has been taken to custody.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity disclosed this in a piece entitled ‘Enemies Of The State’.
He said the mistrust was discharging the draft speech of the President’s speech hours before his nationwide broadcast on COVID-19 on Monday.
According to Adesina, an enemy of the state struck in Nigeria on Monday and this time, it was non-fiction.
The President’s spokesman stated that as the country hold back for the speech to be televised at 8pm with great expectations, a purported copy of the broadcast began to circulate on social media from about 4pm.
He elaborated that after evaluating the document being going around on social media, he found out that it was a rogue copy.
Adesina said the copy being circulated was different from the President’s broadcast, adding that the distrust was eventually found and made to answer for his action.
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Nigeria has confirmed 204 new cases of the novel Covid-19, bringing the country’s infections toll to 1,932.
As seen by the tweet of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday, of the new infections, 80 are in Kano, 45 are in Lagos, while 12 are in Gombe.
Thursday’s new cases are the highest confirmed in a day in Nigeria since the NCDC started compiling the virus data in February.
The toll of deaths from the virus also rose to 58 while 319 have now recovered.
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News of the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Nigeria has prompted fierce debate on social media, with #CoronavirusNigeria now the top Twitter trend across the country.
Nigerian authorities have urged the public to remain calm.
But some people say they fear the country, which is already battling an outbreak of Lassa fever, may struggle to cope if coronavirus spreads:
Wale Adetona✔ @iSlimfit
Our hygiene is bad, especially in Lagos. If this virus spreads, we are doomed. We need the same energy we used in defeating the Ebola virus. Lord help my country people to all play our parts.
M E S S I@badniggafela
The federal government of Nigeria needs to be heavily slapped for this mess they are trying to put us in
Y’all know our health sector is a mess and we not fully prepared to handle these kinda outbreaks
Yet we allow people come in from affected countries
Others say that the quick response of health authorities to the 2014 Ebola outbreak is proof the country will be able to contain the threat:
Remember when Ebola entered Nigeria?
People cried about how it’s over for us.
We would all be dead. No one can contain it. Our government doesn’t care. Our people are gullible.
But guess what, we’re still here.
THIS TOO SHALL PASS!#coronavirusnigeria
Have some more faith in your country, guys. We did contain ebola.
I’m hopeful that we’ll contain this too, and not at such a heavy cost, God willing.
LASG, we’re all counting on you.
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Nigeria is the first country in sub-Saharan to record a positive case of coronavirus, after authorities confirmed an Italian citizen who flew into Lagos from Milan tested positive for the disease.
Egypt and Algeria have also recorded positive cases.
A week after the introduction of the ban on the popular two- and three-wheeled vehicle, its impact has been widespread.
Holding a white placard above her head and surrounded by a group of young people, Sally had a clear message.
“All we want is for the government to lift the ban until an alternative is made ready,” she said.
Sally was referring to a recent decision by authorities in Nigeria‘s commercial capital, Lagos, to outlaw commercial motorcycles and tricycles from most of the crowded city’s residential and business areas.
She was not alone. Dozens of other mostly young people on Saturday joined protests in the megacity of more than 20 million people, angry by the state government’s recent decision to outlaw the two- and three-wheeled vehicles, which are a popular transportation choice for commuters seeking to beat heavy congestion.
“I am jobless and I am confused,” Innocent Udoka, one of the motorcycle drivers hit by the ban, told Al Jazeera.
“I am a graduate. I have no job and my only means of survival is taken away – how would I start again?”
Introduced on February 1, the ban is aimed at decongesting Lagos’s roads and reducing accidents and overcrowding. Citing the two- and three-wheeled vehicles’ “chaos and disorderliness”, as well as the “scary figures” of deadly accidents, the government said the ban was central in its efforts to achieve its goals.
One week on, the effect of the ban has been widespread, with long queues forming at bus stops, car drivers facing gridlocked traffic and others sometimes having to walk to avoid hours in traffic. Meanwhile, scuffles between some drivers and the police were reported in some parts of Lagos state over the past week.
“This ban doesn’t solve any of the problems attached to it,” Sally argued. “More people are suffering to get to work … and school. And several thousand [of people] have just lost their livelihood.”
But protesters also warned that the effect of the ban could be felt by all sectors of the economy.
“The [number of] people who would suffer [is] vast, including investors,” says Lagos based writer Timileyin Ogunleye, “Why? Because [a] few months back, several investors threw in several millions of dollars into the transport business, only for this abrupt ban to follow. Things are not done that way.”
The government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a threat to the country and its economy and will keep the borders closed for now.
Business owners in Nigeria are complaining they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the government closed a border crossing with neighboring Benin.
knowing that Nigeria has a big market for rice, it has cause loses to restaurants, hotels and so on.
however serious inflation of goods is happening in Nigeria. The price of rice has rise to its highest in some areas in Nigeria making it had for consumers to buy rice. Other food stuffs like beans, yam, oil etc. people are not given enough alternative before the borders were close and this has caused a lot of disadvantage to consumers and even those involve in rice selling.
Authorities say they are trying to stop illegal goods being smuggled in.
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