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WHY THE QUARANTINE ACT OF 1926 CANNOT LEGALIZE RESTRICTION OF MOVEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT

(Being a response to the Statement of the Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Mr. Femi Adesina) 1. The Quarantine Act has no provision for the restriction of the movement of any citizen. A fundamental right expressly granted by the Constitution cannot be taken away by assumption, inference or deductions. 2. Section 41 (1) of the 1999 Constitution expressly donates ... Read More »

Coronavirus Adeleke donates 500m to FG and 6400 bags of Rice

*The Adeleke dynasty* will this week, commence the distribution of *N250million worth of Rice* across the Three Hundred and Thirty Two Wards in Osun State. This is in spite of the *N500miilion* donation by the Billionaire *Dr Deji Adeleke* to contain the deadly Coronavirus. In a release signed by *Chief (Dr) Mrs Dupe Adeleke – Saani*, the distribution of twenty ... Read More »

SENATORS DONATE 50 PERCENT OF SALARIES TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

THE Nigerian Senate has announced the decision by Distinguished Senators to contribute 50 percent of their salaries to the efforts to respond to the spread and treatment of Corona virus in Nigeria. The acting spokesman of the Senate, Senator Godiya Akwashiki, announced the decision through a statement on Monday. “After due consultations following a keen review of the national efforts ... Read More »

COVID-19 and Kwara’s capacity to hold its own By Rafiu Ajakaye

This is no good time for mankind — no thanks to the deadly Coronavirus, or COVID-19. The virus is giving the most powerful of nations a good run for their money, technological know-how, and oft-touted readiness to face down any threat from anywhere. As of 10:37p.m. on March 29, the virus has affected 199 countries across all the continents with ... Read More »

Mouka Provides Comfort to Nigerians during crisis, donates 700 mattresses

Mouka, Nigeria’s leading manufacturer of mattresses and bedding products, has brought relief to victims of the Abule Ado gas pipeline fire explosion in Lagos with the donation of 200 mattresses. In the same vein, 500 mattresses were donated to Lagos State towards equipping its isolation centres used for the treatment of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The socially responsible organisation has ... Read More »

BE FRIENDLY WITH LAGOSIANS, SANWO-OLU URGES SECURITY OPERATIVES AS LAGOS SHUTS TO MOVEMENT

…Enforcement Will Be Done With Human Face – CP Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has charged security agents to be friendly in enforcing the lockdown order announced on Sunday by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Governor urged those who will be carrying out the enforcement to show high professionalism in dealing with erring persons, cautioning that high-handedness may lead to ... Read More »

VP Osinbajo Chairs Economic Sustainability Committee

_”The President today constituted an Economic Sustainability Committee he asked me to chair, on how to implement strategies to alleviate sufferings of Nigerians at this time,”_ VP Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, said at a Google Hangout where young Nigerian tech innovators discussed impact of COVID-19. The Committee is to take care of the economic challenges and fallouts of the pandemic and ... Read More »

Coronavirus: We’ve started immediate cash transfer to poorest households, says FG

Sadiya Farouk, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Fisaster Management and Social Development says the ministry has commenced cash transfer to poorest households in the country to cushion effect of the coronavirus pandemic. The minister said this during a press briefing by the presidential task force on the disease in Abuja, on Monday. Nigeria has recorded 111 coronavirus cases spread across 10 ... Read More »