The Oyo State Road Transport Management Authority, OYRTMA, has unveiled a newly acquired maximum tonnage truck. This, it said would enhance operations of the Agency at Oyo and Ogbomosho zones of the State. OYRTMA’s Executive Chairman, Dr. Akin Fagbemi told newsmen that the heavy-duty tow truck acquired by Oyo State Government, has the ability to recover accident vehicles in emergency situations, as well as tow impounded small and heavy- duty articulated vehicles that may obstruct the free-flow of human and vehicular movement within Oyo and Ogbomoso zones of the State. “This, which the Authority lacked for over 8 years,…
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Nigeria, on Friday night recorded 238 new cases of Coronavirus. According to a tweet from the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, (NCDC), Kano State recorded 92 cases, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded 36 cases, Lagos State had 30 cases, Gombe State had 16 cases and Bauchi state recorded ten cases. The tweet further revealed that Delta State recorded eight cases, Oyo State had six cases, Zamfara and Sokoto States had five cases each, Ondo and Nasarawa State had four cases, Kwara, Edo, Ekiti Borno and Yobe recorded three cases each, Adamawa State had two cases and Niger, Imo, Ebonyi,…
Ekiti State Government has confirmed that the samples sent to the NCDC accredited laboratory for testing has returned positive results of the COVID-19 virus infection.Total now 11 cases 
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha has said in spite of the coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the nation’s economy, the Federal Government cannot reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5 per cent, saying the country’s purse was already bleeding. According to Mustapha, the federal government takes only 15 per cent of the VAT while the balance is shared for states and local governments. Boss Mustapha also hailed the organized labour for their commitment to the development of the country. Mustapha said; “The atmosphere for this…
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that the Federal Government and other employers will not lay off any worker without due process amid the coronavirus pandemic . According to a statement by Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President, who was represented by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige , made the assertion in a video conference with labour leaders to commemorate May Day on Friday . Buhari said , “ I understand the anxiety which has plagued the minds of workers over the possibility of job losses due to the economic downturn caused…
MEN of Rivers State Police Command on Friday exhumed decomposing corpses of three undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt (Uniport) kidnapped at Choba, Obio Akpor Local Government Area (LGA), host community to the varsity 7 April 2020. Nnamdi Omoni, Police Public Relations Officer, Rivers Command, who led a team to dig out the bodies identified the victims as “Nelson Nwafor, male, Fortune Obemba, male and Joy Adoki (male). Omoni said the recovery of the murdered students was made by the Anti Kidnapping Unit of Rivers Police in the early hours of May Day at Eteo, Eleme LGA. He said:…
The founder of DAAR Communications , High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, his daughter- in – law , and six members of his family have tested positive for coronavirus. This came three days after his son and Chairman of the board of the company , Raymond Dokpesi Jnr , also tested positive for the virus . According to ait. live , a test conducted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on the Dokpesi family came out positive for eight members of the family . Dokpesi and the other affected family members were, on Friday, conveyed by the NCDC to the isolation…
Press Release Oyo’s Covid-19 endowment fund now N334 million-Govt …as Nigerian Breweries, FCMB, publishing outfits donate Cash donations to the Oyo State Covid-19 Endowment Fund have reached N334 million, the Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Akinola Ojo has said. The Commissioner, according to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, has also put the value of Health-related donations at N261 million and Agricultural products at N109 million. The donations, in cash and kind, therefore stand at N704 million as at May 1, the statement said. According to the statement, the Nigerian Breweries PLC and…
Worker’s Day: We’ll continue to give priority to wellbeing of workforce, common man—Makinde …slashes senior political appointees’ pay by 50 per cent …says schools may reopen July 15th …as labour leaders present most worker-friendly award to gov Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Friday, declared that the economic safety and wellbeing of the state’s workforce and the common man would continue to take precedence under his watch. The governor, who was speaking at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Oyo State branch, located at Labour House, American Quarters, Agodi, Ibadan, during a special programme to mark…
ABIA DISCHARGED Governor OKEZIE IKPEAZU of Abia State has said the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, will be discharging one out of the two index cases of Coronavirus in the state. Abia registered two Covid-19 cases at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, on April 20. The Governor who spoke in the Government House Umuahia today could not conceal his joy over the recovery of the seventy-two- year- old patient. According to an elated IKPEAZU, the 72-year-old patient who responded to treatment will be the oldest person to recover from coronavirus in the South-East. He said the samples collected from people who…