Dr. Nimkong Ndam, Plateau State Commissioner of Health, has disclosed that 43 persons are being quarantined in Bakin Kaya village of Wase Local Government Area of the state, over suspected cases of Coronavirus.

The commissioner disclosed this during a press briefing in Jos, while giving an update on the outbreak of the disease in the state.

However, Ndam said there are no known symptoms in those quarantined in the state.

 

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has again re-assured Nigerians that the State remained committed to every effort geared towards preventing the human-to-human transmission of the COVID-19 virus, following the index case reported last Friday.

Governor Sanwolu said both the State and Federal Government healthcare officials had been working round the clock with infectious disease control professionals from the international agencies to ensure the counter measures being deployed to contain the virus achieved the desired results.

The Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke on Sunday during his visit to the State-owned bio-security and containment facility at Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH) in Yaba, Lagos Mainland, where the Italian national diagnosed with COVID-19 is being managed.

 

The Federal High Court in Abuja is presently delivering judgement in a suit instituted against a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh.

 

Justice Okon Abang is presiding over the suit filed against Metuh by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

 

The trial judge fixed today for the judgment after taking arguments from the prosecution and defense counsels in the matter which has lasted about four years.

 

The anti-graft agency accused the former PDP spokesman of money laundering to the tune of 400 million naira.

 

He was charged alongside his company, Destra investment, with seven counts bordering on criminal diversion of the money received from the office of the former National Security Adviser, SAMBO DASUKI.

 

During their arraignment in court in January 2016, the defendants, however, pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the charges.

 

The Social Economic Rights and Accountability Project said Nigeria’s downward slip on the Transparency International’s corruption perception Index should not come as a surprise to anyone.

 

Nigeria was named the second most corrupt country in West Africa only ahead of Guinea Bissau.

 

 

SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole OludarE, said the 2019 TI Corruption Perceptions Index, which showed that Nigeria’s corruption rating had worsened from 2018, confirmed the belief that BUHARI’s anti-graft war was backsliding.

 

 

While speaking on a monitored program, the Head, Transparency International in Nigeria, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani highlighted areas where corruption is endemic in Nigeria.

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