NEWS OF PLANE CRASH UNTRUE… AIB

24/07/21

DANIELS G.O

PRESS RELEASE

The Accident investigation Bureau AIB says contrary to reports of a plane crash in Ilorin, there was nothing of such

The AIB in a release by its general manager public affairs Tunji Oketunbi noted that the B737-500, had a burst tyre on landing roll.

The AIB confirmed that an incident involving Airpeace B737 -500 occurred on Friday in Ilorin at about 10.30am.

AIB noted that safety investigators did an evaluation of the occurrence and decided not to investigate.

The aircraft according to AIB has been released to Air peace. The delay in opening the airport is down to the recovery of the aircraft from the Runway by Federal airports authority of Nigeria FAAN and Air peace

The agency charged media practitioners to verify every information before going to press.

Meanwhile director general of Nigeria civil aviation authority NCAA has cautioned against sensitisation as it will damage the reputation of the industry

The aircraft had 66 passengers on board and 6 crew.

The Management of Air peace airlines has also debunked the reports of a crash involving their aircraft.

Air peace say the report are misrepresented and exaggerated, as the aircraft had a minimal tyre burst while taxing after safely landing.

132 NEW COVID-19 CASES RECORDED ,LAGOS LEADING WITH 109

17/07/21

DANIELS G.O

The Nigeria centre for disease control has confirmed 132 new cases of #COVID-19 In Nigeria;

Lagos-109
Rivers-16
Gombe-3
Katsina-2
FCT-1
Nasarawa-1

169,206 confirmed
164,666 discharged
2,126 deaths

*Data from Lagos State for 15th July, 2021

*Four states with zero cases reported: Plateau, Sokoto, Kano and Kaduna

U.S. Launches Activity to Improve Sanitation and Reduce Waterborne Disease in Northwest Nigeria

17/07/21

DANIELS G.O

PRESS RELEASE

U.S. Launches Activity to Improve Sanitation and Reduce Waterborne Disease in Northwest Nigeria

The United States has launched $2m Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services activity to improve water resource management, increase access to proper sanitation, and encourage good hygiene behaviors in the Northwest states of Kebbi and Sokoto.

The new USAID Improved Sustainability of Integrated WASH Services (iWASH) activity will help state agencies reduce water-borne diseases and associated socio-economic challenges through an innovative, integrated approach, focusing on improving access to WASH services in health centers, schools, and underserved communities.

USAID Development Outreach and Communications Specialist, Amarachi Obinna-Nnadi, said The activity will help Kebbi and Sokoto states provide better community WASH services and contribute to improved health outcomes.

According to UNICEF, fewer than 40 percent of Sokoto and Kebbi residents have access to reliable basic water and sanitation services and
Up to 70,000 Nigerians die from preventable waterborne diseases a year.

The two-year, $2 million iWAS activity will rehabilitate water points, construct new solar-powered boreholes, build latrines and hand washing stations, and install an innovative new online remote surveillance system known as pump view.

In addition to promoting good watershed management, providing improved water services, the activity will market and advocate for good hygiene behaviors such as hand washing before and after eating, properly storing water, and thoroughly cleaning implements for preparing and consuming foodstuffs.

i WASH will also help government institutions and communities coordinate sanitation and hygiene processes and water resources management to maintain operation and maintenance of sanitary facilities and engage the private sector through social enterprise marketing to communities vulnerable to sanitation-related diseases.

BE CALM: IT WILL END IN PRAISES!!!*

16/07/2

Joe C. Anatune

Our attention has been drawn to the INEC publication of tentative list of candidates for the November 2021 governorship election in Anambra.

Conspicuously, the Anambra consensus candidate for the election, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, is missing from the list.

We understand that the reason is that a JIGAWA State High Court created a fictional faction of APGA and directed INEC to accept its nomination of a former aspirant who was disqualified from participating at the APGA primaries.

APGA screened and found this aspirant unfit to be governor, and he travels 949 kilometres from Anambra to Jigawa to shop for a state court to foist him upon the party as its candidate, with the court also creating his own national chairman for him. This will be the 11th wonder of the world.

By His grace, this rascality and impunity will not stand. Millions of Soludo’s supporters in Nigeria and around the world are advised to remain calm.

As a law abiding organization, APGA will as usual appeal this judgment. It has become the routine every election season: every four years during elections, we go through countless court orders and counter orders.

This one too shall pass! It is important to clarify that there is no faction in APGA. APGA remains one united huge family as Nigeria’s third largest political party under Ozonkpu (Dr) Victor Ike Oye as the national Chairman and Governor Willie Obiano as the national leader/BOT Chairman.

It is the party loved by Ndi Anambra and Nigerians. Thousands are joining the party by the day in the run up to the election, and several opposition elements are getting desperate.

Soludo remains the only legally and legitimately nominated candidate of APGA for the 2021 governorship election in Anambra. The primary at which Soludo polled 94% was watched on live televisions by millions of Nigerians.

APGA gave him a unanimous mandate to fly their flag and millions of Ndi Anambra are celebrating the prospects of a Soludo as their governor.

We advise Soludo’s supporters and support groups to keep our eyes on the ball. The ball is the ballot and our overwhelming victory on November 6, 2021.

As we match forward, there will be several schemes to draw us back but we must never relent. Our train has left the station and won’t stop until victory is assured in November.

The lives of millions of Ndi Anambra are too important to surrender to desperate selfish politicians

What is written is written, and who can battle with the Lord?

Signed:

*Joe C. Anatune*
*Soludo Media Office*

SANWO-OLU FROWNS AT MISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES AGAINST COVID VACCINATION UPTAKE …. As Lagos Host South West

15/07/21

DANIELS G. O

PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE

SANWO-OLU FROWNS AT MISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES AGAINST COVID VACCINATION UPTAKE

…. As Lagos Host South West Edition of Town Hall Meeting on COVID Vaccination in Nigeria

Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that persisting rumours and conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine have affected the uptake of the vaccine in Nigeria despite the increasing demand of the vaccine in Lagos State.

Speaking at the South-West Edition of Town Hall Meeting on COVID Vaccination in Nigeria hosted by Lagos State Government and facilitated by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID19 in collaboration with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Sanwo-Olu averred that false and alarming conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine abound, seeking to sow doubts in the minds of the people.

Represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Folashade Jaji, the Governor noted sadly, that many of the rumours and misinformation have gained ground amongst the populace with a significant effect on the popularity of the vaccination campaign.

He said: “Uncensored and unmonitored social media content is of course also helping to amplify these conspiracy theories and misinformation. These myths and rumours need to be aggressively dispelled in order not to jeopardize the efforts of all stakeholders, and to ensure the protection of the health and wellbeing of our citizens.

“We must never get tired of pointing out that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, with more than three billion doses administered worldwide, thus far, and close to one billion persons fully vaccinated. Nigeria did not record any case of death associated with the COVID-19 vaccine, of the almost four million Nigerians vaccinated so far”

Sanwo-Olu while noting that the African Continent is lagging behind the rest of the world, both in terms of the availability of vaccines and the number of persons who have been vaccinated, stated that the widening gulf in vaccination coverage will have major global implications in the near future, if unchecked, stressing that the world must rally around to ensure that Africa is not left behind.

“Lagos State Government in collaboration with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and other equally concerned stakeholders will continue to do everything possible to ensure that Nigerians are properly educated and sensitized on the need to take the vaccine, while also continuing to observe all the other guidelines and precautions”, the Governor stated.

He tasked everyone, especially stakeholders in the vaccination campaign including other South-West Governors, Royal Fathers, Development partners and opinion leaders to keep sensitizing citizens on the need to adhere to all precautions and guidelines that will bring the pandemic to a halt.

He said: “As influential stakeholders, we must continue to reiterate the interventions introduced to curtail the community transmission of the COVID19 infection; regular hand washing, wearing of face mask, physical distancing and refraining from non-essential travel.

“These must not be taken for granted in any way. We must stop this virus by all means possible, it is an opportunistic virus, depending on us as humans to spread it and give it room to develop into more deadly strains.

“I want to use this opportunity to call on our royal fathers, religious leaders and elders to please continue in their efforts to fill the gaps in terms of community knowledge on the benefit of the COVID19 vaccination, and also to help dispel false rumours about the vaccine”.

“We must get our neighborhoods and communities to own the vaccination campaign and the entire fight against the Corona virus. We can and must win this battle, and it starts with collaboration and partnership”, Sanwo-Olu said.

Speaking in the same vein, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi stated that demand for vaccine in Lagos is very high adding that he is not surprise Lagos is playing host to the Town Hall Meeting because of the need to build on the vaccine acceptance and address issues of vaccine hesitancy particularly as some evidence suggests that Lagos State is going into a third wave.

While noting that Lagos is beginning to see increasing activities at public and accredited private laboratories over the last three months which suggests that many more people are testing positive to COVID, Abayomi said the increasing numbers of COVID positive cases is inevitable in Lagos because of the cosmopolitan nature of the State.

He said: “We have had three months of peace, and you may think we have been resting but we have not, because it is during times of peace that we actually work harder and we have been anticipating a third wave because we watch the global environment, we watch what is going on the continent and it is inevitable that Lagos will see some increasing activities because of the cosmopolitan nature of this mega city.

“We receive visitors on a daily basis from all over the world and despite our very stringent guidelines and operating procedure at the airport we still see people who are positive coming in and our attempt to prevent them from infecting other members of the community is not always 100% .

“So if we are beginning to see the beginning of a third wave, we are not surprised that the request for vaccines has also increased. Members of cabinet, Mr. Governor and I receive daily calls on when the next batch of vaccines are coming in. I will like to reassure you that the demand for Lagos for vaccine is high none the less we still need to hit that high target of 60% vaccination hopefully before the end of this year or going into the beginning of next year if we are going to prevent these waves of new variants coming in to Lagos and trying to force us to shut down our economy.

“It is Mr. Governor’s determined resolution that Lagos will not shut down its economy again, and for us to do that, it is not just the government; the government will do everything in its power to reduce the opportunity for viruses to come in and create havoc, but it is also a civic responsibility of everybody and that is why we are asking everyone to follow the rules and regulations and be each other’s brother and sister keepers by maintaining social distancing, respiration and personal hygiene and if feeling unwell, get tested for COVID”.

The Commissioner noted that Lagos State testing capacity is close to three thousand daily stressing that a lot of the COVID tests were done free of charge. He added that the State government will continue to make COVID treatment available and do all it can to win the war against the global pandemic.

“We will continue to make adequate amount of oxygen available for those that need it and we will do everything in our power together with the Federal Government of Nigeria to make available COVID vaccines so that we will be able to meet the deadline line by set by the WHO and other health institutions”, Abayomi said.

Also speaking at the event, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Ibrahim Mustapha said the town hall meeting is a public enlightenment programme geared towards calling the attention of citizens to the COVID vaccination exercise and its importance in the war against the global pandemic.

He noted the idea behind the town hall meeting being hosted by Lagos is to call the attention of citizens to the fact that COVID vaccine is safe and that citizens should be receptive to taking the vaccine.

According to him, the COVID vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective against COVID infection because in climes where they have vaccinated a lot of people, the people that are dying from COVID disease are those that have not been vaccinated.

“In Lagos, Nigeria, the people that are admitted to be treated for COVID with severe illness are people that never receive any vaccination, so it is a proven fact now that COVID vaccine is safe and people should be encouraged to take it”, he said.

While noting that the first phase of the vaccination exercise in Lagos and Nigeria has been concluded, Mustapha hinted that the next phase of the vaccination exercise is scheduled to commence in a few weeks when the Federal and State Governments receive the next consignments of vaccines.

Highlighting challenges encountered during the just concluded first phase of the vaccination exercise in Lagos, the Permanent Secretary disclosed that the issue of access, electronic platforms and improved service delivery even at the primary health care level would have been addressed going forward.

He said: “One of the things we have discovered is that some people do not have access to the vaccine; talking about people who reside in hard-to-reach areas, also people who are in towns not many of them also have access because we have not so many centres, going forward we will be having more centres.

“The other thing is the electronic platform that our people used to pre-register before they got vaccinated, there were some little hitches with it but by the next phase this would have been addressed. We also concentrated a lot on having COVID vaccine at the primary health care centres (PHCs) and this affected some other services that are been rendered at the PHCs, by the next phase we will be looking at a scenario whereby the COVID vaccination would go along side other activities at the PHCs so that nothing suffers, after COVID, there are other diseases are meant to be taken care of.

Speaking in the same vein, the Executive Director, Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib explained that as plans and preparation for the second phase commences, ‘a whole family approach’ vaccination mechanism would be utilized.

He noted that this is because Nigeria is also plagued with other preventable and treatable diseases adding that NPHCDA and other stakeholders will use the opportunity of COVID-19 vaccination to integrate with other health systems.

He disclosed that the Federal Government through the NPHCDA has received communication for the delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer-Bio-N Tech and Johnson & Johnson vaccine shipments in the coming months.

“We have received communication for the delivery of 3,924,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca by end of July or early August of 2021 from the COVAX facility; 4,000,080 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in August from the COVAX facility donated by the United States Government; 3,577,860 doses of Pfizer-Bio-N Tech COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX facility and 29,850,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson (Jassen) COVID-19 vaccine by the end of September, that will arrive in batches from the African Union Commission”, Shuaib said.

Present at the event were representatives of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation; Mr. Boss Mustapha; Minister of State for Health; Dr. Olorunimbe Mamora; Representative of the Director General, NCDC; Dr. Chikwe Ikpeazu; Commissioners for Health from other South-West States; the Oba of Lagos, HRM, Oba Rilwan Akinolu; WHO’s Country Representative, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo; Lagos White Cap Chiefs; Health workers; Members of CDAs and CDCs; Market women and Men amongst others.

Signed

Tunbosun Ogunbanwo

Director, Public Affairs

15th July, 2021

Lagos COVID-19 Daily Cases Rise To 100

15/07/21

DANIELS G.O

Lagos COVID-19 daily cases rise to 100

…Infected cases have no vaccination records, says Commissioner

Sanwo-Olu: We can’t afford another lockdown

Muritala Ayinla

As Nigerians are apprehensive over the the third wave of COVID-19, the Lagos State government yesterday said that no fewer than 100 Lagosians now tested positive to the deadly virus, saying that the number has dramatically risen to the figure in the last five days.

The government also pointed out that of all the positive cases, none of the infected person had received the vaccination before contacting the virus, urging the residents to get vaccinated on time and dispel the unfounded rumour in the social media about the vaccines.

Speaking with journalists at the South West Zonal Town Hall meeting on COVID-19 vaccination, organised by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 in conjunction with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, held in Lagos, the Lagos State

Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this, said that
that the state’s testing figures are going up slightly, adding that it was also expected that a lot of people are coming back from Europe especially the young children and this new variants are circulating, beacuse of the Summer season.

Abayomi added that the figure of the infected people steadily rose from 30 cases daily to between 60 and 80 earlier before it remained at 100, addding that there are evidences that those infected had not received the vaccines.

The commissioner said:”About a week ago we are diagnosing 30 new cases a day, it gradually went up to 60, 80, and it went just above 100 and it has remained above 100 everyday for the past four or five. There is a little reassuring that it is not going about 200, 300, 500. We have tightened our restrictions at the airport goes into mandatory isolation. And we are enaging in aggressive attack of the virus as directed by the Incident commander, the governor.

“All the new cases admitted in Lagos none of the people, looking at their history are people who have not been vaccinated. It is not scientific, robust evidence, but it is an indication. The early indication shows that those not vaccinated are the once catching the virus.”

On the vaccination, he said that despite the fact that the there is global shortage bof the vaccines, the federal government is expecting some consignment of millions vaccines, adding that Lagos would be proritised because the state had experienccedd evidences of the third wave of the pandemic, especially with the increase in the number of cases in recent days.

Abayomi added: “Nigeria is expecting some consignment and Lagos will be proritised because we have seen evidence of the possibility of a third wave as Mr gov as announced a few days ago. That trend is not alarming, it is certainingly there, we have admitted more people at the IDH, than we have done over the last two months.

“Our testing figures are going up slightly and we expect that it is summer time, a lot of people are coming back from Europe espe the young children and this new variants are circulating, we expect that there will be some increasing activity in Lagos, as we receive a lot of visitors and these vaccines are important for us.

On his part, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who was represented at the event by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs Folashade Jaji also expressed dismay that the persisting rumors have affected the uptake of the vaccine.
Sanwo-Olu declared that Lagos could not afford another lockdown again due to the imminent COVID-19 third wave which he believed it can be prevented.
While encouraging the citizens to take vaccine, he said so far, the country had not recorded any case of death associated with the COVID-19 vaccine and almost four million Nigerians had been vaccinated.

The governor added: “I am counting on the full support of NPHCDA, the South West Governors, our royal fathers, development partners and all other Distinguished guests here present to ensure that we all keep sensitizing our people on the need to Adhere to all the precautions and guidelines that will bring the pandemic to a full and final stop.

“Am using this occassion to call on our royal fathers, Chiefs, religious leaders and elders to please continue in their efforts to fill the gaps in terms of community knowledge on benefits of COVID-19 vaccination, and also to dispel false rumors about the vaccine. We must get our Neighbourhoods and communities to own the vaccination campaign, and the entire fight against the Coronavirus.

” We can and must win this battle, and it starts with collaboration and partnership. Which is why I am happy that we have gathered here today to network and to discuss and fashion out strategies for working together for the success of the fight against this pandemic “, Sanwo-Olu said.

Meanwhile, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who was represented by
Minister for State Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, and the Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora told Nigerians to disregard fake news trending on social media on COVID-19 vaccine, describing the rumours as handiwork of mischief makers. attempt to dissuade citizens from taking the vaccine.

The Executive Director /Chief Executive Officer of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, in his address,said that the government has received communication for the delivery of the following vaccine shipments in the coming months; 3,924,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca by end of July or early August 2021 from the COVAX facility; 4,000,080 doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in August from the COVAX facility donated by the United States Government; 3,577,860 doses of Pfizer-Bio-N Tech COVID-19 vaccine in Q3 from the COVAX facility and 29,850,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson (Jassen) COVID-19 vaccine by the end of September, that will arrive in batches from the African Union Commission

ICC ACKNOWLEDGES PETITION BY AGITATORS FOR YORUBA NATION

15/07/21

DANIELS G.O

The International Criminal Court, has acknowledged a 27-page petition filed by Yoruba Nation agitators, against President Mohammadu Buhari the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, former Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, and former Inspectors General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and Muhammed Adamu.

On Tuesday, the petition was signed by the Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, a Yoruba Activist, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, and 49 other Yoruba Self-Determination Groups.

In the petition, the Yoruba Nation agitators accused the Nigerian leaders and security chiefs of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Yoruba people of Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Okun Land in Kogi, and Kwara states respectively.

The 27-page petition accused President Buhari, Malami, Buratai, and others of Genocide offences such as killing members of the petitioners group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life.

Akintoye, in a statement by his Communications Manager, Maxwell Adeleye, stated that the Yoruba people must now move forward to accomplish our Yoruba nation’s self-determination by holding a referendum towards separating from Nigeria.

In a copy of the petition the petitioners claimed that there are ongoing violations of Human Rights in Nigeria, as expressed specifically in the Rome Statute, being perpetrated against the Yoruba People, particularly genocide under Article 6, and Crimes Against Humanity under Article 7, of the Rome Statute.

The petitioners therefore urged the Prosecutor, on the grounds that Nigeria is a state party to the Rome Statute, pursuant to Article 12.1, partaining to the precondition to the Court’s exercise of jurisdiction, to act pursuant to Article 15.2, and 1.53 and initiate the Court’s investigation process and also exercise its jurisdiction, pursuant to Article 13(c).

Others who signed the petition with Akintoye and Ighoho are Imam of Yoruba in Ilorin, Kwara State, Shielk Raheem Aduranigba, Leader of Obinrin Agbaye, Chief Simisade Kuku, Leader of Yoruba Strategy Alliance, Babatunde Omololu, and 45 others.

Other government officials petitioned are Comptroller General of Customs, Hammid Alli, Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, Chief of Army Staff, Farouk Yahaya, former Chief of Airforce, Sadiq Abubakar, former Commandant-General of NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar, Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Immigration Services, Mohammed Babandede and the Commandant-General of NSCDC, Abdulahi Muhammadu.

COVID-19 VIRUS RECORD UPDATE, 154 NEW CASES RECORDED ACROSS NINE STATES

14/07/21

DANIELS G.O

The Nigeria centre for disease control has confirmed 154 cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-119
Akwa Ibom-11
Rivers-6
Oyo-5
Ekiti-4
Ogun-4
FCT-2
Gombe-2
Kwara-1

168,867 confirmed
164,623 discharged
2,125 deaths

Today’s report includes:

✅Data from Oyo State for 11th July, 2021

✅5 states with zero cases reported: Imo, Kano, Oyo, Plateau and Sokoto

The Delta Variant Is Here With Us! More Virulent With Less Symptoms… Covid is Real ,Pls Stay Safe.. Daranetwork Tv