Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has stated that the state government has earmarked N2 billion from its 2020 contingency funds to purchase of foodstuffs for distribution to Rivers people as palliatives against hardship being posed by COVID-19.
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has ordered the arrest of two helicopter pilots for allegedly violating the Executive Order issued by the state government to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state.
In order to cushion the effect of the stay-at-home directive to Rivers people to check the spread of coronavirus, the Rivers State Government on Tuesday commenced the distribution of foodstuffs to the downtrodden.
UMUAHIA- Abia state government has threatened to arrest traders who open their shops during the period of the lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.
Governor Nyesom Wike disclosed this Sunday in Port Harcourt following inspection of the state’s isolation/treatment center and a Food Bank established to share palliatives to cushion impact of the sit-at-home order over the pandemic.
Seplat Petroleum Development Company and Waltersmith, two oil and gas firms with footprints in Imo State, have donated some medical items to the government of Imo State to help it curb the spread of the virus in the state.
Following the fast spreading case of Covid-19 in Nigeria, Ondo State has closed its borders neighbouring Ekiti, Edo, Osun, Kogi and Ogun states over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Members of the Abia State Committee on the coronavirus pandemic set up by the Executive Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, to help fashion out modalities on how to prevent the spread of the deadly pandemic in the state, have expressed satisfaction over high level of compliance of the directive of the state government.
Akwa -Ibom governor, Udom Emmanuel has signed the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, which declared COVID-19 a dangerous infectious disease.