COVID-19 2nd Wave: Edo records 29 new cases Health Ministry
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The Edo Government on Friday said that it has recorded 29 new cases of COVID-19 and 16 recoveries in the second wave of the pandemic.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr Osamwonyi Irowa, disclosed this on Friday in Benin, while briefing newsmen on the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 in the state.
Irowa said a total of 32 deaths have been recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic in the state, but no death was recorded in the last 24 hours.
According to him, Edo in the last 24 hours recorded 29 new confirmed cases, with no deaths and 16 recoveries.
Kano Govt arrests 500 beggars
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The Kano State government says it has arrested 500 beggars for allegedly violating the law that bans street begging in the state.
The State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr Zahra’u Muhammad-Umar, made the disclosure while repatriating the beggars in Kano on Friday.
Muhammad-Umar said that the beggars were arrested in Kano metropolis with 70 per cent being women and children, and 30 per cent men.
“Those arrested included women, children, men and Almajiris. The children don’t go to school and have no good food to eat,” she said.
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Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna
The Kaduna State Government has approved February 1, 2021 as resumption date for SS3, JSS3 and JSS1 for public and private schools across the state.
The reopening of school, it said followed an extensive appraisal of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the state and series of consultations with relevant stakeholders of both state and Federal Health and education sectors.
The Permanent Secretary in the state ministry of education, Phoebe Sukai-Yayi, in a statement, said government has also approved Primary 6, 5 and 4 of Private Schools only, to resume on the same day.
She also disclosed that schools would run shift to enable them to meet with the guidelines, noting that “the first shift will run from 08:00 am – 12:00noon while the second shift will be from 01:00 pm – 05:00 pm.”
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Published 30 January 2021
Iran hanged a man for murder, abduction and “terrorist” links on Saturday, the judiciary’s website said, despite international calls for the execution of the ethnic Baluch to be halted.
Javid Dehghan Khalad was put to death early in the morning in the restive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, Mizan Online reported.
It comes a day after the United Nations had appealed to Iran not to go ahead with the execution of the 31-year-old.
Mizan said Dehghan was arrested in June 2015 and later convicted of being “one of the leaders” of a “terrorist” group linked to the jihadist Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice).
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Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday, said imposition would no longer be allowed in the ruling All Progressives Congress.
He said there would be “no more crowning from Abuja.”
Buhari spoke shortly after he revalidated his membership of the the party in his hometown, Daura, Katsina State.
The President, who was accompanied by the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, Mai Buni; members of the committee; President of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; state governors and other party members, said he was committed to ensuring that the party is returned to the people at the grassroots.