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Ekiti, Bauchi, Kano deploy 1,500 teams to administer COVID-19 vaccine
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Published 14 March 2021
About 1,500 teams of health workers will be deployed by Ekiti, Bauchi and Kano state governments in different parts of the states to administer doses of COVID-19 vaccine jabs,
Sunday PUNCH has learnt.
Our correspondents gathered that 78 teams would be moblised in Ekiti, 872 in Bauchi while a team of health workers would be deployed across each of the 509 designated centres in Kano.
The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Rilwan Mohammed, said the state Governor, Bala Mohammed, had directed that the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine be commenced immediately.
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Published 13 March 2021
The Lagos, Ogun, Delta, Enugu and Akwa Ibom state governments on Friday commenced the vaccination of frontline health workers in the state against the deadly coronavirus as part of efforts to reduce the spread of the pandemic.
This is just as the Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and his Delta counterpart, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, received the first jab of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Also, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and Governor AbdulRamon AbdulRazaq took their first jabs.
Sanwo-Olu, who received the vaccine on Friday at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, along with is deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, and the Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said there was no reason for anyone to panic over the desirability of the vaccine.
Court rules on ex-NBA president’s money laundering case June 10
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Published 13 March 2021
The Federal High Court in Lagos has fixed June 10 to rule on the no-case submission filed by the immediate-past President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr Paul Usoro (SAN), in response to the money laundering charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The EFCC accused Usoro of laundering N1.4bn belonging to Akwa Ibom State, where he hails from.
He was charged with 10 counts, which was later reduced to six after the Court of Appeal struck out four of the charges which featured the name of Akwa Ibom State Government, Udom Emmanuel, whom EFCC claimed connived with Usoro to allegedly launder the N1.4bn.
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States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses, Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti, 52,960 and Ondo, 75,570.
Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State.
Recall that the Federal Government on Tuesday last week received 3.94 million doses of the vaccine from COVAX facility, an initiative co-led by the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI and the World Health Organisation.
On Monday, 50,000 doses of the vaccine were given to Ogun State by the Federal Government.