2020

Founder of DAAR Communications, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, and seven members of his family have tested positive for COVID-19. The test results came three days after his son and chairman of DAAR Communications, Mr. Raymond Dokpesi Jnr., tested…

Abia State TeleHealth Initiative has donated a set of 100 pieces of mobile phones with lines to the Abia State Ministry of Health for distribution to those in the frontline of COVID-19 contact tracing. Speaking while making the donation,…

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has announced modalities for the gradual relaxation of the lockdown excercise in the State. GOVERNMENT SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTT Further to a meeting held yesterday, Fridays, 1st May, 2020, by the Governor of Abia…

One of the confirmed patients of COVID-19 in the Abia State will soon been discharged from isolation after two consecutive negative test result while the second patient is in stable condition. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu disclosed this in a…

204 more persons have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, bringing to 1,932, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle. It also said that a…

Tragedy struck in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Thursday, as one person died, while 14 others were rescued from the rubble of an uncompleted eight-storey building, which collapsed. The incident, which happened on the Yar’Adua Drive,…

The Federal Government says 113 medical doctors have been infected with coronavirus in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, said the medical doctors, majority of whom are from private hospitals, have tested positive to…

Herbert Wigwe, the group managing director of Access Bank, has mulled the bank’s planned mass retrenchment of its workforce over what he said was the outcome of the COVID-19 lockdown. The bank boss who spoke via video conferencing in a…

Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma has approved the release of 36 prisoners in the State with a directive for the accelerated trial of minor offenders. The approval is part of efforts to decongest the Correctional Centres following…

Abia State Head of Service, Sir Onyi Wamah has joined other well-meaning individuals in distributing palliative items to the people of Isialangwa south Local Government Area. Speaking at the event, Sir Wamah said that it was important…