ome Fulanis from Niger Republic have been intercepted by Taskforce officials of Enugu South Local Government Area.
The Fulanis were intercepted on Tuesday May 11, along Enugu-Port Harcourt Flyover Garki in Enugu State.
While some of the Niger Republic nationals ran into the bushes and markets, those apprehended by the taskforce and members of the community were paraded alongside items they came into the state with.
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At least 471 deaths have been recorded across five local government areas in Yobe State within the last three weeks.
The state task force on COVID-19 made the revelation on Tuesday.
The Yobe State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muhammad Lawan Gana, who is also the vice-chairman of the state COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control, disclosed this in Damaturu while presenting “Yobe State Verbal Autopsy Preliminary Findings” triggered by the recent reported mass deaths in the state.
Dr. Gana said those that died were mostly elderly people.
He said the death rate was observed for three weeks starting from the last week of April to date, admitting that there were about 471 deaths reported within the period as indicated by the findings.
“57 per cent of those deaths had underlying chronic illnesses. More than 57% were aged between 50 years and above. The trend actually showed an increase in mortality”, he admitted.
He, however, noted that the geospatial maps showed no clustering mortalities as 90% of those that died had no travel history outside the state.
He said: “90 per cent of the cases did not have symptoms that were consistent with COVID-19.
“It was noted that 16 of the 471 deceased in the five local government areas revealed someone with similar symptoms. All the 16 persons were investigated and referred to health facilities. 3 out of the 16 made the case definition of COVID-19 and 13 did not meet the definition, they had other diseases.
“All the 3 persons were from Potiskum and their samples have been collated and sent for testing and all of the 3 are in self isolation."
A breakdown of deaths showed that, Damaturu had 86, Bade had 112, Potiskum 121 and Nguru had 152 deaths within the period.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has disengaged the services of over 100 workers as the oil firm rehabilitates its refineries.
The workers affected are those contracted by selected contractors to work at refineries.
According to Punch, after the NNPC disengaged the contractors, over 100 persons who were contracted by about five contracting outfits were asked to leave.
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, NNPC, Kennie Obateru, said the corporation was working to revive the refineries and make them deliver at least 90 per cent of their refining capacities.
Explaining what happened at the facilities, Obateru said, “The people concerned are not our direct staff. We have contractors who supply us labour, they could be 10, 20 or more and they are just engaged for the period for which their services are needed. It could be one or two months, but usually not more than three months.
“So the contractor supplies the workers. But from what we have seen, our experience is that because a contractor is used to working with some people, each time we ask for supply, he uses some of these persons repeatedly.”
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