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The Anap Foundation COVID-19 Think Tank has raised the alarm over the new wave of COVID-19 infections, and called on both the federal and state governments to come up with smart crisis management plans to address the spread of the virus. In a statement jointly signed by its chairman and vice chairman, Atedo Peterside, and Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, respectively, the foundation warned against shutting down small businesses. It, however cautioned, “Our response must take into consideration Nigeria’s realities: recession, high unemployment and rising insecurity.”
Gov Emmanuel condemns youth involvement in cultism
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By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has condemned the involvement of youths in cultism, noting that most of the crimes in the state especially armed robbery, and killings are perpetrated by cultists.
Emmanuel who spoke yesterday while fielding questions from newsmen in Uyo frowned at a situation where Secondary Schools now carry locally made pistols to threaten teachers and sometimes block the major road and terrorising members of the public.
His words, “About 99.9 per cent of the people we have arrested in terms of armed robbery, kidnapping, all of them confessed to be cultists. Let me shock you because I am not shy to say this anywhere.
Dashboard update for December 15, 2020
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The most recent report received by the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment from the Mount St. John’s Medical Center (MSJMC) has revealed no new laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Antigua and Barbuda as of Monday 14
th December 2020 at 6pm.
Subsequent to the publication of the dashboard on Sunday 13
th December 2020 with the cut off time of 6pm, sixty-three samples were processed at the Mount St. John’s Medical Center which increased the pending results from zero to sixty-three.
All sixty-three samples processed by MSJMC yielded negative results and are reflected in the