National Universities Commission buildingSchools were shut nationwide in March 2020 to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure coincided with a strike action by ASUU, whose members went on strike in protest against the non-implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed with the government for the revitalisation of the system.
Although the government lifted the national lockdown last August, public universities remained shut until late December when the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspended its industrial action. By then, the institutions had lost 10 months. x
Many higher institutions were in their first semester before the lockdown; hence the closure not only interrupted teaching and learning, it also coincided with a key assessment period as tests and exams in some of the institutions were postponed.
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During the COVID-19 lockdown that lasted for over five months in Nigeria, a lot of Nigerians particularly the vulnerable were unable to access health centres. The ICIR’s NIYI OYEDEJI reports on how people living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) battled for survival during the lockdown.
ON April 16, 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria, pregnant Hauwah Abdulkareem, 34, a resident of Ilorin, who lives with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) approached the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) while she was suffering from the vaso-occlusive crisis.
The mother of two said she was astonished when she got to the UITH and was told to go back home, although she held a referral form from a professional hematologist, she was told that her condition was not an emergency case
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EndSARS: Edo govt to offset hospital bills of 2 deaf victims, says panel chairperson
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Governor Godwin Obaseki
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has promised to offset the hospital bills of two deaf victims allegedly shot by operatives of the Police and the Army, during the EndSARS protests in Benin.
This was disclosed on Monday, by Justice Ada Ehigiamisoe, the Chairperson of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, sitting in Benin.
She said that the state government had offered to pay the medical bills of the victims, which is running into thousands of Naira, following a petition made by the Edo State Association of the Deaf, through the panel, to the State government.
Following the requests made by the Edo State Association of the Deaf through the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses to the State government, the governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has promised to offset the hospital bills of two of its members allegedly shot by members of the Nigerian Police and the Nigerian Army during the #EndSARS protest in Benin City.
In the petition titled “EndSARS Tragedy: Shooting and Hospitalisation of Two Deaf Men: Mr. Bright Osarobo and Mr. Osazee Festus, call for Justice” signed by its chairman, Kingsley Eromosele, and presented to the state judicial panel of inquiry, stated that it was disturbing that two unarmed innocent deaf men were victims of the excessive use of brute force to quell a peaceful protest by citizens.
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