Tag: Covid-19

Members of civil society organisations and students on Monday staged a massive protest against the compulsory COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration. Armed with placards bearing various inscriptions, the protesters who grounded vehicular and human movements in major points in the metropolis, urged the government to share COVID-19 palliatives, and not vaccines. Some of the placards bore inscriptions like; “We need security in Edo, not vaccine; We will resist any form of executive rascality; Hunger is killing us, not COVID-19; My body is my right.” They also threatened to completely shut down government houses, government agencies/parastatals, corporate organisations enforcing ‘no vaccine, no entry’ policies, stressing that the pro...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has threatened to re-impose the suspended COVID-19 lockdown measures if residents fail to comply with COVID-19 protocols. Wike said this in a broadcast in Port Harcourt. He said that daily figures released from the National Centre for Disease Control showed that both the transmission and death rates in the past two weeks had consistently been on the increase due to non compliance by the residents. He said that it remained the desire of the state government to keep the state open and allow citizens to go about their social, religious and economic activities unimpeded He, however, warned that the government might be compelled to imposed a lockdown if the residents continued to disregard the protocols. Read also: I’m Healthy, Just Undergoing T...