For Today’ Numbers to Ponder, Dataphyte’s prediction that in May, Nigeria would hit 1,885 Cases of the novel Coronavirus was right. That’s the power of data science to forecast. In another brief, Edo State claims to have screened 40,000 Screened, 2310 Violators were arrested during the lockdown. To give healthcare priority in post-Covid-19, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the state will increase the sector’s budget to 20 percent by 2021..
1885 Cases
On May 1st, 2020, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) announced that confirmed cases of coronavirus have reached 2,170, with 351 recoveries and 68 deaths. The new figure is in line with Dataphyte’s predictive analysis that COVID-19 cases would reach 1,885 by May. [DATAPHYTE]
40,000 Screened
The Edo State government yesterday claimed it had screened over 40,000 persons in the state for coronavirus, allegedly leveraging a strategic partnership with private hospitals, clinics and pharmacies, which complemented the screening exercise ongoing across designated government hospitals.
2,310 Violators
The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said 2,310 violators were arrested in the state during the lockdown, while thousands of vehicles and motorcycles were impounded. Bala Elkana, the Lagos State police spokesperson, in a statement on Sunday, said the police are fully prepared for the next phase of enforcement which will commence on Monday.
N3.5b Remittance
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has made an interim remittance of N3.5 billion to the Federal Government consolidated account for 2020. This is in addition to more than N3.5 billion paid to candidates as reduction of cost of ePIN as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
20% Annual Budget
Healthcare is to be accorded priority in post-Covid-19 Lagos, as up to 20 per cent of the state’s 2021 annual budget would be allocated to the sector, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said. About 13 per cent of the state’s 2020 budget of N1.16 trillion was allocated to the health sector.
N5.4b Contract Scam
April 6, 2020 purportedly issued by the NDDC awarding a contract with the subject “Emergency procurement of Specialized Medical Personnel. Protective Equipment (PPE) for Health Workers and Provision of Community-Based Sensitization Campaign Against the Spread of COVID-19 and Other Communicable Diseases in the Nine State of the Niger-Delta Region” in favour of Messrs. Signora Concepts Services Ltd at the cost of N5,474,647,125.00.
N50m Thugs
SaharaReporters gathered that Obasa has mobilized the thugs with N50m so as to invade the Civic Media Lab office and burn down the place with anybody found there as a way of getting back at the online news publication for exposing his fraudulent activities in the Lagos parliament where he had been feeding fat on public funds.
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