Day: 8 April 2020

COVID19: Chinese doctors land in Abuja

Jide Ige

CCECC says Chinese doctors here to treat its staff A 15-member medical team from China has arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on a chattered Air Peace aircraft. The medical personnel who landed around 5:15 pm were received by the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian; Executive Director, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, Mr Jacques Liao, senior officials of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and others. The personnel, who are experts in infectious diseases, respiratory illness, intensive care, cardiology, neurology, general surgery and anesthesiology, were all…

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Twist in Funke Olakunrin’s killer’s arrest tales as Ondo Police deny Odumakin’s claims

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

The Ondo State Police Command has denied a story credited to the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Mr Yinka Odumakin, that it has arrested the suspected killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Fasoranti. Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of the Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, was shot dead by bandits on the Ore-Sagamu Expressway in July 2019. Odumakin had revealed on Monday that four of the suspected killers had been arrested by the police. The Punch reported. However, the Ondo State Police…

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