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DID YOU KNOW THAT you could maim or kill a child by vigorously shaking him or her?

Nurses’ Week is ideally a remarkable event held worldwide to celebrate the devotion, commitment and compassion of the nurses who put in efforts everyday to care for their sick patients.

In the center where I work, UBTH, the Management, arguably the best around right how, has made arrangements for PPE especially for those of us frontliners who meet patients as they enter the hospital for the first time with health challenges either at the Accident & Emergency, Children Emergency, or even the Consultant Outpatient Department, COPD.

EARLY LAST WEEK, I told a colleague that the number of Coronavirus cases in Nigeria could hit 2,000 by the end of the month, he doubted me. Now with at least another 36 hours until the end of the month and with less than 500 new cases to reach that number (2000), you can’t bet …

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I’M SURE THAT A lot of you would have heard that three doctors have now been confirmed to have Coronavirus.

IT’D BEEN AN AWESOME birthday celebration last Friday.

BACK IN OCTOBER 2004 when I was in SS3 BLUE at Federal Government College, Nise, I had it all figured out.

THE LEVEL OF ROBBERY attacks in this axis of Benin City, Edo State seems to have skyrocketed in the past few weeks. And somehow, it is not unrelated to the Coronavirus pandemic that has caused a slowing of commercial activities in so many parts of the city.

President Buhari’s move is both politically and epidemiologically correct. It is a precautionary measure, but the right one. Sometimes the test of leadership is not in making the most popular move, but the correct one!

MANY NIGERIANS, ESPECIALLY IGBOS, do not believe that Coronavirus is really in Nigeria till date. They think it is a government scam to siphon funds.