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LAGOS, Nigeria Nigeria’s center for disease control said Monday that 31 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in at least seven states, triggering immediate activation of a national emergency response. The center had last Thursday confirmed the outbreak of the disease in the oil-rich southern Bayelsa state where 12 cases were confirmed and dozens of people already quarantined. “Following the notification of a suspected monkeypox outbreak [...] in Bayelsa State, other suspected cases have been reported from six more states, bringing the total number of suspected cases so far to 31 across seven States - Bayelsa, Rivers, Ekiti, Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Ogun and Cross River States,” the center said in a statement on Monday night. “Samples have been collected from each suspected case for laboratory confirmation. Results are still awaited. So far, there have been no deaths recorded,” it added. The center said it has activated an Emergency Operation Cent...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo panel set up to probe allegations of corruption against the suspended secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal and the Director General of the NIA, Ayo Oke, has submitted its reports to President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo who addressed State House Correspondents after the closed door event says that the President would act on the detailed recommendations in the interest of the Nigerian people. Although he refused to disclose some of the recommendations made by the committee as it would be preempting Buhari, he notes that Buhari would study the report and take his own decisions. “This is a report which contains recommendations to the President. “It is a fact finding committee as you know and what our terms of reference were, were to find out based on the facts that we had available to us and based on interview of witnesses what transpired in both cases that were before us. “The one involving the Secreta...

The weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will not hold Wednesday,  President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina reveals. Mr. Adesina, in a statement, said Mr. Buhari will however receive the report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke. The committee is headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and it will submit its report to the president in his office at noon,  Mr. Adesina says. Mr. Buhari returned to Nigeria on Saturday after spending 103 days in London for medical treatment. The president had constituted the panel to investigate the corruption allegation levelled against the suspended SGF by the Nigerian senate and that against Mr. Oke by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He was to receive the report on May 8 but his...