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As part of measures to cushion the effect of the lockdown due to the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has commenced the immediate disbursement of cash to some low income persons across the eight Local Government Areas that make up Delta Central Senatorial District. The eight local government areas in the senatorial district include: Ethiope East, Ethiope West, Okpe, Sapele, Ughelli North, Ughelli South, Udu and Uvwie. The exercise which commenced in Kokori Inland in Ethiope East LGA on Saturday witnessed the handing over of the cash palliative to individuals in their homes without discrimination. According to the Head of the Committee set up to coordinate the disbursement, Hon. Innocent Emosivwe Anidi, a total of two hundred (200) households from each Ward in the Senatorial District will receive the sum of Five Thousand Naira (N5000) per household. There are Eighty-Five (85) Wards in the eight Local Government Areas that make up Delta-Central. This translates to Seventeen Thousand (17,000) households in the Senatorial Zone. In a brief message to the Constituents, Senator Omo-Agege appealed to the people…
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COVID-19: Collaboration With Private Sector To Provide 600 Beds In FCT Isolation and Treatment Centres – Minister
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COVID-19: 35 quarantined over death of doctor in Katsina
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