By Joy Mbachi
Chief Bonny Nkwuaku, President-General of Enugwu-Ukwu Community, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra, has called on traders in the community market “Nkwo Enugwu-Ukwu” to always use nose mask.

He advised the traders and other persons who engage in street markets in the community to regularly put on their nose mask while attending to customers to avoid COVID-19 infection.

Nkwuaku, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Awka, that the call became necessary to make people change their mind set on reality of the existence of the virus.

“We need to do a lot of sensitisation on the control of COVID-19 spread into communities.

“Market men and women deal with the public always, they could be a source of spread or control, so once they are aware of the dangers of defaulting COVID-19 precautionary measure, compliance level will be increased,” he said.

Nkwuaku said the call would also enlighten the people against being caught by the COVID-19 task force team who are determined to check COVID-19 spread in the society.

“These team has the responsibility of arresting COVID-19 precautionary rules defaulters who fails to wear nose mask, place buckets, soap and water at their business centres.

“It is expected that people who attend to public or access public space are to put on their nose mark and other precautionary measures,” he said.

Nkwuaku, said that people should see government directives as a means to get them protected from the second wave of COVID-19 which is said to be more deadly than the first wave.

He appealed to the community to avoid been a source to spreading the virus, urging them to partner with the state to control the spread and avoid being arrested and charged to court.

By Ibrahim Abdulazeez
Residents of Oke-Ogun area of Oyo state Tuesday commended Sen. Abdulfatah Buhari, representing Oyo North for the provision of 33 boreholes across the senatorial district.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that residents, had recently appealed to government at all levels to come to their aids to resolve the hardship of lack of water/

NAN report that Oke-Ogun compromise 10 out of the 11 council areas the Senator represents at the red chamber.

Speaking in separate Interviews with NAN on Tuesday, residents said the provision of the motorised boreholes would ease the hassles of water scarcity and make life easier for them.

Mrs Olaide Azeez, a community leader at the Barracks area of Iseyin, said she was happy with the intervention and offered prayers for the senator.

Another community leader at Isale Oro area of Saki, in Saki West council area, also expressed happiness over the gesture, and expressed optimism over the maintenance of the borehole in his community.

A middle-aged business man at Otu in Itesiwaju council, said the intervention was timely and long overdue, noting with gratitude that people of the area would be eternally grateful to the senator.

For Mr Bashir Lawal, a unionist, maintaining the boreholes dug across the zone should be of priority to different benefiting communities.

“It’s a good thing that the Senator has decided to use parts of our money to dig boreholes for us, that’s fine but we must now talk about maintaining them because this is not the first time, we are seeing such.

“There must be a deliberate and concentrated energy to ensure those boreholes keep working even after the lawmaker leaves office,” he said.