REVEALED: How UCH CMD, Provost, Deputy Contracted COVID-19
•... As Hospital Board Chair Developed Symptoms At Board Meeting Details emerging from the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan confirmed early on Monday how the Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Prof Jesse Otegbayo, College of Medicine Provost, Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa and his deputy Prof Obafunke Denloye contacted the dreaded disease. A statement by Otegbayo on Sunday had...
CORONAVIRUS: Oyo NUJ Warns Members Against Physical Interviews
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oyo State Council has warned members to stop all physical interviews to prevent being infected by corona virus (COVID-19).This is contained in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Mr Ademola Babalola and Secretary, Mr Sola Oladapo, and made available to newsmen on Sunday in Ibadan.The union warned members to be cautious in...
COVID-19: Atelewo Sensitizes 9 Ibadan Communities, Ready To Partner Government For Food Supply
ÀTẸ́LẸWỌ́ - a language and cultural organization dedicated to the repositioning of Yorùbá language and cultures - have sensitized nine communities in Ibadan on precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus in Oyo State. According to Oredola Ibrahim, the coordinator of the program, The Atelewo Yoruba Coronavirus Campaign was inspired and launched as a result of the ongoing global...
CORONAVIRUS: Ogun Shuts Borders With Oyo, Others
Ogun State Government has announced the closure of all borders with neighbouring states and the international border with the Republic of Benin. States in the South-West including Lagos and Oyo with high COVID-19 cases would be affected by the border closure. The government, which said this on Saturday, explained that the closure would be effected at 12 midnight on Sunday, 29th...
CORONAVIRUS: Task Force Impounds 22 Vehicles At 22 Club Houses (PHOTOS)
Oyo State COVID-19 Security and Enforcement sub-committee has impounded a total of Twenty-Two (22) illegally parked vehicles during its special night operations, to enforce compliance at club houses and public places in Ibadan. Addressing the team of officers before the operation, the Executive Chairman, OYRTMA, Mogaji (Dr.) Akin Fagbemi, who distributed protective tools to the officers such as hand gloves,...
REVEALED: UCH CMD Tests Positive, Among Oyo’s 4 New COVID-19 Cases
Prof Jesse A. Otegbayo, the Chief Medical Director of the University College Hospital, UCH Ibadan has tested positive for coronavirus a pandemic that has killed thousands globally. Otegbayo disclosed this in a statement earlier today. According to him on Wednesday morning one of the hospital's staffshowed symptoms of COVID-19 and when the results of the stafftest were released on Friday...
BREAKING: UI College Of Medicine Provost, Deputy Test Positive To COVID-19
The provost and deputy provost of the University of Ibadan, UI, College of Medicine, Professors Ezekiel Olapade-Olaopa and Obafunke Denloye, have tested positive to coronavirus, OYOINSIGHT.COM has learnt. Olapade-Olaopa, who made this known in a Whatsapp group message Sunday morning said “Dear colleagues, I wish to inform you that the deputy provost and I tested positive for the COVID-19 following...
CORONAVIRUS: UCH Writes Open Letter, Solicits Funds To Upscale Up Isolation Centre
Nigeria’s premier teaching hospital, University College Hospital, Ibadan, in Oyo State has written an open letter to “well-meaning groups and associations” appealing for funds to enable it to upscale its isolation centre in response to the wide-spreading coronavirus disease. The letter made public on Friday was in spite of the billions of naira released by the President, Major General Muhammadu...
CORONAVIRUS: NCDC Approves UCH Test Centre
Adebayo Abdulrahman The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control has approved the Virology Laboratory of the University College Hospital, Ibadan for the testing of Coronavirus Samples. The agency made this announcement in a statement of Saturday night after the announcement of eight new cases of COVID-19 in the country, four of which are in Oyo State. "We have expanded the number...
CORONAVIRUS: Ologburo Supports Oyo With Hands Sanitizers
Lagos-based solicitor and legal consultant, Ifedolapo Ologburo, has distributed hands sanitizers to residents of Oyo State as part of the effort to contain the spread of the dreaded coronavirus. The philanthropist who undertook a public sensitization campaign against the virus said that the gesture of distributing the sanitizers was to ensure that residents of Oyo State maintain a high standard...
