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 The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada Abuja has given award to 100 staff who worked tirelessly to attend to COVID-19 cases at the facility. The Chief Medical Director, UATH, Prof. Bissalla Ekele at the presentation of the award to the outstanding staff said the recognition was to boost the morale of the staff. The CMD said the first confirmed case in FCT, Abuja four weeks after the Lagos case on February 27, 2020, was admitted at UATH (the first and the only hospital then in FCT with the capacity to manage COVID-19). He also said the frontline healthcare workers as at December 1, 2020, had managed 313 cases of COVID-19 (mostly moderate to severe cases that needed oxygen support).

 An honourary doctorate degree recipient from Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, AE-FUNAI, Ebonyi state, Dr. Anayo Onwuegbu has appealed to lecturers who are members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to sheathe their sword and resume academic activities for the sake of security of the country Onwuegbu said that for the young population of Nigeria to be out of school for nine months posed serious security threat to the country, adding that the parties at the receiving end in the impasse were every Nigerian He said that he  had the opportunity of listening to both sides of the argument between the federal government and ASUU and came to a conclusion that ASUU should succumb to their pleas of Nigerians and resume academic activities in the universities for sake of not deteriorating an already bad security situation in Nigeria Onwuegbu made the appeal shortly after his conferment of Doctor of Business Administration (Honoris Causa) at 5th special convoc...