The Senate has commanded its Committee on Health (Primary and Communicable Disease) to meet with the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) following reports of baffling deaths recorded in Bonny Island, Rivers State. The upper chamber while encouraging the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to give life materials to the individuals of Bonny Island, commanded the Committee on Environment to meet with the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) to guarantee the decrease of marine contamination of numerous sorts. Read more Nigeria Top NEWS These shaped pieces of goals came to by the Senate following the thought of a movement on the earnest need to mediate in the puzzling deaths in Bonny Island. The backer of the movement, Betty Apiafi (PDP – Rivers West) mourned that in the most recent seven day stretch of March 2020, "there were occurrences of enormous amounts of dead fish a
The Governor of Rivers State , Nyesom Wike, has surveyed rules for strict social occasions in the State. This was contained in an announcement gave by the Commissioner of Information in the State, Paulinus Nsirim, on Wednesday. Nsirim noticed that the limitation on the number of admirers during community gatherings has been expanded from 50 to 70 people in the State. As indicated by him, the State government was all the while chipping away at modalities for the quantity of Muslims that can assemble for Friday petitions. These were a piece of goals that came to a gathering among Wike and strict pioneers at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the State capital. At the gathering, Wike lauded the strict pioneers for agreeing to the mandate of 50 people for every social occasion and the support of COVID-19 warnings . The Governor likewise guaranteed that his organization would give palliatives to strict associations through their umbrella associations.