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COVID-19: NOA Director Cautions Against Careless Behaviour
Following the outbreak of the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Rivers State Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) Mr Young Ayotamuno, has called for mature and responsible behaviour in order to avert another lock down in the state.
Ayotamuno who said this in an interview with newsmen in his office in Port Harcourt said irresponsible behavior such as refusal to comply with the COVID-19 protocols would attract another lockdown in the state.
According to him, experiences gotten so far during the first wave of the pandemic should be applied to mitigate the second wave, which is looming in the area.
The NOA Director said, people must be careful to avoid a repeat of the previous experience as another lockdown will not be in the interest of anyone.
“Having gone through the experience, people should be careful, they must observe all protocols relating to the prevention of COVID-19.
“Another lockdown will not be good for the people.
There must be a collective effort to avoid another lockdown in the state” he said.
He stressed the need for people to put on their face masks always, observe social distancing, while buckets with water should be placed in all public places for people to wash their hands.
“Instead of risking another phase of lockdown, people should observe the protocols, people should be responsible in their conduct.”
The NOA Director also stressed the need for strict enforcement of the COVID-19 protocols and warned against politicising the issue relating to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ayotamuno also called for more sensitisation campaigns, adding that the campaigns this time around must involve the traditional institutions at the community level, while younger generations must also be involved in the campaigns to check the spread of the pandemic.
Niger Delta
Tai Agric Sector Gets Emergency Attention …As Chairman Distributes Farm Inputs, Inaugurates Technical Team

The Chairman of Tai Local Government Council of Rivers State, Hon. Matthew Nenu Bari Dike has declared a state of emergency in the agriculture sector of Tai local government.
Speaking while distributing farm implements and other agricultural support packages to the farmers at the council’s headquarters in Saakpenwa, yesterday, Dike challenged farmers to show their farms before requesting for financial assistance.
The council boss stated that as a government, they were committed to putting smiles on the faces of the people and assured that his administration would ensure that every person in the local government is happy.
“As a government we want to assure you that, we will stop at nothing to ensure you all are empowered and living happily”.
According to him, “the gesture is aimed at enhancing food production and security through agriculture, and enjoined all lovers of agriculture in the local government area to identify with the quest to redefine development through agriculture in the local government.
He encouraged everyone to cultivate the passion and return to agriculture, to guarantee self-reliance, maximum food production and security in the area.
His administration, he said, would purchase more yam seedlings in order to get greater production to encourage exportation beyond the shores of Nigeria.
“A boost in yam production will also empower farmers in the Local Government Area”, the elated chairman said.
In a related development, the Chairman has inaugurated a five, member Agricultural Technical Committee for the Local Government Area.
The committee is made up of Pst. Anderson Wariboko, Barr. Paul Newman,, Smith Nyor-Ue, Gladys Jumbo and Dr Keke Rammyson
Also speaking, the Director of Agriculture, Tai Local Government Area, Mr Anderson Wariboko revealed that the event was part of activities to mark the chairman’s 100 days in office.
Wariboko who led the chairman, and other leaders of the council on the distribution of the farm inputs to the farmers, was full of praises for the chairman, Hon. Dike whom he said has the interest of the people at heart.
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