COVID-19 Lockdowns Ease As Global Infections Near 3 Million<\/a><\/span><\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\nIn his remarks, President-General of Isoko Development Union, Chief Iduh Amadhe, showered encomiums on the people for their generosity.<\/p>\n
He commended the chairmen of the councils for the gesture and called on religious leaders to call for prayers against the pandemic since it had no known cure at the moment.<\/p>\n
Welcoming the people earlier, Chairman, Isoko Nation COVID-19 Response Committee, Rt. Revd. John Aruakpor had disclosed that the Committee had the responsibility of raising funds for the project and identifying the less-privileged in the communities for the distribution of the palliatives.<\/p>\n
Aruakpor, who is the Bishop of Oleh Diocese of Anglican Communion, thanked the people for their support, adding that he was glad about the success recorded in the exercise.<\/p>\n
He prayed that the pandemic would be a thing of the past in no distant time.<\/p>\n
Present at the event were members of the state\u2019s House of Assembly, Ferguson Onwo and Kenneth Ogba; DESOPADEC Commissioner Dr Paul Oweh, business mogul, Hon. Eta Enahoro; Sir Matthias Eto, Mr Duncan Afahokor, Mrs Catherine Ilolo and Amb. Caroline Usikpedo, among others.<\/p>\n
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By Ovasa Ogaga, Leaders of the Isoko people in Delta, on Saturday, donated food items to the vulnerable in the area as a palliative to cushion the effect of the lockdown ordered by the state government due to prevailing COVID-19. The items, worth over N15 million were donated to no fewer than 3,000 households in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1790208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[3646,5950,5951,5952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}