AIT risks shutdown as Founder, wife, others test positive

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Covid-19: AIT risks shutdown as Founder, wife, others test positive

‘We have to screen the premises for the virus’

By Omeiza Ajayi

Health officials in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), as well as Epidemiologists from the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), have concluded plans to screen the headquarters of the Daar Communications Plc, owners of RayPower and African Independent Television (AIT) in Abuja after the outfit’s founder, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi and some members of his family tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus.

Vanguard gathered that out of the about 43 residents of the nation’s capital, Abuja who tested positive for the virus on Friday, several of them were staff of the broadcasting outfit.

However, the organisation in a statement late Friday said its founder, his wife, three children and other relatives had tested positive for COVID-19. The statement was silent on the number of staff who had tested positive.

The statement reads: “Following the test that was carried out on our Chairman-…



Source: Vanguard Newspaper