The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday said deaths from Tuberculosis (TB), one of the top infectious killers in the world, increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. WHO’s 2021 Global TB report highlighted how years of global progress in tackling the disease had been “reversed” since the pandemic overwhelmed health care systems in 2020, preventing vulnerable people from seeking help. Lockdowns had also thwarted many people’s access to essential health care services, the report insisted, before issuing the additional warning that the death toll from the disease could be…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says one in four adults of global population does not exercise enough, calling for better and fairer opportunities for physical activity to improve overall health. The UN health agency said in a new advocacy brief with the theme: ’Fair Play: Building a strong physical activity system for more active people’ that up to five million premature deaths a year could be prevented if the global population was more active. The brief was released during WHO’s final webinar in a series convened to discuss the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on sport and physical activity. According to WHO, many people…
The House of Representatives have mandated three of its committees to resolve the lingering crisis between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) technical committee on Comprehensive Import Supervision Scheme (CISS) and Adani Mega Systems Ltd. This was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Leke Abejide (ADC-Kogi) at plenary, on Thursday. Moving the motion, Abejide said that the CBN‘s committee had an agreement with Adani Mega Systems Ltd having engaged the firm as a service provider/vendor for screening service infrastructure for the inspection of all inbound and outbound cargo in Nigeria. The rep said that the CBN, in the…
The Police in Adamawa have confirmed the arrest of four high-profiled kidnappers who were suspected to have abducted a nursing mother and her daughter, according to a statement by DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, on Thursday, in Yola. Nguroje, the command’s spokesperson, said that the notorious suspects were also behind the attack on Ngurore Police station. On Sunday, Oct. 10, heavily armed suspected kidnappers attacked Ngurore Police station at about 2 am and also kidnapped the woman, Hauwa Umaru and her daughter. DSP Sulaiman said operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of the state command arrested the suspects on Thursday and recovered one…
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has said it has prioritised quality of care as a key strategy for improving the health of mother and newborn in the country. It said having learnt from this, the FMOH was now in the process of extending this to cover older children and adolescents. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this on Thursday in Abuja, at the 2021 session of the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Coordination Platform for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent and Elderly Health plus Nutrition,(RMNCAEH+N) . The FMOH inaugurated the RMNCAEH+N multi-stakeholder partnership coordination platform on Oct. 12, 2020. The platform is to…
About 86 per cent of all coronavirus infections in Africa go unnoticed, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. The WHO puts the number of all infections on the continent at 59 million, over seven times more than the eight million reported cases. “The high number of unreported cases can be explained by the fact that health facilities have so far focused on testing people. People with symptoms of the disease has led to extensive under-reporting.” Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said with limited testing, the continent is flying blind in far too many communities. “What we…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, granted a motion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking to discontinue a suit against the Kogi government. EFCC had brought the suit, seeking an interim order to freeze the sum of N19.3 billion bailout fund, in the account of the state. The fund, alleged to have been domiciled in an interest yielding account with sterling bank, was said to be meant for the payment of salaries of the state workers. At the resumed hearing of the case on Friday, EFCC’s counsel, Mr Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, presented the applicant’s grounds…
Prof. Oyewale Tomori, a former vice-chancellor of the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun, has described the decision by the federal government to make the COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for federal government workers as well-thought-out. Tomori, who is a virologist, who lauded the federal government in an interview said, the plan could not have come at a better time. The federal government said that all its workers will be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination with effect from Dec. 1. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation/Chairman Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha announced the new policy decision on…
Dr Solomon Chollom, a Jos-based Virologist, has advised the Federal Government against imposing Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine on its workers. He said the proposed barring of civil servants who failed to take the Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines from offices by Dec. 1, was curious as it raised more questions than answers. Chollom, who is also the spokesman of Plateau Inter-professional Health Committee on COVID-19 Response in Jos, gave the advice while fielding questions on the development on Friday in Abuja. He noted that on the surface, the government decision would appear as a smart policy towards increasing vaccine uptake across the country.…
The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened 28 pips to 6.4386 against the U.S. dollar on Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 per cent from the central parity rate each trading day. The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day. Xinhua