The federal government has raised alarm over the use of what is called “deep” fake news to attack it and its officials. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, raised the alarm in an interview in Sal Island, Cape Verde on Saturday. The minister was in Sal Island for the 64th Conference of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) – Conference for Africa and second edition of UNWTO Global Tourism Investment Forum. Mohammed said fake news had worsened by becoming a weapon for naysayers to attack government and its officials. “As a matter of fact, Nigerians should know that we…
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By Abujah Racheal The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has said that as a developing country, Nigeria was unlikely to meet the recommendation of the United Nations and the World Health Organisation’s ratio of one doctor to 600 patients. Ngige said this at the two-day quarterly meeting of the Nigeria Health Commissioners Forum, on Friday, in Abuja. The two-day Forum’s theme was: “Building a stronger health sector in Nigeria through collaboration and strategic partnership”. The meeting was primarily convened to discuss how to strengthen the health system at the sub-national levels, with an overall objective of achieving…
The hunters, in a string-like operation, raided a ‘riverside’ community in Magami between Shiroro and Rafi local government areas of Niger state and killed the bandits on Wednesday. The community, which is closed to a river, has been used as hideouts by bandits, who also established their camps in the axis, a source told PRNigeria. A police intelligence officer, who asked not to be mentioned, confirmed that several bandits also fled with gunshot wounds, aside from those killed. “I can tell you for a fact that the bandits met their waterloo. At least 47 of them were eliminated by the…
By Kayode Adebiyi It was a matter of time, but COVID-19 vaccination has already started to generate heated arguments following a hint that the federal government could start sanctioning anybody who refused to be vaccinated. Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), disclosed this at a recent press conference in Abuja. He, however, said that implementation was dependent on availability of the vaccines. “The Presidential Steering Committee and the Federal Ministry of Health are exploring ways of making vaccines more available to all Nigerians, including federal civil servants and corporate entities. “Once these vaccines are made…
By Abubakar Shekara Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) enjoined that we uphold the truth, whosoever speaks it and listen to “people of knowledge” in all matters., Imam Shafi’i admonished his students to in all disagreements, “criticize speech but respect the speaker.” The cleric’s counsel might also be to respect the speech, if not the speaker. It follows then, that when personalities like former President Ibrahim Babangida tell Nigeria what’s good for the country, the educated and enlightened would listen; especially when they speak about leadership. Recently, the former Nigerian leader prescribed qualifications for Nigeria’s next…
By Zailani Bappa Responsibility entails having a duty to deal with. It is a cardinal duty of accomplishing a task that will comfort a conscience. It is what makes the human a worthy being dutiful and useful, a justification of his existence in what we have developed as a society. The journalist, with a vehicle known as the media, is tasked by the society to be dutiful in creating and promoting love and harmony and increasing the pace of development amongst men. Anything contrary to that is undutiful and hence, irresponsible. Peace is the basis of development. It is the…
The Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, says it has set up a fintech division to understudy cryptocurrency investments and other digital products in order to establish regulations for the sector in Nigeria. The Director-General, Lamido Yuguda disclosed this to Reuters in an interview on Thursday. Recall that the commission in April, entered into talks with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for better understanding and regulation of the cryptocurrency market. “We are looking at this market closely to see how we can bring out regulations that will help investors protect their investment in Blockchain,” he said adding that regulations would…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, inspection team that went to Nangere, Yobe, on Friday to track a borehole that was supposed to have been sunk under lawmaker’s constituency projects found none in existence. The borehole was purportedly sunk at Sabongari area of Nengere local government area of Yobe. The team noted that there is a hole and a stand for an overhead tank, but there were no other components. Mr Laban Emmanuel, ICPC Team B leader in the state, listed components of the project contract awarded in 2019 to include overhead tank, filter, motorised borehole,…
Africa is likely to miss the urgent global goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10 per cent of each country’s population against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) by the end of September, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO Regional Office for Africa in a statement released on Thursday said that 42 of Africa’s 54 nations (nearly 80 per cent) are set to miss the target with the current pace of vaccine deliveries and vaccinations. Nine African countries, including South Africa, Morocco, and Tunisia, have already reached the global target set in May by the World Health Assembly, the world’s…
By Kalmana Afsa, Bauchi Health Reporters in Bauchi have expressed commitment to disseminate correct and accurate information about COVID-19 vaccine in order to curb hesitancy. They made the commitment on Tuesday during a one-day media orientation meeting on COVID-19 phase 2 vaccination exercise organized by the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, SPHCDA, with support from the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA. The meeting aimed at empowering the media with correct information about COVID-19 so that the populace will be guided on vaccine hesitancy. The chairman of the agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed urged reporters to be vanguards of the truth,…