World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all who received a first dose. The UN health agency, in a statement on Thursday, stated that the continent needed 20 million doses of the vaccine in the next six weeks to get to all who received a first dose. According to the global health body, a single dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine gives around 70 per cent protection for at least 12 weeks. “Data on the protection from one dose after 12 weeks…
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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Thursday ordered the immediate suspension of Dr Cecilia Adebayo, the Provost of the state-owned College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti. The suspension was announced in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by Mr Yinka Oyebode, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. According to the statement, the suspension will be in force pending the outcome of investigation into the circumstances that led to the hospitalisation of no fewer than 100 students of the institution after a controversial fumigation. The statement added that the suspension would be without prejudice to the outcome of a meeting of the…
Government White Paper on Thursday indicted former Senate president Bukola Saraki, former governor Abdulfattah Ahmed and others for illegally selling Kwara properties. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq had set up the committee to investigate unlawful sales of the state government properties from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2019. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, quoted the Chairman of the panel of inquiry, Mr Hussein Buhari, as saying this while submitting the White Paper to the governor at the Government House in Ilorin. The panel set up by AbdulRazaq on the unlawful sales of government…
The following are the latest FIFA rankings for African countries, published in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday. World ranking African ranking Countries 22 1 Senegal 26 2 Tunisia 32 3 Nigeria 33 4 Algeria 34 5 Morocco 46 6 …
Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc says Nigeria can earn $700 million foreign exchange annually through implementation of the Backward Integration Policy (BIP) from sugar production. The Chairman, Dangote Sugar Refinery, Aliko Dangote said this at the company’s 15th Annual General Meeting on Thursday in Lagos. Dangote said that allowing for distortions in the sugar masterplan framework would adversely affect the target of the nation attaining self-sufficiency as projected. He said the policy would not only reduce imports of raw sugar but save the nations enormous foreign exchange used for importation. Expressing his delight with the BIP, Dangote, however, noted that if…
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, has initiated a convergence of immediate Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Governments for a decisive action over the recent military coup in Mali. Akufo-Addo, who is the Chair of the Authority, made the call on Thursday in Abuja at the opening of the 2021 First Extra Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament. On May 25, the second time in nine months, Col. Assimi Goita seized power again in Mali, detaining transitional President, Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane. Goita had accused the interim President and Prime Minister of…
Dr. Nimkong Ndam, the Commissioner for Health in Plateau, has said that the state has 21 reported cases of cholera and two deaths from the disease in the state. Ndam explained in an interview on in Jos on Thursday that 30 suspected cases were tested, and 17 persons were confirmed to have cholera from the rapid diagnostic test, while four persons were confirmed to have cholera by the culture test, amounting to 21 cases. He added that the confirmed cases had been treated and discharged already. The commissioner said that cholera is an acute diarrhoea infection, caused by a bacterium…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. The new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Major General Faruk Yahaya was born on 5 January 1966 in Sifawa, Bodinga local government area of Sokoto state. A member of the 37 Regular Course of the prestigious Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Yahaya started his cadet training on 27 September 1985 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps on 22 September 1990. READ ALSO https://ashenewsdaily.com/general-news/breaking-buhari-appoints-new-chief-of-army-staff-maj-gen-yahaya/ He has held several appointments including Staff, Instructional and Command notable among the appointments held by the new…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. This is contained in a statement by the military spokesperson, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu on Thursday. According to the statement, Yahaya was the General Officer Commanding 1 Division of the Nigerian Army and the incumbent Theatre Commander of the Counterterrorism, Counter-Insurgency military outfit in the North East code named Operation HADIN KAI, prior to his appointment. His appointment followed the death of the immediate past army chief, Lieutenant-General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in an air-crash along with 10 other military officials in Kaduna.
The two residents of Byazhin area in Kubwa, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), kidnapped by gunmen have regained their freedom after allegedly paying N2 million. On Wednesday, the two men, Mr Ayodele Somorin and Mr Oladimeji Josiah, a carpenter, were kidnapped in their homes on May 21. The armed men, who stormed the hilly area close to the Lottery Quarters and few metres away from Living Faith Church, Byazhin in Kubwa, shot sporadically before they were whisked away. They were however, released after spending about five days in kidnappers’ den. On a visit to the area Thursday…