Venezuela will not authorise the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca due to “adverse effects’’ around the globe, the Foreign Ministry cited Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said. “Venezuela will not grant a license to use the AstraZeneca vaccine due to adverse results [on people who received the vaccine] around the world,’’ Rodriguez was cited by the ministry as saying. A number of countries have temporarily suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot concerns, even as the company and major health agencies maintained it was safe to use. The vice president said that the Caracas Government was negotiating with vaccine…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Presidential Tasks Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has insisted that Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is safe for Nigerians despite the growing global concerns over possible side effects. The National Incident Manager (NIM) of the PTF on COVID-19, Dr. Mukhtar Muhammad, made this known on Monday in Abuja at the joint national briefing of the taskforce. According to Muhammad, the clinical trials had shown that the side effects are “generally mild’’. He said that the WHO had in the last three days, through a series of briefings, vouched for the vaccine’s safety and efficacy, and that it had been proven that it…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced that it recorded three deaths and 238 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. It also said it discharged 353 people after treatment from various isolation centers across the country, bringing the total number of discharged cases to 145,752. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Monday. The country have also tested 1,684,305 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 pandemic was announced on Feb.27, 2020. The public health agency said some of the discharged included 120 community recoveries registered in Lagos State and 34 in the Federal Capital…
The Presidency has described leaders of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide as “the wise men from the East.” The leadership of the Igbo socio-cultural group, paid courtesy visit to the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in the State House on Monday. Adesina, on his official Facebook page, disclosed that the Ohanaeze leaders were at the State House to commend Buhari for the good work he’s doing in the South East. “And again, the wise men came from the East. Chieftains of Ohanaeze Ndigbo General Assembly Worldwide were at State House, Abuja, on…
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has collected water samples and flavour products for laboratory analysis, following the outbreak of strange infectious disease in Kano metropolis. The State Coordinator of the agency, Mr Shaba Muhammad, said on Monday in Kano, that the samples were referred to its laboratory in Kaduna for analysis. Muhammad said the agency recieved report of manifestation of a strange disease suspected to be caused by drinking sachet water and locally processed drinks in the metropolis. He explained that a team of officials of the agency had visited the infected persons…
Odonagu Blessing, a 13-years-old student of Federal Government Girls’ College (FGGC), Lejja Nsukka in Enugu State has emerged “Mathematics Queen’’ for the 2020 SDGs mathematics competition for junior secondary schools girls nationwide. Blessing distinguished herself among over 120 contestants in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) competition organised by the National Mathematical Centre (NMC) on Monday in Abuja. The Director NMC, Prof. Stephen Onah, while commending the best runner up of the contest, explained that the competition was in three stages. Onah said that the first and second stages took place at the state level. He said that at the state…
An EFCC witness, Umar Babangida on Monday in told an FCT High Court that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) neither signed nor approved the controversial Gas Supply Processing Agreement (GSPA) led to a $9.6billion liability judgment against Nigeria. Babangida told the court that the GSPA was signed between Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources. Babangida, stated this while being cross examined by counsel for a former Director, Legal Services in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Grace Taiga, Ola Olanipekun SAN. EGCC dragged Taiga before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, on eight-count charge bordering on bribery. She was…
The Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has disclosed what she discussed with President Muhammadu Buhari, while thanking him and Nigerian youths for supporting her candidacy for the WTO position. Addressing State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with the President, the WTO boss said she was in the Presidential Villa first on a thank-you visit for his support when she was campaigning for the position. “I felt I had to come to Nigeria first to say thank you to the President for his nomination and his support throughout the campaign, when he signed so…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday hosted Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, newly selected Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), expressing Nigeria’s appreciation to the world over her selection. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja, said that the president told the visiting WTO boss that in spite of the robust support Nigeria gave to her candidacy for the position, she also deserved the selection. He said: “We are happy you made it, but you earned it with your record of performance both at home and abroad. “I congratulate you, as well as the country. I know you…
Nigeria has vaccinated 8,000 persons so far in 35 states and the FCT, the Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19, said on Monday in Abuja. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, made the disclosure at the PTF briefing, on Monday in Abuja. Shuaib however, said Kogi remained the only state yet to receive the vaccines because its cold chains for preservation of the vaccines were under repair. He said the vaccines had been tested and verified to be effective and safe for use, dismissing rumours and concerns about the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines…