By Abujah Racheal Dr. Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has given an insight into the composition of COVID-19 vaccines. In an interview on Monday in Abuja, Shuaib said there were several COVID-19 vaccine candidates. He said while some had been approved for emergency use by the World Health Organisation (WHO), others were still in different phases of clinical trials for possible approval. According to him, COVID-19 vaccine candidates are of various categories based on their mechanism of action such as the inactivated or weakened virus vaccines. He explained that in formulating the COVID-19 vaccine,…
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Security operatives in Nigeria have arrested 400 suspected financiers, supporters of Boko Haram insurgents and other criminal groups nationwide, Daily Trust has reported. The ongoing inter-agency operation is being led by a top intelligence officer, with an army general leading a task team comprising military personnel and staff from intelligence services. Multiple sources informed the paper that the closely-guarded operation is being coordinated by Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), in collaboration with the Department of State Services (DSS), Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). As part of the operation, billions of naira traced to businesses…
By Jonathan Lois, Abuja A member representating, Ikwuano/ Umuahia North/South federal constituency in Abia State, Mr Sam Onuigbo says Nigeria cannot achieve her ambitious commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) without a legal base. He stated this during the inaugural meeting of the joint committee for the review of the Climate Change Bill in Abuja on Monday. Onuigbo is the sponsor of “the Bill for an Act to provide a legal framework for the mainstreaming of Climate Change responses and actions into government policy formulation and implementation, and the establishment of the National Climate Change…
The publisher of Daily Nigerian, Mr Jaafar Jaafar, has gone into hiding after receiving several security threats. A close media associate of the investigative reporter told PRNigeria that unknown persons have been on his trail for some time. “Jaafar’s life is in danger as unidentified persons, likely to be ‘hit men’, have been stalking him both at his Abuja and Kano residences,” the associate, who prefers anonymity said. Recall that Jaafar published video clips of Kano governor, Abdullahi Ganduje in October 2018, in which he portrayed allegedly collecting dollars as bribe from a contractor. Recall also that the governor, responding…
The Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, has assured they were ready to implement financial autonomy for state legislature and judiciary by May 2021. It’s Chairman and governor of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi gave the assurance after a meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari at Aso Villa on Monday. According to him, the governors have never opposed financial autonomy for the legislature and judiciary, adding that the governors, speakers and judges were on the same page as far as the issue was concerned. Kayode said that a meeting with the Solicitor-General of the Federation, representatives judiciary, those of…
South Korea’s first-quarter economic growth is widely estimated to have recovered to pre-pandemic levels on a rapid rebound in exports and investment, experts said Monday. South Korea’s gross domestic product came to 468.8 trillion won (US$419 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2019, about a month before the new coronavirus hit Asia’s fourth-largest economy. As the economy shrank 1 percent on-year in 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the country’s GDP dwindled to 463.4 trillion won in the October-December period last year. Optimism about South Korea’s economic growth for the January-March period comes on the back of…
Eight repentant Niger Delta militants and kidnappers undergoing rehabilitation in the Omega Power Ministries (OPM) rehabilitation centre, are now pastors in the church, General Overseer, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has said. Chinyere, who is the founder of the Church, disclosed this in a telephone interview in Abuja on Monday. The General Overseer said that the repentant militants/kidnappers turned over a new leaf after a divine encounter through evangelism organised for some of them in their various camps. “I preached to them and many of them hearkened to salvation call and gave their lives to Jesus Christ. “Before I embarked on this…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday blamed electoral violence and voter apathy on population growth and inadequate number of polling units. “The current 119,973 poling units, which were created since 1996, have been the voting stations up until 2019 general elections,’’ Jibril Zarewa, INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner in Katsina state, said. “This is in spite of increase in voter population from 53 million in 1999 to 85 million in 2019,’’ he added. Zarewa was addressing the start of a two-day workshop for INEC field officers on the proposed conversion of voting points to poling units. “Over the years,…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that Nigeria will continue to assist its close neighbours in diverse ways as required. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, in a statement in Abuja on Monday, said Buhari gave the assurance when he hosted the newly inaugurated President of Republic of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, who was in Nigeria on his first international visit. The Nigerian leader also assured Bazoum that Nigeria would continue to do all it could to stabilise the West African sub-region, saying that Nigerians and Nigeriens shared similar culture and language. He said: “We will stabilise our region for the benefit…
China has made initial achievements in building the world’s largest 5G mobile network. Liu Liehong, vice minister, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Monday said in a briefing that the country has built a total of 792,000 5G base stations at the end of February. Liehong said this made the number of mobile terminals connected to the network reaching 260 million. He said that the ministry also estimated 5G mobile phone shipments in China would account for 80 per cent of the total shipments in the second half of this year. China’s mobile network speed ranks fourth among…