UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday, said 26 African countries had received 15 million COVID-19 doses under the COVAX facility as of March 21. Guterres said during a virtual meeting with the African Group at the UN that he was “deeply concerned” that many poor countries had not received a single dose. In contrast, rich countries are on track to vaccinating their entire population, the UN chief said, reiterating his appeal for global vaccine equity. “As I have said again and again, a COVID-19 vaccine must be a global public good available to everyone, everywhere. “Vaccine equity is a moral…
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The Niger state government has released the National Examination Council (NECO) results for candidates in public schools who sat for the 2019/2020 Internal Examination in 2020. The Commissioner for Education in Niger, Hajiya Hannatu Salihu, confirmed the release of the results in a statement by the Information Officer, Ministry of Education, Malam Jibrin Kodo, in Minna on Tuesday . She urged the concerned candidates to log into the NECO Website on https://result.neco.gov.ng/ as from Tuesday to check their results. The commissioner commended the students and their parents for the patience demonstrated during the delay caused by unforeseen circumstances. “I reiterate…
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, says he is grateful to God for allowing him to go to prison and come back. Kalu stated this in a statement made available in Umuahia on Tuesday, adding that going to prisonprison was a good experience for him. Kalu was sentenced to Kuje Correctional Centre for 12 years on December 5, 2019 for allegedly misappropriating about N7.1 billion, while serving as Abia governor between 1999 and 2007. However, the Supreme Court on May 8, 2020 upturned his trial and conviction by Justice Muhammed Idris of the Federal High Court in…
The Federal government of Nigeria and the Switzerland government have inaugurated a Blue Bus Project in commemoration of the countries 10th anniversary in migration partnership to control irregular migration in the country. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq at the inaugural ceremony on Tuesday in Abuja expressed pleasure on the uniqueness of the decade-long exemplary relationship between Nigeria and Switzerland on migration. Farouq said that it was a celebration of success, stressing that there was no time in the history of international relationship that the management of migration across international borders had been easy or free from numerous and diverse challenges. She…
By Justina Auta The Public Health Department of the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) has commenced its annual house-to-house treatment of onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filaris (elephantiasis) disease for persons above five years. The Acting Secretary, Health and Human Services Secretariat, Dr Mohammed Kawu, said this at the inauguration of the exercise in Kuchigoro community, Abuja. Kawu said the exercise was under the 2021 Mass Administration of Medicine (MAM) for onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. The Acting Secretary was represented by Dr Doris John, Ag Director, Public Health Department. John said the exercise was part of the control strategy by…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has not received any official report of serious adverse effects from the 215,277, people who have received the first doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines. The NPHCDA Executive Director, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed on the agency’s official Twitter handle. “As you are aware, AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed to all states except Kogi and the first phase of our vaccination focusing on frontline health workers and others on essential duties have begun in earnest,” he said. He said that the 215,277 vaccinated people were from 32 states and the Federal Capital Territory.…
The Judaism Fellowship Initiative (JFI), an umbrella organisation of all the Jewish synagogue in Nigeria, has accused Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), of feeding gullible minds with wrong doctrine of Judaism. Chief Arthur-Regis Odidika, President of the Nigeria Judaism Community, said this at the 10th anniversary of JFI in Ihiala, Ihiala local government area of Anambra, on Sunday. Odidika said Kanu had become a threat of the true Judaism religion because he had embarked on mass evangelisation and conversion which was not part of the Jewish movement more so with erroneous teaching. He…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump plans to launch his own social media platform in two to three months, one of his senior advisers told Fox News on Sunday. Trump was suspended from Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Jason Miller, a spokesman for Trump’s 2020 campaign, told the network that Trump would re-enter the social media space with a new platform of his own that would “completely redefine the game.” Miller provided no further details and no comment was immediately available from officials with the Trump Organisation. Twitter last week said…
Twelve days after President Muhammadu Buhari assured Nigerians that Jangebe students abduction would be the last in the country, gunmen on Wednesday, dared the president and abducted two students and teacher at the National Institute of Construction Technology, Uromi in Esan North-East local government area of Edo state. The spokesperson of Edo State Police Command, SP Bello Kontongs confirmed the incident saying gunmen abducted three persons. “Yes, it is true, there was a kidnap incident here. “Three persons were kidnapped, one is a staff while the other two are students of the Institute. “Right now, the Police are on the…
Since the signing of memorandum of understanding, MoU, between the federal government of Nigeria and United Kingdom for the repatriation of £4.2m looted funds by former governor of Delta state, Mr James Ibori, there has been arguments as to who the recovered funds belong. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami after the signing of the MoU disclosed that the money would be used for the construction of the second Niger Bridge, Abuja-Kano and Lagos-Ibadan Express Expressways. Reacting to the development on Wednesday, the House of Representatives in a unanimous motion, moved to halt the…