The World Health Organisation, WHO, and UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, have made an urgent appeal for vaccine solidarity, noting that COVID-19 has shown that our fates are inextricably linked. The heads of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, and UNICEF, Henrietta Fore, made the call in a joint statement posted on WHO website. According to them, in the COVID-19 vaccine race, we either win together or lose together. Ghebreyesus and Fore, however, called on leaders “to look beyond their borders and employ a vaccine strategy that can actually end the pandemic and limit variants. “Of the 128 million doses administered so far, more…
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Kano state government says it is committed to uplifting the living standard of Persons with Disabilities. The permanent secretary in the office of the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Musa Bichi reiterated this on Wednesday at two-day stakeholders engagement meeting with committee for the implementation of Kano State Persons with Disability Law, organised by Child Development Grant Program (CGDP) held in Jigawa state. Representing the SSG, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, the said that governor Abdullahi Gandje signed the lease law on December 4 2018 and that there was an implementation framework that was drafted in collaboration with the SSGs office.…
The first civilian governor of Lagos from October 1, 1979, to December 31, 1983, Lateef Jakande is dead. Reports in Lagos says that Jakande died in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 91. Details later…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has revealed that the owners of cattle that trespassed the country home Wole Soyinka are Yorubas. The group in a statement by the Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola on Thursday suggested that cow owners in the country should be registered in order to hold them accountable. He also argued that cow owners should register their businesses in the same way other businesses are registered as well as approach banks and other financial institutions for loans to build ranches. MURIC’s suggestions came in the wake of the discovery that the owner of the cows that strayed into…
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has advised the Federal Government to allow investors to take over the running of the country’s three refineries. Alhaji Danladi Pasali, National Secretary of IPMAN, stated this in an interview on Wednesday in Abuja. He spoke while reacting to a report that the pump price of petrol might likely get to N190 per litre and the price of crude oil hit 60 dollars per barrel in the international market. Speaking at the official launch of Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme in Abuja, Minister State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva said with…
The newly appointed vice chancellor, Federal University Kashere (FUK), located in Gombe state, Prof. Umar Pate has officially assumed office, with a call on the university staff to support him in moving the university forward. Pate, who made the call while speaking with news men in Kashere on Wednesday, shortly after the handing over ceremony, noted that moving the university to a greater height required collective responsibility, hence the call to staff. “The Federal University is still a young institution, we need to put hands together and move the institution to enviable height,” he said. The VC pledged to improve…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved about N8.9 billion for the establishment of a new National Information and Communication and Technology (ICT) park in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to coordinate public and private ICT hubs in the country. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, disclosed this to State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, State House, Abuja, on Wednesday. Pantami explained that a 4,200 square meter land had already been acquired for the establishment of the ICT Park, saying, “The Federal Executive…
The Federal Executive Council has, at its meeting on Wednesday, approved a new Medium Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) for Nigeria, for the period 2020-2023, according to the official website of the Debt Management Office (DMO). DMO explained that the MTDS was a policy document that provided a guide to the borrowing activities of a government in the medium-term, which is usually four years. It said: “it is recognised as one of the best practices in public debt management and is recommended by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). “This is to ensure that public debt management is…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed commercial banks and other financial institutions to, henceforth, accept Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRCTD) and Refugee Identification Card, as means of identification for financial transactions. The directive was given by Dr Kevin Amugo, Director, Finance Policy Regulation Department, on Wednesday, in Abuja, through a memo to the banks, other financial institutions and payment service providers in the country. Amugo said that the directive was necessitated by the challenges which refugees and asylum seekers experience, with means of identification, when they engaged in financial transactions. He also urged the banks to improve on…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced eight deaths and 1,131 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 142,578. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The health agency said that in the last 24 hours 1,131 people tested positive in 21 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It confirmed additional eight coronavirus-related deaths also in24 hours, bringing the country’s COVID-19 related deaths to 1,702. The NCDC stated that the registered infections showed that Lagos State recorded the highest number with 297 new infections, taking…