The Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister, Svitlana Shatalova, says the World Bank will loan Ukraine about $88.6 million (₴2.5 billion hryvnia) to buy COVID-19 vaccines, according to Interfax Ukraine news agency. “The funds will be used for an emergency response to COVID-19 and vaccination in Ukraine” project. “The negotiations on this matter have been held between the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors and the Ukrainian Government since December 2020,” the official said. Ukrainian Health Minister Maxym Stepanov said Ukraine would receive vaccines in two ways. Stepanov said at least eight million doses would be donated to the country under the…
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The Kaduna state government, along with some stakeholders in the agricultural subsector, on Thursday concluded a two-day on-the-spot assessment visits to some wheat farms in the state aimed at evaluating their yields. During the visits the team evaluated the level of yield of the ‘Norman Block’ wheat variety in selected farms at Galma, Alhaza and Magada villages in Zaria and Makarfi local government areas. Other farms visited were in Bizara, Gangara, Mashigin Kaya, Maraban Rido, Kangimi and Kaduna Garden. The Kaduna State Commissioner for Agriculture, Hajiya Halima Lawal, said the visits were to evaluate the level of performance and yields…
The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) on Friday confirmed the sack of 65 primary school teachers. They were allegedly recruited illegally in Sanga Local Government Area of the state. SUBEB’s Auditor, Mr Tandat Katuma, who served as the secretary of the investigation committee confirmed the development in Kaduna. The council Chairman, Mr Charles Danladi, had on Wednesday announced the sack of the teachers to journalists in Gwantu, the Council headquarters. Danladi alleged that the anomaly was detected through the over-bloated wage bill of the teachers, which kept increasing every month without new employment. To this effect, an alarm…
Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello of Niger, has sought for the support of Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) towards increasing farmers productivity in the state. The governor, who was received by the Executive Director of the Council, Mr. Olusegun Awolowo in Abuja on Wednesday, said the state desired to partner with the council in various aspect, especially in agriculture to help boost farmers productivity. He enumerated some of the areas to include provision of improved seedlings, equipment and other agro-allied inputs to the farmers, suggesting that an institutional framework should be designed where the state government takes control, purchases the farmers produce…
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta, aged 86, a one-time Inspector General of Police whose transition was announced Thursday evening. The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja. While conveying the condolences of his family and that of the government and people of Nigeria, the president described the late crack police detective as “a man of great courage, intellect and a true Nigerian Statesman”. Buhari addded that: “Today, Nigeria lost a great son. He lived for the nation…
Recording Academy, Organisers of the Grammy Awards, has pledged to support the administration of Joe Biden, the newly elected United States of America President and his vice, Kamala Harris, in rebuilding and revitalising the U.S. creative economy. The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; abbreviated NARAS) is an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers,and other musical professionals. It is famous for its Grammy Awards, which recognise achievements in the music industry of songs and music which were popular worldwide. The organisers, who made the pledge on its Instagram handle @recordingacademy on Friday, stated…
Nigeria on Thursday, recorded seven deaths and single-day highest surge of 1,964 COVID-19 new cases, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, reported on its Twitter handle @NCDCgov. With total 116,655 recorded infections by January 21, the country has so far tested 1,203,113 people since the first index case was announced on February 27, 2020. The NCDC said that additional seven people died from coronavirus-related complications in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,485. It said that with 1,310 people discharged from various isolation centres across the country, after testing negative to the virus, the number of recoveries…
U.S. vice president Kamala Harris, says the country reversed its withdrawal from the World Health Organisation, WHO, in order to resume its constructive role in global public health. She spoke with WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus on Thursday. According to Harris, the US will “fulfill its financial obligations, and work as a constructive partner to strengthen and reform the WHO.” The vice president emphasized that she and president Biden “believe the WHO is vital to controlling COVID-19 and building back better our global health and pandemic preparedness.” Harris and Ghebreyesus also discussed the resumption of the United States’ role in…
My column of 12th September 2016 was entitled “Forests that Kill and Destroy: Rural Banditry in Northern Nigeria.” I was reporting on a seminar organised by the Centre for Democratic Development and Training (CEDDERT) in Zaria where research findings on the senseless massacre and destruction emanating from the dreaded Kuyanbana and Kamuku forests were presented. The researchers, Massoud Omar and Abubakar Siddique Mohammed had studied how bandits and criminal gangs had occupied the forests and were causing havoc in the surrounding States of Kaduna (Birnin Gwari), Zamfara (Dansadau) and Katsina (Sabuwa). The forest had provided a base for criminal gangs…
By Tina George, Minna The Kogi State House of Assembly has begun consultations with state assemblies for the 2023 preaidential ambition of Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello. The Speaker, Mr Mathew Kolawole who was in Niger to seek the support of his colleagues, said Niger was the sixth state they were visiting, including Bauchi, Plateau, Gombe, Ebonyi and Imo state. According to him, it is the turn for the north-central zone to produce a president and that Yahaya Bello is the right candidate for the job. Kolawole who sought the endorsement of the Niger assembly for Bello, said it is only…