Pfizer on Monday announced the appointment of Patrick van der Loo as Regional President for Africa and the Middle East (AfME) region. Patrick’s Pfizer experience spans more than 20 years in leadership roles with multiple successes across geographies. In his new role as Regional President for AfME, Patrick will lead commercial operations to bring scientific breakthroughs in vaccines, oncology, rare diseases, internal medicine, hospitals, and inflammation & immunology, to serve patients. “This year has made me even more grateful and proud to be part of Pfizer. The global pandemic has accentuated our purpose as a company and reinforced our commitment to…
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By Tina George, Minna The Niger state Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Joel Dagwa has been posted to the FRSC Academy, Udi, Enugu state as its new Registrar.This is following the recent posting of Senior Officers in the Corps. The Corps Commander, Musa Mohammed will replace Dagwa as new sector commander. The outgoing Corps Commander also appealed to motorists to continue to respect traffic rules and regulations in the State while appreciating stakeholders in the state for making his stay worthwhile.
The North Central Governors Forum, has felicitated with the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on his 62nd birthday. The forum’s chairman and governor of Niger state, Abubakar Sani Bello in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje on Monday, described Senator Lawan as a seasoned educationist, progressive legislator and a good leader, who is contributing his quoter to the development of country. Sani-Bello said the celebrant’s good leadership qualities were not in doubt as it is obvious in the way he is piloting the affairs at the upper legislative Chamber. “Senator Lawan has been consistent in championing the enactment…
Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Nwachukwu Enwonwu, has described the news making the rounds that the Command rejected suspects delivered to it by Amotekun operatives as false. The Command’s spokesman, CSP Olugbenga Fadeyi, quoted the commissioner in statement issued in Ibadan on Tuesday as saying that the news was an attempt to portray the police as uncooperative. The statement read: “the attention of the police command has been drawn to the news making the rounds about the refused admittance of robbery suspects brought into Mokola and Iyaganku Divisional detention facilities by Amotekun operatives. “The message was to create to…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has lauded the efforts of a team of Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the effectiveness of Ivermectin drug in the treatment of COVID-19. Ivermectin is a medication used to treat many types of parasite infestations Osinbajo’s spokesman’ Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the vice president was briefed by a team of scientists led by Prof. Femi Babalola, Principal investigator, and Prof. Chris Bode. Bode is the Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). The team, which is composed of Nigerian scholars at home and abroad, has also submitted its…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) on Tuesday, began a three – day warning strike to back their demands from the Federal government. The members, who were armed with placards with various inscriptions marched from their secretariat round the campus, chanting solidarity songs to proclaim their grievances. Some of the inscriptions read: “Stop depriving us of our legitimate entitlements”, “We say no to academic headship of non-teaching units” and “Pay us our earned allowances” among others. Speaking with journalists, the chairman of the association, Mr Rotimi Fasunwon said it was…
Two persons suspected to be husband and wife were on Tuesday crushed to death in an accident involving a Toyota Camry car, Sino truck and a motorcycle around Odogbara, few metres from NNPC on the Sagamu-Ogijo road. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in the state, confirmed the incident in Abeokuta. Akinbiyi said that the accident which occurred at 7:40am was caused by speeding, reckless riding and break failure on the part of the motorcycle that has no registration number. He stated that the motorcycle hit the Camry car marked FKY-733 GF at the rear, fell…
A Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine or drug based on natural medicine will soon be produced in Nigeria, as researches are being intensified on that. A natural medicine practitioner, Dr Ndubuisi Nwakakwa, gave the assurance in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday. Nwakakwa, a Consultant Acupunturist, said that within a short time such a vaccine or drug would surface. He said that COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for natural medicine practitioners to contribute more to healthcare delivery. “The COVID-19 pandemic paved way for government’s call for practitioners to come forward with a cure to the pandemic. “Researches are on; within a…
A 35-year-old bartender, Godwin Job, was on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally withdrawing the sum of N1,079,290 from a Fidelity Bank account belonging to his boss, Olufemi Joseph Odusanya. This is contained in a statement by the spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren mailed to ASHENEWS on Tuesday. According to him, Job was convicted by Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court in a two-count charge bordering on stealing, filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office. Following an…
Ekiti Assembly Service Commission has released a report of its staff audit, citing a lot of irregularities, barely 24-hours after organised labour in the state had raised alarm that the commission was going to use the audit to illegally sack some staff. Mr Taiwo Olatunbosun, Chairman of the Commission, disclosing details of the report to newsmen in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday, said the audit had been concluded and that it was part of its efforts to put an end to irregularities. “The audit ultimately discovered irregularities ranging from hiding, alteration and mutilation of files, advancement of staff without due process,…