The National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR) in partnership with Google have announced the launch of an N100 million Artificial Intelligence Fund (AI Fund) initiative.
Author: Editor
While COVID exposed the urgency of ensuring that Africa, through Gavi’s African Vaccine Initiative, can manufacture vaccines, the current mpox and cholera outbreaks have painfully underscored the continent’s vulnerability. By Kerry Cullinan African countries affected by mpox are dependent on vaccine donations from wealthy countries, while a dire global shortage of cholera vaccines has forced the World Health Organization (WHO) to advise countries to give people one dose instead of the optimal two. Back in June, the vaccine platform, Gavi, launched the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA), together with the African Union and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention…
The Jigawa state government on Tuesday transferred ownership of the Hadejia Wetland Game Reserve to the Federal Government.
Health experts have emphasised the vital role of proper data coordination in emergency health response and its potential to mitigate the impact of pandemics.
Nasarawa State Government says it’s working towards making mental health services accessible at the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the state.
The Executive Secretary, Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, Mr Paul Odenigbo, said some farmers in the state have embarked on premature harvesting of crops to beat the impending flood disaster.
The Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Barkindo Mohammed, has described the situation in flooded Maiduguri town as “terrible.”
It has been revealed that the objective of resident non-indigenes controlling political power in Lagos State is to capture the Centre of Excellence and use their control of the government to deny Lagos indigenes their constitutional rights. This revelation was made in a statement by the De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, a socio-cultural organization representing Lagos indigenes, during a meeting hosted by the Eminent Persons of Ikorodu Division on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Leading the delegation was the new President of De Renaissance Patriots, Mr. Miftah Bolaji Are, who briefed the hosts on the group’s mission. He emphasized that while the…
Mental health advocates have called for enhanced health services, awareness and support to combat incidences of suicide in the country.
ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has ordered an immediate evacuation of the affected residents in response to the severe flooding that has struck Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.