Tag Archives: Covid 19

As a third wave of the pandemic crashes over Europe, questions about the safety of one of the continent’s most commonly available vaccines led Germany, France, Italy and Spain to temporarily halt its use on Monday. The suspensions created further chaos in inoculation rollouts even as new coronavirus variants continue to spread. The decisions followed reports that a handful of ...

Dr Gilbert OnyekaChukwu Ibezim is the Managing Director, Anambra State Oxygen Production Plant as well as the Special Adviser to the Executive  Governor on Indigenous Medicine and Herbal Practice. Dr Onyeka Ibezim as he is fondly called in Obiano’s first term in office was Special Adviser on Youth Empowerment and the Executive Director Anambra State AIDS Control Agency (ANSACA). Dr ...

•Vows to contest Weeks after his posters surfaced in some states of the country, Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, declared at the weekend that he would contest to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. The governor said his ambition was predicated on calls by Nigerian youths, women, the less-privileged, among others. Bello, at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja, however, noted ...

…says Corps detest bribery and corruption Raymond Ozoji, Awka The Federal Road Safety Corps says henceforth it will begin to clamp down on fleet operators who disregard the laid down COVID-19 prevention protocols in their operations across Anambra state. The corps emphasized that placement of handwashing facilities and hand-sanitizers at strategic points in all the bus terminals, motorparks as well ...

Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has announced that Nigeria’s allocation of four million doses of the COVAX vaccine which is at no cost to the country will arrive in the morning of Tuesday. The Chairman of PTF and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, and Chairman PTF on COVID-19, made the disclosure Saturday night in ...

Barely four weeks after about 1,000 beneficiaries of Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru’s COVID-19 financial support received payments, the second batch of beneficiaries numbering 1,200 who are vulnerable residents of Lagos East Senatorial District on Friday got the support. Recall that Senator Abiru, who is representing Lagos East in the National Assembly, promised to provide succour to the poorest of the ...

Raymond Ozoji,  Awka The Chief Whip of the 7th legislature of Anambra state and member representing Dunukofia state constituency, Hon. Lawrence Chukwuweike Ezeudu, has stressed the dire need for what he described as a radical approach to ensure that all the health care centres in the state will have capacities to manage symptoms of COVID-19. Ezeudu who spoke with journalists ...

The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has frowned on what he described as an unprofitable lifestyle of wasting huge amounts of resources in celebrating the dead, as against giving the living a befitting life. Addressing journalists recently, Obi said if all the financial resources spent on giving the dead ...

A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in Nigeria, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Iheakwazu, has said. Mr Iheakwazu while speaking at Monday’s weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 said the new variant dubbed B.1.525 was first discovered in a sample collected on November 23 from a patient in Lagos State. He ...

Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has cautioned African countries not to allow agric-business and manufacturing sectors to degenerate in the face of COVID-19 pandemic. He observed that the two sectors were important areas which by and large have not been severely impacted upon by the disease. This was contained in this week’s issue of ACCORD 2021 series of the ...