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Jan

28

2021

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Covid-19 Violators: Don’t intimidate Nigerians with jail term, improve their standard of living before comparing them with others – Eholor

Health, News

Democracy Observer General of Nigeria and Global President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patriot Patrick Osagie Eholor(Ultimate Equals) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and his advisers not to play with the emotions of over 200 million Nigerians with the signing of a bill seeking to jail violators of covid-19 protocols for six months. Eholor said such move by the President is insensitive, reckless, clueless and anti-people considering the high level of poverty and hunger in the land. He wondered why the nation was in a hurry to sign such a bill when Nigerians are already tired of seeing the faces…

Jan

28

2021

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Coronavirus: Safety Measures: Violators of Covid-19 Protocols to spend six months in jail as President Buhari signs bill to law

Health, News

NIGERIA - President Muhammadu Buhari has signed a new law prescribing a six-month jail term for anyone found guilty of flouting any of the COVID19 protocols. The president signed the COVID19 health protection regulations 2021 in Abuja on Wednesday, January 27. The signed law provides a legal framework for the prosecution of any defaulter. The law states that an offence under these Regulations is punishable, on summary conviction, by a fine or a term of six months imprisonment or both in accordance with Section 5 of the Quarantine Act. The law adds that security agents including Personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigeria…

Jan

28

2021

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Covid-19: After Vaccine Shortage, EU and AstraZeneca to resolve crisis with vaccine supply

Health, World News

The European Union and the UK-based Covid vaccine maker, AstraZeneca have vowed to work together to resolve a bitter row over supply shortages to the 27-member countries. According to BBC, This comes after crisis talks which both sides described as "constructive". AstraZeneca earlier said it could deliver only a fraction of the dozes it promised in January-March, blaming production issues at European plants. But the EU said the firm must honour its commitments and deliver the jabs by diverting stock from the UK. The contract between the EU and AstraZeneca contains a confidentiality clause - but the EU has asked…

Jan

27

2021

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Breaking News: Covid-19: Governor Ortom test positive for coronavirus

Health, News

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom says the latest result of his COVID-19 test has returned positive. This follows the test results of most of the Governor’s close aides who also returned positive in the last few weeks. Though the Governor has not shown any symptoms of the disease, he has already commenced treatment as prescribed by medical personnel. He advises those who have come in contact with him in the last couple of days to go for test. The Governor says it is equally important that those who came in contact with other persons who have tested positive for…

Nov

24

2020

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COVID-19 ravages NYSC camps as 138 test positive out of 34,785 tested – NCDC Boss

Health

No fewer than 34,685 people have been tested for coronavirus (COVID-19) across all the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camps in the country. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this on Monday at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja. He told reporters that those whose samples were collected included corps members and NYSC officials in various camps. Dr Ihekweazu noted that of the number tested, the results of 138 people returned positive and have been isolated. He said, “We tested over the last few weeks a…

Nov

23

2020

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As the world celebrates Abia born doctor, Onyema Ogbuagu in Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough

Health

Dr. Onyema Ogbuagbu, is at the centre of the Pfizer-led research, development and trials that have culminated in a breakthrough for COVID-19 vaccines. Pfizer, after the conclusion of its trials, recently announced that its COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective. A few days after, Moderna also reported that its own version of the COVID-19 vaccine was 94 per cent effective. The announcement by Pfizer, followed by Moderna, remains a game changer in the quest for COVID-19 vaccine. Ogbuagbu, however, said he had been involved in the trials of the vaccines by Pfizer An Associate Professor of Medicine…

Nov

18

2020

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Pfizer, BioNTech say experimental COVID-19 vaccine shows 95% effectiveness

Health

Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday that a completed study of their experimental Covid-19 vaccine showed it was 95 percent effective. They said the two-dose vaccine had no serious safety concerns and that the companies will apply for emergency use authorization from US regulators “within days.” The announcement came as coronavirus cases are surging in the US and other parts of the world, and boosted hopes for an end to the pandemic that has upended life around the globe. “The study results mark an important step in this historic eight-month journey to bring forward a vaccine capable of helping to end…

Nov

07

2020

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Panic As Another Covid-19 Case Recorded In Lagos Boarding School.

News, Education, Health

Lagos State Commissioner of health, Professor Akin Abayomi Friday announced new incidences of COVID-19 positive cases in another secondary boarding school in the state. Professor Abayomi in a press statement said that a staff of the school tested positive for COVID-19 at the Lagos State Biobank on November 2 after initially receiving first aid for an illness at the school clinic. Mr. Abayomi noted that contact tracing revealed that a student and four contacts of the staff member were positive for COVID-19. “Most of the infected persons are predominantly asymptomatic, while some have mild symptoms,” he said. The commissioner said…

Nov

05

2020

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Medical Tourism:Equip State House Clinic to stop Buhari’s foreign medical trips – Senate Committee

HealthMedical Tourism

Nigerian Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs, on Thursday, asked State House officials to put its clinic in order and equip it to ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari would have no need to travel abroad for medical treatment. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Danjuma La’ah( PDP, Kaduna South), made this remark when the Permanent Secretary of the State House, Mr. Tijani Umar, appeared before the panel to defend his 2021 budget estimates. The State House official had presented a budget of N19.7 billion for 2021, out of which N1.3 billion was proposed for the State House Clinic.…

Nov

03

2020

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Covid-19 Palliatives meant for Nigerians reportedly being sold in London

Health, News

The Twitter user shared a screenshot of the message he received from a UK resident who took a snapshot of the branded palliative noodles he came across at an African market in East ham, London. A Twitter user has alleged that cartons of noodles which are COVID-19 palliatives from Nigeria have been spotted for sale in London. The palliatives, contributed under the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) scheme during the peak of the pandemic was meant to be distributed to Nigerians to cushion the effect of the virus on the life of citizens. Chisom @_PLICE shared a screenshot of the message…