THE Federal Executive Council, FEC, Wednesday approved the draft 2021 supplementary budget of N895,842,462,917. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja. The Minister explained that the […]Read More
India has ordered 300 million doses of an unapproved coronavirus vaccine amid a devastating second wave. The unnamed vaccine from Indian firm Biological E is in Phase 3 trials, and had showed “promising results” in the first two phases, the federal government said in a statement. The $206m order is the first India has signed […]Read More
New variant has not been linked to any sequenced cases elsewhere in Australia but patients had travelled to New South Wales. Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria said genomic sequencing has detected for the first time the Delta COVID-19 virus variant among infections in the latest outbreak in Melbourne, the state capital and Australia’s […]Read More
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has stopped the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development and Lagos State from hosting the African Athletics Championships. Sports minister, Sunday Dare, had secured hosting rights for the country after meeting with the President of Confederation of African Athletics Kalkaba Malboum in Cairo on May 24. Nigeria thus took […]Read More
THE Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday, said the supplementary budget for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines was being delayed due to several factors, including the choice of vaccine to settle for and the cost, among others. Ehanire disclosed this while speaking at the Presidential Ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential Communications […]Read More
The Federal Government says the unpredictability of vaccine supply as a result of global shortage remains a huge challenge. The Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire disclosed this during the weekly presidential media chat, saying Nigeria is looking to get a donation of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Covax facility and other countries that no […]Read More
The Federal Government will on Wednesday begin contact tracing of 90 international travellers, who violated the COVID-19 Health Regulations Protection, 2021. The spokesman for the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Mr Willie Bassey, gave this indication in an interview with one of our correspondents on Monday. India, Brazil and Turkey have been witnessing rapid spread […]Read More
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a more coordinated approach to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic against pushing 131 million people into extreme poverty. Guterres told a meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Operational Activities for Development on the COVID-19 crisis in New York, on Tuesday, that failure to achieve a coordinated approach could […]Read More
Holding the Tokyo Olympics safely as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage would be “impossible”, a union of Japanese hospital doctors warned on Wednesday. “We strongly oppose holding the Tokyo Olympics at a time when people around the world are fighting the new coronavirus,” the union said in a statement submitted to the government. “It […]Read More
HIGHLIGHTS Lagos To Enforce Isolation and Testing Guidelines For Travelers To Closely Monitor Positive Cases to Detect Variants LAGOS State is set to take steps to prevent another wave of COVID-19, following the flattening of the second wave. We are seeing a significant dip in the number of positive cases and deaths – […]Read More