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The Federal Government has extended the ban on travellers from Brazil, India and Turkey due to the rising COVID-19 cases in those countries by one month. It has also added travellers from South Africa to the list. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on…
June 28, 2021
Agency Report -- Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says the agency has seized over N90 billion worth of drugs in the past five months that he has been in charge. Speaking on Saturday during the launch of War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), an initiative of NDLEA, Marwa said over 2,180 drug…
June 26, 2021
AFP-- A 72-year-old British man tested positive for coronavirus for 10 months in what is thought to be the longest recorded case of continuous infection, researchers said on Thursday. Dave Smith, a retired driving instructor from Bristol in western England, said he tested positive 43 times, was hospitalised seven times and had made plans for…
June 25, 2021
As the Federal Government begins the enforcement of the health warning requirements of the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Act 2015 and the Tobacco Control Regulations 2019 on all tobacco products manufactured and distributed in Nigeria from today, the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have urged the…
June 23, 2021
At least 5,573 deaths from malaria have been registered in Angola in the first five months of 2021, Health Minister, Silvia Lutucuta, has said. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the minister said that Angola is facing a “critical and challenging’’ situation in relation to malaria. The disease has affected more than two million…
June 18, 2021
Vows To Confiscate Content That Violates Directive Anti-tobacco Advocates Say Movies New Frontier For Luring Nigerian Kids To Smoking The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) on Thursday announced it will stop granting approval to Nollywood movies that contain smoking scenes from 21st of June, 2021 to protect Nigerian children from becoming addicted to…
June 18, 2021
The World Bank (WB) and the African Union (AU)’s COVID-19 Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) have announced a decision to work together to deploy vaccines for 400 million Africans. The pledge came after the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, met with the AVATT to discuss ways to accelerate vaccine deployment to Africa,…
June 15, 2021
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Nigeria recorded only seven additional Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, the lowest daily figure recorded since April 15, 2020, when the country registered 11 cases. The NCDC in an update posted on its website Monday morning, said the new infections had raised the country’s total infection tally to 167,066.…
June 14, 2021
…Urges Gov. Sanwo-Olu To Fix Water Infrastructure The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has expressed worry over the worsening water scarcity situation in Lagos communities and cautioned that if the situation is not speedily addressed residents might become susceptible to water borne diseases and hamper efforts at combating the spread of the COVID…
June 8, 2021
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The Federal Government has extended the ban on travellers from Brazil, India and Turkey due to the rising COVID-19 cases in those countries by one month. It has also added travellers from South Africa to the list. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on…
June 28, 2021
Agency Report -- Buba Marwa, chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says the agency has seized over N90 billion worth of drugs in the past five months that he has been in charge. Speaking on Saturday during the launch of War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), an initiative of NDLEA, Marwa said over 2,180 drug…
June 26, 2021
AFP-- A 72-year-old British man tested positive for coronavirus for 10 months in what is thought to be the longest recorded case of continuous infection, researchers said on Thursday. Dave Smith, a retired driving instructor from Bristol in western England, said he tested positive 43 times, was hospitalised seven times and had made plans for…
June 25, 2021
As the Federal Government begins the enforcement of the health warning requirements of the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Act 2015 and the Tobacco Control Regulations 2019 on all tobacco products manufactured and distributed in Nigeria from today, the Nigeria Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) and the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) have urged the…
June 23, 2021
At least 5,573 deaths from malaria have been registered in Angola in the first five months of 2021, Health Minister, Silvia Lutucuta, has said. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the minister said that Angola is facing a “critical and challenging’’ situation in relation to malaria. The disease has affected more than two million…
June 18, 2021
Vows To Confiscate Content That Violates Directive Anti-tobacco Advocates Say Movies New Frontier For Luring Nigerian Kids To Smoking The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) on Thursday announced it will stop granting approval to Nollywood movies that contain smoking scenes from 21st of June, 2021 to protect Nigerian children from becoming addicted to…
June 18, 2021
The World Bank (WB) and the African Union (AU)’s COVID-19 Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVATT) have announced a decision to work together to deploy vaccines for 400 million Africans. The pledge came after the president of the World Bank, David Malpass, met with the AVATT to discuss ways to accelerate vaccine deployment to Africa,…
June 15, 2021
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Nigeria recorded only seven additional Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, the lowest daily figure recorded since April 15, 2020, when the country registered 11 cases. The NCDC in an update posted on its website Monday morning, said the new infections had raised the country’s total infection tally to 167,066.…
June 14, 2021
…Urges Gov. Sanwo-Olu To Fix Water Infrastructure The Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has expressed worry over the worsening water scarcity situation in Lagos communities and cautioned that if the situation is not speedily addressed residents might become susceptible to water borne diseases and hamper efforts at combating the spread of the COVID…
June 8, 2021
