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The Federal Government has enjoined all citizens to continue to observe the COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical protocols, saying there is no declaration of victory yet over the pandemic. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the call at the weekly Press briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team in Abuja on Thursday. Ehanire said: “We are not…
June 3, 2021
The Nigerian government has been asked to promote cessation of tobacco use by incorporating the strategy into primary healthcare services nationwide in line with Article 14 of the WHO Framework for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). At a press briefing in Lagos to mark 2021 World No Tobacco Day, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa…
June 1, 2021
Agency Report -- China has hit out against Joe Biden’s calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covid-19 was first transmitted to humans, questioning Washington’s motives and railing against the “notorious track record” of US intelligence in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. The US president said on Wednesday he had ordered…
May 28, 2021
Fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) are sustaining their assault against the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram. Shekau, leader of the Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) faction, was eliminated last week in Sambisa forest. Nigeria’s intelligence service confirmed he blew himself as ISWAP attempted to take him. The ISIS affiliate, has…
May 25, 2021
To stop transfat -- an agent of slow death from claiming more lives in Nigeria, the #TransfatfreeNigeria coalition has urged the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to fast-track the enactment and gazetting of regulations targeted at eliminating industrially produced trans-fat (iTFA) in Africa's most populous country. The coalition at a media…
May 25, 2021
India’s government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the “Indian variant” of Covid-19. The country's IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to “Indian” was false. Geographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the…
May 23, 2021
AFP -- Working more than 55 hours a week increases the risk of death from heart disease and stroke, according to a United Nations study out Monday. The report by the UN’s World Health Organization and International Labor Organization agencies comes as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates workplace changes that could reinforce the tendency to work…
May 17, 2021
By Prudence Eboagwu- Ijah As the world marks World Hypertension Day (WHD), the need to enforce mandatory limits in consumption of foods high in trans fat remains the key to reducing the rising cases of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. World Hypertension Day is a day designed and initiated by the World Hypertension League (WHL), to…
May 17, 2021
Stakeholders under the aegis of the Trans Fat-Free Nigeria Campaign have commended the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for its partnership and commitment which culminated into the endorsement of the #TransfatFreeNigeria campaign. The stakeholders pushing for an end to the intake of killer transfat by Nigerians include Corporate Accountability and…
May 11, 2021
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The Federal Government has enjoined all citizens to continue to observe the COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical protocols, saying there is no declaration of victory yet over the pandemic. Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the call at the weekly Press briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team in Abuja on Thursday. Ehanire said: “We are not…
June 3, 2021
The Nigerian government has been asked to promote cessation of tobacco use by incorporating the strategy into primary healthcare services nationwide in line with Article 14 of the WHO Framework for Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). At a press briefing in Lagos to mark 2021 World No Tobacco Day, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa…
June 1, 2021
Agency Report -- China has hit out against Joe Biden’s calls for a fuller US investigation into how Covid-19 was first transmitted to humans, questioning Washington’s motives and railing against the “notorious track record” of US intelligence in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. The US president said on Wednesday he had ordered…
May 28, 2021
Fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) are sustaining their assault against the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram. Shekau, leader of the Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) faction, was eliminated last week in Sambisa forest. Nigeria’s intelligence service confirmed he blew himself as ISWAP attempted to take him. The ISIS affiliate, has…
May 25, 2021
To stop transfat -- an agent of slow death from claiming more lives in Nigeria, the #TransfatfreeNigeria coalition has urged the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to fast-track the enactment and gazetting of regulations targeted at eliminating industrially produced trans-fat (iTFA) in Africa's most populous country. The coalition at a media…
May 25, 2021
India’s government has instructed social media companies to remove any content that refers to the “Indian variant” of Covid-19. The country's IT ministry said the World Health Organization (WHO) listed the variant as B.1.617 and any reference to “Indian” was false. Geographical terms have been used to describe a number of other variants, including the…
May 23, 2021
AFP -- Working more than 55 hours a week increases the risk of death from heart disease and stroke, according to a United Nations study out Monday. The report by the UN’s World Health Organization and International Labor Organization agencies comes as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates workplace changes that could reinforce the tendency to work…
May 17, 2021
By Prudence Eboagwu- Ijah As the world marks World Hypertension Day (WHD), the need to enforce mandatory limits in consumption of foods high in trans fat remains the key to reducing the rising cases of cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. World Hypertension Day is a day designed and initiated by the World Hypertension League (WHL), to…
May 17, 2021
Stakeholders under the aegis of the Trans Fat-Free Nigeria Campaign have commended the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) for its partnership and commitment which culminated into the endorsement of the #TransfatFreeNigeria campaign. The stakeholders pushing for an end to the intake of killer transfat by Nigerians include Corporate Accountability and…
May 11, 2021
