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The Federal Government has announced the commencement of the second dose of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccination in the country. Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Fai made this announcement during the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) briefing on Monday. He stated that the agency has been given the nod to…
May 11, 2021
The Federal Government has re-introduced a nationwide curfew as part of efforts to check the further spread of COVID-19. It lasts from 12midnight to 4am. The National Incident Manager, Mukhtar Mohammed, disclosed this on Monday at a press briefing in Abuja. Mohammed said the curfew would take effect from midnight on Monday, May 10. With…
May 10, 2021
Research has shown that although there are many policies around aspects of agriculture in Nigeria, there is no organizing policy that ties everything together. Officials work on silos and sometimes actively protect their turfs and appear not to care about the systemic implications of their stance. The link between seeds and plant varieties is downplayed…
May 7, 2021
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) on Friday announced the approval of Pfizer-BionTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Nigeria. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, made this announcement in Lagos. According to Adeyeye, NAFDAC has only certified Pfizer-BionTech for emergency use, while adding that a full approval would be given…
April 30, 2021
BioNTech co-founder and a German Oncologist, Ugur Sahin on Wednesday, has admitted that the vaccine that his company jointly developed with Pfizer works against the Indian variant of Covid-19. According to Sahin, investigations revealed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine works against the B.1.617 COVID-19 variant in India. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was developed by BioNTech, a German…
April 28, 2021
AFP-- Bodies of Covid victims lay burning Tuesday in funeral pyres cramming New Delhi’s sidewalks and car parks amid an explosion of new cases, as foreign aid began arriving at surging hotspot India in efforts to keep the pandemic at bay. While rising vaccinations in the United States have allowed the country that was once…
April 27, 2021
Petitions Sanwo-Olu, Nine Other Governors Wants NBMA Act Repealed Farmers, professionals and Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance have called on federal government and sub-nationals to place an outright ban on the importation and local production of products with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Members of the coalition led by Mother of…
April 27, 2021
United State(U.S.) voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician, Stacey Abrams has been nominated for the 2021 Edition of Nobel Peace Prize. Abrams was nominated for the prize for her efforts in promoting nonviolent change via the ballot box. Abrams played a critical role during the registration of voters for the U.S. 2020 Presidential election…
April 22, 2021
Experts have raised the alarm on the virulence of tuberculosis (TB) warning that that the infectious disease kills more people than either COVId-19 or HIV in Nigeria and globally. However, in government hospitals in Nigeria, diagnosis and treatment of TB are entirely free. These are part of the message that media practitioners were tasked to…
April 22, 2021
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The Federal Government has announced the commencement of the second dose of the Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccination in the country. Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Fai made this announcement during the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) briefing on Monday. He stated that the agency has been given the nod to…
May 11, 2021
The Federal Government has re-introduced a nationwide curfew as part of efforts to check the further spread of COVID-19. It lasts from 12midnight to 4am. The National Incident Manager, Mukhtar Mohammed, disclosed this on Monday at a press briefing in Abuja. Mohammed said the curfew would take effect from midnight on Monday, May 10. With…
May 10, 2021
Research has shown that although there are many policies around aspects of agriculture in Nigeria, there is no organizing policy that ties everything together. Officials work on silos and sometimes actively protect their turfs and appear not to care about the systemic implications of their stance. The link between seeds and plant varieties is downplayed…
May 7, 2021
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) on Friday announced the approval of Pfizer-BionTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in Nigeria. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, made this announcement in Lagos. According to Adeyeye, NAFDAC has only certified Pfizer-BionTech for emergency use, while adding that a full approval would be given…
April 30, 2021
BioNTech co-founder and a German Oncologist, Ugur Sahin on Wednesday, has admitted that the vaccine that his company jointly developed with Pfizer works against the Indian variant of Covid-19. According to Sahin, investigations revealed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine works against the B.1.617 COVID-19 variant in India. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was developed by BioNTech, a German…
April 28, 2021
AFP-- Bodies of Covid victims lay burning Tuesday in funeral pyres cramming New Delhi’s sidewalks and car parks amid an explosion of new cases, as foreign aid began arriving at surging hotspot India in efforts to keep the pandemic at bay. While rising vaccinations in the United States have allowed the country that was once…
April 27, 2021
Petitions Sanwo-Olu, Nine Other Governors Wants NBMA Act Repealed Farmers, professionals and Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of GMO-Free Nigeria Alliance have called on federal government and sub-nationals to place an outright ban on the importation and local production of products with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Members of the coalition led by Mother of…
April 27, 2021
United State(U.S.) voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician, Stacey Abrams has been nominated for the 2021 Edition of Nobel Peace Prize. Abrams was nominated for the prize for her efforts in promoting nonviolent change via the ballot box. Abrams played a critical role during the registration of voters for the U.S. 2020 Presidential election…
April 22, 2021
Experts have raised the alarm on the virulence of tuberculosis (TB) warning that that the infectious disease kills more people than either COVId-19 or HIV in Nigeria and globally. However, in government hospitals in Nigeria, diagnosis and treatment of TB are entirely free. These are part of the message that media practitioners were tasked to…
April 22, 2021
