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When I got the invite to participate at the virtual launch of the REPLACE global report hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), my mind raced in different directions. Why? Many would wonder. Simply put, since I joined the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) volunteer’s programme, I have engaged various digital channels daily…
December 15, 2021
Stakeholders in the Nigerian movie industry, otherwise known as Nollywood have agreed to further tobacco control advocacy targeted at putting an end to smoking scenes in movies in line with the National Tobacco Control Act (NTC) 2015 and its regulations passed in 2019. At a Stakeholders' Roundtable organised in Lagos by the Federal Ministry of…
December 11, 2021
Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters exclusively, one of the biggest single losses of doses in the African continent. Governments on the continent of over one billion people have been pushing for more vaccine deliveries as inoculation rates lag…
December 8, 2021
Thailand has detected its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a U.S. citizen who had travelled to the country from Spain late last month, a health official said on Monday. The confirmed case in the man, who had arrived on Nov. 29, makes Thailand the 47th country to have found the new variant,…
December 6, 2021
..Ban Not Driven By Science A diplomatic row may be brewing between the Nigerian government and its United Kingdom counterpart as the former has asked the latter to "immediately" reverse the blanket travel ban it imposed on Nigerians due to the emergence of Omicron variant of the Covid-19 contagion, describing it as “unfair, unjust, punitive…
December 6, 2021
The Federal Government on Friday announced a reviewed protocol for all international travels in a bid to mitigate the risk of spreading Omicron, the new strain of COVID-19. The Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, in a statement issued on Friday announced that out-bound travellers…
December 3, 2021
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NDCC), Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, has said the agency won't recommend travel restrictions as Nigeria recorded its first case of the new strain of Covid-19, Omicron, Wednesday. The NCDC boss said the commission would rather embark on a risk-based assessment, as well as surveillance of all travellers coming into…
December 1, 2021
The President Buhari-led administration has insisted that Nigeria is yet to record any case of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19. This is coming few days after Canadian authorities’ claimed that two passengers from Nigeria had tested positive. This was made known on Monday by Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Ifedayo…
November 30, 2021
Two people in the UK have been found to be infected with the new coronavirus (COVID) variant, Omicron, the health secretary has said. Sajid Javid said the cases in Brentwood, Essex, and Nottingham were confirmed by the UK Health Security Agency after genomic sequencing. They are linked and connected to travel in southern Africa, and…
November 28, 2021
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When I got the invite to participate at the virtual launch of the REPLACE global report hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), my mind raced in different directions. Why? Many would wonder. Simply put, since I joined the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) volunteer’s programme, I have engaged various digital channels daily…
December 15, 2021
Stakeholders in the Nigerian movie industry, otherwise known as Nollywood have agreed to further tobacco control advocacy targeted at putting an end to smoking scenes in movies in line with the National Tobacco Control Act (NTC) 2015 and its regulations passed in 2019. At a Stakeholders' Roundtable organised in Lagos by the Federal Ministry of…
December 11, 2021
Up to one million COVID-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told Reuters exclusively, one of the biggest single losses of doses in the African continent. Governments on the continent of over one billion people have been pushing for more vaccine deliveries as inoculation rates lag…
December 8, 2021
Thailand has detected its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a U.S. citizen who had travelled to the country from Spain late last month, a health official said on Monday. The confirmed case in the man, who had arrived on Nov. 29, makes Thailand the 47th country to have found the new variant,…
December 6, 2021
..Ban Not Driven By Science A diplomatic row may be brewing between the Nigerian government and its United Kingdom counterpart as the former has asked the latter to "immediately" reverse the blanket travel ban it imposed on Nigerians due to the emergence of Omicron variant of the Covid-19 contagion, describing it as “unfair, unjust, punitive…
December 6, 2021
The Federal Government on Friday announced a reviewed protocol for all international travels in a bid to mitigate the risk of spreading Omicron, the new strain of COVID-19. The Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, in a statement issued on Friday announced that out-bound travellers…
December 3, 2021
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NDCC), Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, has said the agency won't recommend travel restrictions as Nigeria recorded its first case of the new strain of Covid-19, Omicron, Wednesday. The NCDC boss said the commission would rather embark on a risk-based assessment, as well as surveillance of all travellers coming into…
December 1, 2021
The President Buhari-led administration has insisted that Nigeria is yet to record any case of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19. This is coming few days after Canadian authorities’ claimed that two passengers from Nigeria had tested positive. This was made known on Monday by Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Ifedayo…
November 30, 2021
Two people in the UK have been found to be infected with the new coronavirus (COVID) variant, Omicron, the health secretary has said. Sajid Javid said the cases in Brentwood, Essex, and Nottingham were confirmed by the UK Health Security Agency after genomic sequencing. They are linked and connected to travel in southern Africa, and…
November 28, 2021
