Vaccines
27 Oct
Dr Idowu Audu, the Deputy Incident Manager of National Polio Emergency Operations, on Saturday said Nigeria has been consuming 70 percent of the world’s polio vaccines without significant results. Audu, while speaking in Ilorin during a meeting of experts, lamented that while the country was consuming most of the world’s polio vaccines, the virus has…
5 Oct
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of a mpox epidemic, launched a vaccination campaign against the virus on Saturday in the eastern city of Goma, AFP journalists said. The launch, initially scheduled for last Wednesday, was delayed by three days amid logistical difficulties in delivering the vaccines across the sprawling, infrastructure-poor central African…
17 Sep
A Social Behaviour Change Specialist with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), George Eki, warned opinion leaders in the country to desist from misconceptions, misleading and fictitious opinions about life-saving vaccines. Eki, who was speaking at an orientation programme organised by the UN Agency in Gombe, said that no mother wishes to give birth to…
16 Sep
A new Covid variant, identified as XEC, has been detected in several countries and could soon become the dominant strain, according to scientists. The variant, which was first discovered in Germany in June, has since emerged in the UK, US, Denmark, and other nations, including those frequently visited by Nigerians. In Germany and Denmark, XEC…
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President John Mahama of Ghana has reportedly scrapped seven ministries in a bid to reduce the cost of governance. Mahama's decision which came in an executive order was contained in a gazette dated January 9, 2025, just two days after he assumed office as president. The president who is in for a second term has…
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The leadership crisis rocking the main opposition political party, People's Democratic Party (PDP) is showing no signs of abating as top party sources hinted that the National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, will resume work today at the party's national secretariat in Abuja. The Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, had on December 20, 2024, affirmed the…
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The Federal Government has approved four airlines as official air carriers for Nigerian pilgrims for the 2025 Hajj exercise. Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Prof. Abdullahi Saleh Usman, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday by the commission's Assistant Director, Information and Publication, Fatima Usara. Usara said the carriers were selected out…
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The National Pension Commission (PenCom) has revealed plans to deploy a new marketing strategy into its Micro Pension Plan (MPP) to onboard 20 million on the scheme before the end of 2026.
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The selection of 47-year-old Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade, a Canada-based Nigerian as the new Alaafin of Oyo, is generating mixed reactions, especially among the contestants and the kingmakers, popularly known as Oyomesi.