The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 595 new COVID-19 cases in the country as total infections from the virus rose to 34,854. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle on Thursday. The NCDC said that as at July 16, 595 new confirmed cases and nine deaths were recorded in the country. According to it, till date, 34,854 cases have been confirmed, 14,292 cases have been discharged and 769 deaths...
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has destroyed a Boko Haram camp in Borno, killing several terrorists in a massive airstrike on July 15. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Thursday, said the air raid took place at Ngwuri Gana along the Gulumba Gana-Kumshe axis of the state. Enenche said the air operation was in continuation of the sustained offensive against terrorists elements...
Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has described citizens living abroad as the country’s greatest assets. Chairman/CEO of the commission Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa made the description in a statement by Gabriel Odu of the commission’s Media, Public Relations and Protocol Unit. According to Odu, the NiDCOM chief gave the description at the presentation of Diagnostics and Pharmaceutical Personal Protective Equipment worth millions of Naira by the Nigerian Association of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Scientists in the Americas (NAPPSA)....
Chinese movie theatres in low-risk areas have been allowed to resume operation starting from July 20 following an improvement in the COVID-19 epidemic situation, the China Film Administration announced Thursday. These movie theatres should reopen on the premise that proper prevention and control measures have been put in place, the administration said in a circular. Attendance per show must not exceed 30 per cent, according to a guideline on the sector’s work resumption issued by...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 165 countries have engaged in COVID-19 vaccine global access facility. WHO said in a statement posted on its website on Thursday that of the number, 75 countries have so far shown interest in joining its COVAX facility meant to provide global access to a COVID-19 vaccine. It said “the 75 countries, which would finance the vaccines from their own public finance budgets, partner with up to...
Prof. Mohammed Sambo, the Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), says the scheme is planning to extend health insurance to diplomats abroad to enhance Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Sambo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja, that NHIS had been working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to achieve the feat. He said “when we met with the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, they said that they wanted to concentrate...
The United States has rescinded its recent immigration policy requiring foreign students to leave the country if all their classes were to be taught online. U.S. District Judge in Massachusetts, Allison Burroughs, announced this on Tuesday at a court hearing on a suit filed by two higher institutions against the policy. Burroughs said the government had reached a settlement with the plaintiffs, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to revert back to...
President Muhammadu Buhari came into power seemingly on the mantra of anti-corruption, but five years into his term in office Nigerians are increasingly disappointed as daily news of top-level corruption in government continues to astound even as official response amount to lip service from the ruling APC government. Nigerians generally see the fight against corruption as slow and cloaked in secrecy. The lack of transparency in the manner cases of corruption by top government officials...
The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, says the Akanu Ibiam International airport, Enugu will reopen for normal business on Aug. 30. Sirika gave the assurance at the airport in Enugu after inspecting the progress of ongoing rehabilitation of the runway and upgrade of other infrastructure, aiming toward international standards, on Tuesday. According to him, the project has reached between 90 and 95 per cent completion. The minister said the Federal Government planned to make...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the provisions of other laws and regulations relating to economic and financial crimes,. These include, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act (2004), The Money Laundering Act 1995, The Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2004, The Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 1995, The Failed Banks (Recovery of Debts) and Financial Malpractices in Banks Act 1994, The Banks and other...
