President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday met behind closed doors with Guinea-Bissau’s President, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Embalo was received at the official residence of the president by the Nigerian leader. Speaking to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting, Embalo said he was on `routine visit’ to President Buhari, whom he described as his political father, for consultations and advice over...
In a bid to further tackle the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a team of researchers in the University of Lagos (Unilag) has produced an Ambuvalent ventilator. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project, known as Unilag /LASRIC Ambuvalent, was sponsored by the Lagos State Science Research and Innovation Council (LASRIC). The team carried out a ‘demonstration of concept’ of the project to the institution’s management on Friday. The Team Lead, AbdulHakeem Amuda, an...
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Madagascan native formulation against the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said the president made this known at an audience with the visiting President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau. The presidential aide revealed that Guinea-Bissau’s...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, says the Federal Government has set up palliatives to assist Micro Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) survive the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vice president said that the palliatives reflected the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s determination to support MSMEs and the priority the Federal Government placed on small businesses. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement, said the vice president performed the virtual launch of palliatives for MSMEs by the...
Our Regional Correspondent writes on the experience of members of the correspondents’ chapel in Adamawa State when a member tested positive for COVID-19. It was a big relief and celebration time for members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Adamawa state when the result of their blood samples taken for coronavirus test returned negative. The joy wasn’t only for the two members who had contact with the first index...
The Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private sector initiative meant to fight the Coronavirus pandemic, has donated a 100-bed isolation centre and medical equipment to Anambra Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CACOVID renovated and equipped one of the state’s Protective Care Centre located at Umueri General Hospital in Oyi Local Government Area and donated the same to the state government on Saturday. A representative of CACOVID and the Regional Manager of...
Archbishop Samson Benjamin, the General Overseer for Resurrection Praise Ministry for Africa Worldwide, on Saturday said the proposed Disease Control Bill would negate the rights of Nigerians. Benjamin told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that he was totally opposed to the Bill which seeks to promulgate the vaccine. “I am also absolutely against the vaccine that wants to be introduced into Africa from abroad. I do not believe it is best for...
U.S. President Donald Trump fired the State Department’s head of internal audits, inspector general Steve Linick, late on Friday, according to media reports. Linick played a “small” role in the impeachment proceedings against Trump, according to broadcaster CNN. After being informed of the dismissal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement on the “late-night firing,” accusing Trump of punishing Linick for protecting the Constitution and national security. Eliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday recorded 288 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 5445. The NCDC also said that three new patients have been confirmed dead to the virus in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 171. According to the agency, the 288 new cases are confirmed in 15 states. The 15 states and their breakdowns are: Lagos...
For now, there is palpable tension and anxiety in Adamawa State Emirate Council as a titleholder in the emirate, Ma’ajin Adamawa, Rufai Ahmad Duwa died from suspected COVID-19 infection. Duwa died in the early hours of Friday after he grappled with an ailment many said has semblance with COVID-19 infection. He was interred at the Muslim cemetery in Damare, Yola South at about 5:00 pm on Friday. Multiple sources from Federal Medical Center (FMC), Yola...
