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Covid-19: FG Takes Vaccination Exercise To Private, Govt Offices
The Federal Government has introduced a special vaccination exercise that will enable members of staff and retirees of public and private sector firms to be vaccinated in their office premises. This was disclosed by the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib in Abuja on Tuesday. Read Also: COVID-19: Nigerians […]
HeadlinesOver 70 Nigerians missed Pilgrimage Due To COVID-19 Test Results
Over 70 pilgrims have been denied pilgrimage to Jordan due to late release of COVID-19 test results. This is coming shortly after the National Primary Health Care Development Agency warned that Holy cities such as Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem have made it mandatory for pilgrims to provide proof of vaccination before they can be granted […]
HeadlinesOver 70 Nigerians missed Pilgrimage Due To COVID-19 Test Results
Over 70 pilgrims have been denied pilgrimage to Jordan due to late release of COVID-19 test results. This is coming shortly after the National Primary Health Care Development Agency warned that Holy cities such as Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem have made it mandatory for pilgrims to provide proof of vaccination before they can be granted […]
HeadlinesCOVID-19: Nigerians risk sanctions for refusing vaccine – FG
The Federal Government may sanction eligible Nigerians who refuse COVID-19 vaccination. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, gave the hint at a press briefing briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. In Edo and Ondo States, the state governments had already announced restrictions regarding some public places that those who have […]
Organized Labour Begs FG to Shelve Increase Plan on Electricity, Petrol Price
The organised labour has appealed to the Federal Government against any plan to increase the price of electricity or petrol to avert crisis in the economy. Mr Babatunde Olatunji, President, National Union of Chemical, Footwear Rubber Leather and Non-Metallic Product Employees (NUCFRLANMPE), made the appeal at 29th Annual Industrial Relations seminar of the union in […]
COVID-19: 18 Corps Members Test Positive in Niger
Kenny Folarin, Abuja Eighteen National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to Niger State have been confirmed to have exhibited COVID-19 symptoms. The Corps members were said to have tested positive, following a test conducted on them by the state Ministry of Health. Information Commissioner Sani Idris, who announced this while addressing reporters yesterday in […]
HeadlinesBREAKING: Nigeria Shuts UK Mission As Diplomats Test COVID-19 Positive
Reports reaching LeadingReporters that the Nigerian High Commission in London in the United Kingdom has been shut after officials tested positive for COVID-19. Sources within the commission confirmed the letter informing of the closure, which will last 10 days beginning from Thursday, when the strains of the deadly disease were detected in the Diplomats. Their […]
HealthDonate COVID-19 Vaccine To Poor Countries Or Risk Resurgence UNICEF Ambassadors Tell G7 Countries
Ahead of G7 Leaders Summit in the UK this weekend, joint letter urges G7 leaders to share at least 20 per cent of available COVID-19 vaccine doses UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors Priyanka Chopra Jonas, David Beckham, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Whoopi Goldberg, Angélique Kidjo, and Liam Neeson have joined an extraordinary call by 28 high-profile UNICEF […]
NewsTASUED MANAGEMENT ENFORCES COVID-19 PROTOCOLS AT ALL UNIVERSITY FUNCTIONS
It has come to the attention of the University Management that members of Staff and Students no longer comply with COVID-19 protocols as laid down by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and as directed by the Ogun State Government. On this note, members of the University Community are, by this notice, reminded that COVID-19 […]
HealthIf poor countries go unvaccinated, rich ones will pay, says study
In monopolising the supply of vaccines against Covid-19, wealthy nations are threatening more than a humanitarian catastrophe: The resulting economic devastation will hit affluent countries nearly as hard as those in the developing world. This is the crucial takeaway from an academic study to be released Monday (Jan 25). In the most extreme scenario – […]
New EU Covid-19 vaccine setback as AstraZeneca announces shortfall
The European Union was faced with another setback in its coronavirus vaccination programme after AstraZeneca announced a shortfall, as countries across the world try to step up their Covid-19 immunisation drives. The pharmaceutical company’s image had already taken a hit, with several countries suspending the roll-out of its vaccine over blood clot fears, though the World […]
Institute urges FG halt exportation of Maize, Soya Beans
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, Prof. Eustance Iyayi has urged the Federal Government to stop the exportation of maize and soya bean to reduce scarcity and price increase. Prof. Iyayi while speaking in Abuja on Tuesday stated that due to the Covid-19 pandemic which has disorganize the international supply […]
You risk death, foreign travel restriction if you reject COVID-19 vaccine, FG warns Nigerians
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has warned that Nigerians who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 risked dying from the virus or may be unable to travel out of the country without being inoculated. Mustapha stated this while commissioning a COVID-19 isolation centre installed at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on […]
Headlines11 Staff of water resources Ministry tests positive to Covid-19
No fewer than 11 staff of the Ministry of Water Resources have tested positive to the ravaging new strain of Corona Virus, LeadingReporters can authoritatively report. As it stands now, according to an insider report, the Ministry looks like a haunted office as staff have flee their offices, with many going into self-isolation. The new […]
COVID-19: FG attribute delay of vaccine to politics and logistics
Nigeria says the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is delayed because of “politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria.” The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday, said the issue of vaccine was a serious one to government which […]
HealthDelta State House Majority Leader Tim Owhefere dies of suspected Covid -19 complications
Owhefere, a fourth time member of the state assembly, passed on Wednesday at the federal medical center, Asaba, where he has been undergoing treatment. The deceased who represented Isoko North constituency until his death was said to have been hospitalized for about two weeks before his passage at about 11pm Wednesday night. Several sources in […]
Nigeria records 22 Covid-19 deaths as recoveries cross 100,000
Meanwhile, 23 states have reported 1,861 new Covid-19 infections in Nigeria as total number of confirmed cases rises to 126,160 in last 24 hours. Lagos has 773 new Covid-19 cases; FCT-285; Oyo-138; Rivers-111; Plateau-92; Nasarawa-83; Kaduna-59; Enugu and Imo-57 each; Edo-43 Other states are Kano-27; Kwara-20; Ebonyi-19; Abia-17; Ogun and Osun-12 each; Katsina-8; Bayelsa-6; Bauchi […]
Benue Governor Ortom tests positive For Covid-19
According to his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, this followed the test results of most of the Governor’s close aides who also returned positive in the last few weeks. Though, the Governor has not shown any symptoms of the disease, he has already commenced treatment as prescribed by medical personnel. He advised those who have […]
President Buhari approves regulations to prevent spread of Covid-19
This was contained in a press release from office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in Abuja. These Regulations shall take effect immediately until otherwise determined.All other Protocols and Guidelines issued by the PTF, NCDC, and or State Governments, except as expressly provided, shall remain in force. Any offence under these Regulations […]
HealthNASS stops 10bn Covid-19 vaccine spending by Health Ministry
Chairman Senate committee on health, Ibrahim Oloriegbe said that the 10 billion Naira was appropriated for a different purpose insisting that other parties involved are yet to meet their part of the MOU. The minister of health, Osagie Ohanire, had last week announced at the presidential task force meeting that, 10 billion naira was made […]