Mamman Daura, a nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been flown to the United Kingdom for urgent medical treatment over an undisclosed ailment, according to SaharaReporters. Daura, 79, was said to have been flown in a private jet to the UK on Wednesday (today) after exhibiting respiratory […]
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Pharmacists Council of Nigeria condemns operations of unregistered pharmacies
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria said it has sealed 268 pharmacies in Lagos for violations that vary from not registering with the authority, not renewing their registration and other infringements. The PCN Registrar, Pharm. Elijah Mohammed, at a briefing in Lagos, condemned the increase in illegal medicine sales outlets in […]
410 new COVID-19 cases recorded in 15 states, FCT
Nigeria’s confirmed cases of coronavirus reached 49,895 on Tuesday night following 410 fresh infections, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced. Lagos recorded 210 of the 410 cases, followed by FCT with 45, Ondo with 30 and Plateau 21. The rest are: “Edo-19, Ogun-16, Oyo-13, Nasarawa-12, Bauchi-11, Enugu-10, Kwara-7, […]
WHO chief warns against monopolizing COVID-19 vaccines
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday issued another warning against “vaccine nationalism,” saying some countries are putting their own interests ahead of others in trying to secure supplies of a possible vaccine. At the agency’s regular briefing in Geneva, its Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “Nationalism exacerbated the pandemic […]
COVID-19: Traders count losses as Rivers markets open
Markets in Rivers State reopened on Tuesday after five months of their shutdown with strict compliance with the COVID-19 protocol as directed by Governor Nyesom Wike. As part of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Governor shut down the markets in March but took a decision […]
Carrington offered me US asylum to escape Abacha’s arrest – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the late former American Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, leaked to him the plan by the regime of the late military dictator, Sani Abacha, to arrest him in 1995. Obasanjo said he was in Copenhagen, attending the World Social Summit as a Human Development […]
China’s first patent granted for COVID-19 vaccine
• South Africa begins second trial China’s first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine has been granted by the country’s National Intellectual Property Administration. Also on Monday, South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand started the second COVID-19 vaccine trial in the country. The Chinese patent was jointly applied for by a research […]
Insulting Me Is A Waste Of Time, Bishop Oyedepo Replies Presidency
Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners’ Chapel, David Oyedepo, has said that it was a waste of time insulting him. He made the comments during a sermon on Tuesday following an earlier statement by President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie, where she criticised […]
COVID-19: Tony Blair warns another national lockdown is ‘impossible’
Tony Blair today warned it will not be possible to impose another UK-wide coronavirus lockdown as he claimed ministers had got the Government’s travel quarantine policy ‘wrong’. The former prime minister said it was ‘not credible’ for the Government to repeat the sweeping draconian measures put in place back in March because of […]
COVID-19: Nigeria records 298 new cases
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 298 new cases of the COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 49,068. The NCDC made this known on its official twitter handle late on Sunday. According to it, one death was recorded in the country. The health […]