archiveJanuary 2021

    Ekiti State Government has said that it will procure drones and unmanned aerial vehicles as part of its efforts to boost surveillance, expose criminal hideouts and combat insecurity in the state. Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Mr. Femi Ajayi, disclosed this at the weekend during the breakdown...

Japan’s government on Sunday dismissed suggestions that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics scheduled for this summer could be cancelled owing to the coronavirus pandemic. “We have decided the venues and schedule, and the people involved are working on preparations, including infection control,” the Kyodo news agency quoted government spokesman Katsunobu Kato...

As schools in Borno reopen on Monday, Gov. Babagana Zulum has approved the release of N624 million for the payment of scholarship to students in tertiary institutions in the state. The Commissioner for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Babagana Mustapha, made this known in a statement issued on...

The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to postpone the reopening of schools by three months due to the increasing number of deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Federal Ministry of Education had last week reaffirmed that schools as earlier scheduled, will be reopened on Monday,...

  The President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday mourned a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Jubril Martins-Kuye, who died early Sunday morning. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President said the deceased would be missed for his insight on issues of development....

call on China to release information linking China to disease outbreak Seeks transparent investigation of virus’ origin United States’ Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, said the US would continue to call for a transparent and thorough investigation into the origin of COVID-19. He accused China of not being transparent...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 1,598 new cases of COVID-19 with seven deaths on Saturday. The NCDC, on its official Twitter handle, said the total infections in the country is now 108,943 with 22,156 active cases and 1,420 fatalities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday said the average price for refilling five kilogrammes cylinder of cooking gas increased to N1,949.75 in December 2020 from N1,947.47 in November. The bureau said this in its “Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Cooking Gas) Price Watch” for December 2020 obtained from its website...

The Federal Government has implored Oyo State Government to stop giving approval for erection of buildings and other structures on the right-of- way of the Oyo – Ogbomosho highway. Mr Funsho Adebiyi, the Director of Highways, Federal Ministry of Works, made the appeal on Saturday, in Oyo town. He said...

   COVID Vaccines in Nigeria The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has not received any application from Covid Vaccine manufacturers yet and therefore no vaccines have been approved by NAFDAC. Covid-19 vaccines are new, and the side effects or adverse events must be well monitored,...