archiveMarch 2021

A medical doctor, Dr. Cyprian Ngong, of the National Hospital, Abuja, is the first person to receive a jab of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. This happened today after the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, flagged...

  The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has appointed new Branch Chiefs, Air Officers Commanding, Commandants of Tri-Service Institutions and other functionaries, including a new spokesperson. The Director of Public Relations and Information, NAF Headquarters, AVM Ibikunle Daramola, announced this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. According to the statement,...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Service Chiefs to deploy competent officers and men to restore peace and order in troubled areas across the country.The president gave the ultimatum when he decorated the recently appointed service chiefs with their new ranks at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. He said...

 The Czech Republic is introducing a quarantine bonus payment of 14 euros as part of its fight against the coronavirus pandemic. President Milos Zeman signed a law on Friday stipulating that employees receive the equivalent of up to 14 euros a day (16.7 dollars) if they are in a quarantine...

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cleared the AstraZeneca vaccine which arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday for usage in the country. The agency disclosed this on its Twitter handle, @NphcdaNG, on Friday. The message read, “After undergoing final assessment by NAFDAC, we have...

 Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Thursday advocated that the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), currently before the National Assembly, should allocate 10 per cent oil revenue to host communities.Wike made the call when members of the National Assembly Committee on PIB visited him at the Government House, Port Harcourt. He...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns  that stay-at-home policies are threatening the mental health of 332 million children worldwide. In a report released on Thursday, UNICEF said the affected children had been caged at home for at least nine months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 708 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), taking the total number of infected people in the country to 157,671.The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the additional 708 new...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that it plans to move its headquarters from Bwari Area Council to Central Area in the Federal Capital City (FCC) of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It said the proposed new headquarters would cost N6 billion. The JAMB Director of Finance...

State governors and their deputies are to take the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Dr Kayode Fayemi, the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Governor of Ekiti, disclosed this at a virtual news conference on Thursday. Fayemi said that the vaccination was part of resolutions made...