COVID-19: Ensure Transparent Use Of FG’s N1bn Intervention Fund, Abia Lawmaker Charges Ikpeazu
The member representing Bende North State constituency Abia State House of Assembly, Hon Chijoke Chukwu has urged the state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu to ensure judicious and transparent utilisation of the federal government’s intervention fund for COVID-19. This is even as he seeks to see a visible impact in his constituency and all parts of Abia through improvement of health...
Silence In The Wards: Doctors’ Strike Grounds Services At Lafia Teaching Hospital
Medical activities at the Federal University of Lafia Teaching Hospital (FUTH) have come to a complete halt following the nationwide strike declared by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). A visit to the hospital revealed deserted wards and empty corridors, as patients on admission were evacuated and health workers from the emergency, outpatient, and antenatal units abandoned their posts. The...
WHO Begins Trial For Coronavirus Drug In Nigeria
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that it has commenced the solidarity trial for a drug to treat the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nigeria. This was made known by Fiona Braka, the officer in charge of WHO in Nigeria, during a joint national briefing of the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19. ABN TV reports that Braka stated that the test was still in the...
BREAKING: Nigeria Records 108 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Now 981
108 new cases of coronavirus were on Thursday night reported by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), bringing the total cases to 981. In the new cases reported, Lagos had 78 cases, 14 in FCT, five in Ogun, four in Gombe, three in Borno, two in Akwa Ibom, one in Kwara, one in Plateau. According to the NCDC, “As at...
Abia COVID-19 Patient On The Run After Discovering His Status, Declared Wanted
A COVID-19 patient in Abia, Mr Emmanuel Ononiwu has taken to his heels after being informed of his status by officials of NCDC following a test in Aba. The patient who was initially housed in a temporary facility in Aba before arrangements for movement to isolation centre escaped to an unknown destination, refusing all appeals made to him to make...
Why We Cancelled “2020 Evening Of Carols” — Magic FM Management
The management Saturn communications, owners of Magic 102.9 FM Aba, has finally explained why the third annual Evening of Carols was cancelled. The company on Tuesday said the COVID-19 outbreak which has led to a limit in number of persons at a public gathering has made it necessary for the 2020 edition of the programme to be called off. It further...
Resident Doctors Finally Reach Agreement With FG
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Wednesday, reached an agreement with the Federal Government, over its ongoing strike. At a meeting which lasted almost the entire day, the association said it will consult its executive council within the next 24 hours, with a view to calling off the strike by Thursday. Both parties had been locked in negotiations to...
President Biden Tests Positive For COVID-19 Again
President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 again Saturday morning, per a letter from presidential physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor, in what is likely a "rebound" Covid-19 positivity that the doctor noted is "observed in a small percentage of patie...
Boris Johnson’s Condition Improving As He Sits Up In Bed
Boris Johnson is 'improving' in hospital after two days in intensive care battling coronavirus, Chancellor Rishi Sunak revealed this afternoon. In news that will come as a relief to the nation he said that the Prime Minister had also been sitting up in bed after two nights in St Thomas's Hospital in London. Fronting the daily news conference, Mr. Sunak began...
NAFDAC Laboratory Gets WHO Pre-Qualification Approval
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has announced the pre-qualification approval for the agency’s Yaba laboratory, Lagos State, as a Central Drug Control Laboratory. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. She stated that the World Health Organisation had recently approved the CDCL. She said that the...
