WHO Urges Swift Global Action To Curb Viral Hepatitis D
World Health Organisation has issued a strong appeal to governments and health partners to accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis, following the reclassification of hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans. The appeal comes as the world commemorates World Hepatitis Day. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a specialised agency of WHO, had recently confirmed that hepatitis D, an infection...
Gates Foundation Commits Fresh $1.6bn To Gavi For Delivery Of COVID-19 Vaccine To “Poorest Countries”
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a five-year, US$1.6 billion commitment to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to deliver life-saving vaccines to the world’s poorest countries. According to Gates, the “funding and global coordination will ensure” people all over the world are able to get the COVID-19 vaccine when they become available. The commitment was announced at the Global Vaccine...
Nursing Council Inducts 242 Foreign Trained Nurses
The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (MNCN) has inducted 242 graduates of Nursing Science from foreign universities into the nursing profession in the country. They were inducted on Friday during the council’s 10th induction ceremony for foreign-trained nurses in Abuja. Speaking during the ceremony in Abuja, the registrar of the Council, Dr Faruk Umar Abubakar, said the inductees graduated from...
Woman Passes On Coronavirus To Her Pet CAT
A woman has infected her cat with coronavirus, health authorities in Belgium revealed today. Steven van Gucht, head of viral diseases at the country's Institute of Health, told a press conference that 'a coronavirus infection has been determined in a cat'. 'The cat lived with her owner, who started showing symptoms of the virus a week before the cat did,' he said. The Belgian...
[BREAKING] COVID-19: FG To Stop Inter-State Travels
Federal Government says it will stop interstate travels including railway. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who stated this at an ongoing press briefing in Abuja this afternoon said the government will also deploy firefighting equipment and personnel to fumigate markets, towns and cities. He insisted that with time running out, the government will not hesitate to enforce compliance...
FG Disburses N20bn As COVID-19 Allowance To Health Workers
The Federal Government says it has paid N20 billion as COVID-19 allowance to health workers in the country. This is according to the Minister of State for Health, Dr Olorunnimbe Mamora who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday. “We’ve been able to disburse close to N20 billion and I repeat close to 20 billion. So, to now say nothing has been...
Coronavirus: Panic In Kogi As Lawmaker Abroad Returnee Refuses To Be Quarantined
Tension has heightened in Lokoja the Kogi State as one of the state lawmakers who just returned from the US refused to quarantine himself for 14 days as ordered by the federal government and rather went round the state capital clubbing. It was also gathered that another two lecturers also arrived from a foreign country and were not quarantined. The lawmaker,...
NNPC Former GED, Okwara Osonwa Dies At 85
A former Group Executive Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Chief Okwara Osonwa is dead. He died at about 2 pm on Thursday. His first son, Mr. James Osonwa who broke the news to ABN TV expressed sadness over his father's demise, describing him as a good and kindhearted gentleman. Also Read: Late NDDC Director Tested Positive For Coronavirus Osonwa a...
Nigeria Yet To Receive Trump’s Ventilators – Lai Mohammed
The Federal Government said it was yet to receive the ventilators promised by the U.S President, Donald Trump. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed assured Nigerians that once the government receives the promised equipment, it will be made public. Lai Mohammed said this Thursday while responding to a question on the issue during the Presidential Taskforce on...
Brazilian President Undergoes Brain Surgery
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva underwent surgery after a brain haemorrhage related to a recent fall, the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in Sao Paulo said Tuesday. “The operation went without complications” on Monday night, and Lula was “doing well, under monitoring” in an intensive care unit, the hospital said in a statement posted on the president’s Instagram account.
