COVID-19: People Without Vaccination Certificate Will Soon Be Barred From Travelling — SGF
Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, says COVID-19 vaccination certificate will soon become a mandatory requirement to travel anywhere in the world. He, therefore, urged Nigerians to avail themselves to be vaccinated against the lethal virus to avoid for their health and that of others as well as...
COVID-19 Vaccine That Has Side Effect Not In Nigeria — FG
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has explained that Nigeria did not receive any batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine with a suspected side effect, ABV5300. The Federal Government’s agency made the clarification in a statement made available on its Twitter handle on Thursday. In the statement titled, ‘Press Statement on concerns about the safety of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine’, NPHCDA urged...
Zone 9 Police Announce Date For NHIS Enrollment For Retired Officers
The Nigeria Police Force Zone 9 comprising Abia, Ebonyi, and Imo has fixed a date for the second phase of National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS for retired officers of the force who did not participate in the first phase. ABN TV reports. It is scheduled to commence from 15th March, 2021 to 18th March, 2021. The exercise is open for each...
COVID-19: AstraZeneca Vaccine Unsafe Unless… Ohanaeze Youths Warn Ndigbo
The Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, the apex Youth body of Ohanaeze Ndigbo says the recently imported AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines is not safe for human consumption until scientifically proven by Igbo medical experts around the globe. OYC says the importation of Covid-19 Vaccine has raised concern among some well-meaning Nigerians especially the Igbo extractions. The council further warned that the vaccines should...
Resident Doctors To Begin Indefinite Strike Thursday April 1
Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have concluded plans to embark on an indefinite strike on Thursday, April 1. The strike will be coming on the heels of the expiration of the 60-day ultimatum given to the Federal Government on January 25 for the payment of arrears of salaries of house officers across the country and the review...
Buhari Leaves For ‘Routine Medical Check Up’ In London
President Muhammadu Buhari is due to leave Nigeria for London, the United Kingdom, on Tuesday, March 30 for a two-week medical trip, ABN TV reports. This was disclosed in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina on Monday evening. According to the statement, President Buhari is expected back in the country in the second week of...
Resident Doctors Commence Nationwide Strike
Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD on Thursday morning, commended a nationwide strike despite Federal Government’s last-minute efforts to stop the action. The resident doctors, however, assured Nigerians that their action was not meant to hurt them. They gave the explanation in a message posted on the association’s Twitter handle, @nard_nigeria, on Thursday morning. READ ALSO: Insecurity: Nobody Takes...
Silence As Buhari’s London Stay Enters 3rd Week
The stay of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in London has entered its third week, fueling speculations of an extension of his medical sojourn in the United Kingdom yet the Presidency has not issued an update on his London stay. The President travelled to London on March 30 for a “routine medical check-up”, according to presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina. Adesina in a...
Stay Away From COVID-19 Vaccine, Bishop Oyedepo Warns Winners Chapel Members
The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church International (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, has called on the government to come to him for a lasting solution to the COVID-19 pandemic. He stated this on Sunday during the 40th anniversary thanksgiving service of the church in the Ota Cathedral in Ogun State. He said, “They should come to me to find...
FMC Umuahia To Host MDCAN Inaugural Annual Lecture Wednesday
All is now set for the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Umuahia, Abia State will host members of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN to a one day inaugural annual lecture. https://youtu.be/K42f7c0jpCc The event which is first of its kind has as the theme, The Prime Unpredictable Pass: Preempting And Prioritising The Process Professionally And Proficiently. Date for this event...
