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Why Garba Shehu, Other Presidential Aides Contracted COVID-19— Femi Adesina

27Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Why Garba Shehu, Other Presidential Aides Contracted COVID-19— Femi Adesina

Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says there is nothing abnormal in presidential aides testing positive for COVID-19. There had been reports that some presidential aides including the Permanent Secretary in the State House, Tijani Umar; the President’s aide-de-camp (ADC), Yusuf Dodo; his chief security officer (CSO), Aliyu Musa, and his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Garba Shehu tested positive for COVID-19 and were in isolation. Speaking on the development, Adesina, in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday, said presidential aides are also humans and not immune to happenings around them. Read Also: Electoral Act Amendment: Buhari Returns Bill To NASS, Faults Direct Primaries, Cites Insecurity “What I...

Lai Mohammed Does Not Have COVID-19 – Aide

26Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Breaking News, Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Press Statement

Lai Mohammed Does Not Have COVID-19 – Aide

The minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has dismissed claims that he has COVID-19. According to a statement released by his special adviser, the minister is hale and hearty as against reports making the rounds. The statement reads: The attention of the office of the Honourable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has been drawn to a report making the rounds that he has contracted the Covid-19 virus and that he is now in isolation, where he is receiving treatment. For the record, the Minister does not have Covid-19, hence he is neither in isolation nor receiving treatment anywhere. That report, which was first published by an online newspaper and then latched on to by some mainstream lapdog media, once again highlights the uphill task we face i...

Union Reject As FG Increases Hazard Allowance From ₦5,000 To ₦40,000 For Doctors

25Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Union Reject As FG Increases Hazard Allowance From ₦5,000 To ₦40,000 For Doctors

The Federal Government has increased the hazard allowance for medical doctors and health workers in the country. It was gathered that while the government increased the allowance for doctors from N5,000 to between N32,000 and N40,000; other health workers like nurses, laboratory workers among others had theirs reviewed to between N15,000 and N34,000. This was contained in a circular with reference number SWC/S/04/S.218/11/406 dated December 22, 2021 and signed by the Executive Chairman of the National Salaries, Wages and Income Commission. The circular read in part, “Concerning the review of the hazard allowance applicable to health workers in the services of the federal hospitals, medical centres and clinics in ministries, departments and agencies, the hazard allowance was review...

Bauchi Records 153 Lassa Fever Cases In One Year

19Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Bauchi Records 153 Lassa Fever Cases In One Year

The Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, says it has recorded 153 suspected cases of Lassa fever between January and December 2021. Executive Secretary of the Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Bauchi that the cases were recorded in five local government areas of the state. Read Also: We Won’t Reverse Travel Ban Over FG’s Threat – UK Mohammed listed the affected councils to include Bauchi, Bogoro, Ganjuwa, Kirfi, Tafawa Balewa, and Toro. He said that the state had recorded 21 confirmed cases of the disease while six suspected cases were currently on admission. According to him, the agency has embarked on contact tracing to curtail the spread of the disease, adding that surveillance teams had been deployed to enhance r...

Canada Lifts Travel Restriction On Nigeria, South Africa, Others

18Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Canada Lifts Travel Restriction On Nigeria, South Africa, Others

Canada has lifted the travel ban on foreign travellers from Nigeria and nine other African countries. This was disclosed by the country's Health Minister, Jean-Yves Duclos, at a news conference on Friday. Asides Nigeria, the travel restriction on flights was also lifted on South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Malawi and Egypt. However, the country re-imposed testing as it warned that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 risks quickly overwhelming hospitals. Read Also: We Won’t Reverse Travel Ban Over FG’s Threat – UK He said the lifting of the travel ban would take effect from 11:59 pm on Saturday. The restriction had been announced last month “to slow the arrival of Omicron in Canada and buy us some time,” he said. “But with Omicron...

We Won’t Reverse Travel Ban Over FG’s Threat – UK

13Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Transportation

We Won’t Reverse Travel Ban Over FG’s Threat – UK

The British High Commission on Sunday said the United Kingdom would not reverse its travel ban on Nigeria because of a threat of retaliation by the Federal Government. The spokesman for the British High Commission, Dean Hurlock, said this in response to an inquiry by The PUNCH on Sunday over a statement by the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, that the UK, Canada and Saudi Arabia would be put on Nigeria’s travel ban on Tuesday. Hurlock stated that Britain had made it clear that travel abroad would be different this year, adding that the UK was sticking to its “standard background lines.” Read BREAKING: NCDC Confirms Two Cases Of Omicron Variant In Nigeria In a text message to the high commission, Punch stated that the Federal Government had said it would place a travel ban on ...

FG restricts Airlines from UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia in Reciprocity Over Omicron

12Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

FG restricts Airlines from UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia in Reciprocity Over Omicron

With effect from Tuesday, Dec. 14, the Federal Government will restrict airlines coming from Canada, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia into Nigeria. Minister of Aviation, Capt. Hadi Sirika, announced the decision on Sunday in Lagos and explained that it was to reciprocate restricted flights from Nigeria into those countries over the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron. Sirika said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would also place the United Kingdom, Canada and Saudi Arabia on a red list over the outbreak and spread of the Omicron variant. The minister noted that if those countries placed Nigeria on a red list, they lacked a moral right to have their airlines fly into Nigeria on commercial operations. “There is also the case of Saudi Arabia that put Nigeria on the ban list. O...

Omicron: Sanwo-Olu Shelves Lagos Peace Walk

9Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Uncategorized

Omicron: Sanwo-Olu Shelves Lagos Peace Walk

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has shelved the Lagos peace walk planned for December 2021. The Governor, in an address on November 30, 2021, had invited some known faces of the EndSARS protest in the state in October 2020 to a peace walk for “the healing of Lagos” later this month. But in a press statement on Thursday, November 9, 2021, Sanwo-Olu said he is “constrained to stand down all preparations for the Walk for Peace” so as not to “endanger the life of any Lagosian” amid the outbreak of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. He said, “Between Tuesday 30, November 2021 that I made my address and now, we have seen a significant rise in cases associated with the Omicron variant of this pandemic. See Also: Why We Didn’t Stop Ramaphosa From Entering Nigeria – FG “Given th...

Why We Didn’t Stop Ramaphosa From Entering Nigeria – FG

8Dec

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Covid-19, Nigeria, Press Statement, South Africa

Why We Didn’t Stop Ramaphosa From Entering Nigeria – FG

The Federal Government on Monday demanded that Britain rescind the ban imposed on Nigerian travellers over Omicron variant of COVID-19, saying that putting the country on the red list is “unjust, unfair, divisive, indefensible and discriminatory.” Addressing a press conference in his office in Abuja, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, wondered why residents who travel to Britain will be allowed into the country to quarantine and test while Nigerians are not allowed the same treatment. He said it is wrong to impose such punishment on a population of 200 million people because of a few cases of Omicron variant that did not originate in the country. While leaving the decision on whether to respond in kind to the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, Moham...

National Assembly, NGF Fault UK Travel Ban, Demand Reversal

8Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

National Assembly, NGF Fault UK Travel Ban, Demand Reversal

The National Assembly and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum on Tuesday condemned the United Kingdom’s travel ban on Nigeria. The lawmakers and the NGF in their separate reactions to the travel ban imposed on Nigeria by the UK on Saturday, demanding a reversal of the travel restriction. At the plenary on Tuesday, members of the House said Nigeria and other African countries were being bullied by Western countries for failing to look inwards and develop their economies. The Minority Leader of the House, Ndudi Elumelu, moved a motion of urgent public importance, titled ‘Need to Intervene in the Suspension of Issuance of Visitors Visa to Nigerians by the United Kingdom Government,’ which the lawmakers unanimously adopted after a long debate. Read Also: FG Faults British Travel Ban, Al...