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COVID: FG Removes South Africa, Brazil, Turkey From Travel Restriction List

14Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

COVID: FG Removes South Africa, Brazil, Turkey From Travel Restriction List

The federal government says it has taken South Africa, Brazil and Turkey off the list of countries from which travellers are restricted from entering Nigeria. Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19, disclosed this on Wednesday at a media briefing in Abuja. The federal government had, in June, added South Africa to the list of countries from which travellers are restricted from entering Nigeria — over the high infection rates recorded in the affected countries. Speaking at the briefing, Mustapha also said a revised protocol for international travel will be released within the next 24 hours. Read Also: Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Drops After Six Months – New Study “Over several months, four countries were placed on high level...

Buhari Travels To Ethiopia To Attend Prime Minister’s Second-Term Inauguration

2Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Buhari Travels To Ethiopia To Attend Prime Minister’s Second-Term Inauguration

President Muhammadu Buhari will travel out of the country on Sunday to enable him to attend the inauguration of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, for a second five-year term in office on Monday in Addis Ababa. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, who made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday, said President Buhari is scheduled to deliver a goodwill message during the inauguration ceremony. Adesina noted that President Buhari would subsequently attend a State Banquet in honour of visiting Heads of State and Government of the country. According to the statement, the president is expected to return to the country on Tuesday, October 5. Read also: Buhari Reveals Identity of Igboho, Kanu Sponsors Those billed to accompany the...

353 Nigerian Doctors Employed By UK in Three Months Amid Ongoing Strike In Nigeria

22Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Labour, News, Nigeria, Uncategorized

353 Nigerian Doctors Employed By UK in Three Months Amid Ongoing Strike In Nigeria

About 353 Nigerian doctors have migrated to the United Kingdom to work in the last 100 days. According to Punch, checks on the website of the General Medical Council – the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK – showed that the GMC licensed at least 353 Nigerian-trained doctors between June 10, 2021 and September 20, 2021. The statistics also showed that between July 24, 2020 and September 21, 2021, about 862 Nigeria trained doctors were licensed in the UK despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, 8, 737 doctors who obtained their degrees in Nigeria currently practise in the UK. Speaking on Tuesday, the Vice-President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Julian Ojebo, said the rate of migration might double in the comi...

Buhari Travels To New York For UN Assembly

18Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News

Buhari Travels To New York For UN Assembly

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday travel to New York to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari will address the Assembly during the General Debates on Friday, September 24 when he will speak on the theme of the conference and other global issues. “President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for New York, United States of America, to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76),” Adesina said in a statement. “The session opened on Tuesday, September 14. The theme for this year’s UNGA is, “Building Resilience Through Hope – To Recover from COVID-19, Rebuild Sustainably, Respond to the Needs of the Planet, Respect the Rights of People and Revit...

COVID-19: FG Adjusts Restriction on Foreign Travellers

12Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria, Transportation

COVID-19: FG Adjusts Restriction on Foreign Travellers

The Federal Government has relaxed a restriction on foreign travellers without evidence of payment for their COVID-19 PCR test. In a memo by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, foreign airlines were asked to board passengers without evidence of payment for Day seven COVID-19 PCR test or generate paid QR code/permit to fly. The memo dated September 11, 2021, and issued by Director-General of NCAA, Musa Nuhu, was titled “Permission for airlines to board passengers travelling to Nigeria who are unable to show evidence of payment for day seven COVID-19 PCR test or generate paid QR code/permit to fly”. Nuhu said the decision was taken in view of the challenges some travellers to Nigeria are experiencing while trying to fill their Health and Tr...

Buhari Spends N41bn on Presidential Fleet Despite Promise To Cut Cost

15Aug

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Economy, Finance, Nigeria, Transportation

Buhari Spends N41bn on Presidential Fleet Despite Promise To Cut Cost

The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has so far expended N41.9bn to maintain the Presidential Air Fleet contrary to the promise Buhari made during the 2015 presidential election campaigns to reduce waste in governance by downsizing the presidential fleet. As of October 2016, when the Presidency last made a public inventory of the PAF, the fleet included 10 aircraft, namely one Boeing Business Jet (or Air Force One) 737, one Gulfstream G550, one Gulfstream G500, one Hawker 4000, two Falcon 7X, two AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters, and two AgustaWestland AW101 helicopters. By the Presidency’s own admission, Buhari’s promise to sell some of the aircraft in the fleet was aimed at minimising the cost of governance. In October 2016, the Senior Special Assistant to the President...

Air Peace’s 12-hour Flight Delay Causes Protest At Lagos Airport

22Jul

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Aviation, News, Nigeria, Transportation

Air Peace’s 12-hour Flight Delay Causes Protest At Lagos Airport

Air passengers were forced to protest at the Murtala Muhammad Local Airport in Lagos on Thursday night as Air Peace delayed their flight for several hours. The commuters complained that their flight was rescheduled without prior notice by the airline from 8am to 8pm. This comes on the heels of the directive by the Federal government that airline operators must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers after a two-hour delay. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika had said, “On domestic flights, delay beyond one hour, a carrier should provide refreshment, and one telephone call, or one SMS, or one e-mail. They should send you an SMS or email or call you to say, ‘I am sorry, I am delaying for one hour. Read Also: International Airfares Rise As Naira Crashes On IATA Plat...

Kaduna-Abuja Train Breaks Down Again, Leaves Passengers Stranded in the Bush

28Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Transportation

Kaduna-Abuja Train Breaks Down Again, Leaves Passengers Stranded in the Bush

The Kaduna-Abuja train has currently broken down in Dutse, Kaduna, for hours leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. According to an Assistant National Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalist, NUJ, who is one of the passengers, the train developed an issue around 7am, SaharaReporters reports. He said, “I left my house as early as 5am to join the 6:40am train but unfortunately I have been trapped here in this forest. This is not the first time I will be experiencing this mess,” he said. Another passenger said he had a similar experience on Saturday, saying they spent six hours to get to Abuja from Kaduna. On November 22, 2020, the train also broke down with passengers stranded in the bush for hours on that Friday evening. Read Also: Dubai Travel: Emirates Airline To Res...

2May

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Transportation

Zaria Bound Train Derails in Kaduna

A train that took off from Lagos State to Zaria has derailed in Kaduna, African News Today has gathered. There were no injuries as the train which was laden with water pipes derailed at about 5:50pm on Saturday around Unguwar Kanawa axis, opposite Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna, NAN reports. “There was no casualty and no property damaged”, Kaduna State Police Command Spokesman, ASP Mohammed Jalige told NAN. “The train developed some faults and derailed, it was on transit from Lagos to Zaria. “We have deployed our operatives to secure the place and protect the pipes,” Jalige added. Also, Kaduna State Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps, Hafiz Mohammed, described the accident as minor. “The locomotive (head) derailed while standing, one coach also derailed, while f...

Femi Adesina: Hounding the President, Will They Ever Learn?

23Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Femi Adesina: Hounding the President, Will They Ever Learn?

From Sunday afternoon till evening, I was harried and harassed with phone calls by some people in the media. Can you please confirm the health status of President Muhammadu Buhari? He came into the country on Thursday, and he hasn’t been seen since then. Information at our disposal says his health has taken a turn for the worse. I wondered where the falsity was coming from. But patiently, I tried to respond to the enquiries, reasoning with the callers that the President came back to the country early Thursday evening, in the full glare of Nigerians. He even granted an interview at the airport, saying his routine medical checks went well. On Friday, he was in the office, and equally attended the Jumat service. Saturday was for rest and time with the family. So from where did the perni...