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Tag: Health

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FG Faults British Travel Ban, Alleges Most Infected Travellers From UK
6Dec By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Covid-19, News, Nigeria

FG Faults British Travel Ban, Alleges Most Infected Travellers From UK

The Federal Government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of restricting foreign travellers from visiting Nigeria despite travel bans on the country by Canada, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. This is just as the government stated that most of the in-bound passengers that tested positive for COVID-19 were from the UK. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme on Sunday which was monitored by The PUNCH. Ehanire described as unfortunate the knee-jerk reaction of some countries to the Omicron strain. He noted that even the World Health Organisation had said recently that countries should focus more on collaboration rather than shutting borders. “At the moment we have no plans restricting anybody...
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Enugu To Launch Third Phase Of COVID-19 Vaccination On December 7
5Dec By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Enugu To Launch Third Phase Of COVID-19 Vaccination On December 7

The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State says it has raised massive awareness on its up-coming month-long mass COVID-19 vaccination of residents from 18 years and above. Dr George Ugwu, Executive Secretary, Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency, made the declaration when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Enugu. Ugwu spoke on the side-lines of actions by the state government to protect residents against the pandemic, especially its mutating and dreaded Omicron variant. The executive secretary said that the mass COVID-19 vaccination would run from Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021 to Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. It would be used to launch the third phase of COVID-19 vaccination in the state, he said. He said government had engaged...
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BREAKING: NCDC Confirms Two Cases Of Omicron Variant In Nigeria
1Dec By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Covid-19, News, Nigeria

BREAKING: NCDC Confirms Two Cases Of Omicron Variant In Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday morning confirmed the first case of the Omicron variant in the country. This was contained in a press release issued by the centre and signed by the Director-General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa. The Omicron variant, a new strain of the coronavirus disease, was reported by South Africa and first detected in Botswana. Following the discovery, countries such as the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Israel among others placed travel bans on southern African countries. Read Also: COVID-19: Nigerian Government Vows To Bar Unvaccinated Workers From Offices By December Similarly, the government of Canada had also stated that it discovered two cases of the variant from two passengers from Nigeria. The Federal Government through the Presidential...
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