The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Professor Princewill Chike has been sacked by Governor Nyesom Wike, for not seeking the state government’s approval before hosting the preliminary session of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN, in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Governor Wike announced the sacking of Professor Chike when the Chairman of…
The United Kingdom has recorded its first Omicron-related death. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, disclosed this on Monday while on a visit to a vaccination clinic in west London, the BBC reports. Johnson is said to have advised British residents to put aside the idea that Omicron was a milder variant. He is quoted to…
A man who was allegedly paid by anti-vaxxers to get their jabs reportedly received the Covid-19 vaccine 10 times in one day. The man, who has not been identified, pretended to be a different person each time he visited a doctor in New Zealand. He was then given the jab before the vaccination records discovered…
Some staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, who have not received the COVID-19 vaccine were turned back from its headquarters in Abuja today, December 13. This is in compliance with the directive of the Federal government that only civil servants who have taken the COVID19 vaccines should be granted access into…
According to Saturday PUNCH, renowned virologists on Friday revealed that the change in weather was largely responsible for the surge in COVID-19 cases reported in the country. The virologists, who spoke in separate interviews with our correspondents, also urged Nigerians to engage the monitoring of trends as the country might gradually slip into the fourth…
Three additional cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant has been confirmed in the country by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Ifedayo Adetifa, NCDC Director-General said on Tuesday, December 7, that the new cases were detected in individuals with recent travel history to South Africa. This brings the total number of Omicron variant cases in…
Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), has disclosed that the country has enough vaccines to cover over 70 per cent of Nigerians before the end of 2022. Speaking at a national COVID-19 summit tagged ‘Pushing Through the Last Mile to End the Pandemic and Build Back Better’, the SGF stated…
The Federal Government has insisted there are no plans at the moment to restrict foreigners from travelling into Nigeria. The Health Minister, Dr Osagie Ehanire, stated this while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday night. Ehanire also claimed that most of the in-bound passengers that tested positive for COVID-19 were from the UK….
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture, has disclosed that due to poor access to the COVID-19 vaccine by developing countries, only three per cent of Nigeria’s population have been vaccinated. Speaking on Sunday, December 5, in Madrid, Spain at the 24th General Assembly of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), Lai…
GIOTV reports that the British High Commission has announced plans to suspend “making decisions” on visitor visa applications from all red list countries, including Nigeria. This is coming few hours after the United Kingdom added Nigeria to its red list over Omicron variant of COVID-19. The decision to suspend visa applications consideration was announced in…