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Debt-servicing may affect COVID-19 financing in 2022

By Editor November 1, 2022 184 0

By Theophilus Abbah and Daniel Adaji Capital expenditure for COVID-19 in Nigeria’s 2022 annual budget looks slow to be released, 10 months into the year, data from the Open Treasury Portal (OTP) suggests. The OTP is a repository of the Federal Government’s expenditure. It shows that the last release for capital expenditure for COVID-19 was […]Continue Reading

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Oversight: Zulum shows up 10pm at Bama hospital

By Editor September 6, 2022 127 0

… Demands to know hospital’s problems … To spend days in Bama for humanitarian activities By Daniel Adaji Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not […]Continue Reading

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Nigeria drops ball in testing the population for COVID-19

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 7, 2022 221 Post a comment

Theophilus Abbah and Daniel Adaji Testing for COVID-19 has dropped drastically, according to weekly reports by the [i]Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that show continued drops in fewer and fewer records of testing in most of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). For instance, for the week that ended on April […]Continue Reading

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In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 17, 2020 187 0

“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading

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Seventeen facts you need to know about Covid-19

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 12, 2020 169 0

With the current cases of the Covid-19 pandemic increasing daily, there have been false information disseminated on the internet. Dr. Faheem Younus, of the University of Maryland, gave some useful facts about the Coronavirus. Below are seventeen facts you probably didn’t know about Covid-19. 1. We may have to live with Covid-19 for months or […]Continue Reading

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Why did COVID-19 hit Kano State below the belt?

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 159 0

Kano budgeted N1,805.88 per head in 2020 health projection When Kano state recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on April 10, 2020, many people knew that there were going to be issues in respect to the level of preparedness of the state government to adequately manage the emerging cases of the virus. The irony, […]Continue Reading

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Ready or not? COVID-19 and epidemic preparedness in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 156 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong Nigeria had been waiting for it, expecting it, anticipating it. But no one knew exactly as it came in. Only in hindsight would the country piece together the story of an Italian man who arrived by air in Lagos on March 24, infected with SARS-CoV-2. By four weeks later, 1,337 people […]Continue Reading

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The mid-term JEE 2019 in Nigeria: a need to boost epidemic preparedness further

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 157 0

By Adie Vanessa Offiong In the third week of November 2019, experts in health security from 29 Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies gathered. Their task was to use a 49-indicator tool of the World Health Organisation to access Nigeria’s capacity to detect, prevent or respond to a disease outbreak—in effect, whether the country was prepared […]Continue Reading

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Follow the money: Can Nigeria deal with covid-19?

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 12, 2020 622 47

By Adie Vanessa Offiong As the 2019 fiscal year drew to an end, Nigeria was writing up a budget for 2020—and it was unaware how that would change. A pandemic of coronavirus disease was waiting in the wings to change all that. The pandemic started in China, shutting down production factories that run on oil […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: Cases on the rise, but testing falls below expectations

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 8, 2020 177 0

By Ifah Ele Sunday President Muhammadu Buhari, on April 27, 2020 ordered the ease of lockdown in three major high-infection states in the country. The three states, Lagos, FCT, and Ogun, had been on lockdown since March 30. This decision was as a result of the impact the lockdown had on the economy. In his […]Continue Reading

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Coronavirus: “The media is on the frontlines”, by Eugenia Abu 

By Ele Ifah Sunday April 25, 2020 137 0

For years as an active Broadcast Journalist, I hardly got time off and was on duty back to back as the news never ends. This state of things was daunting for my family and pretty stressful for me. While people took breaks at weekends, I would be on duty on a fine Sunday morning. The […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19 Today

By Theophilus Abbah April 22, 2020 166 0

Here is an update on Covid-19 in Nigeria     Latest Report InfogramContinue Reading