A yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 172 people so far, the World Health Organization said Friday. The outbreak poses an extra challenge to the country’s health system as Africa’s most populous nation deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, several concurrent disease outbreaks and a humanitarian crisis in the northeast, the WHO said. Nigeria has been battling successive yellow fever outbreaks since 2017. This latest outbreak was detected in November, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told reporters in Geneva. “As of November 24, the outbreak has been reported in five states in Nigeria: Delta, Enugu, Bauchi, Benue and Ebonyi,” he said.…
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Although efforts by stakeholders in the Food Processing Industry to improve the nutritional value of edible oil, salt, sugar, wheat flour, and other processed foods is commendable, ensuring full compliance to national standards will be required to shape national public health outcomes to attain the desired levels, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this Thursday at the 3rd Annual Nigeria Food Processing and Nutrition Leadership Forum, held virtually, and organized by the Aliko Dangote Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the Vice President, “the Nigerian government is keen on driving collaborative efforts…
Incoming passengers who shun the Federal Government’s guidelines against COVID-19 have been warned to stop it or face the consequences. The Lagos State government issued the warning on Friday in a statement jointly signed by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, and the Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi. It explained that this was necessary to protect residents against the fatal effects of the reversal of the gains made against the pandemic, which are loss of lives, livelihood, and economic hardship. “It has been reported severally through notification from Port Health Services, NCDC, the Lagos State Biobank and…
Jamie Vardy struck in the final minute to move Leicester up to third in the Premier League with a 2-1 win at Sheffield United as Tottenham and Liverpool prepared to welcome back supporters for the first time in nine months on Sunday. The Foxes moved above both Spurs and Liverpool in the table after ending a four-game winless run at an empty Bramall Lane, to push the Blades ever closer to a return to the Championship. Clubs in tier-three areas of coronavirus restrictions in England still have to play behind closed doors, while tier-two zones such as London and Liverpool…
Ivory Coast’s cocoa producers have ended their row with Hershey’s after the US chocolate giant committed to paying a premium above the market price under an initiative to help lift the incomes of poor farmers. Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s number one and two cocoa producers respectively, on Monday accused confectionery giants Hershey’s and Mars of sidestepping a deal to pay the living income differential (LID), a bonus of $400 per tonne of cocoa, the raw material for chocolate. Millions of small farmers in Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together grow 60 percent of the world’s cocoa, live in…
Liverpool celebrated their first appearance in front of their fans as English champions on Sunday by humbling Wolves 4-0 to join Tottenham at the top of the Premier League table. Mohamed Salah capitalised on an error by Wolves captain Conor Coady to open the scoring midway through the first half as 2,000 supporters celebrated joyously. Georginio Wijnaldum doubled Liverpool’s lead with a wonderful curled finish from distance shortly before the hour mark and Joel Matip put the game beyond Wolves before a late own goal added gloss to the scoreline. The comfortable win took Jurgen Klopp’s men to 24 points…
Three suspected herdsmen have been killed in Tsehombe-Adaka village, Benue State. The Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, confirmed this to Channels Television in a statement issued on Monday. “Troops of Sector one, Operation WHIRL STROKE, yesterday, 6 December 2020 responded to a distress call from Local vigilante members reporting an ongoing attack by suspected armed herdsmen on Tsehombe-Adaka village,” the statement partly read. “Troops immediately mobilized to the location leading to a shoot-out between troops and armed bandits. “The gallant troops overwhelmed the bandits by superior firepower, following which troops successfully neutralised 3 of the armed…
Governor of Ekiti State Dr. Kayode Fayemi has said that he is not an advocate of zoning. Fayemi’s comment comes on the heels of various calls to have a President of Southeastern extraction. Many from the region have over the years felt marginalized and believe that 2023 is the year for a balance to be achieved in the Nigerian political sphere. Reacting to this, Fayemi who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics said he understands why those who feel marginalized are clamouring for a Southeast Presidency come 2023. The governor said he also understands that “in a country that…
BY PRINCEWILL IREOBA The 2020 Carnival for Christ Celebration of the Abuja Anglican Diocese ended last Sunday with a thanksgiving service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Abuja. The actual Carnival event was held in a massive rally of all the Archdeaconries of the Diocese on Saturday at the Anglican Girls Grammar School field Gudu District Abuja and preceded with some evangelistic activities earlier in the week. The Carnival for Christ celebration which marks the annual anniversary of the inauguration of the Diocese of Abuja has “Be Still and Know that I am God” as the theme for the…
Event planning is no longer left to the mediocre. Anyone who wants a great event must reckon with event planners today. You give them your rough idea and they package it in the most creative way that giggles at your imagination. Wouldn’t it have been a great idea if God engaged an event planner for His intervention? Or was that John the Baptist’s role after all? Following on from last week’s piece, we saw how Luke gave us a clip of the reign of no less a king than Herod the Great. He then hurriedly zooms in on a rather…