A renowned medical practitioner, Dr. Chidi Ezeihu has appealed to the Federal Government and the Nigerian Center for Disease Control, NCDC, to as a matter of urgency carry out a clinical trial of his therapy. Ezeihe, who carried out his research under the Federal Government Technology Incubation Centre, Enugu, said his therapy could be a way out of the COVID-19 infection currently ravaging the entire world. The University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) medical practitioner and an expert in alternative medicine, said he strongly believed that his formula known as Salvage A and B, which he has been using to treat…
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Popular Bollywood actor, Irrfan Khan, who crossed over to Hollywood, is dead. He died at the age of 53 on Wednesday in India’s entertainment capital, Mumbai, after being admitted to hospital for a colon infection earlier this week, BBC reports. He was diagnosed with high-grade neuroendocrine cancer in March 2018. The deceased starred in iconic Indian films such as Vishal Bhardwaj’s crime drama Maqbool, the comedy Piku and his breakout performance in Mira Nair’s Academy Award-nominated Salaam Bombay. In his later years, Khan transitioned to Hollywood where he starred in Jurassic World, Inferno and The Amazing Spider-Man and Life of…
President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria (HAN) Mubarak Bala has been arrested. He was picked up by security operatives in Kaduna on Tuesday. Leo Igwe, Chairman, HAN Board of Trustees, raised the alarm in a statement. Igwe confirmed that police officers, who were not in uniform, took him from his residence. Bala is being detained at the Gbabasawa police station in Kaduna. His arrest has been linked to “blasphemy”. A group of lawyers had petitioned the Kano State Police Command to prosecute Mubarak for insulting Prophet Muhammad on his Facebook page. One S. S. Umar signed the petition. However,…
Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, says the agency does not know the status of the controversial 1,800 bags of rice sent to Oyo State. The consignment was delivered to the State by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on the orders of the Federal Government. However, the Oyo government returned the rice after discovering that it was weevils-infested. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, had claimed that the rice distributed to States was inspected and certified fit for human consumption by NAFDAC. But Adeyeye stated that NAFDAC was not invited to take samples…
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Tuesday said his ministry had set up a ministerial expert advisory committee, headed by a prominent virologist, to study the evolution and development of the COVID-19 outbreak and the responses in Nigeria. Speaking Tuesday at the daily press briefing on COVID-19, he said the team would also advise on the national strategy and action plan, using lessons learned across the globe. “This will help us to identify and adopt the promising strategies and align our plans with best practices and advisories,” he said. Ehanire added that there’s a national concern about the sharp…
Governor Udom Emmanuel on Tuesday said the COVID-19 pandemic did not meet the state unprepared even though the disease is a new one. Emmanuel, who spoke at a media briefing held at the Government House, Uyo, also said that his administration had spent over N1 billion in its efforts at tackling the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The governor further disclosed that the state government was currently constructing a 300-bed isolation centre at the Ituk Mbang General Hospital, adding that all the Isolation centres including the Ibom Specialist Hospital had functional ventilators. The governor said although COVID-19 was a new disease that…
The Nigerian Government has requested for the account statements of former President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife Patience, Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources and Rilwanu Lukman, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg reports that the banks told to provide the bank details of Jonathan and others include Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and New York branches of Deutsche Bank AG and United Bank for Africa Plc. Nigeria is requesting “all documents concerning any transactions to, from, or for the benefit” of Jonathan and his wife between 2009 and the present day. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami,…
JOHANNESBURG – The board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved Nigeria’s request for $3.4 billion (about R63bn) in emergency financial assistance to support the government’s efforts in mitigating the severe economic impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19), which has resulted in a drastic fall in oil prices, This Day reported. According to the publication, the loan falls under the IMF’s Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI), which is extended to member countries without conditions attached to a formal IMF programme. The funds will disbursed immediately in a matter of days. They will boost the foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank…
Mohammed Abubakar, son of Nigeria’s former vice-president, has recovered from COVID-19 after spending 40 days in the hospital. In March, his father had announced that one of his sons tested positive for the disease after he returned from Switzerland. In a statement on Monday, Mohammed said his experience as a COVID-19 patient humbled him as he never thought he would be one of those infected. “I, Mohammed Atiku Abubakar, wish to inform Nigerians that I have finally been cleared and discharged after 40 days of coronavirus (Covid19) treatment,” he said. “My discharge could not have come at a better time…
Hours before President Muhammadu Buhari delivered his address to the nation on Monday night, a version — full of errors — was already circulating on social media. Although the version he eventually read was different in some ways from the draft, presidency officials are livid over the leak. The president’s address is usually released to the media while the broadcast is on, but the leaked draft was in circulation long before the broadcast. In the draft, the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory (FCT) was to be lifted on Saturday, May 2, 2020. But in the broadcast,…