The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shri G. Balasubramanian, says over 135 Indian companies so far invested $19 billion in Nigeria in the last four decades of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Balasubramanian, who said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, commended the India-Nigeria mutual bilateral relations. He said that the relationship between India and Nigeria had been excellent, saying the visit was to deepen news and cultural programme exchanges between both countries. According to him, the visit seeks to promote avenues, whereby India and Nigeria could…
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The Nigerian government has urged States to submit an inventory of isolation and testing centres for the management of COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire disclosed this on the sidelines of the Ministerial bi-weekly meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and development in the country’s health sector in Abuja on Tuesday. The country‘s isolation centres ensure that the healthcare staff and the centres were equipped to deal with the virus. “COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic and the equipment in those isolation centres need to be maintained to prevent equipment failure. “States and hospitals need to…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says 65.7 percent of eligible Nigerians have so far received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Bulama Garuba, NPHCDA Director, Planning, Research, and Statistics, said this in Abuja while giving an update on COVID-19 response and development during the Ministerial bi-weekly meeting of the agency. “At the start of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise, we targeted to vaccinate 70 percent of our eligible population by December 2022. “As of today, Monday, January 9th, 2023, 76,161,470 eligible persons have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria, representing 65.7 percent of…
The Nigerian government says it is relying on donor partners to pay its contribution of $4 million for the annual purchase of contraceptives through a Basket Fund with external donors. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly Meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and development in the country’s health sector. Ehanire, in March 2022, renewed the financial commitment on behalf of Nigeria with the backing of the Federal Executive Council. The country, with UNFPA, the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health agency, and others committed to sharing the cost of contraceptives…
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) has said it will screen passengers coming into the country, using Rapid Diagnostic Test (RTD). Dr. Geoffrey Okatubo, Director of Port Health Services, said this on Monday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and developments in the country’s health sector. Okatubo said positive cases would be quarantined and all negative cases would be monitored. He said the federal government was undertaking other measures as well to keep the coronavirus situation under control. “COVID-19 self-tests (RTD) will be handed out at all our international airports, land and sea…
By Kadiri Abdulrahman In the past few days the media has been awash with news about the huge debt burden that the incoming government in May 29, would inherit from the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. This is coming as President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2023 budget of N21.83 trillion into law and said the country would pay N1.8 trillion in extra interest if the legislature rejects his loan-to-bond swap request. A section of the Nigeria media had quoted the Debt Management Office (DMO) as saying that the incoming administration would inherit a debt burden of N77 trillion. Findings however revealed…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has said that votes cast for him on February 25 shall secure the future of Nigerians. Speaking at the APC Presidential Rally at the Moshood Abiola Democracy Park, on Saturday in Akure, Tinubu said that his “Renewed Hope” agenda was to transform the country and make Nigerians be happy. The presidential candidate, who lauded the mammoth crowd that received him, explained that he was in the race for the betterment of the country. He promised that he would replicate his achievements as Lagos state governor at the national level…
The Ogun Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, and colleagues in the School of Policy, Politics, and Governance (SPPG), have donated a toilet block to the Ikeye community in Gbagura, Abeokuta North local government area. Presenting the toilet block to the community on Saturday in Abeokuta, Coker advised Nigerians to do all within their means to stop open defecation. The commissioner said that open defecation has over the years, given rise to cases of diarrhea, cholera, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), and other public health ailments in communities thereby resulting in avoidable deaths. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the…
Norway became Germany’s single-largest natural gas supplier in 2022, overtaking Russia, as total German gas imports dropped by 12.3% compared to 2021, the German Federal Network Agency, Bundesnetzagentur, said on Friday. Norway provided 33% of the gas Germany imported last year, followed by Russia, whose share fell to 22% for last year, compared to a 52% share in 2021, the German regulator said. Last year, Russia started gradually cutting gas supply via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany in June until shutting down the pipeline in early September, claiming an inability to repair gas turbines for the pumping stations due to Western…
An Eritrean national described as one of “the world’s most wanted” human traffickers have been arrested in Sudan after an international manhunt led by the United Arab Emirates, Interpol announced on Thursday. The suspect — identified as Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam — is accused of leading a criminal organization that abducts, exports, and murders East African migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, the France-based police agency said in an online statement. He was arrested on Sunday in a ″major international police operation led by the United Arab Emirates, based on information shared via Interpol,″ said a statement from the UAE’s Ministry…