The Local and General Agricultural Development Foundation (LOGADEF) says arrangements have reached advanced stage for the 12th Edition of the Local Agricultural Products Fair in the state. Mr Ibrahim Anas, the Executive Director and Convener of the fair disclosed this in an interview in Bauchi on Monday. Anas said that the fair was billed to take place between September 29 and October 7. He said that the event was being organised by the foundation, in conjunction with the state government.He said that representatives of the 774 local government areas (LGAs) in the country would converge on Bauchi for the fair. Anas…
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By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Bauchi state government has on Monday commenced its 2022 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) campaign across all the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) for children from 3-59 months old. The exercise was inaugurated in Dass LGA, Bauchi State. Speaking, Dr Mohammed Sani, Executive chairman of Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA), said the exercise would be a house-to-house exercise. ”The team administered the first dose of Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) and Amodiaquine (AQ) to the child. ”Local government areas in Bauchi south are to conduct five circles, while those in the…
The Nigerian government has rolled put the rotavirus vaccine to protect millions of children against deadliest form of diarrhoeal disease The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, made this known at the official National inauguration on Monday in Abuja. Shuaib said that the launch is a critical first step in a push to reach children across the country with the rotavirus vaccine. He said the vaccine protects against rotavirus infections, the leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children worldwide. Shuaib said that it was the most frequent cause of severe diarrhoea, accounting for about 215,000 of the…
The Nigerian government has introduced vaccine against rotavirus into routine immunisation schedule, in recognition of the magnitude of rotavirus related diarrhea disease in the country. This has been done through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA). Dr Walter Mulombo, WHO Country Representative, Nigeria, at the launch on Monday in Abuja, said the vaccine was necessary to help curb the effect of the disease. Mulombo said the government’s introduction of y vaccine provided the opportunity to reduce the number of children dying daily from diarrhoea disease. A rotavirus infection usually starts within two days of exposure to the virus. Early…
A Virologist, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, has called for more consistency in the way information, data and updates on COVID-19 pandemic were being provided to the general public. Tomori, also the Chairman of Biovaccines Nigeria Ltd., made the call in an interview on Monday in Lagos. He reacted to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) report of an additional 144 new COVID-19 cases from August 14 to 15, where Lagos State was ahead of other states with 101new cases. He said there has not been adequate breaking down of information on how or where the surge in the COVID-19 new…
The Nigerian government has called on Nigerians and other relevant stakeholders for effective collaboration to eliminate mosquito hazards across the country. The Minister of Environment, Mr Mohammed Abdullahi, made the call while commemorating 2022 World Mosquito Day, in Abuja on Monday. The theme of the WMD was “Harnessing Innovation to Reduce the Disease Burden and Save Lives”. Abdullahi also urged individuals, family and community members to imbibe the preventive measures by keeping waste materials and junks away from village squares. According to him, Nigerians should ensure that their environment is clean and healthy, using wire mesh to reduce mosquito entry…
A Nigerian hacker, Charles Onus has admitted that he diverted $800,000 American payroll funds into his personal prepaid debit cards. Onus who has forged 5,500 user accounts/passwords and arrested in San Francisco, while traveling back to United States from Nigeria, pleaded guilty in a U.S. court for his role in a scheme to hack into thousands of user accounts maintained by a payroll processing company, to steal payroll deposits. The 34-year-old was arrested in April 2021 in San Francisco, and the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against him in June. Onus, who has been in detention since his arrest,…
On 9th August 2022, Kenya held its 7th General Election since the return of constitutional multi-party democracy. The big story was that President, Kenyatta, made an alliance with the historical opposition party leader Raila Odinga thus abandoning his Vice President, William Ruto with whom he had a 20-year 10 + 10, turn by turn rule-pact. Discarded Ruto redefined himself as opposition and contested the elections as an “outsider” with the disconcerting self-label of hustler-in-chief. His campaign was directed at those in the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid whom he promised to address their plight. As Africa is indeed a hustler-majority…
The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey have agreed on putting forward a joint candidate to run against incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the elections slated for June 2023. The parties include the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), the nationalist Good Party (İP), the Islamist Felicity Party (SP) and the Democrat Party (DP). Others are; former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s Future Party (GP) and ex-Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan’s Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA). The leaders of these parties reached the agreement at a meeting held on Saturday, the joint statement said and was made available to…
Not surprisingly, the desperate, spurious and futile advocacy mounted and coordinated by the AGF on behalf of the so-called Paris Club Consultants to justify the plundering of the humongous sum of USD418.9m from the public treasury of the States and Local Governments continued on Saturday 20th August 2022, when Ned Nwoko, in a press statement, attempted to blur and obfuscate the real facts and legal issues in controversy by dishing out blatant lies and half-truths. The facts are and will always remain: whether the claims of the consultants are lawful and justified under our Constitution and whether any Judgment which…