Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on COVID-19 (MLT) Releases Joint Statement on Scaling COVID-19 Tools
The Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on COVID-19 (MLT) – comprising the heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization – has met with the leaders of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), Africa…
Delta Confirms Outbreak of Avian Influenza
Delta State Government on Wednesday confirmed the fresh outbreak of Avian Influenza, also known as Bird Flu with an estimated population of 164,473 birds so far affected in farms across seven Local Government Areas of the state. The Commissioner for…
(PHOTO) Two South West Governors Visit Tinubu in London
Two South West Governors, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) of Ondo State and Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State have visited the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Tinubu in London where he is recovering from an undisclosed ailments….
We’re Unaware Of Court Judgment ordering Us to Resume Work – Resident Doctors
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has said it is not aware of any court order compelling their members to resume work nationwide. The doctors said this in an Audio sent to African Independent Television (AIT) by NARD chairman…
Former Military First Lady Is Dead
A former military First Lady of Nigeria and wife of Head of State, Major-General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi is dead. Mrs Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, who served as First Lady between January and July 1966, died at the age of 97. She died…
Cholera Outbreak Claims 173 in Kano
No fewer than 173 people have been reported dead in Kano due to cholera outbreak that is ravaging the 44 local governments in Kano State, the state’s Epidemiologist and Deputy Director of Public Health and Disease Control, Dr. Bashir Lawan…
National Day For Senior Citizens In Nigeria Feasible, Humanitarian Minister Assures
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq has given assurance that a special National day for Senior Citizens in Nigeria is feasible. Accordingly, she says appropriate moves through transmission of an official memo…
Bello Administration and Infrastructural Revolution: Amazing Sights As Inspection Team Visits Kogi East
As part of efforts to ensure strict compliance with standard and timely completion of ongoing infrastructural projects by the Governor Yahaya Bello administration in Kogi State, the inspection team of the State Ministry of Works and Housing led by Commissioner…
China Rejects WHO Plan For Further COVID-19 Origins Probe
China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to…
Re: National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Recovered Funds: There Are Billions More To Recover
By Prof. Usman Yusuf I have refrained from saying or writing anything about the NHIS since my exit as the Executive Secretary/CEO on 1st July, 2019. But, since the story about the recovery of the sum of N5.4b NHIS funds…
How Health Insurance Will Check Maternal, Infant Mortality – Okowa
Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that health insurance for children, women and the vulnerable was a sure way of checking maternal and infant mortality in the country. Okowa stated this when he received the National Executive…
