The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said that rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of birds worldwide and increasingly spilling over into mammals. FAO’s Deputy Director-General Godfrey Magwenzi said this while briefing Member States in Rome on Tuesday. The…
Nigeria is facing a critical funding shortfall in its efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB), with an estimated 80,000 expected TB patients in 2024 still unidentifiable or untreated. Stakeholders raised this concern on Tuesday at a pre-World TB Day press briefing in Abuja. Mr Tajudeen Ibrahim, Country Coordinating Mechanism, Global Fund, Executive Secretary, disclosed that Nigeria…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the revocation of the Right of Occupancy (RofO) to its national secretariat property by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) as an “attempt to stifle opposition parties in the country”. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, reacting to the development in a telephone interview with newsmen on…
Renowned Nigerian physician, Dr Tochi Okwor, said that the 2018 Lassa fever outbreak exposed critical gaps in the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) system. Okwor is the Head of Disease Prevention and Control at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). She made the assertion while sharing her firsthand experience of the…
Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna has overtaken Egypt’s Omar Assar to become Africa’s highest-ranked table tennis player in the world. In the rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) on Tuesday, Aruna now occupies the 18th position with 1290 points, moving up one place from the previous rankings. The feat came in spite of Aruna…
The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi has weighed into the raging power tussle in Rivers, urging the warring leaders to think about the poor in the state. In a tweet on Tuesday on the crisis in the state, Obi noted that the situation in Rivers is an example of how…
A Consultant Virologist, Prof. Oyewale Tomori has called for improvement of laboratory diagnosis for effective/prompt detection of the diphtheria disease and appropriate treatment. Tomori, also the Chairman of Biovaccines Nig. Ltd., made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Lagos. NAN recalls that there was a recent…
Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, has secured a spot in the Round of 32 of the 2025 President Federation Cup. The Enugu based team secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Kano Pillars FC in the round of 64 at the Bwari Township Stadium in Abuja on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
The Rivers State Government has on Tuesday reiterated the call to state House of Assembly to co-operate with the Gov. Siminalayi Fubara to implement the rulings of the Supreme Court. Mr Nelson Chukwudi, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made the remark in a statement he signed and issued to newsmen in Port Harcourt….
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has invested over $8 billion in water infrastructure across 40 African countries since 2000, benefiting more than 92 million people. Mr Johannes Chirwa, Director, Water Development and Sanitation Department, AfDB, said this at the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) West Africa sub-regional meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. Chirwa was…
