Nigeria’s Federal Government has lifted the restrictions on attendance for social gatherings and the curfew on midnight movements it announced two years ago to curb the spread of COVID-19. It could be understood that the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, set up by the government in early 2020, had made known a review of […]
Continue Reading
Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace announced on Sunday. The Palace had confirmed that Queen Elizabeth is experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms.” The monarch is, however, expected to continue “light duties” at Windsor Castle over the week. “She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the appropriate guidelines,” the […]
Continue Reading
The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC) has urged that Nigerians observe COVID-19 precautions as they celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays responsibly. The Chairman, PSC on COVID-19, who also doubles the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, warned that they might consider […]
Continue Reading
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday afternoon announced three additional cases of the Omicron variant in the country, The new cases bring the total of the recently discovered variant of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria to six. The NCDC in the statement signed by the Director-General, Ifedayo Adetifa further explained that the […]
Continue Reading
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has said the travel ban on some African countries over Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant is “very unfair, non-scientific and discriminatory”. Adesina, who said this through his verified Twitter handle @akin_adesina, urged the western countries to lift the travel ban on the African countries He […]
Continue Reading
The federal government of Nigeria says it has taken South Africa, Brazil and Turkey off the list of countries from which travellers are restricted from entering Nigeria. Boss Mustapha, chairman of the presidential steering committee (PSC) on COVID-19, disclosed this on Wednesday at a media briefing in Abuja. Recall that the federal government had, in June, […]
Continue Reading
The dramatic plunge in global tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic is having far-reaching and devastating effects, particularly for Small States. Yesterday, during a Commonwealth Tourism Seminar, the Commonwealth Secretariat proposed the development of a global ‘Tourism Action Plan’ to help spur a much-needed recovery. Tourism is the economic lifeblood for many Commonwealth Small States, in […]
Continue Reading
Commonwealth health ministers have today issued a joint statement after their annual meeting in which they called for swift and equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for everyone around the world. In the statement on behalf of the 54 Commonwealth member countries, they expressed deep concern over the stark gaps in access and delivery of doses, especially in […]
Continue Reading
Poorer countries will most likely “bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of needless deaths” from inequalities in access to Covid-19 vaccines. This dire warning was given by the Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland in a video address to the High-Level Segment at the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 23 […]
Continue Reading
The United Kingdom has reported new cases of a likely vaccine-resistant variant of the coronavirus, said to have emerged from Nigeria. Described as the B1525, a report by researchers at the University of Edinburg, traces the earliest discovery of the variant to December 29, 2020. At least 29 sequences of the B1525 reported in the […]
Continue Reading