Kogi State began vaccination against COVID-19 on Wednesday in Lokoja. First set of recipients of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines were health workers and frontline essential non-health workers. The state took delivery…
Germany’s public sector deficit reached 189.2 billion euros (225 billion dollars) in 2020, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, the first deficit since 2013 and the highest budget shortfall since German…
Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, wife of late Yinka Odumakin, says her husband died on Friday, April 2, 2021 and not Saturday, April 3, 2021 as earlier reported. Okei-Odumakin, a rights activist,…
Dr. Temitope Hussein, the President of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan Chapter of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), says the association lost 17 doctors to the COVID-19…
Dr. Joe Okei Odumakin, wife of the Afenifere Spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, has described the late political activist as her ‘irreplaceable soulmate.’ Odumakin died on Saturday morning at the Lagos State…
The Federal Ministry of Education says Nigeria has received $15m response grant from the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) for COVID-19 safe school reopening across the country. Hajia Binta Abdulkadir,…
Germany is waiting to see if Chancellor Angela Merkel will follow through after she rejected some state leaders’ efforts to ease a nationwide coronavirus lockdown designed to contain a severe…
It wasn’t planned. I was seeing off my neighbour and friend on Thursday evening when one of the officers of our estate residents’ association called out to me. He was…
World Health Organisation (WHO) says confirmed cases of COVID-19 have continued to rise around the world for the fourth consecutive week, with around 3.3 million new cases reported in the…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has not received any official report of serious adverse effects from the 215, 277, people who have received the first doses of the…