[responsivevoice] Residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, are bracing up for a total compliance with the COVID-19 guidelines or risk going to jail. The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, began the enforcement on Monday with modest results. An initial 100 violators were arrested within the city centre, 15 of whom were convicted by a…
WHO Begins Probe of China over Origin of COVID-19
[responsivevoice] The World Health Organization, WHO, Friday, in Wuhan, started the probe of China on its alleged complicity in the origin of COVID-19. The WHO China mission completed the required two weeks quarantine in a Wuhan hotel Thursday and started its assignment Friday with a meeting with a group of Chinese scientists in Wuhan. They…
COVID-19 Guidelines Given Legal Teeth
[responsivevoice] You may go to jail for contravening COVID-19 guidelines as federal government goes tough on enforcement. President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, January 27, 2021, took the COVID-19 guidelines beyond the realm of advice by signing the CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) HEALTH PROTECTION REGULATIONS 2021 into law in Abuja. It provides for a fine or a term…
All Eyes on New Service Chiefs to Kick Out Boko Haram, Bandits
[responsivevoice] Will the change of guard in military leadership make the difference in the war against terror? The appointment of four new military service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, January 26, came to many critics as an anti-climax in the war against insurgency and banditry in Nigeria. The replaced service chiefs had atrophied…
FG Welcomes New COVID-19 Research Group’s Drug Report
[responsivevoice] Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Monday, welcomed the report of IVERCOVID Research Group, a team of home and overseas-based Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the efficacy of Ivermectin, a drug used in the treatment of river blindness, in the management of COVID-19 infection. The report is titled, “A randomized controlled trial for the repurposing…
The Legacies of Dauda Birma
[responsivevoice] Dauda Birma, a former education minister, passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at his home in Yola, Adamawa State, aged 80. He was a presidential aspirant under the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP. He was the Sarkin Gabas Adamawa, and Waziri of Garkida. He was born July 26, 1940 in Garkida, Gombi…
FG in Dilemma over Surge in COVID-19 Cases
[responsivevoice] The Federal Government of Nigeria is facing an unenviable dilemma over the resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria. As at Monday January 4, a total of 1,204 new cases, the highest daily incidence since the first case on February 27, 2020, were reported across the country with Lagos State confirming the highest figure of…
National Council on Nutrition Approves a Five-year Nutrition Action Plan for Nigeria
[responsivevoice] The National Council on Nutrition on Tuesday, December 15, at a virtual meeting anchored at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, approved a five-year nutrition action plan to guide the implementation of interventions and programmes against hunger and malnutrition across all sectors in Nigeria. If effectively implemented, the action plan, titled the “National Multi-Sectoral Plan of…
National Assembly Lacks Power to Summon Buhari over Security Matters, Says Malami
[responsivevoice] Abubakar Malami, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, attorney general of the Federation and minister of justice, Wednesday in Abuja, stated that the National Assembly lacks the constitutional power to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to explain security matters as requested by the House of Representatives last week. The House of Representatives had last week, irked…
PDP Wins Enugu Bye-Election
[responsivevoice] As predicted, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Amaka Catherine Ugwueze, easily defeated candidates of eight other political parties to win the Isiuzo state constituency bye-election in Enugu State held Saturday, December 5, 2020. Chukwuemeka Nwachukwu, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, collation officer for the bye-election, declared Ugwueze who polled 11,047 votes, elected. The…
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