The COVID-19 pandemic is said to has worsened the maternal mortality rate causing about 556 deaths per 100,000 live births in the country. The Acting Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Dr Eyitayo Oyetunji, said this on Saturday at a news conference in Abuja to mark the 2020...
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If General Muhammadu Buhari had not had the opportunity of being elected President of Nigeria in 2015, and reelected in 2019, almost every Nigerian would still have the belief that Muhammadu Buhari is the best that could happen to Nigeria as far as the war against corruption is concerned;...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos Ethiopian Airlines, Africa’s largest airline, has announced resumption of flights service to Duala and Yaoundé as of July 13, 2020. In a statement on Saturday to NATIONAL ACCORD, the Airlines said the service will initially be three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from...
The Lagos State Ministry of Health has sealed a private medical laboratory conducting COVID-19 tests inside a pharmacy at Banana Island in Ikoyi, Lagos. The ministry, on its Twitter account on Saturday, said the lab, Acouns Medical Laboratory and Diagnostic Centre, situated inside a pharmacy, was carrying out COVID-19...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos A three-story collapsed building in Lagos State has reportedly left one death, six rescued from the trapped debris. The incident is said to had happened at Freeman Street, Lagos Island. According to reports, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) recovered the body of a child...
By abiodun KOMOLAFE Wole Olanipekun! Remember him? Yes. Everybody talks about him in glowing terms: he is gifted and God-fearing. As a matter of fact, everybody marvels at how the accomplished technocrat, who rose to the pinnacle of his career as Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) about three decades...
Nigeria announced 575 new COVID-19 cases in the country within 24 hours, bringing the total infections to 31,323 according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). NCDC said via its official twitter handle that as at Friday, July 10, a total of 20 deaths caused by the coronavirus...
EHIME ALEX, Lagos The Lagos Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned that on no account should any of its member instigate or file litigation against the recent decision of the party’s National Executive Committee meeting, without first leveraging on the party’s internal conflict resolution processes. In...
From left: Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Samshuna Ahmed; Director-General, Budget Office, Mr Ben Akabueze; and, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, at the signing of the reviewed 2020 Appropriation Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House,...
By GRACE AUDU, Abuja – Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has enjoined all health professionals to collaborate and work with each other to defeat the COVI-19 pandemic. The Minister said this when a delegation from the FCT branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has raised alarm of impending flood in 102 Local Government Areas across 28 states during this year’s rainy season. AVM Muhammadu Muhammed, Director-General of the agency, said that the yearly Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP), and Annual Flood Outlook (AFO), that were released by...