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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Nigeria is currently facing a second wave of the diphtheria outbreak. The health organization disclosed this in a statement on Thursday stating that there has been an increase in Nigeria’s affected population with a rise in the number of confirmed cases and related deaths. Diphtheria is a bacterial […]
Four days after deadly earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, rescue workers have recorded successes in pulling several people alive from the rubble. The death toll from the double earthquakes has now exceeded 21,500. At least 18,342 people have been killed in Turkey while over 3,377 people are known to have died in Syria. The […]
Turkish President Recep Erdoğan has announced a three-month state of emergency in the country to enable rapid search-and-rescue operations. In a statement on Tuesday, Erdogan said the state of emergency would affect the 10 provinces hit by the earthquakes which occurred on Monday. The death toll in the earthquakes, which affected Turkey and […]
The Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has warned that COVID-19 is not over in spite of reports that COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined significantly. Ghebreyesus said this at the opening of the World Health Assembly on Sunday at Geneva, Switzerland. World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of […]
UN Secretary-General, António Guterres has expressed deep concern over the restrictions imposed on travellers from southern African countries due to the emergence of the new Coronavirus (COVID-19) variant, Omicron. Guterres, in a statement on Monday said, people of Africa should not be blamed for the immorally low level of vaccinations available in the continent. […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), says it is monitoring emerging evidence on Omicron variant and its implication, to inform Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Director General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Abuja. NAN reports that […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it will auction the Fifth Generation Technology (5G) spectrum by the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2021. Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC) of the NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, disclosed this at the maiden International Conference on Information and Engineering Systems (ICIES) on Thursday at Nile University, Abuja. The News Agency of […]
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