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Covid-19: FG extends work-from-home order to civil servants

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Aminu Imam

The work-from-home directive for federal civil servants from Grade Level-12 and below, which was to last till the end of March, has been extended by the Federal Government. The Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan issued the new directive. Esan, in a statement released by the Director Press and Public Relations, office of the HOCSF, AbdulGaniyu Aminu, said the directive was given in adherence to the advice of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19. The Head of Service also emphasised the need for all…

New Covid-19 variant discovered in Nigeria, 15 countries – NCDC

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Aminu Imam

�’AstraZeneca vaccines to arrive within one week’� FG The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said that a new variant of Covid-19 has been detected in Nigeria and 15 other countries. Disclosing this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 briefing yesterday in Abuja, the NCDC Director-General Chikwe Iheakweazu, said that researchers and scientists were still working hard to understand if the variant had any effect on the virus� transmissibility, immunity as well as diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics. �As we shared the vaccines, a total of 54 cases…

Lagos shuts 103 health facilities

February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 Aminu Imam

The Lagos Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency, (HEFAMAA), has disclosed that 103 health facilities were shut down across the State in 2020 for non-compliance with regulatory standards. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Abiola Idowu, who disclosed this on Friday during a virtual meeting with the agency’s staff, however, stated that some of the facilities had been re-opened, having corrected the infractions and pledged to abide by set standards. While emphasising the commitment of the State government in sustaining the fight against quackery and unprofessional conducts in the…

Nigeria not disqualified from accessing Covid-19 vaccines � WHO

February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 Aminu Imam

Contrary to reports, Nigeria has not been disqualified from accessing Covid-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility. Clarifying the position in Abuja on Saturday at an emergency press briefing called by the National Primary Healthcare Development, Agency, NPHCDA, the World Health Organisation, WHO, country representative in Nigeria said the agency has not disqualified any country from accessing vaccines from the facility. The WHO said, on the contrary, it was assisting Nigeria and other African countries to start accessing the Astrazeneca vaccine as from February, as soon as it received clearance for…

Reps. set to begin probe of N83.9bn Covid-19 funds

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 Aminu Imam

The House of Representatives is expected to commence investigation into the N83.9 billion appropriated for response to Covid-19 in the 2020 Appropriation Act. As stipulated in the audit report on the Emergency Response programme, from the N83.9 billion appropriated, a total of N63,797,839,685.42 had been disbursed to implement entities and States at the time of the audit. According to financial records obtained by the office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (oAuGF) and transmitted to the Senate and House of Representatives committees on Public Accounts, N16.9 billion was approved in…

Covid-19: Lagos extends work-from-home directive to public servants

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 Aminu Imam

� Sanwo-Olu Okays Ivertmectin trial in Lagos The Lagos State government has extended the work-from-home directive to all state public servants on Grade levels 14 and below from Monday, February 1, 2021 to Friday, February 26, 2021. This was disclosed by the State�s Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, via a statement issued on Sunday evening. According to him, the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, took the decision based on pockets of Coronavirus infections observed among public servants in the state. Muri-Okunola stated that the directive is in line with the Presidential…

“Covid-19 vaccine not compulsory”, says Sultan

January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 Aminu Imam

The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Muhammad Sa�ad Abubakar II, has said that people are not under compulsion to be injected with the Covid-19 vaccine. He, therefore, recommended that questions should be asked on the nation’s storage capacity whenever the vaccine eventually arrives in Nigeria. The Sultan, who is the President-General, Nigeria�s Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, stated this during the sensitisation programme on Covid-19 vaccine for Muslim Scholars and Imams in Nigeria, facilitated by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, (NPHCDA) on Wednesday, in Abuja. At the event, the…

Covid-19: Buhari signs regulations to make use of face masks mandatory

January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the ‘Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021’, which makes the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail further spread of COVID-19. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force, (PTF), on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, told journalists yesterday in Abuja that the President signed the document on Tuesday. He said the President signed the document in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010. Part 1 of the…

President Buhari passes law to check spread of COVID-19

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday signed a law to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this while handing over five ambulances donated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the Federal Ministry of Health on Wednesday in Abuja. Mustapha said that the bill, titled �COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations 2021�, is an exercise of the powers as conferred on the president by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act. �The regulations enforce…

Nigeria to build 38 oxygen plants – FG

January 23, 2021January 23, 2021 Aminu Imam

…As Covid-19 second wave surges The Federal Government says all is now set for the construction of 38 oxygen plants across the country, as President Muhammadu Buhari has now approved about 17 million US dollars for the project meant to address the demand for medical oxygen. The country’s COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed to over 1,000 infections in the last few weeks amidst a second wave of the pandemic. Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, told a meeting of the National Economic Council, (NEC), on Wednesday that the construction of the new plants…