The Ogun State Government is ready to continually support and collaborate with the National Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC), to develop the tourism sector with a view to making it one of the veritable tools for revenue generation. Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Dr. Oluwatoyin Taiwo made this declaration in Abeokuta, while playing host to a…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has detected a confirmed case of the SARS-CoV-2, known as the Delta variant in Nigeria. The NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. NAN reports that the deadly Delta variant is recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a variant of…
By Femi Onasanya and Goke Gbadamosi A call has gone to every adult to take necessary precautions and ensure management of hypertension, which is regarded as a leading non-communicable cardiovascular disease that causes untimely death on a global scale. The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker who made this known in Abeokuta, while…
By Emmanuel Mogbede Mr Bob Udeagha, the Managing Director Bundi International Diagnostics Ltd., says his company plans to drastically reduce the cost of COVID-19 test to N5,000 to make it more affordable to the common man. Udeagha made this known at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja while unveiling the Bundi Active Pure Air…
Agency Report The world passed the “tragic milestone” of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday, the World Health Organization said, adding that the true toll was likely higher. “The world is at a perilous point in this pandemic. We have just passed the tragic milestone of four million recorded Covid-19 deaths, which likely underestimates…
By Moses Emorinken, Abuja The Federal Government Tuesday disclosed that in few days, it would have utilised 100 percent of the nearly 4 million vaccines it received through the COVAX facility. It dispelled rumours that the COVID-19 vaccine causes the site of the arm in which a person is immunised, to begin to magnetise objects…
Young health worker Masrat Farid has trekked long distances through remote Himalayan meadows in Indian-administered Kashmir to vaccinate nomadic herders in a campaign launched in June. Her challenge is not the treacherous terrain, she says, but persuading people to get inoculated against the coronavirus. “Everywhere we go, it seems rumours reach earlier than we do,…
