Over 80 drone applications under review, training centre in pipeline — NCAA
Stories by Dickson Omobola Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has said it is in the process of approving a new aviation training facility for drone operators. NCAA’s Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards, Engineer Godwin Balang, said the agency has chosen to be methodical to ensure the facility met all operational benchmarks. Balang, who spoke at the […]
EU looks to secure vaccine materials from US
The EU will open talks with Washington Monday to ensure its supply of US-made materials for coronavirus vaccines, a European source said Saturday, items currently under tough export restrictions. Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton — Brussels’ pointman on vaccine production — will confer with White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeffrey Zients, the source familiar with the […]
Photos of President Buhari, Vice President Osinbajo taking COVID-19 vaccine
Earlier in the day, President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo received the COVID-19 vaccine at the Presidential Villa
Breaking: Buhari, Osinbajo take COVID-19 vaccine
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday received the COVID-19 vaccine publicly at the Presidential Villa.
Cameroon to receive more than 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses — PM
Cameroon is set to receive “very shortly” more than one million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said on Friday. Pointing to “a deterioration in the epidemiological situation” in the country, Dion Ngute told state radio that “more than one million vaccine doses will be available very shortly”. He did not specify […]
S/Africa marks a year since first case of COVID-19, with death exceeding 50,000
Friday marks exactly a year since the first case of the novel coronavirus was first detected in South Africa on March 5, 2020. The Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize, said this on Friday when sending his condolences to those who died from the virus. “Exactly a year ago, I had the unenvious position of briefing the […]
