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 […]
COVID-19: Gov Sule’s father in isolation centre, as 3 doctors test positive in Nasarawa
By David Odama – Lafia The father of the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, Alhaji Sule Bawa, who is also the Emir of Gudi in Akwanga Local Government Area of the State, has been hospitalised and is in isolation centre at the Dalhatu Araf Specialist hospital in Lafia. A resident of Gudi who pleaded anonymity […]
BREAKING: Delta records 10 new COVID-19 cases, discharges 4
By Festus Ahon – Asaba DELTA, Thursday night confirmed 10 news cases of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic in five local government areas of the State bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases in the State to 116. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who confirmed the new cases via WhatsApp page, also said […]
Authors pull study flagging hydroxychloroquine risks
The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of hydroxychloroquine, a drug favored by United States President, Donald Trump, to treat COVID-19, after the paper’s authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data. It was soon followed by the withdrawal of another coronavirus paper in the […]
Ganduje orders house-to-house sample collection in Kano metropolis
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, has ordered a house-to-house sample collection of suspected COVID-19 patients, particularly in the eight local government areas that make the metropolis.
Covid-19: FG kicks against diversion of drugs
The Federal Government has warned against the diversion of Antiretroviral Drugs, ARVs, currently being used for the treatment of COVID-19 even as it lamented the steady rise in infant and maternal mortality as a result of too much concentration on the pandemic.
