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 […]
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COVID-19 TREATMENT: We are not near finding an answer — Ehanire, Health Minister
Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, in this interview, speaks on the efforts to ramp up Covid-19 testing amid criticisms that the authorities aren’t doing enough to test for the virus with a view to determining the extent of community transmission in Nigeria.
Russian COVID-19 cases exceed 390,000
Russia confirmed 8,952 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, raising its total infections to 396,575, its coronavirus response centre said in a statement Saturday. The death toll increased by 181 to 4,555, while 167,469 people have recovered, including 8,212 over the last 24 hours, according to the statement. Moscow, the country’s worst-hit region, […]
Nigeria records highest daily COVID-19 infections with 553 new cases
By Chioma Obinna Nigeria, on Saturday, recorded 553 new COVID-19 infections, making it the highest in 24 hours since the country recorded its index case precisely in February 2020. According to the daily report released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Lagos still tops the chart with the highest cases of 378, followed […]
Resident doctors threaten strike over COVID-19 allowance, PPEs, others
They issued the warning in a communiqué issued at the end of its 40th Ordinary General Meeting with the theme: “Health inequalities and social determinants of Health in Nigeria” in Bauchi State.
COVID-19: Feed Industry, Animal Science Institute, Poultry Association donate 60,000 eggs to Lagos govt
By Esther Onyegbula As part of its effort to assist Lagos State government in the fight against COVID-19, Feed Industry Practitioners Association of Nigeria, FIPAN; Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, NIAS, and Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, have donated 60,000 eggs to the state government through the Ministry of Agriculture. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of […]
