Tag: #covid-19
Nigeria Gets $400 Million In World Bank Financing To Procure More COVID-19 Vaccines
Nigeria got approval on Friday for $400 million in World Bank financing to procure and deploy COVID-19 vaccinations, the bank said in a statement, Reuters reported. The World Bank board of directors signed off on the financing, provided via the
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COVID-19: FG relaxes restriction on foreign travellers
The Federal Government has relaxed the restriction on foreign travellers without evidence of payment for their COVID-19 PCR test. In a memo by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, foreign airlines were asked to board passengers without evidence of payment for
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Oyakhilome’s channel fined N65.6m over COVID-19 sermon
The Office of Communications in the United Kingdom better known as Ofcom, has sanctioned religious channel, Loveworld, owned by Nigerian Pastor, Chris Oyakhilome. Ofcom said in a statement that the station was fined £125,000 (N65.6m) for breaching the country’s broadcasting
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China fires official over six new cases
An official has been sacked in Wuhan, China; capital of central China’s Hubei Province after the city recently reported six new confirmed COVID-19 cases, local authorities said Monday. Zhang Yuxin was removed from his posts for poor management over the
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President Buhari orders Madagascar COVID-19 remedy
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the importation of the acclaimed coronavirus remedy by Madagascar to Nigeria. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known during a briefing in Abuja on Monday. Mustapha, who is also
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