February 1, 2021

The Federal Government has said that the country will receive 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines before the end of February.

The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib, said on Monday that this will replace the initial 100,000 doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech approved vaccines earlier expected in the country.

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He was speaking at the joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19.

According to him, the initial 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccines expected …

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has expressed worry that at least 75 health workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last one week in various parts of the country.

The NCDC boss disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF).

According to him, the number of health workers getting infected is becoming worrisome, noting that efforts are ongoing to ensure health workers are actively protected against the virus.

‘Firstly, I’ll like to address the increasing number of COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers …

The Federal Government on Monday declared except everyone is vaccinated, Nigerians can never claim to be safe from the rampaging COVID-19 Virus.

The government said that with Nigeria now experiencing a more virulent second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has increased the number of COVID-19 related deaths from 1,173 on November 29, 2020, to 1,578 on January 31, 2021, there is no guaranteed safety anywhere.

The Chairman of Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, made the remark in Abuja at a sensitization meeting on COVID-19 vaccine introduction with …

 Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a self-acclaimed Yoruba activist, Monday stormed troubled areas in Yewaland, Ogun State, insisting that killer – herdsmen must vacate Yorubaland.

Africa Daily News had earlier reported that Igboho had recently visited Fulani settlement in Igangan, Oyo State, where he displaced Seriki Fulani, Saliu Abdulkadir, and his household, a development which had attracted hues and cries nationwide.

Igboho alongside his supporters had stormed Abeokuta, the state capital, in continuation of his campaign against herdsmen in the Southwest.

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The activist who stopped briefly in …

President Muhammadu Buhari has come under criticisms for violating the COVID-19 law.

News sources first reported sighting the Nigerian leader without his mask in Daura, Katsina State, on Saturday.

Buhari is in his hometown to revalidate his membership of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Governors, government officials, several party loyalists and supporters accompanied him. The President had a mask on but removed it at some point.

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On Sunday, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) expressed dismay about Buhari’s flouting of the regulation which provides 6-months jail term for defaulters.

The PDP …