February 2021

Russian authorities would forward the CoviVac vaccine, which was developed by the Chumakov research center, for registration tomorrow.

The Vaccine which is Russia’s third is expected to be registered on Feb. 20, the official Russian website with Coronavirus (COVID-19) data and advice said Thursday.

‘The registration of the vaccine is expected on Feb. 20’, the website said.

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Phase 2 of the research is expected to finish at the beginning of 2021. ‘After that, a mass trial of the drug with 3,000 volunteers is planned,’ the …

The World Bank on Thursday announced that it has selected former finance minister of Senegal, Makhtar Diop to lead the IFC which is the agency saddled with the responsibility of overseeing private sector finance at a critical time for the global recovery.

Diop would now become the first African to lead the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which leverages financing to support private firms in developing nations.

The announcement comes just days after the World Trade Organization selected Nigeria’s former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its new director-general, the first African and first woman to serve in that role.

An incumbent minister in Ivory Coast  on Thursday said he would be holding a meeting with ousted ex-president Laurent Gbagbo to discuss his return home with the aim of drafting him to help heal ‘national divisions’.

National Reconciliation Minister Kouadio Konan Bertin in an interview with AFP which our correspondent monitored said he would go to the Ghanaian capital of Accra next week to plan the modalities of the proposed meeting.

From there, ‘I am going to Brussels to meet Laurent Gbagbo,’ he further declared.

The ‘conditions‘ for the former president’s return will be discussed, he said, without …

Immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd.), on Thursday stated that the Boko Haram insurgency may not end in 20 years’ time. 

Explaining his reasons he said the terrorists have, for a long time, indoctrinated the people, making it difficult to defeat them within a short period.

Buratai spoke when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for screening as non-career ambassadors-designate.

The former army chief said though Nigerian troops in collaboration with their counterparts in neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger, have been recording successes in the anti-Boko Haram war, military onslaught alone cannot …

The chairman of the National Peace Committee and former Head of State and Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, on Thursday, appealed to state governors to watch their utterances, urging them to analyze the issues at hand and work harmoniously to avoid setting the country on fire.

The former head of state spoke on AriseTV The Morning Show monitored by our correspondent.

While responding to questions on insecurity across the country, he said: ‘It is unfortunate that Governors have found themselves in such a difficult situation. It is their responsibility to govern the state regardless of who is living in their …

The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lambasted most of his colleagues saying many of them are merely hiding under the guise of the COVID-19 pandemic not to perform.

According to the Ikwerre born Governor, no government should use COVID-19 as an excuse not to invest in infrastructural development that can foster economic development and prosperity.

Wike dropped this bombshell during a facility tour of the ultramodern Government House hospital and Administrative building in Port Harcourt in the company of the Senate Chief Whip and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu who paid him a visit.…

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has said that he does not visit President Muhammadu Buhari to seek solution to insecurity in his State.

Bello said he would rather sit down with stakeholders in his state to proffer solutions than paying lip service by visiting the President in Abuja.

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Speaking on Channels Television, Bello stressed that he does not pay lip service, adding that stakeholders in the state collaborate with security agencies to analyse intelligence to forestall the breakdown of law and order.

‘The Nigeria Police that are