August 2, 2021

Germany Set To Offer COVID Booster Shots From September

Germany Set To Offer COVID Booster Shots From September

August 2, 2021 6:10 pm

Germany have disclosed that it plans to start offering COVID-19 booster shots to the elderly and at-risk from September.

According to the health ministry, concerns over ‘a reduced or rapidly declining immune response’ among some groups is the reason behind the move.

The booster shot — either Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna — will also be offered to anyone who received the two-dose Astrazeneca or single-dose Johnson & Johnson jabs, the health ministry said, ‘in the interests of preventative healthcare’.

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The move comes as the contagious delta variant of the coronavirus continues …

Stop Abusing Us To Launch Your Political Career, APC To Jega

Stop Abusing Us To Launch Your Political Career, APC To Jega

August 2, 2021 5:42 pm

Nigeria’s ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega to desist from attacking her as part of his schemes to burnish his political career.

APC in a statement by the National Secretary of its Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe was reacting to comments by Jega in which he compared the APC with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

Jega had described both parties as failures, urging Nigerians to switch their allegiances to his Peoples Redemption Party PRP which he said has the …

Tokyo 2020 Nigeria Guaranteed Medal As Oborududu Hits Final

Tokyo 2020: Nigeria Guaranteed Medal As Oborududu Hits Final

August 2, 2021 4:11 pm

Nigeria has now been guaranteed its first medal at the Tokyo Olympics following Blessing Oborududu’s qualification for the finals of the women’s freestyle 68kg games.

Africa Daily News, New York can confirm that Oborududu beat Mongolia’s Battsetseg Soronzonbold to reach the final.

Although the final match is yet to be played, she is now guaranteed either a gold or silver medal.

Oborududu is also set for the record books as Nigeria’s first-ever Olympics medalist in wrestling in the history of her participation at the Olympic games.

‘This is a real Blessing to Nigeria,’ the Minister of Sports Sunday Dare …

Covid-19 Chinese Cities Test Millions As Cases Surge

Covid-19: Chinese Cities Test Millions As Cases Surge

August 2, 2021 2:49 pm

Chinese cities rolled out mass testing of millions of people and imposed fresh travel restrictions as health authorities battled yesterday to contain the country’s most widespread coronavirus outbreak in months.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that China on Sunday reported about 75 new coronavirus cases with 53 local transmissions, with a cluster linked to an eastern airport now reported to have spread to over 20 cities and more than a dozen provinces.

The fresh outbreak is geographically the largest to hit China in several months after the country’s successes in largely snuffing out the pandemic within its borders last …

NPFL Why Akwa United Won Nigeria Premier League - Coach

NPFL: Why Akwa United Won Nigeria Premier League – Coach

August 2, 2021 2:24 pm

The Head Coach of Akwa United Football Club of Uyo, Kennedy Boboye has attributed their success to players’ determination and the grace of God upon the team.

Boboye, whose team is the lastest champions of the Nigeria Professional Football League, told newsmen in Uyo that the players and officials worked hard for their victory.

He spoke immediately after the club’s 5-2 win over MFM FC of Lagos in a 2020/2021 NPFL week 37 fixture took them to 71 points from 37 games.

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Africa Daily News, New York reports that the win …

COVID-19 Spike Lagos Now Records 6 Deaths Daily —Sanwo-Olu

COVID-19 Spike: Lagos Now Records 6 Deaths Daily —Sanwo-Olu

August 2, 2021 2:20 pm

As the third wave of the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Nigeria, Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has revealed that an average of six deaths was recorded daily over the last week in Lagos as a result of the sneaky virus.

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Sanwo-Olu made this disclosure on Monday while briefing State House correspondents at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, on the situation report and update on the management of COVID-19 in the state.

The governor also stated that the AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines against the virus can not be mixed as …

Madagascar Assassination Attempt Police Arrest Fresh Suspects

Madagascar Assassination Attempt: Fresh Suspects Arrested

August 2, 2021 7:11 am

Madagascar yesterday announced the arrest of five generals as well as high-ranking police officers in connection with a failed attempt to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina, the attorney general disclosed.

‘To date, 21 people have been arrested and investigated,’ Berthine Razafiarivony told a news briefing.

Six people, including two French citizens, were initially arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attempt.

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Africa Daily News, New York among the latest arrests, ’12 are active military and police personnel, including five generals, two captains, and five non-commissioned officers,’ she said.

Four of those arrested are …

COVID-19 Won’t Be Last Pandemic, WHO Warns

COVID-19 Won’t Be Last Pandemic, WHO Warns

August 2, 2021 6:53 am

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic might not be the last the world would have to endure, even as it called for sustained fight against the virus.

Country Representative to Nigeria made this  Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, disclosed this at the ninth General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Epidemiological Society of Nigeria held in Port Harcourt.

Mulombo said the pandemic has provided Nigeria and the global community opportunity to strengthen immunisation, build capacity of health workers and strengthen disease surveillance.

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He noted: ‘COVID-19 …

Unknown Gunmen Attack Imo Police Station, Behead Motorist

Unknown Gunmen Attack Imo Police Station, Behead Motorist

August 2, 2021 5:58 am

A motorist plying Owerri/Orlu road in Imo State has been beheaded by unknown gunmen with the man’s legs and hands chopped off at Okwudor junction in Njaba Local Government Area.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered from eyewitnesses in Njaba, that the incident happened on Saturday.

According to some community sources, hoodlums have been terrorising them in the area for the past week.

They said: ‘We woke up early morning of Saturday and discovered along the road at Okwudor junction in Njaba Local Government that a lifeless body and his head, hands and legs have been cut off. We …

Supreme Court Has Nullified APC Congresses Under Buni – PDP

Supreme Court Has Nullified APC Congresses Under Buni – PDP

August 2, 2021 4:47 am

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)  have asserted that the ward congresses conducted by the ‘incapacitated’ All Progressives Congress amounts to a nullity, given the judgment of the Supreme Court on the Ondo State governorship election, which invalidates the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ruling party.

The PDP made this assertion in a statement titled ‘APC Ward Congress A Nullity – PDP…Blames Buni, Others Over Fracas, Death’ which was issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja, on Sunday.

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I Have No Joy Governing Katsina State – Masari

I Have No Joy Governing Katsina State – Masari

August 2, 2021 4:39 am

Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, has claimed that he has no joy governing a state plagued by insecurity.

According to Masari, the security situation in Katsina has been giving him sleepless nights and by so doing stealing his joy.

The governor made this known during an interview with DW Hausa yesterday which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York.

The government’s comment is coming barely one week after scores of armed bandits on motorbikes blocked Jibiya-Batsari road in Kabobi village, Katsina, after the Juma’at prayers and made away with 11 passengers.

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