The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against taking excess antibiotics, saying it accelerates the process of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), and leads to avoidable deaths.
Director General of the agency, Prof. Moji Adeyeye,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said it is not yet clear whether Omicron is more transmissible, or causes more severe disease compared to other variants.
Omicron, a new COVID-19 variant, which has been detected in a growing number...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said it is monitoring emerging evidence on Omicron variant and its implication, to inform Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Director General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, disclosed this in an interview...
Japan on Monday said it would ban all new foreign arrivals from Tuesday, Kyodo news agency reported.
The Japanese government had earlier said it was considering reviving a blanket ban on foreign arrivals due to concerns regarding the new Omicron...
By DAKUKU PETERSIDE
Nelson Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the youth, but Barak Obama qualified it by saying that the future belongs to young people with education and the imagination to create. None of...
By EHICHIOYA EZOMON
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, is a stickler for his beliefs, who doesn't shirk his responsibility of promoting and defending the interests of the government and all its organs.
Once he takes a position on any...
By IKE ABONYI
If a party stands for nothing but re-election, it indeed stands for nothing. ––William F. Weld
It is a popular notion that democracy is good and is, indeed, the best form of government. Nigeria has practised democracy for consecutive...
TUNDE ODESOLA
In light or in darkness, a cockroach is a cockroach; smelly and repulsive. What to do to rid the cockroach of its nuisance? Whack it to death!
The lethargic regime of the retired General Muhammadu Buhari heeded this homily...
Troops of Joint Task Force (North-East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have annihilated several Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an encounter at Forward Operating Base, Gajiram Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State on Sunday.
Sadly,...
Eight of the inmates who had earlier escaped during the attack on the Jos Correctional Centre by gunmen on Sunday had been rearrested.
Gunmen said to be bandits had on Sunday evening invaded the prison yard and some of the...
