By Tina George, Minna The Executive Director of the New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society (NHVMAS), Mrs. Florita Durueke has advocated for the inclusion of pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers in clinical trials, especially in the HIV prevention clinical research and trials. Speaking during a recent virtual webinar training for female journalists across Nigeria, she noted that pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers remain profoundly underrepresented in clinical trials of new prevention interventions like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). According to Durueke, without evidence specific to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, these individuals may be inadvertently under or overdosed and exposed to…
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The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize to discover, accelerate, and scale ground-breaking solutions to repair and regenerate the planet, has begun its 2023 search for breakthrough solutions to solve the globe’s biggest environmental challenges. MultiChoice, the official African broadcast partner and member of The Earthshot Prize Global Alliance, is issuing a call for entries from African organizations, businesses, governments, and individuals who are doing scalable and impactful work in this capacity. Potential nominees can enter into any of the five categories of the Earthshot Prize, including Protect and Restore Nature, Clean our Air, Revive our Oceans, Build a Waste-Free World…
ASHENEWS reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it recorded 26 bid winners of different properties on the third day of the ongoing sale of forfeited real estate in Abuja on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. The estates comprise apartments, and plots of land, according to the commission in a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren emailed to ASHENEWS on Thursday. “At the session, a total of 39 properties in Lot 5, located in different parts of the Federal Capital Territory, were offered for sale through a competitive bidding process. The exercise which commenced at 10 am continued…
Some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Enugu State on Wednesday boycotted the presidential campaign rally held in the state capital. The stakeholders were at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu to welcome the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and disappeared from there. The stakeholders were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, the former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, the former Governor of the state, Mr. Sullivan Chime, and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Eugene Odo, among others. Briefing journalists, Chime said that the stakeholders were at the airport to receive the…
The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Shri G. Balasubramanian, says over 135 Indian companies so far invested $19 billion in Nigeria in the last four decades of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Balasubramanian, who said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, commended the India-Nigeria mutual bilateral relations. He said that the relationship between India and Nigeria had been excellent, saying the visit was to deepen news and cultural programme exchanges between both countries. According to him, the visit seeks to promote avenues, whereby India and Nigeria could…
The Nigerian government has urged States to submit an inventory of isolation and testing centres for the management of COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire disclosed this on the sidelines of the Ministerial bi-weekly meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and development in the country’s health sector in Abuja on Tuesday. The country‘s isolation centres ensure that the healthcare staff and the centres were equipped to deal with the virus. “COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic and the equipment in those isolation centres need to be maintained to prevent equipment failure. “States and hospitals need to…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says 65.7 percent of eligible Nigerians have so far received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Bulama Garuba, NPHCDA Director, Planning, Research, and Statistics, said this in Abuja while giving an update on COVID-19 response and development during the Ministerial bi-weekly meeting of the agency. “At the start of the COVID-19 vaccination exercise, we targeted to vaccinate 70 percent of our eligible population by December 2022. “As of today, Monday, January 9th, 2023, 76,161,470 eligible persons have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria, representing 65.7 percent of…
The Nigerian government says it is relying on donor partners to pay its contribution of $4 million for the annual purchase of contraceptives through a Basket Fund with external donors. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire disclosed this on Monday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly Meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and development in the country’s health sector. Ehanire, in March 2022, renewed the financial commitment on behalf of Nigeria with the backing of the Federal Executive Council. The country, with UNFPA, the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health agency, and others committed to sharing the cost of contraceptives…
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) has said it will screen passengers coming into the country, using Rapid Diagnostic Test (RTD). Dr. Geoffrey Okatubo, Director of Port Health Services, said this on Monday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly meeting on the update of COVID-19 response and developments in the country’s health sector. Okatubo said positive cases would be quarantined and all negative cases would be monitored. He said the federal government was undertaking other measures as well to keep the coronavirus situation under control. “COVID-19 self-tests (RTD) will be handed out at all our international airports, land and sea…
By Kadiri Abdulrahman In the past few days the media has been awash with news about the huge debt burden that the incoming government in May 29, would inherit from the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. This is coming as President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2023 budget of N21.83 trillion into law and said the country would pay N1.8 trillion in extra interest if the legislature rejects his loan-to-bond swap request. A section of the Nigeria media had quoted the Debt Management Office (DMO) as saying that the incoming administration would inherit a debt burden of N77 trillion. Findings however revealed…