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By Akanimo Sampson Nigeria is likely to record 10,000 positive cases of COVID-19 by the end of this May. The number of infected persons in the country is already racing towards the 10,000 marks. Apparently worried, a top executive of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has outlined what the world needs at this time of the disturbing COVID-19 crisis. Director of IITA East Africa hub, Victor Manyong, is claiming that circular bio-economy is what the world now needs as it advances in technology, finance, and population. However, Nigeria’s total number of COVID-19 infections has zoomed to 6401 as…

The Federal Government has been asked to relieve the Nigerian Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire of his position over the mishandling of COVID-19 on the visit of Chinese medical doctors to the country. Speaking in an interview on Wednesday in Planet 101.1 FM, Uyo, Mr. Clifford Thomas, the Human rights lawyer, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Ehanire for committing some inconsistencies in the handling of the COVID-19. When Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) protested against the Federal Government’s decision to bring the Chinese medical doctors to the country, the minister had explained that the medics based on their expertise…

By Akanimo Sampson Simonetta Zarrilli of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and an Associate Professor, Akdeniz University founded in 1982, Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, say tourism has ground to a halt globally, and for many small islands developing states (SIDS) this is their only economic lifeline. Akdeniz is a campus university in Antalya Province of Turkey. It is the leading higher education and scientific research centre of the West Mediterranean region of Turkey. However, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) reports that during the first quarter of this year, $80 billion were lost in export revenues from…

Akwa Ibom Ministry of Education has foiled attempts by some private schools’ owners in the state to resume the third term online without waiting for the government’s approval for resumption. Both public and private secondary and nursery schools in the state were shut in March 26 by the government as a means of curtailing the spread of coronavirus pandemic. The Commissioner for Education, Professor Nse Essien, who gave the warning Monday during an interactive session of Akwa Ibom State Education Think-tank Committee with education stakeholders in the state, said it would announce the resumption of both public and private schools…

Nigeria has recorded 216 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 6,175.The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announcing this on Monday said the new cases were found in 74-Lagos, 33-Katsina,19-Oyo,17-Kano, 13-Edo,10-Zamfara and 8-Ogun.Others were 8-Gombe, 8-Borno, 7-Bauchi, 7-Kwara, 4-FCT, 3-Kaduna, 3-Enugu and 2-Rivers.NCDC stated that 1,644 were discharged: 1644 while 191 deaths were recorded.Meanwhile, President Donald Trump on Monday made the surprising revelation that he is taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that his own government experts say is not suitable for fighting the novel coronavirus.AFP reports that Trump, noting that he has tested…

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, is trying to wriggle himself from a query he collected for allegedly buying an “uncompleted carcass” building at N7 billion for the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Dr. Mohammed Bello was said to have superintended over the purchase when he was the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Bello was also accused of giving out seven deep drilling rigs for borehole procured at N1.3 billion to some unnamed individuals under “fraudulent arrangements.” The allegations were contained in a leaked query letter dated May 11, 2020 and signed…

By Akanimo Sampson The authorities are providing free transportation for pregnant women visiting hospitals in Antananarivo and Toamasina in Madagascar. To gesture is aimed at improving women’s access to life-saving maternal health services. That is why the Ministry of Public Health and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) stepped in to arrest the ugly situation in the country. Madagascar is still battling with the menace of high maternal death rate. UNFPA says lack of skilled care is one contributor to the country’s high maternal death rate, which is 353 deaths per 100,000 live births (by comparison, the global average is 216 deaths…

Nigeria has recorded 338 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to 5,959. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control that announced this known on Sunday said six patients died of coronavirus-related complications in the last 24 hours in Nigeria. Data obtained from the NCDC’s website showed that there are no fewer than 4,183 active cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The centre said, “On the 17th of May 2020, 338 new confirmed cases and 6 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. “No new state has reported a case in the last 24 hours. “Till date,…

In what appears as a smokescreen, Akwa Ibom Government’s main reason in rejecting 10 “old, used vehicles” donated by ExxonMobil for COVID-19 contact tracing is unclear. The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Charles Udoh had two weeks ago castigated ExxonMobil for living not to its Corporate Social Responsibility by supporting the state government in the coronavirus fight. Udoh launched the scathing remarks few days to the retirement of Udom Inoyo, an Akwa Ibom son from ExxonMobil as its Vice Chairman on May 1. The management of ExxonMobil had last Friday reportedly donated WHO-standard RNA COVID-19 test kits…

By: Israel Umoh In the field of medicine, many are called to swear the famous Hippocratic Oath but few are chosen to conscientiously live by it. Those living by it are few whose loud voices are heard and feared outside the stone-wall of hospitals or clinics. The few ones who hang their stethoscopes on their shoulders come out to take bold stands on controversial health issues instead of merely attending or prescribing drugs to convulsing patients. Judy Mikovits, a US-trained medical doctor, is one of the doctors whose strident voice on controversial health issues rings like thunder. She has been…