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Coronavirus: WHO to ship reagent test kits to 20 African countries

Ihesiulo Grace 10 February 2020 0

*Says, risks assessment remain very high in Nigeria In its bid to ensure the rapid detection of the novel Coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that plans are underway to ship reagent test kits to about 20 African countries. This is just as the organization is

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Good governance: African countries looking up to Nigeria for leadership – Sen. Ali

Ihesiulo Grace 6 February 2020 0

African countries are looking up to Nigeria to provide leadership for good governance in line with the core principles of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Sen. Abba Ali, Chairman, National Governing Council (NGC), APRM Nigeria, made this known at the meeting of the National Governing Council of APRM in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, on Thursday. How […]

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Facebook expands third-party fact-checking to more African countries

Ihesiulo Grace 9 October 2019 0

Lagos – After successfully pioneering its anti-fake news project in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon and Senegal, Facebook says it has expanded its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme to 10 additional African countries. Kojo Boakye, Facebook Head of Public Policy in Africa, said in a statement that the global media outfit has partnered with Agence France-Presse

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Afreximbank highlights how African countries can produce value-added goods

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2019 0

Motolani Oseni The Managing Director of the Intra-African Trade Initiative at the African Export-Import (bank (Afreximbank), Kanayo Awani has said that efforts to achieve market opening should be accompanied by industrialization and capacity building initiatives to help African countries produce value-added goo In a keynote address during the opening of the Trade with

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Yellow Fever: WHO to vaccinate one billion people in 27 high risk African countries

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2018 0

The World Health Organisation, WHO has said that nearly one billion people will be vaccinated against yellow fever in 27 high-risk African countries by 2026 with the support from WHO, UNICEF, Gavi (the vaccine Alliance) and other health partners. The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who disclosed this during a regional meeting with the […]