*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 maintaining that the risk assessment of Nigeria remains high following […]
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 […]
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 (AFP), […]
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 Africa (TWA) […]
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 […]