President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to come out of isolation today; five days after he returned home from the United Kingdom where he spent eighteen days. While in isolation, as required under the Covid-19 protocol approved by the Presidential Steering Committee, President Buhari signed the Petroleum Industry Act passed by the National Assembly in July. The Special…
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Petroleum Industry Bill into law, more than six weeks after it was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives. The legislation is now known as the Petroleum Industry Act, and it provides legal, governance, regulatory and fiscal framework for the petroleum industry. President Buhari signed the new law from…
Activities have been suspended for ten days at the Nigerian High Commission in London. The move is meant to prevent the spread of Covid-19, after two officials tested positive for the coronavirus. The High Commission confirmed in a statement that the positive test was discovered among the Head of Immigration Section and two other officials who went…
The Federal Government is going ahead with the enforcement of no-work, no-pay threat against striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors. The Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire, repeated the threat by the Minister of Labour, Doctor Chris Ngige, as he called on NARD to stop using strike to settle issues. Doctor Ehanire was speaking…
Reps Health Committee fails to NARD to call off strike Consultant doctors and nurses are struggling to provide skeletal services for patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, as the strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors enters its ninth day. Lasgidi FM’s Chukwuemeka Obioma visited LUTH yesterday and reports that the emergency wards were empty.…
Additional one hundred and seventy-six thousand doses of Covid-19 vaccine are expected to be delivered to Nigeria tomorrow. This comes as the federal government prepares for the second phase of the vaccination programme. The expected delivery is from the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which are coming days after over four million Moderna jabs were received from the…