Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says the agency has not approved any COVID-19 vaccines in Nigeria She disclosed this in a statement made public on Friday in Abuja. She said that the agency had not received any application from vaccine manufacturers “and therefore, no vaccine had been approved by NAFDAC.  The federal government had said it was expecting the delivery of 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the country early 2021. She mentioned that the World Health Organisation is not a regulatory agency but provides guidance to agencies; therefore, regulatory agencies need to certify potential vaccines for public used. “The WHO will say that unless the regulatory agency of a country approves a vaccine, it should not be used. WHO is not a regulatory agency that will approve and say use, they are there to guide and give regulatory agencies more confidence,” she said. “If a product is already on WHO emerg...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the 2020 Batch B Stream II deployment. Authorities of the NYSC released the postings on Friday, January 15 and urged the prospective Corps Members to avoid travelling at night to their various Orientation Camps. Expected Corps Members travelling far distances from North to South or vice versa were also advised to break their trip into two stages and avoid making one long trip that stretches into the night. The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, gave these directives at a preparation webinar for the prospective corps members. General Ibrahim also urged the prospective corps members to check the NYSC website to know the states to which they have been deployed. The event with the theme, ‘Protecting The health Of The Nigerian Youth: Safe Reopening Of NYSC Orientation Camps’ also had in attendance the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu. According to the NYSC DG, corp...

The presidency has criticized  a group, the Muslim Solidarity Forum, over a threat it issued to the bishop of Sokoto diocese, Most Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah, to issue an apology over a recent comment credited to him or leave the state. In a statement signed on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu, the presidency described the situation as an assault on the cleric’s freedom. The presidency also stated that Bishop Kukah must be allowed to practice his faith and politics, describing the stance by the Muslim solidarity forum as wrong and not in line with the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Bishop Kukah in his Christmas message had denounced the state of the polity, condemning the president’s leadership style and ascribing the prevailing national condition to his decisions, a comment the Muslim Solidarity Forum says was an insult to the entire Muslim Ummah and “malicious comments” against Islam. But in its state...

  YouTube is banning President Donald Trump's channel for at least one week, and likely longer, as his channel earned a strike under the platform's policies, the company said Tuesday evening. "After careful review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to the Donald J. Trump channel and issued a strike for violating our policies for inciting violence," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. "As a result, in accordance with our long-standing  strikes system , the channel is now prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for a minimum of seven days—which may be extended." YouTube also said it would be indefinitely disabling comments on Trump’s account, referring to ongoing concerns about violence  surrounding his recent postings. Until Tuesday , YouTube had been the only remaining major social media platform for President Trump.  Facebook has suspended Trump's account "indefinit...

The FBI has warned of armed protests being steered toward  Washington and all 50 U.S. state capitals. An internal FBI bulletin informed that, as of Sunday, the nationwide protests may start later this week and extend through Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration, according to two law enforcement officials who read details of the memo to The Associated Press. Investigators believe some of the people are members of some extremist groups, the officials said. The bulletin was first reported by ABC. "Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January through at least 20 January, and at the U.S. Capitol from 17 January through 20 January," the bulletin said, according to one official. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. In other steps to safeguard the U.S. capital, the National Guard was authorised to send up to 15,000 troops to Washington, and tourists were barred from visiting the Washington Monument...

Nigeria government has implemented a good policy at the wrong time when we have covid - 19 pandemic.  There was no any reason to give deadline for NIN - SIM  registration without due consideration of social distancing health order. Authorities want Nigerians to beleive that Covid - 19 is real, still they  are indirectly sponsoring  the gathering of crowds . Are you   aware of Covid - 19 rules of conduct before  you announced directives to Citizens to get enrolled in NIN ?.  The timing is wrong.The process should be suspended indefinitely.

Authorities have discovered the location of two black boxes from a crashed Indonesian jet, they said Sunday, referring to cockpit voice and flight data recorders that could help explain why the aircraft went down with 62 people aboard. The revelation came as divers pulled body parts, wreckage and clothing from waters off Indonesia’s capital Jakarta. “We have located the position of the black boxes, both of them,” said Soerjanto Tjahjanto, head of Indonesia’s transport safety agency. “Divers will start looking for them now and hopefully it won’t be long before we get them.” The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 went into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta on Saturday afternoon. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo expressed his “deep condolences”, and called on citizens to “pray together so that victims can be found”. But the frantic search involving helicopters and a flotilla of warships appeared to offer no hope of finding any survivo...