The White House is pressing major US airlines, many of which have a number of federal contracts, to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees in time to meet the deadline for federal contractors to do so, Reuters has reported, citing four sources. The US has directed all federal contractors to be vaccinated by December 8 and…
United States President Joe Biden has warned Republicans in the US Senate not to play “Russian roulette” with the country’s economy by continuing to block legislation that would raise the statutory limit on US debt. Democrats are pushing to raise the debt limit, which will be reached by mid-October, while Republicans have refused to go…
A Facebook Inc whistleblower has accused the social media giant of repeatedly prioritising profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation, and said her lawyers have filed at least eight complaints with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Frances Haugen, who worked as a product manager on the civic misinformation team at Facebook, appeared…
Since November 15, 2021, when the Reports of the #EndSARS Judicial Panel were submitted to the Lagos State Government, a good number of my colleagues, friends and admirers prevailed on me to refrain from further public pronouncements on the activities and reports of the Panel since the government was studying the said reports. Upon the…
Facebook, Instagram and the widely-used WhatsApp messaging service are gradually returning to normal after an hours-long global outage that disabled the Facebook-owned social media platforms for some six hours. In a post on rival platform Twitter on Monday evening, Facebook confirmed its apps were coming back online and apologised to users for a blackout that…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases continues to rise, as 74 new cases were recorded by the NCDC on Sunday. The NCDC said on its website on Monday morning that the additional 74 infections brought the total of infections in the country to 206,138. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…
Mr Olayinka Subair, Pfizer Nigeria’s Country Manager and Cluster Lead, West Africa, says patient advocacy within the pharmaceutical work is critical to ensure safety of patients’ lives. Subair made this known in a statement by Ms Oluwayemisi Mafe, Pfizer Corporate Affairs and Communications Lead, West Africa, on Monday in Lagos. According to him, Pfizer, a…
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday, suspended its nationwide strike for six weeks to give the Federal Government (FG) time to implement its demands. Dr Godiya Ishaya, the National President of NARD, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Ishaya said that the association reviewed…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says that 31.7 per cent of youths in Nigeria lack access to bank loans to finance their businesses due to high interest rates.The bureau said this in its National Youth Survey for 2020, obtained from its website in Abuja on Monday.According to it, the report is a collaborative effort…
