CBN Governor, Godwin EmefieleMr Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says there was the urgent need to diversify Nigeria’s economy to make it sustainable and reduce unemployment.
Emefiele said this on Tuesday in Abuja, while receiving Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General (DG) of the World Trade Centre (WTO).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okonjo-Iweala was on a week-long working visit to Nigeria, her first engagement since assuming office on March 1.
Emefiele called for the support of the WTO to enable Nigeria move away from its present, oil based economy to non-oil exports.
This is a race against time, said Jon Jacobo, health committee chair with the Latino Task Force.
CA variant cases going ⬆️ Nov. :”Approx. 16% of all the virus we were seeing people infected” Jan. : “Over 50% of the strains we’re seeing” (Dr. Havlir)@abc7newsbayareapic.twitter.com/t8cTCAMO2i Luz Peña (@LuzPenaABC7) February 24, 2021 It s a race between us and the variant and we don t want to lose, said Dr. Joe DeRisi, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and co-president of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
Community group Unidos en salud, the Latino Task Force, along with Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and UCSF found that, over the holidays, the California variant was spreading not only in the state but locally in the Mission District.
By Editor 16 February 2021 | 10:49 am
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced its goal to vaccinate 50 percent of the Nigerian population against COVID-19 in 2021. In order to achieve this goal and augment its efforts, it has partnered with local and international organisations, including the African Union.
Its efforts, notwithstanding, the urgency of the problems associated with the pandemic and the discovery of a new and more dangerous strain of the virus makes the acquisition and administration of the virus crucial.
Organisations understanding this need have pledged their support to Nigeria.
Below are four of such organisations:
1) MTN: Consistent with its history of dedication to the health sector and the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria, and the African continent, MTN has made a donation of $25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The donation is to help secure up to seven million doses of the COVID-19
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The BUA Group on Tuesday insisted that it had acquired one million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, saying a statement by the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), disowning the acquisition was shocking.
CACOVID had denied BUA’s earlier claim on the purchase of vaccines for Nigerians, emphasising that no individual had the capacity to strike such a deal.
But the BUA Group faulted the CACOVID’s denial.
It explained that at the CACOVID steering committee meeting on February 8, 2021, members were informed by the CBN that CACOVID had been given the opportunity through the Afrexim platform to access and pay for one million doses.