Ngozi Onyia is the founder and Managing Director of Paelon Memorial Hospital (PMH). A trustee of many organisations, the 1982 graduate of the University of Ibadan is a Fellow of the West African College of Physicians in Paediatrics. She holds an MBA from Lagos Business School and is certified from the International Society of Travel Health. On the other hand, her daughter, Unoma Grant, is the Chief Operating Officer of PMH. She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, then went to the Lagos Business School in 2016 and the Pan African University’s Enterprise Development Centre in 2018. She is a healthcare administrator with over 11 years experience leading transformation in complex organisational structures, as well as devising and implementing successful strategies during start-up, growth and crisis phases.
By Mary Nnah
Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) in April 2020 declared the novel COVID-19 a global pandemic, the effect of the ravaging deadly virus has been overwhelming.
From fatalities to harsh economic realities, institutions across the globe and consequentially Africa, has been challenged to fix and update antiquated health systems and existing infrastructures to contain and combat the widespread of COVID-19.
The pandemic did not only engender global lockdown but also a meltdown of global economic activities, which resulted to huge losses in Nigeria’s major export of crude.
Consequently, this decline in economic activities led to drastic decline in accruing revenues from oil sale in oil-dependent nations like Nigeria, thereby plunging the country into economic recession.
Soft skills will help girls appreciate tech career, says Afro-Tech Girls
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By Juliet Umeh
Non-profit organization Afro-Tech Girls has said that provision of soft skill capacity building could help girls and women appreciate Information and Communications based careers.
The group made the statement at a conference it held to commemorate the 2021 International Day of Women and Girls in Science themed ‘Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.’
Afro-Tech Girls is focused on encouraging and empowering females in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
The event which was hosted in partnership with IHS Nigeria, a subsidiary of IHS Towers, saw female speakers from the medical, science and technology sectors interact with over 100 participants in attendance online and a further 100 girls from public secondary schools watching from their classrooms. The event was also used as a soft launch of a longer-term partnership between Afro-
The United States logged a record new daily virus caseload as Joe Biden slammed the Trump administration's vaccine roll-out as a "travesty" and millions in Asia woke up to new lockdowns.
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January 22, 2021
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it supports the Federal Government’s decision to reopen schools for the second term of the 2020/2021 academic session because the benefits of having children in school outweighs the risks of transmission of COVID-19.
The Director-General of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, gave the reasons at the ongoing Virtual Plenary Session and Annual General Meeting of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) in Lagos on Friday.
Newsmen report that the theme of the event is, “Child Survival in Nigeria Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Issues, Challenges and Way Forward”.
According to Ihekweazu, though children are not the face of COVID-19 at the moment, they risk being among its highest and biggest victims.