Managing Director of Med-In Pharmaceuticals, Tola Awosika (left); Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire; Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun; his Ondo State counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu and Chairman, Med-In Pharmaceuticals, Olubayode Awosika, during the official commissioning of the company’s factory at Sagamu Interchange, Ogun State… yesterday.
Lagos under severe strain of third wave of pandemic, says commissioner
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, yesterday, said plans were underway to conclude a bid for Nigeria to be a manufacturing centre for COVID-19 vaccines.
The minister disclosed this during the commissioning of an ultra-modern factory in Ogun State by the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun.
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The Economic Implication of BDC Ban
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By ODEWALE Abayomi
In an attempt to salvage naira and curtail the excesses of Bureau De Change (BDC) operators who exploit and artificially inflate dollar/naira exchange, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) stopped the sales of forex to them. There are apprehension and speculations that the directive will stir artificial dollar scarcity and mount pressure on the naira – thereby, a spike in dollar/naira exchange rate.
From an ideal perspective, the directive is a move to discourage illicit financial flows, BDC racketeering, arbitrage and indiscriminate round tripping but, as beautiful as this policy seems, the CBN governor’s directive left some vacuum; which could backfire if not clarified with a practicable working template.
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria is at risk of yearly, multiple, and concurrent disease outbreaks due to tropical climate, population density and poor socio-economic factors. They, however, said the country is yet to see the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The medical experts brainstormed on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and other disease outbreaks at the maiden edition of the Nigerian Conference of Applied and Field Epidemiology (NiCAFE). The conference, which was held virtually, was organised by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with partners from July 26 to 28, 2021. x
The theme of this year’s NiCAFE conference was “Building back better: COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks”.