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New TB vaccine in 100 years advances as Wellcome, Gates Foundation fund trial
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced funding, to advance a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, M72/AS01E (M72), through a Phase III...
FG to make mental health education, treatment more accessible in S’East
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
The Federal Government has concluded plans to make treatment and education on mental health more accessible to rural dwellers in the South-East. According to the Medical...
UN condemns burning of Quran in Sweden
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
The High-Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), Miguel Moratinos has condemned the burning of pages of the holy Quran on Wednesday in...
Dismissed Cadets: Parents urge Tinubu to order NDA to obey court judgment
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
Parents of the nine ‘unlawfully’ dismissed cadets of 67 Regular Course in the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, have appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene and...
12 buses shattered as protest erupts in France over police shooting of teenager
Sydney OkaforJun 30, 2023
President Emmanuel Macron left an EU conference in Brussels early on Friday to return to France, where three nights of rioting had erupted over a police shooting of a...
Lekki port receives first transshipment vessel
Comfort SamuelJun 30, 2023
The management of Lekki Deep Seaport has announced the arrival of Rimbaud, the first transshipment vessel to call at the container terminal of the deep seaport. Making...
WHO to declare Aspartame sweetener as possibly carcinogenic – Cancer report
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
The cancer research arm of the World Health Organisation (WHO), is set to declare Aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners in soft drinks as a possible...
Nigeria’s intra-African trade dips 12% to ₦842.6bn in Q1’ 2023 – NBS
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
Nigeria’s intra-African trade has continued to underperform expectations despite the commencement of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as the trade...
Subsidy removal: FG saves N400bn in four weeks
Sydney OkaforJun 30, 2023
The Federal Government has so far saved about N400bn as a result of the removal of subsidy on petrol, since May 31, 2023, when the initiative was officially implemented,...
WTO address worry over digital technology, IDP regulatory fragmentation
Simisola AdigunJun 30, 2023
In a bid to address the regulatory fragmentation of digital technologies and intangible digital goods (IDPs), member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have...
