How COVID-19 changed funding for higher education
THERE is a tendency to make a clear distinction between philanthropy and solidarity. Philanthropy is seen to be private in nature, to...
COVID-19 vaccine’s quick arrival, reason for trust
MOST of us have had endured some very dark days in 2020, whether trying to juggle working from home alongside schooling children,...
What’s promising, problematic about COVID-19 vaccines?
SCIENTISTS are working around the clock to develop and test vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19.
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Engaging COVID-19 vaccine naysayers
THE COVID-19 vaccines, which are up to 95 per cent effective, have the potential to save millions of lives in the UK...
COVID-19: Pondering safety amid Christian festivities
ONE thing is certain. If more people mix together in enclosed, crowded and stuffy spaces, more people will become infected with COVID-19,...
Informal sector should be part of COVID-19 waste management policy
SOLID waste management is an important public health service because it helps to prevent the transmission of disease. It also has a...
Distributing COVID-19 vaccine and public trust
THE coming months are going to be crucial for vaccine development and decisions around how we distribute COVID-19 vaccines equitably, who gets...
Why COVID-19 vaccines shouldn’t be expensive
The world is unequal enough and the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to make things more unequal still. Poorer countries have had to take...
How do we pay off global Coronavirus debts?
COVID-19 has hit the global economy hard. Governments around the world have already injected $11tn in fiscal measures to keep the economy...
Ifeanyi Ubah should go to court or resign from Senate
SENATOR Ifeanyi Ubah claimed at a news conference on Friday, November 21, 2020, that Anambra State lost almost a whopping eight billion...
Coronavirus still evolving
LETTING the virus that causes COVID-19 circulate more-or-less freely is dangerous not only because it risks overwhelming hospitals and so endangering lives...
Worrisome signs of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
IT has been nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a...
COVID-19 vaccine: Vaccinate children to protect the elderly
SEVERAL COVID-19 vaccines are in late-stage clinical trials. So discussion is turning to who should receive these vaccines first, should they be...
COVID-19: Everyone on earth can’t get vaccine
AN ESTIMATED 3 billion people in low-income countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America are likely to lack access to a COVID-19...
Why males may have worse response to COVID-19
IF YOU ask most women about how their male relatives, partners and friends respond to being sick, they'll often tell you with...
COVID-19 reveals how obesity’s harms in real time, not just over lifetime
THE COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a disease that...
As Okonjo-Iweala’s battle for soul of WTO continues
LAST week, the United States blocked the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister of Nigeria and an ex-managing director at the...
Nigeria to quit membership of Int’l organisations – Onyeama
THE federal government is considering quitting some international organisations over paucity of funds going by the statement of Minister of Foreign Affairs,...
COVID-19, defeatable if countries unite
JUST 10 days after calling a national lockdown “the height of absurdity”, the prime minister announced on Saturday evening a four-week national...
Study suggests coronavirus antibodies fade over time
NEWLY released research suggests that levels of antibodies against the coronavirus have declined across the UK population since testing began. Having randomly...
Lockdowns, curfews vital to break Germany’s third wave Merkel
GERMAN Chancellor, Angela Merkel has urged lawmakers to approve new powers that would allow her to force coronavirus lockdowns and curfews on...
China ready to step up climate change cooperation with France, Germany
CHINA is willing to strengthen cooperation with France and Germany to cope with climate change, President Xi Jinping has told his French...
Food prices soar in West Africa amid conflicts, COVID-19 – WFP
ACCORDING to World Food Programme (WFP), food prices in West Africa have jumped more than 30% since last year to their highest...
AstraZeneca vaccine: Australia reports first blood clot death
AUSTRALIA has today reported its first fatality from blood clots in a recipient of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot, and its regulator said there...
Lightening kills eight-yr-old pupil in Bayelsa
AN EIGHT-year-old student of Matha Day Secondary School, Imiringi, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Master Stephen Akana, has been...
