A new World Bank report estimates that the collapse of ecosystem services provided by nature including wild pollination, food from marine fisheries and timber from forests could result in Nigeria’s GDP declining by $139bn in 2030. The report titled ‘The economic case for nature’ underscored the strong reliance of economies on nature, particularly in low income countries. The report highlighted that Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia would suffer the most relative contraction of real GDP due to a collapse of ecosystem services by 2030, 9.7 per cent annually and 6.5 per cent respectively. Nigeria which is regarded as a lower-middle…
Author: Temitope N.
Stakeholders in the aviation sector have urged the Federal Government to learn from the experience of the defunct Nigeria Airways as it pushes ahead to establish a new national carrier. The Federal Government, in its updated roadmap status, disclosed its plan to establish a national carrier that would enable Nigeria to gain optimal benefits from Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreements. The status showed that the establishment of the carrier would enable Nigeria to take advantage of the Single African Air Transport Market and also introduce competition. Nigeria Airways, which was established in 1958, was dissolved in 2003 during the administration of…
Nutrition experts have said that requesting vegetable sellers to slice it at the point of purchase is unhygienic, warning that the practice can cause food poisoning. They also noted that slicing vegetables at the point of purchase could lead to loss of vital nutrients. The experts, a Registered Dietician-Nutritionist at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nwabumma Asouzu; and a Lagos-based Registered Dietician-Nutritionist, Cynthia Onyekwere, said there are serious hygiene issues with slicing vegetables before washing. According to them, all vegetables should be treated with the utmost care, from the point of harvest to the consumer’s…
A Consultant Dermatologist, Dr. Toyosi Ilesanmi, says there is hope for people with skin damaged by bleaching cream. Ilesanmi who works with the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital said that it is always difficult to repair skin damaged by bleaching cream, there is always hope of helping people with the problem. Speaking In an interview, the dermatologist, said, however, that repairing damaged skin, is dependent on how long the skin has been bleached and with what item. “There are some people that just started bleaching their skin may be less than six months, such people’s skin can be saved. “The…
The Chief Medical Director, Federal Teaching Hospital Gombe, Dr. Yusuf Abdullah, has bemoaned the huge cost of power supply to the health facility. The hospital, he said, is burdened by over 13 million naira monthly power bills. He urged the federal government to provide the health facility with an alternative power supply, adding that the bulk of the hospital’s revenue goes to servicing power. The CMD disclosed this during the virtual unveiling of vital medical equipment donated to the hospital by the Federal Government. Also present at the virtual launch were the Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Government Affairs, Dr.…
Following the pronouncement of the Federal Government that airline operators must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers after a two-hour delay, commercial airlines have listed the conditions for such reimbursement. The airline operators made this known in separate interviews with newsmen. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, had, on Thursday at the weekly State House briefing in Aso Villa, Abuja, read out some of the rights of air passengers as enshrined in Part 19 of the Consumer Protection Regulations of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations (2015) and charged them to demand their rights whenever they were…
Innoson Nigeria Ltd has asked a federal high court in Lagos to set aside an order granting Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) permission to restructure to a holding company. In a statement on Sunday, Cornel Osigwe, head of corporate communications and affairs at Innoson Group, said the company is asking the court to stay the order granted to the bank on June 16, 2021, “until it pays its total outstanding judgment debt of N32,875,204,984.38 to Innoson Nigeria Ltd.” Innoson and GTB have had a long business dispute leading to legal battle. Innoson had secured judgment debt against the bank in suit…
Ikeja Electric Plc. says it has installed prepaid meters in the premises of 98,000 customers under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) of the Federal Government. Mr Felix Ofulue, its Head, Corporate Communications, made the declaration when he spoke with newsmen on Wednesday in Ikeja. He said that the figure showed that the company had covered more than 90 per cent of the 106,701 customers on its list scheduled for metering under the Phase Zero of the NMMP. “After the initial challenges we had with the metering scheme, we have now installed about 98,000 free meters for our unmetered customers…
Clover Biopharmaceuticals has signed an agreement with Gavi – the vaccine alliance, to make over 400 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccines available to the COVAX portfolio. Clover through the agreement signed with COVAX co-lead, Gavi, will make over 400 million doses of its vaccine candidate available for procurement in 2021 and 2022, pending Emergency Use Listing from the World Health Organisation. Clover became the ninth COVID-19 vaccine developer to partner with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in Spring, 2020, after submitting a proposal to CEPI’s COVID-19 vaccine call launched earlier in the year. Disclosing this on its website,…
No fewer than 17 persons have died in Ebonyi and Plateau states following the outbreak of cholera. In Ebonyi, the state government said three persons had died, while 12 other infected persons were currently responding to treatment in hospital. The situation is worse in Plateau State, where 14 persons have been confirmed dead. The acting Commissioner for Health in Ebonyi State, Dr. Richard Nnabu, gave the casualty figure after a visit to Amachi-Igwebuike village in the Agba community, Ishielu Local Government Area of the state. According to him, through the efforts of the state government, the situation has been brought…