The National Youth Service Corps has said inadequate funding remains a major challenge affecting its Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development programme. However it said the Scheme has recorded tremendous success in the implementation of the programme. The Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim made this known  in his address at the 2021 NYSC SAED Stakeholders’ Meeting […]

  The Federal Government has charged the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to immediately develop a robust scheme for school protection across the country in order to ensure the safety of children from the incessant attacks by kidnappers and armed men. In a press release signed by Mohammed Manga ,Director Press & Public […]

Nigeria has  received nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The arrival marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally, in what will be the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. The […]

China aims to vaccinate 40% of its population against COVID-19 by the end of July, a senior health adviser told Reuters on Tuesday, requiring a significant increase in inoculations even as it ramps up exports of vaccines. Zhong Nanshan, a coronavirus expert who helped shape China’s COVID-19 response, said on Monday the current ratio of […]