Day: December 21, 2020

Australia cancels order for 51m vaccine doses as trials run into trouble

Precious Ibekwe

  Australia has canceled an order for 51 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by CSL Ltd. and the University of Queensland after trials ran into difficulties, Bloomberg has reported. The government said Friday it’s replacing most of the CSL doses with more purchases of other planned vaccines. Australia has ordered an extra 20 million shots being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc, and 11 million more Novavax Inc. doses, the government said. The CSL failure shows that despite the groundbreaking progress by Pfizer Inc.…

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Nigeria’s top Journalist, Juliana Francis, Wins Three NMMA Awards

Aoko Benjamin

    Nigeria’s seasoned Crime Editor and Media Merit Award (NMMA) Defense Reporter of the Year, Juliana Francis, has reacted to her victory at the 2020 edition of the prestigious award where she clinched three gongs. Francis was crowned the Defense Reporter, Power Reporter, and Human Rights Reporter of the Year at the event held at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, country’s commercial capital on Friday, December 18, 2020. Reacting to the award on her Facebook page, Francis said the year 2020 “has been an eventful and unforgettable year in all…

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Funds meant for Kenya’s World Anti-Corruption Day go missing By Mark Mutahi

Mark Mutahi

Kenya fails to mark World Anti-Corruption Day as funds meant for the event go missing This article written with the headline above by Mark Mutah, published four years ago, is reproduced here for the record   As if to give credence to the notion, ‘Kenya is a bandit economy run by corruption cartels’ events that were scheduled to take place to mark the World Anti-Corruption Day last Friday were cancelled at the eleventh hour after money earmarked for the celebration went missing. Some of the things that were supposed to…

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Nigeria’s Kwara facilitates CBN’s N115m support for local rice farmers

Aliyu Aliyu

Kwara State Government has facilitated the disbursement of N115m by the Central Bank of Nigeria to local rice farmers to cultivate 420 hectares of land for the 2020/2021 dry season farming in the state, an official has said. Technical Assistant to the Governor on Agriculture AbdulQuawiy Olododo said the government was able to help the farmers because their umbrella body was properly organised and proactive. “We call on other cooperatives across the state to emulate what the agribusiness farmers cooperatives have done so has to support the state government efforts…

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