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Posts tagged with "Covid-19"

Saudi Arabia lifts its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African countries African News

Saudi Arabia lifts its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African countries

SAUDI Arabia has lifted its ban on direct flights to Nigeria and 16 other African nations which was introduced on December 8 last year in response to the discovery of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa.   Like many other countries worldwide, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia clamped down hard on Africa once the Omicron...
World wars always inadvertently create one or two new industrial giants as economies emerge to mass produce the consumer goods required. I am hoping that Nigeria realises that this Russian/Ukraine spat might just be her date with destiny African News

World wars always inadvertently create one or two new industrial giants as economies emerge to mass produce the consumer goods required. I am hoping that Nigeria realises that this Russian/Ukraine spat might just be her date with destiny

Ayo Akinfe When I look at the lockdown over Covid-19, I keep seeing parallels with World War Two. During that conflict, nations had to step up the production of new industrial goods like armaments, food was scarce and rationing was introduced in many countries. The US in particular, emerged as an unprecedented industrial economy from...
Domestic and foreign investment rises by 39% in 2021 as Nigeria recovers from coronavirus meltdown African News

Domestic and foreign investment rises by 39% in 2021 as Nigeria recovers from coronavirus meltdown

DOMESTIC and international investors increased their investments in Nigeria by a whopping 39% last year amid signs that the country is gradually recovering from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic according to official figures just published.   Data just released by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission...
Spurs plan to make summer bid for Osimhen after Napoli rebuff recent January offer African News

Spurs plan to make summer bid for Osimhen after Napoli rebuff recent January offer

ENGLISH Premier league giants Tottenham Hotspurs plan to make an audacious bid for Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen in the summer after being rebuffed by his club Napoli when they made a bid during the recent January transfer window.   Valued at around the £70m by Napoli after signing him in the summer of 2020 in a...
Do Nigerians know that India generates up to $50bn a year through business process outsourcing (BPO) and as a nation of 200m we have no option but to follow suit  African News

Do Nigerians know that India generates up to $50bn a year through business process outsourcing (BPO) and as a nation of 200m we have no option but to follow suit 

Ayo Akinfe You simply have to give it to India for leveraging on their English-speaking population and making the best out of business process outsourcing (BPO). Virtually every American and British blue chip company has an Indian call centre As far back as 2012, around 2.8m Indians were working in the BPO sector and the number...
Only 14m Nigerians have received first jab of Covid-19 vaccine and over 5m have had two doses African News

Only 14m Nigerians have received first jab of Covid-19 vaccine and over 5m have had two doses

NIGERIA'S federal government has revealed that over 14m people have so far received at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine with over 5m getting two doses and less than half a million getting the third booster dose.   According to statistics just revealed by Dr Faisal Shuaib, the executive director of the National Primary...
Any candidate running for Nigeria's president in 2023 must promise to deliver these 10 status symbols by the end of his eight year tenure African News

Any candidate running for Nigeria's president in 2023 must promise to deliver these 10 status symbols by the end of his eight year tenure

Ayo Akinfe The capacity to manufacture our own military hardware. There is simply no way you can provide security within your borders if you have to buy equipment on the international market. It is totally impossible to get the equipment you want at the price you want, in the specifications you want, at the time you want and in the...
UK to expand Health and Care Visa Scheme to allow for the recruitment of more care workers African News

UK to expand Health and Care Visa Scheme to allow for the recruitment of more care workers

NIGERIAN care assistants and nursing home staff may be coming to Britain in large numbers this year after the UK Department of Health and Social Care announced plans to expand its Health and Care Visa Scheme to recruit more care workers.   Due to the growing effect of Covid-19 and a shortage of care workers, the UK government...
All Aso Rock visitors will be made to take rapid flow tests before allowed entry into the villa African News

All Aso Rock visitors will be made to take rapid flow tests before allowed entry into the villa

VISITORS to Nigeria's presidential villa in Aso Rock will have to take lateral flow tests upon arrival under the terms of a new health regime being introduced this year as part of measures to contain the spread of the virus.   Over the last two years, access to Aso Rock has been restricted as part of a government plan to...
Over 15,000 Nigerian nurses register to practise in the UK within the last five years African News

Over 15,000 Nigerian nurses register to practise in the UK within the last five years

OVER 15,000 Nigerian nurses have obtained licences to practise in the UK within the five year period spanning from March 2017 to March 2021 making Nigeria the largest source of foreign nurses in the country after the Philippines and India.   According to a recent report just published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)...
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