Dr Onyema Ogbuagu - celebrated

 

Dr Onyema Ogbuagu, is today celebrated for his outstanding role in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

A 2003 graduate from the University of Calabar, Ogbuagu migrated to the United States and rose to become Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease Specialist at Yale University.

Ogbuagu who is the son of former Vice-Chancellor of Abia State University, Prof Stella Ogbuagu was part of the team that helped Pfizer to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.

In his words “I think you know those of us involved in the trials are really super excited by the results that were really quite unexpected. You know we’ve quite expected that the vaccines should at least have more than 50 percent efficacy … But it’s just so heartwarming that the vaccines have been so effective”

The United States Embassy had on Monday, commended Ogbuagbu for helping “the drug company Pfizer develop the first effective COVID-19 vaccine in the US”. The embassy said “Nigerians contribute to the world in so many ways. Our hats off to Dr. Onyema Ogbugbu at Yale who helped develop a COVID-19 vaccine”.

 

My beloved people of Kotansibe Village, there’s no reason to look and feel so disappointed - OYEYEMI

You’re not wrong either. Kotansibe Farmland has brought honour to this community. Neighboring communities and towns, even prominent traders from the big cities converge in this community every market day just because of our healthy and irresistible farm produce. Indeed, we are very lucky to have such a soil in our territory (ahems) Emn … My people, I, virtue of my position as your King, have taken a very wise decision to take over the management and ownership of Kotansibe Farms. (Townspeople murmur in support while Third Chief shakes his head in pity). And I have also decided to constitute an entirely new management (Towspeople are stunned, begin to murmur again)

... King Oyeyemi 

 

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Nigeria will exit recession soon - Finance Minister

Zainab Ahmed, Nigeria's Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning

 

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed has said that the current recession ehich the Nigerian economy recently slid into will be short-lived.

She said this Monday, at the ongoing 26th Nigerian Economic Summit organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning.

According to her, the country would emerge from the recession in the fourth quarter of this year or by the first quarter of 2021.

University Transpaperency Solution Will Save Nigeri'a Foreign Exchange - Ngige

Chris Ngige, Nigeria's Minister of Labour and Empoyment

 

Nigeria's Minister of Labour and EMployment Chris Ngige has said the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) will save the country's foreign exchange if discovered to be efficient and better than government's preferred Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) as a platform of payment in Nigeria's  university system.

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COVID-19: AWEP To Promote Business Growth, Increase Trade

The African Women Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP) Nigeria chapter has reiterated the commitment of the organisation to promote business growth, increase trade by creating better business environment and empower Nigerian women entrepreneurs amidst the effect of COVID-19 in the country.

A statement made available to Journalists yesterday in Abuja, the national president, AWEP, Mrs Angela  Ajala, said such efforts to promote business growth will be achieved via providing technical and financial, training, export training, mentorship and access to finance through several business partners and a clear path to local and international export markets for products and services.

Ajala noted that the year has been unprecedented in so many ways, adding that several economies have been badly hit with some sectors decimated beyond recognition.

She said in Nigeria there has been the added tumult from the EndSARS protests and its subsequent fallout.

For the first time, an undocumented immigrant is a finalist for the National Book Awards

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's book "The Undocumented Americans" is a finalist for nonfiction for the National Book Award - the first time an undocumented immigrant has been named. 

According to the CNN report, Cornejo Villavicencio says "This book is for everybody who wants to step away from the buzzwords in immigration, the talking heads, the kids in graduation caps and gowns, and read about the people underground. Not heroes. Randoms. People. Characters".