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THE DIRECTOR-General of National Automotive Design and Development Council, Engr. Jelani Aliyu, has said that the agency would promote the adoption, development, manufacturing and usage of advanced technology in the nation’s automotive sector. Aliyu who spoke at the recent commissioning of the first solar-powered Electric Vehicle charging station in Lagos, a pilot project in collaboration with the University of Lagos said that this has become very important because the world can no longer afford to continue polluting the environment through the use of fossil fuel and its attendant emission of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane. He said “we are now in the Vehicle Electrification era, cars, trucks and buses all powered by electricity. “A strategic transition from fossil fuel to pure electric power,”explaining that this accounted for the immeasurable support the agency was getting from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and investment in pursuit of the programme.” Aliyu recalled that the agency had earlier, this year recorded some progress in this regard when the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment unveiled the first made in Nigeria Electric Vehicle the Hyundai Kona EV, followed by unveiling of the University of Lagos charge station and later by another at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, having unveiled one in Sokoto earlier. According to the director-general, “the world is in a race on the back of the eagles and Nigeria cannot afford to be in that race on the back of anything less, neither a falcon nor a hawk, but on the backs of eagles. “Whatever advanced technology is being leveraged by developed countries around the world must also be identified, transferred and optimised by Nigeria for the betterment of its people. “We are now in the fourth industrial revolution, characterised by highly advanced technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, block chain technology and other incredible solutions. “For the automotive sector, it means vehicles that are highly embedded with ICT solution connectivity between the vehicle and themselves, their users and the road infrastructure. It means vehicles that think for themselves are therefore safer, more efficient and better for humanity.” Speaking at the event which was attended by the University of Lagos vice chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, Chief Executive Officer of Stallion Group, Anant Badjatya, NADDC board chairman, Senator Osita Izunaso, said that programmes of these nature are the lifeblood of everything we are trying to achieve in the country. Ogundipe described the commissioning as another initiative of Buhari’s administration designed to promote advanced technology transfer and the development of sophisticated human capital in the country, arguing that the project will offer students first-hand experience with latest innovations in mobility and renewable power technology. He said: “It is strategised to be an effective platform for focused research and development into more applicable vehicle electrification solutions for Nigeria and Africa.” https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/fg-committed-to-development-of-electric-vehicles-jelani/ |
Eighty per cent of bank and other financial institutions’ employees are casual workers, says the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), blaming casualisation for major frauds perpetrated in the nation’s financial sector.https://gazettengr.com/80-of-employees-in-banks-other-financial-institutions-are-casual-workers-assbifi/ |
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he National Action on Sugar Reduction (NASR), a coalition of non-governmental organisations, has urged the federal government to introduce a tax on sugar- sweetened beverages to tackle the health crises. This is contained in a statement signed by Omei Bongos-Ikwue, the coalition representative, on Monday in Abuja. According to Ms Bongos-Ikwue, non-communicable diseases like Type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease are rising in Nigeria. She stated that the link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and NCDs had been well established. “The NASR thus seeks policies to decrease consumption and reduce related risk factors, such as obesity,” noted Ms Bongos- Ikwue. “The Federal Ministry of Finance has stated the need to explore alternative revenue sources, and Federal Ministry of Health considers NCD prevention a national priority, this could be an opportunity.” Ms Bongos-Ikwue mentioned that NASR was stepping up efforts to seek a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and engaging in further awareness creation efforts to tackle the rising prevalence of NCDs. “The coalition specifically called on the Minister of Finance to introduce an excise duty of 20 per cent on sugar-sweetened beverages such as carbonated sugary drinks and energy drinks,” said the coalition’s statement. “Create a fund for the prevention and control of NCDs associated with the excessive consumption of sugar-linked diseases such as type II diabetes. Financing for this fund will come from the revenue obtained from the taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages.” The coalition also wants the federal government to ensure that sugar-sweetened beverages carry “front-of-packaging labels” with nutritional information warning consumers of the product’s sugar content and “the health risks of excessively consuming these drinks.’’ https://gazettengr.com/fg-urged-to-impose-special-tax-on-sugary-drinks/ |
Against the backdrop of a fresh crisis threatening the soul of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Board of Trustees, Thursday, converged at the Wadata Plaza, national secretariat of the party in Abuja.https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/developing-pdp-bot-in-meeting-over-party-crisis/
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The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, said, yesterday, that democracy and dictatorship cannot coexist, noting Nigeria was treading a dangerous path because young people arehttps://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/democracy-dictatorship-cant-coexist-kukah/
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The plans, which would be a boost to the aviation and tourism sectors, were expected to be discussed by ministers on Wednesday, The Guardian and The Times reported. The Guardian added that conversations were also expected between Whitehall officials and the devolved administrations on whether the change would apply to England only, or all four nations of the UK. The changes were expected as soon as next week, while countries outside the EU and U.S. could be allowed inbound quarantine-free travel at a later date, The Times added. It comes after aviation firms claimed a trial has demonstrated the UK can safely exempt fully vaccinated U.S. and EU visitors from self-isolation. In the Heathrow Airport, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic said their 10-day pilot scheme proved the vaccination status of travellers can be efficiently and accurately checked away from the border. Around 250 fully vaccinated passengers on selected flights from New York, Los Angeles, Jamaica and Athens earlier this month presented their credentials using paper or digital formats before boarding the plane. Some 99 per cent of their documents was verified as authentic, with just two passengers’ credentials rejected. In one case there was a discrepancy between the name on the vaccine card and the name on the passport, while another involved someone who had been fully vaccinated less than 14 days before travel. The Department for Transport has committed to a formal review of its rules for arriving travellers before Sunday. Since July 19, people arriving in the UK from amber list locations, such as the U.S., have had to have received both doses of a vaccine in the UK to avoid the requirement to self-isolate for 10 days. The rules excluded those who had been inoculated elsewhere in the world. BA chief executive Sean Doyle said the trial provides “the evidence the Government needs’’ to allow fully vaccinated visitors from low-risk countries to enter the UK without self-isolating. He went on: “The UK needs to safely reopen its borders as soon as possible to ensure loved ones can reunite, business can thrive and global Britain is able to take advantage of the UK’s world-leading vaccination programme.’’ His counterpart at Virgin Atlantic, Shai Weiss, warned that continuing the UK’s “overly cautious approach’’ towards international travel would harm the economic recovery from the virus crisis and put half a million jobs at risk. He claimed the trial shows airlines would ensure easing of the amber rules was implemented smoothly at pace. Heathrow boss John Holland-Kaye said: “The vaccine has been a miracle of science, and these trials have shown that we can allow fully vaccinated passengers from the EU and U.S. to visit the UK without quarantine. “There is now no reason to delay with rolling out the solution from July 31.’’ (PA Media-dpa/NAN) https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/england-to-open-borders-to-vaccinated-u-s-eu-citizens-soon-reports/ |
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says more than 124,000 Africans die each year as a result of undiagnosed and untreated hepatitis. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said this in her message to commemorate World Hepatitis Day, aimed at increasing awareness of the disease under the theme: `Hepatitis can’t wait’. Ms Moeti said that the disease inflames the liver and can lead to liver cancer and cirrhosis, calling on all countries to rapidly improve access to services to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease. Hepatitis is a silent epidemic with more than 90 million people living with the disease in Africa, representing 26 per cent of the global total, she noted. The WHO director added that around 4.5 million African children, under five years, were infectednwith chronic hepatitis B, reflecting an enormous 70 per cent of the global burden in that age group. Ms Moeti said that the global target of less than 1 per cent incidence of hepatitis B in children under 5 years has been reached, but the African region was lagging behind at 2.5 per cent. She said that most of such cases could be prevented by eliminating the Mother-To-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of the disease, during or shortly after birth and in early childhood. “Key interventions against hepatitis B include vaccination at birth and in early childhood, screening pregnant women, and providing timely treatment,’’ Ms Moeti said. She said that countries are being encouraged to integrate the hepatitis B PMTCT in the ante-natal care package together with the HIV and Syphilis PMTCT programme, especially after it was found that only 14 countries in the region were implementing the hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine. “Among people who are infected, nine out of 10 have never been tested, because of limited awareness and access to testing and treatment. “Even among countries offering hepatitis B birth dose vaccine, health systems are facing challenges in ensuring pregnant women and mothers are tested and that those who test positive are treated. “At the same time, there are many promising developments on hepatitis. With the launch of the first global strategy on hepatitis in 2016, along with increased advocacy in recent years, political will is starting to translate into action. “Hepatitis medicines have also become much more affordable, with prices as low as $60 dollars per patient for a 12-week treatment,” she said. Ms Moeti said African heads of states had committed to addressing viral hepatitis as a public health threat in the Cairo Declaration in February 2020, and that the Egyptian Initiative planned to provide hepatitis C treatment for one million Africans, with South Sudan, Eritrea and Chad already reaching 50,000 people. “Apart from them, Rwanda, Uganda and Benin have established free testing and treatment programmes for hepatitis and 16 other countries are starting pilot projects in that direction. “To guide action on hepatitis, 28 African countries now have strategic plans in place and at the global level WHO guidelines were launched in 2020 on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B,’’ Ms Moeti said. She added that the WHO Regional Office for Africa was developing training materials in order to help countries implement the five hepatitis core interventions and decentralise diagnosis and treatment. Ms Moeti, therefore, called on all officials in maternal and child health to consider how hepatitis could be integrated into existing initiatives, “because health systems play a vital role in preventing transmission by making sure blood donations were screened and syringes were used only once and then safely disposed of.” She also called on individuals to seek testing and treatment for hepatitis and to learn more about the disease so as to end the silent epidemic. ( NAN ) https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/476079-world-hepatitis-day-undiagnosed-untreated-hepatitis-kills-124000-africans-annually-who.html |
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