Tag: suspends
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BREAKING: Buhari suspends Hadiza Bala Usman as NPA MD, picks successor
President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that she was first appointed in 2016 following the sack of Habib Abdullahi whose second term was terminated by President Buhari. No reason was given for the suspension of Bala Usman who was reappointed for…
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8 EU countries suspend AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots over blood clot worries
Eight European countries have stopped using Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution to blood clot incidents in some countries. The European countries are Denmark, Norway, Italy, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg. However, the EU medicines regulator says there is no indication that the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is linked to an increased risk of blood…
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COVID-19: WHO suspends trial of hydroxychloroquine over safety concerns
A clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 has been ’temporarily’ suspended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Director-General of the UN health agency, Tedros Ghebreyesus, in a virtual press conference on Monday said the decision follows a study in the Lancet indicating that use of the drug on COVID-19 patients…
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Super Eagles suspend training boycott
Nigeria’s Super Eagles on Tuesday suspended a training strike over unpaid bonuses at the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt following last-minute pleas by the country’s football officials. The team finally agreed to train in Alexandria, 30 minutes after schedule, after the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) promised to pay a win bonus from their 1-0…
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Ghanaian President Akufo-addo suspends four judges
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has suspended four High Court judges with immediate effect. The four were part of the 12 High Court judges captured by an investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, in audio and video recordings in 2015, which allegedly showed them collecting bribes from litigants to pervert the course of justice. All the indicted…
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PDP suspends Capital Oil boss, Ifeanyi Ubah
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday announced that it has suspended Ifeanyi Ubah, chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Ltd. A statement issued by the national caretaker committee of the party said Ubah was suspended for making disparaging allegations against the party over the Anambra governorship primary election which he lost to Oseloka Obaze.…