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JUST IN: Former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Emerge Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO.

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Ngozi Iweala emerged winner of the highly competitive race after polling 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat her opponent, South Korea’s trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee. With the development, Iweala becomes the first female and first African to occupy the office. Recall that she had received support from 79 countries, Speaking during a virtual press conference last Friday, she said the 55-man African Union (AU) officially endorsed her over her only opponent, Yoo Myung-hee of South Korea.

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Nigeria Currently Tracing 12, 000 Contacts of COVID-19 Patients

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-YOMMY AYILARA. Nigeria Currently Tracing 12,000 COVID-19 Contacts.   The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Friday, the 1st of May, 2020 declared openly that the agency is presently tracking about 12,000 persons who have had contact with confirmed cases of COVID-19.   Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu made this known while reacting to questions from reporters at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19, adding that this figure is however fluid as the contacts increase daily. He said; “The number of contacts is very fluid because with every…

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NCDC STRUGGLING FOR BED SPACE IN LAGOS

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-YOMMY AYILARA. We Are Struggling At The Moment For Bed Spaces In Lagos -NCDC DG The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday, the 30th of April made a clamour about insufficient bed spaces to accommodate COVID-19 patients in isolation centres. Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu said Lagos State is the worst-hit by this challenge of insufficient bed spaces although Kano State and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are also affected. He made this statement in response to questions from reporters at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19…

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Lab Testing Capacity Is Not Our Challenge, The Limiting Factor Is Getting the Right Samples Into The Lab

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-YOMMY AYILARA COVID-19: Lab testing capacity is not our challenge but getting the right samples in – NCDC DG   The Director-General of the Nigeria Center For Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that the major limiting factor in the agency’s fight against the COVID-19 is the capacity to efficiently get the right samples into the labs for testing. He said that the challenge is no longer the laboratory testing capacity because all the resources have been put in place by the government of the country. In his words-…

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